HAPPILY EVER AFTER: Best Wedding cake evah.
You might want the full story over here.
THIS RIGHT HERE: Please and thank you.
ALRIGHT FELLAS: Would ya? Because I’m thinking that if this is something that appeals to you, I want to point you over here, here, here, and here.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. This seems like it might be hard to pull off? **
ADRENALINE:
SO THAT’S WHAT THAT IS: Today’s episode, creatine.
SITE OF THE WEEK: This right here. I think you will find this relevant even if you aren’t a so-called “creative.” Personally, Gloomos are the worst.
IS IT JUST US? Or does this guy really take the whole dancing soda shower on national television to new places?
UM…I’m not so sure about this. No I’m not. But then I think the whole report is a load.
INCOMING!
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? SHEESH! Do these guys even watch the movies?
ALRIGHT FELLAS (PART D’OH): Would you? No snark this time. But I do feel the need to throw this out there.
FLASHBACK HUMOR OF THE WEEK: From 1958. I know, I know. I’m serious though. It’s worth the 6:28. Close your eyes and just let it play out.
MAKES ME WANT TO READ THEM ALL OVER AGAIN:
This is a pretty nifty series of minimalist gifs based on the Harry Potter novels.
HUY FONG FOODS: I salute your delicious self. On the other hand, not everyone is a fan.
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME: Kind of surprised this hadn’t happened sooner.
IT WILL END IN FISTIBUMPS:
HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND…This is not the first report to mention the healing power of music. I just have never seen specific examples before.
REMEMBER THAT ONE TIME…I posted a link about migrating tarantulas? And I mentioned how I had experienced that very phenomenon while sleeping on the ground while camping? It pretty much effed me up. But I’m working on it. I actually watched and clicked through most of this.
NACHO ESCAPADE:
ALRIGHT FELLAS (TRIFECTA)! I got nothing.
I AM AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN…a manfluencer. I’m kind of totally giving this the stink eye. There’s nothing new here except a whole lot of hoping and wishing.
NOW THIS ON THE OTHER HAND: Duuuuude!
MOTHER NATURE: She can still surprise us. This must have been quite the experience.
TRIPPING BALLS: Our sun is acting up once again.
THIS GUY: This guy right here. Damn. (Hat Tip to Joe who had been on a roll with the support of late).
BANK! So this is kind of interesting. I knew about Bitcoin but I don’t think I understand how it all worked.
GOOD TIME YOU HAVE, HMMM? These are the outtakes you are looking for.
WHAT…could I possibly add to this?
COUSIN IT’S PAGAN KIN:
For reals, mostly.
TRUE STORY: Thinking about getting one of these. Anyone got a reason I shouldn’t?
DON’T BE LIKE THESE GUYS: Jeez guys, what the hell? (for the record, #1 is just hilarious in my book). Thanks to my glamazon pal Amber for the tip.
IF I COULD TALK TO THE ANIMALS: Doctor Doolittle translated. But not how you think.
INCOMING 2 (BONUS)!
** Yeah, sorry ’bout that one.
I’ve gotta say, after viewing the X-Men and Captain America trailers, the Winter Soldier looks like the more fun film. X-Men felt just a bit heavy-handed with philosophy.
Can’t speak for the rest of them, but two of those “pagan traditions” — the dude dressed as a tree and the dude dressed all in moss — are not pagan traditions at all, but traditions of pageantry. Both are derived from the Jack in the Green, who grew out of trade guild pageants of the late medieval period and the early modern period, where the guilds engaged in a game of one-upsmanship, each trying to make their costumes more and more elaborate, to the point that they ended up essentially dressing men as trees. Somehow, the figure became conflated with the image of the green man, who, while probably quite firmly rooted in pagan tradition (I can explain if anyone is curious), is not remotely related to the Jack in the Green in actual history.
I’d be suspect of the rest of these “traditions,” too, I think. The implication is that they have “survived” since pre-Christian Europe, but the reality is that almost all neo-pagan traditions are rooted firmly in modern times, and grew out of the folk movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. (For a really good example of this, you can look at landscape chalk art — hill figures — in the UK, almost all of which is actually from the late 17th or 18th centuries, except for the white horse of Uffington.) People were just enamored with folk traditions in that period, and made up a lot of their own. Neo-pagans have generally adopted *those* traditions — ultimately created by Christian Europeans in search of the past — rather than carrying on traditions which have remained throughout the centuries.
Sorry for the nerdy knowledge dump.