Caveman: Me capable of forming complex ideas verbally in English, but for some reason, me generalize accusative case to all pronouns and not conjugate verbs
Other caveman: Ugg not even able to use pronouns to communicate deixis or to separate self from others, despite the fact Ugg understand concept of deixis.
Caveman: It strange how despite having access to full range of English speech sounds, all caveman have simple one-syllable names ending with g.
me: [innocently trying to sleep]
my brain: the title card for the warner brother cartoon "duck amuck" but it actually says "succ amuck"
me: please stop
A sovereignty is precarious that does not command both the religious enthrallment of the people and the half-mercenary, half-emotional obedience of an army.
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share Volume 1, p. 97. (via bustakay)
someone once said the definition of modern art is it still elicits as strong an emotional response in you as classical art but you can no longer understand or articulate why
Wednesday Addams dresses seem to be the new thing among girls who want to invoke the concept of neoteny and cuteness without in any way appearing pleasant
‘The treasure book of children’s verse’ arranged by Mabel and Lilian Quiller-Couch; illustrated in colour by M. Etheldreda Gray. Published 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton, New York.
The thing missing from discussions of the NC antidiscrimination preemption bill is the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance’s repeal-by-plebiscite a few months ago.
After someone put energy into making it a public issue even an urban, ethnically mixed, “safely tolerant” voter base rejected broad, multi-class antidiscrimination protections wholesale by a 2-to-1 margin rather than endorse transgender mainstreaming. That’ll prove an important precedent.
For the first time, a giant 20″ red leech was filmed slurping down a blue earthworm which was 27″ in length. The footage was captured by BBC filmmakers for the series ‘Wonders of the Monsoon.’
