Myrrhbearers

 

Pink month, pink eye

The designation of Arcturus as α Boötis (Latinised to Alpha Boötis) was made by Johann Bayer in 1603. (wikipedia)

You know, Johann Bayer.
The German lawyer and uranographer. 
He has a crater on the moon?
Ring any bells?

Entering year 4 with the pandemic. 
What were the Spanish flu people doing in year four?

Per wiki: 
The winter of 1921–1922 was the first major reappearance of the disease in the Northern Hemisphere, in many parts its most significant occurrence since the main pandemic in late 1918.

hmmm..mmmmunch

Self-portrait with the Spanish flu, 1919, Munch

Self-portrait with wine (1906)

Self-portrait in hell (1903)

Mesmerizing

106 yr old tattoo artist

 

Centenarians so hot right now

wearing white

 

This suit, I may say, is the uniform of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Purity and Perfection, of which organization I am president, secretary, treasurer and sole member. I may add that I don't know of any one else who is eligible.You see, when a man gets to be 71, as I am, the world begins to look somber and dark. I believe we should do all we can to brighten things up and make ourselves look cheerful. You can't do that by wearing black, funereal clothes.And why shouldn't a man wear white? It betokens purity and innocence. I'm in favor of peek-a-boo waists and décolleté costumes. The most beautiful costume is the human skin, but since it isn't conventional or polite to appear in public in that garb along, I believe in wearing white.I don't know anything more hideous or disgusting in men's attire than the black clawhammer coat. A group of men thus adorned remind me more of a flock of crows than anything else. About the most becoming get up I ever saw in my life was out in the Sandwich Islands thirty years ago, where a native who wanted to appear at this best usually appeared in a pair of eyeglasses.

- quoted in Chicago Daily Tribune, 8 December 1906

Happy Easter!

 

One more week of Lenten days

 

Have Fun!

 

It was a ridiculous premise

 

whoever bailed out the banks

 Get them on student loan debt. 

I found the answer to my question

 

MER-MAN!

Get shriven

Bruegel the Elder, Fight between Carnival and Lent 1559

Confess and be free, eat pancakes
Coast on a high
For tomorrow you get nothing
Well, maybe some ash on your third eye
Some pretzels and muscles
So don't short shrift!

Frans Hogenberg 1558

Odds

 I like the name Spright for a child.

The night before, I had a dream where I was driving around with my kids in a mixed neighborhood called Wyndfall.  Seems like we bought a house there, but it also seems like we were just looking. Later in the dream, the kids and I were in a house with old worn, dusty, soft wood floors.  There was an enormous oven in the kitchen.  A fire was lit, I vaguely recall I may have lit it earlier, but I decided to extinguish it and hoped that the fire would go out.  I was relieved it did and rejoined my kids in the living room.

Per the excerpt from a recent NYT article below, I love the idea of NORAD tuning their airspace radar from dull to sharp, like a microfiche scanner.  Everything is blissfully blurry, then: Hello Alien! Ha!

What is clear is that the United States and Canada have become hypervigilant since the balloon incursion. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has adjusted its radar system to become more sensitive, sharply raising the number of objects it detects.
--NYT article

Maybe that's why UFOs are blurry!  NORAD needed to adjust the settings!

Before

After

Crazy 4 U

 

found on KITH FB courtesy of Kami Jo

WunderSlav

 Currently in a wikipedia rabbit hole about the history of Slavs.  I like this description about early pagan ideas and practices:

...Old Believers have preserved early Slavic pagan ideas and practices such as the veneration of fire as a channel to the divine world, the symbolism of the colour red, the search for a "glorious death", and more in general the holistic vision of a divine cosmos.

A hybrid St. Christopher and Veles, a major god in Slavic paganism:

Who were the dog-faced men of antiquity?

Other highlights I love:

Household deity.  Everyone should have a Domovoy.

One of the gods is called Rod!

Stone carved mushroom shaped idols without faces and a distinctive hat. 
On certain days, people brought gifts to them, and in order to receive healing from an illness, they had to sit on an idol. The stone mushroom was respected and protected.

They used log cabin saunas

"Lyres were their baggage" --Theophylact Simocatta

Democracy! --these nations, the Sclaveni and the Antes, are not ruled by one man, but they have lived from of old under a democracy, and consequently everything which involves their welfare, whether for good or ill, is referred to the people. 
— Procopius

Do exactly this every morning!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Also this is a great commercial—

 You are so Loved!!!!!

Feelin groovy

 

Pattern Ultimate

 I bow down to Yayoi Kusama

"... She always proves that, by talking about death and even her suicidal thoughts and illness, she reaffirms and regenerates her will to live."  

--Doryun Chong from this article.

This is the way

 

Cheers weans!

 

Fezziwig Eve!

 

two songs that came to mind today

                               All I ever wanted, all I ever needed

Silence de moi
do do do-doooo

santa pattern

 

I want streusel for some reason

This Christmas I'm going to ad lib all I can

 

Update: I had this scheduled since early last year....terrible timing per bomb threat in Milwaukee.  Really weird coincidence.

wish list

 

Things I wish SNL and Documentary Now! would do

 SNL:

a skit where kah-kah-kay-ye is watching infowars and it's all making a lot of sense and he starts breaking down bat shit crazy shit with his entourage a la Black Dynamite in the restaurant.  Old intolerant tropes and newer unreal shit that is actually being proposed in our time and shit that has not yet been thought up, but probably will in the future.  Linking Dr. Seuss and Soros and Golda Meier and Jamie Lee Curtis to the illuminati and the National Treasure franchise. Is Nick Cage secretly Jewish? The Coppola's are not Italian.  Are Italians really Jewish?  Do Italians exist? Intrigued by Ed Harris' character in the second installation, they decide he is the key to everything.  They scour his movies (bumping uglies--Sweet Dreams) and his wikipedia for clues.  He played college football with Eric Holder, he had disdain for Elia Kazan for naming names and blacklisting his friends and never apologizing.  Bingo.  

Now I’m wondering if the movie should be Amsterdam.

Documentary Now!:

an episode about a woman (Fred), renowned for being a Galactagogue and her exquisite milk froth that is done in Chef's Table fashion.  We see her building a fire in the beginning, beautiful forest shots of her curating the wood, chopping it so gently in an idyllic farmscape, coaxing the flame, the crackling of fire, all as she waxes poetic about the fire and her journey.  She milks an animal and starts to warm the milk over the fire--this is seen in cutaways from inane critic(s?) (Bill) lauding her preternatural instinct for milk and frothing genius.

She is seen wearing a white coat and hairnet dreamily bumbling around vats of milk in her home lab.  (Why does she look like Fred’s Penny Marshall in my mind?) Enormous kettles are on industrial hot plates, she has to climb a ladder to peer inside and takes out a frother from her lab coat pocket to test the frothing capability of the milky brew.  Different mammalian milk in different kettles.  She explains the complexities of a mink's milk with a sheep's milk and with human milk.

She still lactates.  This is really where it all started.  Becoming a mother.  A photo of her in the 70s with the Farrah Fawcett hair--probably  farrah fawcet body with Fred's face talking on a telephone.--big glasses, 70s sweater, no bra--pam dawberish too?  Lots of babies.  She had a lot of babies to continue to lactate.  It was an obsession.  Loves the electrical feeling of letting down.  Would sneak away to pump between breast feeds.  -Her desire to feel engorged.  She started making dishes with her milk, images explain that there were a lot of spit takes upon her revelation to guests that they were indeed consuming her breast milk.

Critics are given her frothed milk masterpiece and after their glowing reports of orgasmic enlightenment they are told it's her breast milk--spit take.

She is always going around and frothing people's drinks, splattering it on them.  Just a touch more, you need some froth.  They are in awe.

At her storefront, a small walkup shop with a row of teats expressing a drop of milk for the sign. Milky Way, Galaxy, Mamma from heaven, Spit up? Soupe au lait?...idk yet...set up like an ice cream shop, you can pick which kind of mammalian milk..she dips a ladle in, draws the milk and starts the scientific process--lab looking kitchen--in addition to her own breast milk as a choice, there is also human male breast milk in the selection.  Men can express milk too. We see her enthralled as she froths.  She shows the perfect froth with a spoon, hypnotizing.  How does she procure these different milks?

Ends with the fire scene with splices of her in an underground animal ring bartering for access to milk a new mother echidna. She sips her echidna milk creation and spits it out.

Ok, Seth Meyers, work your magic.  Thanks.

all full of cheer

 

Here we go-a!

 

Cult of Thanksgiving

 

Take your meds!

Dance Meds

 

Dance Meds