We’ve grown accustomed to seeing old cars in period movies and vintage car shows but they never look real to me in those settings. This video (mute the awful music!) shows them as they were. These are images from my youth and –for me– it was a wonderful time.
Category Archives: Art/Style
Becorns
David Bird “builds little people out of acorns and sticks, then photographs them in the wild with real animals.” More on his YouTube channel.
Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse
(Wikipedia) Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse is a lighthouse 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometres) off the southwest coast of Iceland, in the archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, often described as the most isolated lighthouse in the world. Þrídrangar means “three rock pillars”, referring to the three named rocks at that location. It was constructed in 1938 and 1939, with the lighthouse commissioned in 1942. Originally constructed and accessible only by scaling the rock on which it is situated, it is accessible by helicopter since the construction of a helipad.
The lighthouse was built under the direction of Árni G. Þórarinsson, who recruited experienced mountaineers to scale the rock on which it is located. Their climbing tools did not allow them to bite into the rock near the top, and there were no handholds near the top, so they made a human pyramid (one man on his knees, a second atop him, and a third one climbing on the second one) to reach it.
5ives
I’ve had a 5ives tag since 2004. Merlin Mann stopped making these lists somewhere along the way but the archive is still there and his humor timeless. Like so many, he now haunts the crumbling halls of Twitter. So I’m killing the tag and sharing the three lists here.
Five things I’d like to see engraved on little rubber bracelets:
- Nap Strong
- My Other Bracelet is Fighting Colon Cancer
- America: Shut Thy Pie Hole
- Kiss Me, Im Trendy
- Please Watch Arrested Development
Five ass-related words
- metric assload (n.) – a lot
- asshat (n.) – willfully ignorant person
- assy (adj.) – unacceptably low-quality
- big-ass (adj.) – large
- asstacular (adj.) – really bad
Five more proposed pieces of legislation supported by George W. Bush
- Protection of Words Fewer than Three Syllables Act
- Bill to make the “High Five” the US’s official greeting
- National ‘Everybody Wears Jeans’ Day (March 14th)
- The “Pretty Girls Shouldn’t Act All Stuck Up” Amendment
- Presidential proclamation that “California Must Apologize to Jesus (and It Has to Sound Like They Really Mean It)”
The MAGA movement is a bell curve… that has peaked
The MAGA movement, based on aging white boomer victimhood is a bell curve. […] White boomers never faced the great depression, or a world war, yet we were particularly susceptible to the idea that we were victims of hardships. “Whatever the fuck is wrong here, it must be someone else’s fault. Women. Immigrants. Black people.”
After lifetimes of leaning into consumerism and mass consumption we boomers woke up to find ourselves angry and reactive to our own disconnection. Maybe a bigger SUV would help? Maybe a third marriage? […] Retirement is when a strange unnamed panic really set in for boomers. No longer able to rely on the stale connection of surface level workplace relationships, we were left sitting alone in our easy chairs staring at the Tucker Carlsons of the Fox News rabbit hole.
Trump is the ongoing final act of angry white boomers. No longer did we have to coyly perform the wink wink of coded racist language about welfare queens and urban crime. We were liberated to march with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, our creeping panic weaponized into authoritarian rage.
For MAGA boomers to admit now, at this terribly late date, that all the white privilege and rage in the world isn’t calming our loneliness or our growing panic, means looking back on 70 years or more and admitting we fell prey to our most selfish, ugly, bullying instincts.
Essay by Mark Greene