moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

(Rome, 2600 years ago) OFFICIAL: it says here you want to 'watch birds'? PERSON WHO WANTS TO BE PAID TO WATCH BIRDS FOR A LIVING: yes OFFICIAL: ...because their swirls and swoops will reveal to us the thoughts of Jupiter on high? PERSON WHO WANTS TO BE PAID TO WATCH BIRDS FOR A LIVING: ....yes

Blue Jay: My scientific name is Cyanocitta cristata American Robin: Oh that's beautiful, I don't know mine, not sure if I have one

Berry Bars

SISTER ACT (1992) is one of the films with the farthest distance, historically speaking, between how fucking utterly idiotic the premise is and how hard everyone put their entire whole pussy into it

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Real "Lid of me Granny's Bin" energy. youtu.be/an_YCft6LlE?...

WASSAIL the trees, that they may bear You many a plum and many a pear: For more or less fruits they will bring, As you do give them wassailing.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

@billhookunion.beanyear.com do you have any nurseries you like on the east coast/mid Atlantic? I want to buy a bare root plum and I don’t want to pay $150 after shipping costs.

Aw I didn't check to see if anyone else did it already... but I like how mine turned out just using my photos app, so

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills Smee

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

they spent millions inventing the impossible burger, meanwhile if a restaurant has a "veggie burger" you know im getting that shit. oh your fake meat has beet juice so it looks like it bleeds? I want a burger that has like visible broccoli florets in it. kernels of yellow corn.

My Captain told me the sea keeps eating his pressed hands so i asked how many sailors he has and he said he just goes to port and presses new sailors afterwards so i said it just sounds like he's drowning landsmen and now his bosun is flogging me

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Great to hear @billhookunion.beanyear.com is keeping me safe from ghosts.

Bean-nana bread featuring carob powder from @billhookunion.beanyear.com. I swapped 40 grams of carob powder for flour in this smitten kitchen recipe and it’s so good smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/jack....

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

No one ever talks about how an oubliette implies the existence of a larger, and far more terrifying, oobly.

Not even top 10%, smh.

I can’t believe they cropped Count Binface out of the picture

Such a tragedy to see an institution like DCist go down under incompetent leadership. DCist taught me and many others how to be a Washingtonian, and it’s absence leaves a huge hole in the local news scene.

🎶 AND IF I’M FLYING SOLO, AT LEAST I’M FLYING FREE 🎶