life's grand parade

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[lifesgrandparade]

Lifesgrandparade theme song

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a question for you

Lay it on me mister fuckinyouhard0989

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He’s so shy he died

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We could’ve had something beautiful together but everbody leaves me

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Otto Dix - Portrait of the Art Dealer Johanna Ey (1924)

Ey was born in humble circumstances in Wickrath (today a quarter of Mönchengladbach). At the age of 19 she moved to Düsseldorf. She married and had twelve children, of whom eight died young. In 1910, middle aged and divorced, she opened a bakery in the proximity of the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. This became a popular meeting place of actors, journalists, musicians and especially painters, who appreciated her policy of granting credit to artists and students. She displayed their works in her shop windows, and became a collector of art by accepting paintings as payment. In 1916 she closed her café and opened a gallery on the Hindenburgwall (today Heinrich Heine avenue), where she showed works by academic painters. In the years following World War I, however, the gallery became the center of the artists of the "Junge Rheinland" (Young Rhineland) group. Ey initially decided to exhibit their art not for theoretical or economic reasons, but rather because of her personal friendships with the artists, although she quickly became an energetic proponent of modernism. Her support for her artists extended even to darning their socks, and she defended Wollheim and Dix when they were hauled into court on charges that their paintings were immoral. During the 1920s, she was frequently painted by the artists in her circle, notably by Dix in 1924, and in 1925 by Arthur Kaufmann, who placed her at the center of his composition Contemporaries (Düsseldorf's Intellectual Scene). According to art historian Sergiusz Michalsky, "Johanna Ey's portrait was painted more often than that of any other woman in Germany." With the rise to power of Hitler in 1933, nearly all the artists associated with Ey were denounced as degenerate artists; most were also political opponents of National Socialism. In April 1934 Johanna Ey gave up running her gallery. She died in Düsseldorf in 1947. (source)

[luulapants]

Rating the birds in my backyard by tendency toward violence

Northern Cardinal, 4/10

I'm sometimes worried the male is sexually harassing the female but I'm pretty sure they're just doing some elaborate public pickup roleplay. The rest of us didn't agree to participate in your kink, guys.

American Robin, 1/10

Literally just some dude hanging out. Never bothered anyone but worms. Big fan of the way you just stand there in the middle of the grass like you forgot what you were supposed to be doing.

House Sparrow, 10/10

You're a gang. You're participating in gang violence. There's ten billion of you living in a single wood pile and it's been civil war for three years now. When will the bloodshed end?

Tufted Titmouse, 1/10

A shy baby. A pretty little guy. I saw you on the neighbor's garage roof and time stopped. There were anime sparkles around you. Come back.

European Starling, 9/10

Why is it always you? Listen, I know, I KNOW the sparrows are the problem, and YET. When the fighting starts, it's always you in the middle of it, provoking them and then screaming like you're an innocent bystander defending yourself. I'm onto you.

Carolina Wren, 3/10

This rating is not for physical violence, which you don't engage in, but for your role as an incurable narc. A tattle tale. I know they're fighting again, okay? I see it. Our yard has been a warzone for years, you don't have to make a big announcement every time someone misbehaves.

Eastern Wood-Peewee, 0/10

If this were "birds who think they're better than everyone else," you'd get 10/10.

Red-bellied Woodpecker, 6/10

It's a utility pole. It's not a tree. You're surrounded by trees that are full of bugs. But there you are, on the utility pole. Committing vandalism.

American Crow, unrated

For who am I to cast judgment on the actions of La Famiglia? I assume you are doing what is best for the neighborhood. If I could, though, without criticism, make a single observation. That when large numbers of you gather in the ominous dead cottonwood - no? No, you're right. None of my business.

Great Crested Flycatcher, 5/10

Frankly, I think you could be doing more. I think your name implies a great potential. I think you should massacre the insects. I think your beak should drip with viscera.

Stay tuned for more criminal activity!

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(continued)

Common Grackle, 7/10

La Famiglia does not suffer you to stop in our neighborhood long, and I trust their judgement in this manner. You have the look of a guilty bird.

Tennessee Warbler, 2/10

You keep to yourselves, and I respect that. I get the sense that you could defend yourselves if it came to it, though.

Brown-Headed Cowbird, 3/10

You're not a crow, and eventually they ARE going to figure it out, kiddo.

Gray Catbird, 5/10

Would you. Respectfully. Would you shut the FUCK UP.

Eurasian Collared-Dove, 0/10

You're doing great, sweetie, everyone loves you.

Red-Breasted Nuthatch, 4/10

A comedian. A little jester of a bird. You're so silly. Sure sometimes you incite violence in others but, really, is that your fault? If it is, we forgive you.

Blue Jay, 12/10

If you could learn any human behavior you wanted, it would be how to build a bomb.

Honorable mention:

Turkey Vulture, 5/10

You weren't in my backyard, but you WERE eating roadkill in the street in my neighborhood. I know the animal was already dead when you got there, but you get violence points for frightening the small children that walked past you. Incredible work.

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This is why Tumblr is good.

[lawfulgoodness]

I immediately scrolled to the blue jay to decide whether or not I wanted to read the rest of the post. Once I realized that OP got that right, I went back and read the rest. 10/10 OP.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

I read this to my dad who sits on his porch and watches the birds and his only note is that he has seen multiple male cardinals attempt to fight their reflections to the death and should have a higher rating.

[lifesgrandparade]

Now, which one is your favorite??????

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Cade, Ace, Trey, Carter and Carson, some all state lacrosse ass names

[lifesgrandparade]

I've checked out some pictures and lemme tell ya, this is the legion of doom of the high school bully class

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Now, which one is your favorite??????

[lifesgrandparade]

Cade, Ace, Trey, Carter and Carson, some all state lacrosse ass names

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Now, which one is your favorite??????

[krakenmctetis-deactivated201807]

Se atormenta una vecina.

[sabanasblancasuniverse-deactiva]

EL DRAMA ES INMINENTE.

[huariqueje]

Freeway Exit - Eileen David , 2023.

American , b. 1952 -

Oil on canvas , 12 x 16 in.

[carolsturka]

how it feels to talk about anything at all

[eroscestlavie]

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Losing my mind

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[foone]

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I guess the original “Number Unknown” wasn’t good enough so they just quickly slapped a completely unconvincing bright red font version of it (without erasing the original) on and didn’t even format it right lol seems very much like a sloppy editor fix

Aquaman #12 (2012)

[lifesgrandparade]

@nighthamcollege I mean what you see is what you get, I do Maptap and I do Anthropeum, I was doing WhereTaken but I got pissed off at it and am in the search process for another one. I'm not doing 4. I'm not doing five. It's kind of like a morning cup of coffee before I get into the Business International, just like make my brain work when it's desperately begging me to go back to sleep. Shake the cobwebs loose. Get me a little fired up lets fucking go, or a pissed little redass because I CLEARLY picked Belarus. Not my fault that you can only zoom in but so much.

I guess the other game I play, but usually not in the morning, is FC26, which, if you think about it, is another fun fucking "map quiz" because where the fuck is West Bromwich Albion?" I mean I know, but most motherfuckers outside of the West Midlands is going to have to google search that. You know a lot of people talk shit about the game, but I only play career mode so I don't get into all of the microtransactions shit. Ya know just stick me in the middle of a field and lemme score a golazo. I've played more of that game than I've watched the world cup this year, fyi. Fifa should be frightened. If I'm sleeping on this bullshit, you know you got a problem.

[lifesgrandparade]

Is there a film that you love except for the ending? What would you change about the ending?

What movies do you have on your current to-watch list?

I've had this in my inbox for ages, from a poll long forgotten. And I think I had it in my inbox because I went pages on question 1. Let's see if we can clean it up.

One: The short answer is no, and the long answer follows. I tend to judge a movie by its whole. A movie that has a good beginning and middle and a ehhhhh weak ending, I think is still a good movie. It's 3 stars, occasionally dropping to 2.5 or 2 depending on the denouement. A movie with a bad beginning and middle but a "good" ending is fucking terrible. Not only have you wasted my time, you're showing me that you had the capability of doing this the entire time?

Like, a movie with a rocky start, and/or an interminable endless middle, are movies I turn off. A movie with a bad ending, eh, it's hard to land the plane. I understand. Get to work, clean it the fuck up for next time. Like I need to be sold on the product! I could be doing other things, or I could be watching something else, or I could be watching four episodes of Cheers.

Something I wish everybody would consider: Was the ending bad, or did you not like it. Cuz those are two completely separate things! I knew a guy who wouldn't stop rampaging about No Country For Old Men because he... I guess wanted a shootout where Tommy Lee and James' Son get shotguns, look at each other, and blast the cartel into smithereens, instead of a meditation on the sheer brutality of life and death. Now, did they wrap things up in a successful way that held true to the movies statement, values, etc? That's where we can talk.

And like... things happen so fast in motion pictures baby, that sometimes you just don't get it. I've rewatched a movie and said "Oh ok, they did establish this thing early in the movie. Whatever else you can say, it didn't come out of nowhere." That's something you got to consider. Even if you hate the thing maybe you just missed the point. OR, maybe you were in such a rush to get your youtube comment out that you didn't' give it a chance. These are the things we must wrestle with, especially in these vocal and stupid times.

2. Any movie I want to rewatch is locked into the Paramount network. I could just rip it or buy it on DVD, but why should I go through that work?

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Wild Things, Italian lobby card (fotobusta). 1998

[lifesgrandparade]

Anyway I woke up a little cranky this... last 45 years of life I'm not taking shots at anybody, my annoyance is purely in how the news is delivered in social media and a liiiiiittle bit tired of supernatural. Please celebrate that awful man's demise to your hearts content. Here's a picture of gizmo to make up for my temper tantrum