"As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly. You leave marks behind and in return life and travel leaves marks on you. Most of the time those marks on your body or on your heart are beautiful. Often though, they hurt" ~Anthony Bourdain

Remembering ANTHONY BOURDAIN - born 70yrs ago today.

This is insanity.

Prince and The Revolution released ‘Purple Rain’ 42 years ago on June 25, 1984 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PrincePR

As an American, I can confirm.

Run free, giraffe!

Sizzlean (1977-circa 2005): Strips of "cured meat product", marketed and sold as looking, smelling, and tasting like bacon, only "50% leaner". In reality, they were still 37% fat by weight. Available in varieties such as pork, beef, and brown sugar cured

I, too, love a "disco nap".

Now I wanna try this!!

In Finland people believed that fern bloomed only once in a century and it happened on Midsummer night. Person who would find the flower would get whatever he wants. The flower would form a seed which would make its owner immortal. #WyrdWednesday 🧵

We're constantly told that the humanities are failing because they're irrelevant or politicized or don't prepare students for careers, but I wonder if the truth is that they're perceived as a threat by the managerial-consultancy class driving the cuts on both sides of the Atlantic.

The golden, solar shaped blooms of St John's wort or Scare Devil were gathered on Midsummer eve and scattered along, or suspended from, thresholds to drive away demons ☀️🌼🧿 🎨 mid-15th century 'Tractatus de herbis' #WyrdWednesday #MedievalSky

In Celtic and European folklore, the dandelion is a potent solar symbol tied to Midsummer rituals. Historically used for divination, protection, and faerie magic, the yellow bloom mirrors the sun and was believed to reach its energetic peak during the longest day of the year. #WyrdWednesday

little demon, france, 15th century

On Midsummer nights, when supernatural spirits, fairies, and demons were at their most active, ferns were put above doorways and on roofs. Their unfurling fronds were said to protect households from evil. #WyrdWednesday

Welsh folklore tells us to that Midsummer Eve/ St John’s Eve is an important occasion for the Cŵn Annwn: "These dogs went in procession through the lonely lanes and byways of Wales guided by their master, a dark gigantic figure with a horn around his neck." Art: A McBride via Mark Rees

Happy 137th birthday, Petrified Ham!

St John's Eve is 6/23. It's celebrated in different ways across the world, but the most common theme is the burning of bonfires. Bonfire comes from banefire, which used to be for burning bones. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3800... #FolkloreSunday #art #StJohnseve #folklore #SummerSolstice

Hares are kind of freaky! (Saw "Watership Down" much too young)

Happy Solstice Day! Here is 'Midsummer' by William Blake. #WilliamBlake #Blake #fairies #faerie #Solstice

Hilarious!

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with World Naked Hiking Day bn.org.uk/news/news/pr...

Summer Solstice sparkle✨

Happy Birthday Lionel Richie! Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/LRichieHBD

Holy wells and natural springs were visited to bathe in healing waters. Rolling naked in the fresh #Midsummer morning dew was also believed to keep a person healthy and youthful for the rest of the year. #Folklore

Unmarried women engaged in folk magic to glimpse their future husbands on #Midsummer eve. A common ritual was picking seven different wildflowers in absolute silence and placing them under their pillows to dream of their future partners. #Folklore

The Verve released 'A Northern Soul' 31 years ago on June 20, 1995 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/theverveANS

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

The dead have their lithic lookouts, their proxy eyes with which to scan our world. We are watched by a mechanism of stone surveillance that does not sleep and is constant in its judgement of us. For some, paranoia is undying. – #CJosiffe

‘Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.’ ~ Yeats This #BookWormSat will be frolicking with the fairies of literature for #InternationalFairyDay on the 24th of June.

Just call it a “flippers’ surprise.”

What does it mean if whale songs keep popping up in my life?

The Droste effect, in which an image appears recursively within itself, was named after the image appearing on tins of Droste cocoa powder. #WyrdWednesday

yesssssss!

Why does this crack me up so much?

You go to that fancy Italian restaurant — and who’s in the kitchen? Latinos. You go to that fancy French restaurant — who’s in the kitchen? Latinos. Latinos grow it, pick it, clean it, cook it, serve it, and do the dishes. We are the backbone. Don’t fuck with us, we’re busy.

Remember the good ole days? when kids weren't staring at clay tablets?

Don't whistle at night!

Bluesky is where you talk to people who read books. Instagram is where you talk to people who are too addicted to Instagram to read books. Facebook is where you talk to people who still buy books sometimes but usually just for Christmas and only if they don't have too many words in them.

Beautiful!!

Good morning BlueSky🌞 🐓🪻🍩☕

Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫

The power of modern folklore.

God has the chance to do the funniest thing.

One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro

Be rebellious.

I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.