Annie Maggard

Another day, another haircut…

thedailywhat:

Radio-Ready Remix of the Day: A preposterously well-remixed compilation of Mitt Romney clips by Hugh Atkin yields quite possible the best sendup of Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady” ever pieced together from clips of Mitt Romney.

[hmatkin.]

WHY IS THIS SO GOOD

THE RHYMES

THE EDITING

;ALSDKJF;LAKJ;LJK

Hiking near Eldorado Springs.

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Sequence from Melancholia (2011)
Final Sequence / Hold my hand, close your eyes.

This movie was phenomenal. And made me feel really paranoid about the world ending for a few days.

By Sarah Lindsay

Krakatau split with a blinding noise
and raised from gutted, steaming rock
a pulverized black sky, over water walls
that swiftly fell on Java and Sumatra.
Fifteen days before, in its cage in Amsterdam,
the last known member of Equus quagga,
the southernmost subspecies of zebra, died.
Most of the wild ones, not wild enough,
grazing near the Cape of Good Hope,
had been shot and skinned and roasted by white hunters.

When a spider walked on cooling Krakatau’s skin,
no quagga walked anywhere. While seeds
pitched by long winds onto newborn fields
burst open and rooted, perhaps some thistle
flourished on the quagga’s discarded innards.
The fractured island greened and hummed again;
handsome zebras tossed their heads
in zoos, on hired safari plains.
Who needs to hear a quagga’s voice?
Or see the warm hide twitch away a fly,

see the neck turn, curving its cream and chestnut stripes
that run down to plain dark haunches and plain white legs?
A kind of horse. Less picturesque than a dodo. Still,
we mourn what we mourn. 
Even if, when it sank to its irreplaceable knees,
when its unique throat closed behind a sigh,
no dust rose to redden a whole year’s sunsets,
no one unwittingly busy
two thousand miles away jumped at the sound,
no ashes rained on ships in the merciless sea.

Music from yesterday’s Neil deGrasse Tyson video, by The Cinematic Orchestra.

thedailywhat:

Words Of Wisdom of the Day: Inspired by the acclaimed “Sagan Series,” Evan Schurr pieced together powerful statements made by world-renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson that serve as an alarming wake up call to a nation that has stopped dreaming and underfunded tomorrow.

[reddit.]

I don’t usually have strong opinions on like, space and stuff, but listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson talk always gives me Feelings.

Just letting y’all know.