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striders

leader of a trio of college kids waking past me at walmart: okay. mission number two, finding where the popcorn is.

his friend: wait, what was mission number one?

leader: fucking getting here, travis.

curioscurio

no offense but you could have fooled me into thinking this was part of a mbmbam bit

ain’t that the rub

Chosen.

elionking-deactivated20191020

If this were to happen to me i would burst into tears

quomododragon

So one of our new vocabulary words is “malus”, meaning “bad”, and I asked my students if they could think of any English derivatives, telling them that just about any English word that begins with M-A-L is going to mean something “bad”.

I’m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.

Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say “male” with the most dead-eyed expression.

quomododragon

This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered “vir” meant “man” because “it looks like virus, and men are a virus”.

mygenitiveisobjective

One of my Latin students, whenever I’d ask if they wanted a couple extra minutes to review before a test, would always say, “No, we die like men.” And so finally I asked her why it was always ‘like men’. She said, “We die like men, unprepared and useless.”

ally0mazing

Accurate

otherpens

this roast is so good it reached into the future and dragged movies that weren’t even in development yet

Pink

By Tamar Ettun

#Tamar Ettun #contemporary art #women in art

butt-berry

The whole gang from 2016

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imposterogers

museum curator, watching steve waltz into the smithsonian, the memory of having the stolen cap america authentic howling commando era uniform returned dirty and ridden with bullet holes still fresh in their mind: hide the VALUABLES

steve, reaching over the rope to poke at something on display: it’s my goddamn stuff???

eldritchjackalope

#I work with enough museum curators to be able to accurately picture their looks of absolute dead-eyed horror#at this meat-handed man pawing through the objects they’ve spent decades preserving#BUT ALSO IT’S HIS GODDAMN STUFF#so the mental image of the incredibly stiff and stilted surface-level polite conversation Steve would have with Smithsonian staff#both of them vibrating with indignation but unable to fully express it for PR reasons#is an endless source of entertainment for me via galwedenesday

galwednesday

#ah yes #the joys of attempting to figure out how to deaccession a bunch of shit#that previously belonged in the ‘no living claims’ category#and has for DECADES #what i would not give to see that paper trail tho#like was everything of Steve’s now owned by the Army upon being declared KIA and they donated it to the Smithsonian or what#MINUTIAE OF MUSEUM WORK IN THE MCU I WANT TO KNOW DAMMIT#like the museum has HAD to have dealt with fraudulent claims before so they’d have everything but ‘The Actual Original Owner’ showing up#locked down #okay but also #how long have they had this shit#when was any of this declassified via afearsomecritter

I’M SAYIN’, every single level of management at the Smithsonian must have had an extensively well-documented migraine after dealing with the colossal shitshow raised by such thrilling items as “sock (woolen)” pulled from the pack of one “Rogers, Steve G., 1918 - 1945 lol whoops he’s back″

anais-ninja-bitch

ngl, as a museum person, it affected whose side i was on during cacw.

svenyves

Dying.

Dead.

My heart has died.

anais-ninja-bitch

there are notes on this post, which are cute and good and true, about how the curator would have helped him and offered him things and taken him out to the pods in suitland etc etc.

and i’m just like:…bold of you to assume they know how to find the shit in TMS or in storage, but go off i guess

svenyves

Right!!!

“The record says we have a shirt?!! I have never seen that. Does anyone know where this is? Shit. Shit. Shit. Okay, who has been here the longest?”

singelisilverslippers

painfully fucking relatable. “TMS says it’s in suitland, but BLAST says it was brought downtown to conservation? also the curator listed as responsible retired three years ago and their position still hasn’t been posted by central HR.”

takingaselkie

the *curator*, we all know, would only have found out about this incident several months later once they finally fought their way out of their disastrous rat’s nest of an office

it’s the registrar who would be truly Involved and they would be there, hissing, with a knife,

anais-ninja-bitch

thank you! the registrar would go full winter soldier on him.

an unpaid registration intern might be willing and able to help, but it’s like asking the fae for a boon: they won’t volunteer their help or knowledge, and you have to be very careful and very specific about what you ask for.

#museum life

contemporary-art-blog

James Turrell, Blue ones

#james turrell #contemporary art #blue

montygreen

#I FORKING love the extended cuts

#thegoodplace

pleaseexorciseme

John Mulaney, a man who is iconically known for loving his wife, after being told by Jerry Seinfeld that his wife only thinks shes good at something

jackironsides

Well done OP, you’ve managed to capture the moment John’s spirit left his body

ryrosryhoe

Jerry’s lucky that John is too polite to throw hands

bonepoem

Okay but I just went and watched this for myself and it’s WORSE

He’s. So uncomfortable. It’s obvious. I cut out the part where John kind of muttered, “That is true, isn’t it” about how all men think they’re funny, but his face is just screwed up in this ‘oh god what have i done what have i signed up for this is not good and this will probably go into my next comedy special of awkwardness’

jukebox-head

Just watched this omg bless john bc jerry just keeps trying to do some “take my wife” bullshit and john very politely goes no, no.

cryptiboy

proud of John for restraining himself from murdering a man on camera

wintersoldierfell

What’s so horrifying about this to me is that this is literally Jerry Seinfeld trying to teach John Mulaney how to gaslight his wife.

Look at that dialogue. “She thinks she knows.” He’s trying to get Mulaney to see his wife’s expertise as instead a weird misperception. He’s coaching him to undercut his wife’s confidence in the truth and her own abilities.

And Mulaney replies exactly the right way: “She does know.” He asserts not only that she’s perceiving the world accurately, but that she is an expert at something he’s not good at.

Dudes, don’t take this shit from other dudes. Mulaney isn’t by any means perfect but he aced this. Stand for the truth. Defend women’s objectivity. Promote women’s expertise.

randomthingsthatilike1

Doesnt his wife also work with antiques too?like. Isnt that part of her actual job?

thechy-fychannel

I reblog this every time because I don’t think people understand that Anna is literally an interior designer. She makes absolutely stunning Victorian Lampshades. Which she designs.. for the interior of a home… she’s literally an interior designer. She doesn’t think she’s good at it, she knows she’s good at it because it’s her fucking job