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[yenvengerberg]

"Do you realize what you've just done? You killed us. You killed Camp." PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS, 'Nobody Gets the Fleece'

[dankmemesforsadteens]

[doraemonmon]

George Harrison

[callemodista]

Pattie Boyd

[mykingdomforapen]

[hickorywind]

TACO NEEDS TO KEEP HIS LITTLE MOUTH SHUT 

[dynastylnoire]

TACO NEEDS TO STAY IN HIS DAMN  LANE

[weirdlandtv]

Friar Park, George Harrison’s home from 1970 to his death in 2001.

The huge 1889 neo-Gothic mansion, with its grottoes, secret passageways, giggling gnomes, sprawling gardens and mysterious and quirky inscriptions, inspired quite a few songs by the former Beatle. Among them “Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)” (1970), a nod to its eccentric former owner; “Ding Dong, Ding Dong” (1974) which contains one of its many inscriptions: “Ring out the old, ring in the new / Ring out the false, ring in the true”; and “The Answer’s at the End” (1975), of which the title and a portion of the lyrics are taken from another one of its engravings: “Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass / You know his faults, now let his foibles pass / Life is one long enigma, my friend / So read on, read on, the answer’s at the end.”

“Flying Hour”, written in 1978, quotes an inscription from Friar Park’s clock tower:

Past is gone, thou canst not that recall

Future is not, may not be at all

Present is, [so] improve the flying hour

Present only is within thy power.

Wise words. Further, the cover of George’s first solo album ALL THINGS MUST PASS (1970) was shot at Friar park, as were the videos for the 1976 songs “Crackerbox Palace” and “True Love”, and I’m sure you’ve seen that bit in THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY of Paul, George and Ringo reminiscing in the garden. For George, the mansion was a treasure trove that kept on giving.

Having grown up in a similar spooky and magical place, also with bits of wisdom scattered throughout (“Fear not about what might happen / For what happens is never what you fear”), I’ve always been fascinated by Friar Park, so much that I visited it in 2011. I took this photo of its gate then (that’s not the house by the way, but one of its lodges):

As former Beatles press agent Derek Taylor wrote about the house: “It is a dream on a hill and it came, not by chance, to the right man at the right time.”

There’s some more to show even, so there will be a follow-up later on.

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PETA

you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?

you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?

you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?

you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?

you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?

you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?

you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?

Because I remember. I remember everything. 

And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too. 

[ourladyofpainourladyofdreams-de]

Why would they kill pit bulls they’re sweeties

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Because PETA does not care about animals. they do not care that these dogs live and breathe and feel and want love like every other dog. they do not care about the history of human/dog bonding and co-evolution, they do not care that dogs and human beings have relied on each other for millennia, they do not care that its cruel and morally repugnant to put down an animal just because you can, they do not care about animals. 

PETA cares about money and publicity, its a corporation run by a psychopath who is afraid of pitts as it states in the link: she was apparently bit by one, and now she hates them. 

PETA doesn’t give a rats ass about animals. They just want to kill and make money off of idiots who fall of their spiel.

[ourladyofpainourladyofdreams-de]

Some celebs support them

[i-n-m-h]

ah c’mon, dear-tumb1r, I think you’re being a bit harsh. I mean, okay, PETA’s done some questionable things, but it’s not like they’ve also

-spread false information about milk causing autism based on outdated bullshit information

-used holocaust imagery to compare the meat industry to concentration camps (no pictures)

-used a young man’s brutal death as a way to say “yeah that’s awful but it happens to animals every day and nobody cares about that” (tw: no pictures but the way the guy died is described and it is really horrible)

-dressed up in KKK robes and protested outside of the Westminister Dog Show to protest breeding/pure bred dogs (tw: racism)

-offered to pay the water bill for literally the poorest neighborhood in Detroit if and only if they all went vegan for a month (tw: self-righteous shitheads)

-and they definitely didn’t have two of their workers accept perfectly healthy animals from an animal hospital, with the implication that they would give them good homes, clarify that these animals were all healthy and well-tempered, and then euthanized them all in the back of a kill-van before dumping their dead bodies behind a grocery store (tw: PICTURES OF DEAD ANIMALS, animal death)

-and they totally didn’t get off pretty much scot-free for it because PETA has loads of money and lawyers to defend themselves, which coincidentally might be why the Cerate family hasn’t seen justice for their kidnapped and murdered dog, Maya. (tw: animal death)

Nah. PETA’s not that bad.

(/the heaviest of all my fucking sarcasm, I am salty as a fucking winter road, lord do I fucking hate PETA)

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Did you think i was fucking joking, PETA?

I will make sure everyone fucking remembers what you’ve done. 

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Bringing it back, because it’s charity season and people need to know NOT to give charity to these fuckers. 

[headspace-hotel]

At some point i fact-checked almost all of these links because i couldn’t believe this was real and

every. one. of them. 

totally real

[myfandomtopia]

Music label: Bohemian Rhapsody is not a song teens will bob their heads to in the car

Teens, decades later at every party I’ve ever been to, when Bohemian Rhapsody comes on:

[qtmuses]

some of my favorite pattie boyd looks.

[something-in-the-way-she-knows]

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This is my new sister, Luna. She is absolutely nuts

[something-in-the-way-she-knows]

say hello to my new pupper Luna 🌙 (at New Philadelphia, Ohio)

[maximum-overboner]

if you ever doubt your writing, be it your themes, or the reason behind it, remember that h.g wells wrote war of the worlds both as a commentary on colonialism and the horrors it brings, and because he fucking hated his neighbours and his 13 hour job, and wanted to write about the town in which he lived getting blasted to the fucking ground by lasers into an irreparable heap and all of the townspeople dying painfully 

you, too, can channel your hatred for that guy that lives down the hall and blasts music at 4am into the one of the most influential science fiction stories ever written! fuck it! i believe in you!!  

[spookydraws]

This is one of the most inspirational things I’ve ever seen

[the-cosmic-empire]

50 Years Since The Esher Demos? 

On 28th May 1968, artist and Beatle fan Michael Herring had an amazing day. 

This story has passed into something of Beatles legend (with some well known discrepancies and disputes over the truth of the account) but what could be likely is that Michael Herring witnessed the recording of the Beatles’ Esher Demos - the demo sessions conducted at George’s Kinfauns home which later became The White Album. On that day 2 records were made - a good quality one (which was used for the Beatles Anthology Esher demo tracks, but I believe is otherwise unreleased) and a poorer quality recording, which I think was on John’s portable recorder and forms the basis of the widely available bootleg. 

On 28th May, 1968 Michael Herring rolled right up to John’s front door: 

John opened the door and said exactly these words: “Well then, what’s it about?”,’ he recalled.

Mr Herring said he won Lennon over by joking: ‘John, I wish you could be me so that you know what it feels like to meet you.’ He was promptly invited in for breakfast.

Mr Herring sat down to eat with the singer and Yoko Ono – who ‘never spoke a word and was just mumbling into a cassette recorder’ – and then his luck got even better.

Impressed with Mr Herring’s knowledge of Yoko’s artwork, Lennon invited him to the band’s rehearsals for the White Album, which would be released later that year.

The top two photos here at taken by Michael Herring in the back of John’s car as they drove over to George’s home, Kinfauns. Michael Herring says when they arrived George was sitting on the lawn, playing guitar. 

‘George looked up and said, “Who’s this, then?”’ Mr Herring, 67, recalled. ‘John said, “This is Michael. He’s an artist. I found him in me garden.” 

Michael Herring spent the day at Kinfauns with the Beatles, later meeting Ringo as well and getting their autographs. 

There is an addendum to this story where Michael Herring claimed to have witnessed a letter from Paul being delivered announcing he’d quit the band, c/o “The Eastmans”. This of course can’t be true as Paul didn’t quit in 1968 and his association with Lee Eastman (Linda’s father) wouldn’t happen until later in 1968 at the earliest - he’d only just met Linda. 

Nonetheless, Michael Herring may have witnessed the legendary Kinfauns (Esher) demos being recorded, at least in part. The Beatles must have still been on their India kick, as he said no drugs or alcohol were consumed. The Beatles played and rehearsed all day, only taking a break to eat a veggie curry. 

The symbol under John’s signature, by the way, is the Hindu & Buddhist symbol for well being. Something he’d brought back from India possibly. 

Pics: Michael Herring. Quotes from The Daily Mail, 7th March 2015 [x]

[fitesorko]

Pattie Boyd

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I think I just might be the handsomest bunny to ever live.

[thesnadger]

Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase. 

“I won’t be available.”

Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.

If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:

Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.

Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.

Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.

The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.

If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else. 

But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.

“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”

“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)

“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”

“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”

If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.

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[kagetsukai]

Just like with many other parts of life, learn to say ‘no’ to people. You are important. Don’t kill yourself for another person, esp. if they are your boss.