i was a little all over the map today
last night my twitter feed was mostly grief and anger over the shooting in orlando, giving way to squee over the stanley cup and unbridled fangirl joy over the tonys. and also grief and anger over orlando. it was a little whiplashy but at the same time it was nice to be reminded that the world is not an unremittingly horrible place. and now there are comfort dogs on the ground in orlando and people waited for hours in the florida heat to donate blood and other people showed up with water and food and umbrellas and sunscreen to make the wait a little more bearable. lin-manuel miranda's tony acceptance sonnet made me tear up, tho.
now if we could just do something about all those assault rifles....
goths raving to the theme from thomas the tank engine. more or less.
the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge is in china. a reporter from the bbc smashed it with a sledgehammer to prove how safe it is. so who wants to go to china with me to walk across this thing? :D
students at the university of leicester solve the superhero vs superhero debate. according to this, superman should beat batman handily in a fight.
there's controversy in curling. it's about the brooms.
turf cutter finds twenty-two pounds of bog butter - bog butter is butter that's been buried in a bog, natch. it's two thousand years old and still technically edible, altho the prevailing opinion seems to be "don't eat it".
the badass librarians of timbuktu saved hundreds of thousands of priceless books from al-qaeda jihadists. they smuggled them out by donkey cart and truck and boat.
the richardson spite house, five feet wide (because that's how wide the plot was) and built to spite richardson's neighbors. it was torn down in 1915 because let's be honest, what else are you going to do with a five-foot-wide building?
a french guy is sailing around the world with his chicken. her name is monique and she doesn't get seasick.
now if we could just do something about all those assault rifles....
goths raving to the theme from thomas the tank engine. more or less.
the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge is in china. a reporter from the bbc smashed it with a sledgehammer to prove how safe it is. so who wants to go to china with me to walk across this thing? :D
students at the university of leicester solve the superhero vs superhero debate. according to this, superman should beat batman handily in a fight.
there's controversy in curling. it's about the brooms.
turf cutter finds twenty-two pounds of bog butter - bog butter is butter that's been buried in a bog, natch. it's two thousand years old and still technically edible, altho the prevailing opinion seems to be "don't eat it".
the badass librarians of timbuktu saved hundreds of thousands of priceless books from al-qaeda jihadists. they smuggled them out by donkey cart and truck and boat.
the richardson spite house, five feet wide (because that's how wide the plot was) and built to spite richardson's neighbors. it was torn down in 1915 because let's be honest, what else are you going to do with a five-foot-wide building?
a french guy is sailing around the world with his chicken. her name is monique and she doesn't get seasick.