nothing better than the wrong capitalization of Sie
Wiener Dog in Armor
my grandfather for me. he's the gentlest man i've ever known. (detail from 'The thankful poor' c. 1894 by Henry Ossawa Tanner)
this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.
reblog to spread this version
You know, museums lend exhibits to each other all the time so it's not like the British museum would be completely without exhibits from other cultures if they returned the stuff people are asking for. Unless they've made so many enemies that nobody wants to lend them exhibits I guess.
You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”
i wonder if jesus searched for judas when he came back to life. i wonder if jesus cried when he found out judas was gone. i wonder how bitter he felt that the man he loved was so racked with guilt for what he’d done he couldn’t live with himself.
even though it had always been god’s plan for judas to commit the betrayal.
more public art! these fellas were printed on vinyl for the sides of a traffic cabinet
I find supreme comfort in knowing that no matter what I fuck up, answering "well, what are you gonna do about it?" is always an option. Most people are not capable, willing, or emotionally prepared to commit enough physical violence to physically force me to stop doing whatever the fuck I'm doing, and now we both know it.
Weird things I have done as an archaeologist
Washing cannonballs
Comparing human leg bones to my leg
Balancing knee caps to see if they’re left or right
Smashed my head on a drill handle while I tried to look cool dropping 3 meters of stainless steel down a hole
Trying to rescue mice out of the trench using a shovel and screaming how you’re trying to help
Glass still cuts skin, even after 500 years. And me being the dumbass I am to swipe my finger across to clean it
Getting distracted because you’re convinced these two pottery shards match in some place
Pushing my thumb into the decorative indentation a potter has made 300 years ago cuz I’m still a child
Trying to match shoe prints to one of your colleagues
Surely google knows the brand name on this 100 year old shoe shine can