Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds (live at Waterloo Records Austin, TX)
Saw a flyer in the SUB the other day advertising some free matchmaking service. All you have to do is to send your contact information to this email address.
The catch: The email address belongs to the leader of a Maoist cult and in exchange of the service, you will dedicate yourself to the worship of Chairman Mao.
Abraham Lincoln (via brettjohn) (via jesuisperdu) (via lesguimauves)
“I’ll let you be in my dream if you let me be in yours.”
(via raptoravatar)
(I said that.)
Brussels Sprouts with Black Bean Garlic Sauce Recipe | Simply Recipes
That’s it. I’m gonna go get some black bean sauce tomorrow. Maybe some douban sauce for eggplants/tofu/noodles as well. Nom.
(via aaronleaf/blownspeakers)
Ahornia inhabits the thickly wooded mountains along what once was the fortified border between West Germany and Czechoslovakia. At the height of the Cold War, a high electric fence, barbed wire and machine-gun-carrying guards cut off Eastern Europe from the Western world. The barriers severed the herds of deer on the two sides as well.
The fence is long gone, and the no-man’s land where it stood now is part of Europe’s biggest nature preserve. The once-deadly border area is alive with songbirds nesting in crumbling watchtowers, foxes hiding in weedy fortifications and animals not seen here for years, such as elk and lynx.
But one species is boycotting the reunified animal kingdom: red deer. Herds of them roam both sides of the old NATO-Warsaw Pact border here but mysteriously turn around when they approach it. This although the deer alive today have no memory of the ominous fence.
Ahornia, a doe with a grayish-brown winter coat and a light patch around her tail, was born 18 years after the fence came down. Wildlife biologists who track her and other deer via electronic collars know that she has never ventured beyond the strip where the fence once stood.
That is now just a narrow footpath in the woods, today marking the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. On a misty October afternoon, the sound of a distant woodpecker was all that disturbed the mountaintop silence. A small white sign in German said “State Border.” Ahornia grazes on the Western side but stops when she nears the border, her world ending where the Free World once did.
(via somethingchanged)
Hah. I had no idea this was just a Canadian thing.
(via scout)
[Tranuf]
[.Rod]
I thought coffee was supposed to shrink you brain.
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Now Craving: CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM FLAVOURED POT NOODLE
Haven’t had these in >7 years (surely the packaging’s changed several times around) but jesus I really need some right now. Wonder if British Home might have some.
… In the meantime, gonna head out for some coffee to prepare myself for what’s going to be a long and sleepless night.
QI: They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is
This clip is notable for:
- its featuring of triglyphs
- its ability to inspire one to say a very nasal “whatevuh” over and over again
- general hilarity
I hate you.