came across this beautiful photograph and didn’t believe it was real at first—the tattoo felt too contemporary but it is in fact his social security number!!
Dorothea Lange, unemployed lumber worker, Aug 1939.
This is great, they look like they're showing off their bad-ass tattoos but the pastel is a delightful landscape
Logging on
holy shit I just made a typo and when joking about the typo I made another typo
I have deleted all typos and am going to take more cough syrup and these two things are not at all related
I'd like to not remember stupid internet things from 2002 please
I had more here but it involved posting the slur and what's probably his fake name, and no one wants to see any of that, so I deleted it
Every time I see a similar slur-filled username I'm reminded of him and how much ✨🌈I hate him🎉🥰 and that kind of sucks
Back on Usenet there was a jackass who had the n-word in his username (later changed it to an "o" instead of "i") and I saw that name every day and cussed him out about it repeatedly
Now I'm just tired and seeing that kind of shit gives me an actual headache
Writing a lot of cultural stuff that probably will not see the light of day because nearly every time I end up in a place where I have a quote or an anecdote or a link to something that involves a person with a userid that's a variation of SlurSlur1488
And then I give up and start watching cat vids
Love HOPSCOTCH and absolutely adore PELHAM ONE TWO THREE!
David Letterman show top ten list from July 31, 1990 show, as appears in the book Roman Numeral Two, An Altogether New Book of Top Ten Lists from Late Night with David Letterman: "Top 10 Good Things about George Steinbrenner Now That He's Gone:" 10. His pink slips have smiley faces on them. 9. Never considered hiring a guy in a chicken suit. 8. Exhales carbon dioxide, which is needed by plants. 7. Except for maybe six or seven times, never fired a manager on Christmas. 6. Every day for the past 17 1/2 years, he has left flowers on the grave of Babe Ruth's favorite hooker. 5. Once drank five-gallon drum of that nacho cheese stuff. (Changed for the book! Original on the show was, "Always accepts charges on phone calls if you have damaging information on a million dollar player." 4. Will eventually die and go to hell. (Changed for the book! Original on the show was, "Usually rewinds video rental.") 3. Makes Pete Rose feel better about himself. (Changed for the book! Original on the show was, "Isn't some foreigner from Canada who comes to this country, makes tons of money every year as a TV bandleader, and then doesn't pay one cent in taxes.") 2. He personally blew up those inflatable bat souvenirs before each home game. 1. Provides an inspiring role model for bullying crybabies everywhere.(Changed for the book! Original on the show was, "His stepping out of the limelight and giving his son Hank a chance to suck. "
Ever since high school when someone has mused whether a terrible human being had any redeeming qualities I've said "they exhale carbon dioxide which is needed by plants to survive"
I knew it came from a Letterman top ten but I'd forgotten it was about Steinbrenner (& that I'd kinda gotten it wrong)
Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan
This guy goes somewhere but I don't know where, possibly directly underneath George to the point he's completely obscured from view
Also all the movie Tarzans probably go in slightly different places
A four quadrant scatterplot with the x axis labeled “raw animal sex appeal” to “endearing posh mojo” and the y axis labeled “has working understanding of what society is” to “does not know how society operates” with George of the Jungle, Rocky of Rocky Horror, JCVD in Universal Soldier, Leopold, Duke of Albany, Mark-Francis Vandelli, and Austin Powers arranged in a roughly diagonal line from the top left to bottom right
I have made the chart
I was a little kid when "Africa" came out and spent all day every day at the pool that summer, they had top 40 radio stations on and you'd hear "Africa" two or three times a day pretty much all summer long. But then it seemed like you didn't hear it much on retro radio again until roughly mid 2000s
Where's the Phil Collins? Lionel Richie? Kool & the Gang? Chicago? Whitney Houston? Prince? Tina Turner? Huey Lewis and the News?
It's weird to see a top streaming list full of bland pop but still missing the acts you could not get away from in the 1980s.
I thought "Everywhere" wouldn't be the most obvious song for Fleetwood Mac in the 80s but it did better on the charts than "Little Lies" which surprised me
I almost never post but I do comment occasionally so I figured this was news you could use
Changed my username on Instagram to glitterninja_
As much as I liked the name jingle_dell, certain, uh, Crispin Glover-related events as of late made me decide it was time to change
www.instagram.com/glitterninja_/
I heard the guy say "I was shot at! I was shot at!" and I went "OH MY GOD" and the officer on the phone said "so uh, yeah, you just heard that, we're gonna go check it out, it's probably related"
then a huge sigh
oh shit, the police called back to ask more about specific location and just then I heard a guy breathlessly saying "I was shot at!"
good lord
just called 911 for gunshots, hooray
I know! Mom wouldn't say it outright but she was obviously irritated that it wasn't Vincent who hit on her lol
I said "oh yeah, they were the Midwestern Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward" and I didn't think mom was going to ever speak to me again
Coral Browne hit on my mom right in front of Vincent Price, who apparently nodded in appreciation
that high school was a mess
already know it was you?"
Yeah Monty, she did, but this has become Theatrics now and also An Ordeal, so just ride the wave of drama, little buddy.
The bitch who narked on me was one of the two who passed the test. She was mad she got a C.
The next day some kids were on the verge of tears because they thought they were going to get flunked so I stood up like the world's dumbest Norman Rockwell painting and announced I already confessed and she should never have scared them like that
This one kid named Monty said "didn't she
By this point she's muttering and confused and too late I realize that if I'd been more clever about it I could have gotten kicked out of Honors English which was just Bible Study anyway (the book we were reading and being tested on? The Old Testament!)
I did not get kicked out.
a whole new test...
Which was a 15-question two-column matching test that took about 0.008 seconds and which I aced, because it was too easy.
And then she replaced my F with the A I got on the new test.
Back to the "stupidest thing I've ever done" point: I told her I couldn't accept the A
I go in later and tell her straight to her face that it's rotten for her to yell at and threaten the whole class, just flunk me and kick me out of Honors English for being an idiot, don't make it everyone else's problem.
She's LIVID, so she tells me I have to sit down right then and take >
doesn't confront me but instead yells at the whole class and says if the cheater doesn't 'fess up she'll flunk everyone.
Here's where it veers off into "the dumbest thing *someone else* has ever done" territory: Most of the class had already flunked the test. Only two people passed. >
