Squid Pyjamas

The adventures of a punk rock oceanographer.

[squidpyjamas-blog]

do you wanna get married baby is that that the way he said it is that the way you asked him i know you have to live your life and i live mine but when i think about it it still makes me want to cry i will decide my life i will decide this time no man is gonna rule my life, she said i will decide my life make a million promises that you won't keep holding on boygirl i'm dying in my sleep wait for something different holding on to nothing else but him, him, him, him, him i will decide my life i will decide this time no man is gonna rule my life, she said i will decide this time waiting on forever waiting on tomorrow waiting on a fairy tale you get rid of all those traps they have set around you but can you get rid of that seed they planted in your head? i will decide my life i will decide this time no man is gonna rule my life, she said i will decide this time is he a real prince charming is he really worth it? all those things i saw you give up i wait, i wait for a happy ending but i could never say goodbye

[mermaidskey]

Today’s theme is a blast from the past: “Supernova” by Liz Phair.

[vikingfighter-deactivated201909]

If Stuntmen from the old movies don’t have your full respect then I just don’t know what to say to you

[japanese-goblin]

Yo this so much. At the advent of cinema these people were literally willing to die for their art. It’s crazy, and awesome.

Also if you find this awesome, people go check out a 2006 movie called The Fall, about a 1920’s stuntman’s stay in hospital after a stunt gone wrong.

[chuunioniika]

man things were wacky before color was invented

[squidpyjamas-blog]

No seriously you should check out The Fall because this man is beautiful:

I'll be in my bunk. With Lee Pace.

[thelma-sleaze]

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At last, a Valentine's Day tradition I can get behind.

[likeittolikeyou-blog]

by mrsbale113

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Look at how beautiful this woman is. Look at her!

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So Steven Moffat Likes to Take Away Your Candy

…watch you cry for a few minutes, and then give it back- because he loves making people smile. Also he believes continuity, consequences, and character development are for chumps.

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Everyone on the web is drooling over Fabulous Long-Haired Elf King Lee Pace but I honestly prefer Awkward and Utterly Charming Lee Pace.

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Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about? That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman? Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full? Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

Sojourner Truth, 1851

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This 1908 image of women smoking and drinking was intended to be a horrifying glimpse of a post-suffrage future. Now it just looks like an awesome bar.

I'll just put on my fabulous hat and head on over.

[agnesvardas]

[wehadfacesthen]

Lillian Gish in Way Down East  (D.W. Griffith, 1920)

from missgilda

[myeclecticthoughts]

[squidpyjamas-blog]

Idea for a Better Adaption of The Hobbit

Make Bilbo and half the dwarves female. Change nothing else about the story.

[thisblogdeadyeet]

YTMND’s presentation of our future in all its horrifying glory.

[octopusenvy-deactivated20200613]

Well, that’s sobering

[squidpyjamas-blog]

Now I'm depressed.

[zealotry]

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman (via zealotry)

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Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it in riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?

Samuel Gompers, Chicago, 1893

[wehadfacesthen]

Marlene Dietrich, 1945, visiting American soldiers on the front lines in Europe on a USO tour. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, "aus Anstand"—”out of decency”. 

Dietrich, who became an American citizen in 1939, was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the United States government in 1945 as well as the Légion d’honneur by the French government in recognition of her wartime work. [Wikipedia paraphrase]

[squidpyjamas-blog]

Hitler practically begged Marlene to come back to Germany and offered to make her a huge star and the symbol of the nation, and when she refused, he accused her of betraying her own country for Jewish-run Hollywood. If you were wondering why I have such love for Marlene, this is why.

[ce-douglas]

I don’t think you can last by meeting the contemporary public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don’t think you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting expectations. I don’t know many works of art that last that are condescending. I don’t know many works of art that last that are deliberately stupid. You may be a geek, you may have geek written all over you; you should aim to be one geek they’ll never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of pet. To hell with them; they put you here. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird and don’t do it halfway, put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Have the artistic *courage* to recognize your own significance in culture!

-Bruce Sterling (via ce-douglas)

Amen

(via m1k3y)