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We play The Marquee in Tempe tonight! Alvvays on at 8pm, us at 9.15pm. 📸 Kevin Winter.
What's your favorite bear-related thing?
heres some bears listening to someone play the cello
St. Peter and St. Paul
“What’s the password?”
“I’m not saying “Peter’s the Rock” every time I want in.“
“I’ve got the key.“
“Jesus gave you the key, He didn’t say anything about a password.”
“I’VE GOT THE KEY, PAUL.”
“LET ME IN THE STUPID DOOR, PETER.”
#the incident at antioch
Holy Trinity Banner detail
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a viewing tower for fish made with an old fish tank and a couple of cinder blocks
Oh my goooosh.
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Orthodox tumblr could put a Greek- or Russian-sounding saint name after any quote, and I wouldn’t question it.
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Emperor Leo VI the Wise bowing down before Christ Pantocrator (Macedonian period)
late 9th or early 10th century, mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
For the past hour I’ve been wandering round the house with a blanket wrapped round me, it makes me want get up tomorrow at dawn and be photographed wrapped in my blanket gazing out on a lake or a mountain, looking wistful. And then upload that photo to Instagram and get 1000s of likes.
Maybe I could caption it with an inspiring bible verse like “And Elijah said unto them, ‘Take the 450 prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.”
I post something cute in FB about my toddler loving ketchup and getting it all over her when she eats it and someone has to bug me about how ketchup has corn syrup in it and is bad. Well, that’s just such a shame. Because I was going to make a pot of soup out of ketchup and feed it to her for lunch every day. Good thing that dutiful citizen warned me. Thank you, Captain Health!!
I’d be so tempted to troll like, oh good, I’m trying to fatten her up and she was getting tired of the snickers bars.
Ernst von Dohnányi, Béla Bartók and Zoltan Kodály messing around in an old tintype.
If you fine ladies and gentlemen are so inclined, I have a ‘twitter’ account that can be observed here: @benjamindewey
So far, my research shows that every bookcase likes the complete tragedy series; help me gather more data and get yours today!
Holy Family Russian Icon- Unknown artist
One of my favorite things about Catholicism is its abundance of Masses.
Sunday? Mass.
Feast of St. So-and-So? Mass.
Remembrance of some wonderful event? Mass.
Someone born? Mass with baptism.
Someone died? Mass.
Someone sick? Mass.
Someone acted the fool and hosted a black mass? COUNTER MASS.
A bunch of college students got together to discern their vocations at a retreat? Mass.
Planned Parenthood dismembered children and called it progress? Mass.
New church built? Mass.
New organ installed in an old church? Mass.
Every day in between? Mass.
I truly love that our answer to everything life could possible throw at us is “let’s get together and worship Jesus Christ.”
We’re so into Masses priests have to be restrained by Canon Law to celebrating only two per day, three on extra-special days, unless their position or necessity warrants more…
Your friend is stuck on a milk float containing a bomb set to go off when the milk float goes under 4mph?
We put the brick on the accelerator Mass.
There’s nothing on the TV? Mass.
My dad is watching the mass right now. WTF.
155-year old mouse trap claims its latest victim
After logging onto their computers today, staff here at the Museum of English Rural Life were greeted by an unusual email from the Assistant Curator:
There appears to be a dead mouse in this mousetrap…
It began.
…which is not described as being there on the database. Can you perhaps check whether it should be there and/or decide if having a dead mouse in the trap is the best way forward from a conservation perspective. [/s]
So, this retired rodent had managed to sneak past University of Reading security, exterior doors and Museum staff, and clambered its way up into our Store. Upon finding itself there it would have found the promised land; a mouse paradise laid before it full of straw, wood and textiles. Then, out of thousands of objects, it chose for its home the very thing designed to kill it some 150 years ago: a mouse trap.
The trap itself was not baited, but this did not stop our mouse from wriggling inside and, finding itself trapped, meet its demise. The trap was manufactured by Colin Pullinger & Sons of Silsey, West Sussex in 1861. It is a multi-catch trap with a see-saw mechanism, and you can see its object record here. It is known as a ‘Perpetual Mouse Trap’ and proudly declares that it ‘will last a lifetime’. How apt.
Pests are, of course, a perpetual menace in any museum. Curators and conservators are always alert for the tell-tale signs of moths, beetles and rodents which feast on the organic materials we hold in store. Hygiene and regular cleaning are a first line of defence, as are glazed cases. Objects are also treated before storage or display to ensure anything lurking within is killed. And while our most vulnerable objects have always been cased – such as clothing and leather – the rest of our stored collection made of sturdier wood and metal was only fully glazed over last year. This mouse may have snuck into the trap before this glazing, or otherwise managed to get in while construction work has been carried out for the Museum’s redevelopment.
We have traps set for pests, but we can never catch everything all of the time. This mouse managed to sign its own death warrant before it could do any more damage, the extent of which was only a nibbled label. We will also have to determine whether this mouse was a scout or part of a larger family. Luckily, because the collection is heavily used it is often only a matter of time before any kind of infestation is noticed and nipped in the bud. This mouse was found when our Assistant Curator was in the Stores selecting objects for use in an interdisciplinary research session on the subject of ‘Animals at Reading’. Our current MERL Fellow, Professor Karen Sayer, is also particularly interested in traps as part of her ongoing research into rats and pest control and regularly views our collection.
For the moment, however, the mouse remains in the trap while we decide what to do with it. One option is a dignified burial, another is to desiccate it or have it prepared to remain as a permanent feature of the mouse trap for our new displays. We’ll let you know what we decide.