Overtly Strange

I like this stuff and sometimes I say things.

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

Reginald Mobley. That's It, That's the Post.

Reginald Mobley might be my favorite singer when it comes to Purcell. I mean, seriously-

What a lovely and limber sound, and dude does not flinch dipping in and out of the lower register. There's something so tender about how he sings, too. It's just sublime.

[dorimdal]

From Rick Berry’s “Seeing in the Dark: Expressionistic Figurative Paintings”

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Lo Scorticamento Degli Eletti ~ Sergio Padovani

[dorimdal]

Beeble

[sevenspoonfulsofsugar]

i would die for you

[dorimdal]

I don’t agree with anything I’ve ever said.

[beggars-opera]

The best notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages

Oh, my hand

The parchment is very hairy

Thank God it will soon be dark

St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing

Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink

Oh d fuckin abbot

Massive hangover

Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job

Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night

If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral

I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today

Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark

11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again

Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God

If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen

[neilaglet]

[goshinoghetto]

[emmartian]

:____)

[inu1941-1966]

[rickberry]

From the series “Imaginary People” Charcoal; MDF; 12x9ins.; Berry

[dorimdal]

M.C. Escher (1933) - Hand with Reflecting Sphere

Lithograph. 213mm x 318mm.

[humansofnewyork]

“Your appearance is the first thing you say to somebody.”

[drakontomalloi]

Михаил Врубель - Восточная сказка. 1886

[suburbanerd-deactivated20180820]

Justin Trudeau is the most sexually attractive world leader in my lifetime and I include Eleanor Roosevelt in that list. I used to have a pin-up of her in my bedroom. But I refuse to masturbate to Justin Trudeau because he supports the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Bernie Sanders, aka James Adomian. 

(via suburbanerd)

[humansofnewyork]

(3/3) “It wasn’t every second of every day. But sometimes I’d get this boiling feeling like there was mercury in my blood. And it would rise up into my head and I’d get so angry it was like I was going to explode. And all I could think of was worst-case scenarios. And it felt like there was no way out. I’d work myself into such a frenzy that I thought there was only one way to eliminate that feeling. And I’ve already lost seven veterans that I know to suicide. Two of them were very close to me. These were educated guys. And they seemed happy. You’d meet them, and think: ‘These guys are so great.’ And I knew if it could happen to them it could happen to me. So I came here and I started unpacking this shit. It was a lot of work. The therapist just guides the conversation. You have to dig up stuff you thought you’d packed away forever. And you have to answer questions that you never answered. It’s exhausting to go that deep. But it works. I feel like I’m in control again. I know my triggers. I don’t flip out. I don’t send inappropriate emails at work when I feel slighted. I still have bad days but I’m in control again. I was afraid therapy would cause me to lose my edge. That didn’t happen. It made me stronger. It’s like gym for the mind. And I don’t want to lose one more veteran. That’s why I’m telling my story right now. I don’t want anyone to be afraid to look under the hood. Therapy is like Men’s Wearhouse: ‘Give it a try. You’ll like the way you look. I guarantee it.’”

[mooseinacup]

"This creature, according to Ohto Island folklore, is called Godzilla."