I see the world from both sides now…

and both sides are terrible.

Thinkin ‘bout Oregon stuff. Namely, how the collapse of the logging industry is so often presented in terms of domestic developments - the environmental/conservationist movement in particular. And how foreign and trade policy aren’t foregrounded, even though with the US Navy controlling the Pacific sea lanes and petroleum infrastructure developed enough in Southeast Asia and South America, it’s not unreasonable to prefer to just import lumber for currency that can come right back for chainsaws and mill blades and Caterpillar machinery.

Especially given that the development of export-oriented resource extraction economies would tie states to the US and draw the rural workforce off the land in environments where the Maoist peasantry-straight-to-industrial-communism path was a major competitor. (With the intact federal forest lands serving as a decent reserve if those sealanes ever were closed*)

* As an aside, one of my hobbyhorses is how everyone with a submarine fleet (the Imperial German Navy in WWI, the Kriegsmarine and USN in WWII) always starts off intending, and failing, to use them against capital ships and then eventually figures out the thing to do is shipping interdiction.

The rumored Chinese contingency plan to take care of carriers with ballistic missiles and flood the Pacific with hundreds of not-cutting-edge subs might prove to be the first time someone got it right.

limegl0wstix:

Lydia was scene before there was scene.

glaciersofice:

lush really ‘does it’ for me lately.

barthel:

You only hear about someone being captain of their soccer team or class president or homecoming queen when they are a teenager and something awful has happened to them. She was president of the model UN, and now she is missing; he had spent a semester abroad, and now he is dead. In an effort to…

brilliant

hentaitensaishoujo:

congratulations you won

I see a lot of teenagers getting into Eva and Utena these days. That’s cool! Good for them.

pierredebusschere:

MENTAL STATES 

DAZED & CONFUSED FEB 2012 ISSUE

PHOTOGRAPHY PIERRE DEBUSSCHERE

STYLING KATIE SHILLINGFORD

MODEL MARTE MEI VAN HAASTER

uglyrenaissancebabies:

Bernhard Strigel, Holy Family

Pop, pop, pop, watchin’ muthafuckas drop!

Portland is testing me. I can tell this because I regularly run into girls/who are the girls I hoped girls would be/except they have septum rings/which runs counter to what I hoped humans would be/hmmmmmmmmmm

busbyberkeleydreams:

simpsons nightmare megamix

bookspaperscissors:

Watercolour by Golly Bard

nedhepburn:

goddamit the internet was so much better before normal people started using it. now its all “outrage this” and “comment that” and just shut the fuck up and everyone go back to badger badger mushroom again. 

really. normal people ruined the internet. 

hnsm:

Something to fawn over. « Present&Correct

Aaaah, dammit. Went to Last Thursday, twisted my ankle stepping off a curb into a pothole. That’s the thing about spraining these things, each time you do it it makes it easier to do next time. I know from experience it hurts for 15 minutes, then feels not-too-bad for the rest of the day, then swells up and gets stiff and hurts like a bastard the next day. Guess I should maybe put on something with ankle support and go enjoy the rest of the night, ‘cause I’m probably not going out tomorrow.

You know, I bet there’s a ton of guys who thought that girls who dyed their hair an unnaturally intense shade of blonde were dumb and vapid, who just go wild over girls who dye their hair an unnaturally intense shade of red today.

#geekisthenewjock