[war-crime-wizard]

my blog is a safe space for me. the rest of you are in danger i think

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about a news story, but my first "political" memory was something about the torture memos

[doorsclosingslowly]

my first political memory is photographs from abu ghraib

[skopostheorie]

[soundcarvings]

it’s a beautiful summer for disappearing

[hateusandseeifwemind]

I self administered black tea to the point of madness.

[sangsang-tails]

the irredeemable pervert implies the existence of the redeemable prude

[psykopaths]

Videodrome (1983)

dir. David Cronenberg

[anthonybourdyke]

le tour de france was funnier when the riders would stop the race to go raid the bars and bistros along the trail as fast as they could. imagine a horde of cyclists doped on endorphins (among other things) leaving a pub with beers and bottles of wine in their pockets. truly a stroke of genius to combine france's two greatest attractions, le tour de france + la route des vins. main goal of the tour: finishing alive.

[laterkiss]

*flirting* are you ever repulsed by ur desires

[partw0lf]

[coast-to-coast-am-caller]

couragemongering

[steampunktendencies]

Oil on Beetle by Akihiro Higuchi

[fnordseer5]

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

[lilkakow]

Soviet swimmer Maria Havrish congratulates her rival Elena Kovalenko, who defeated her in the breaststroke competition at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in Moscow, 1956 (photo by Lisa Larsen)

[lilkakow]

[orchidblack]

Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker (1979), shot by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

[marypickfords]

Immoral Tales (Walerian Borowczyk, 1973)

[devilboydogman]

Trent Reznor: *Practically having sex with the microphone in stage, moaning as he sings* Hnnng Gotta go faster, don’t slow down, put it in me harder,

[Artist’s note: this song is not about sex but is rather an elaborate fictional story about a man in metaphysical crisis fighting the war against the extinction of humanity,