Saint Astrodome

Graphic Art. Doodles. Oraciones. Tumblr since 2009. I graduated from University when the Spice Girls were promising friendship was forever.

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Hollywood has a long, wonderful tradition of altering the classics of literature. They will do it even when trading in on the prestige of the source material. Sometimes the change is really exciting (Frankenstein the 1931 movie is likely better than Frankenstein the 1818 novel) but, probably more often, it leads to stark alterations that try to fit the book into cheesy paradigms—none more hilariously so than the 1930 film version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

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familiarity breeds contempt

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Cellino & Barnes on Mars

Cellino and Barnes on Mars Did you hit your toe on a red rock? Inhale the perchlorates in the air?  Did the never ending winter See you lose your beautiful hair?  We’re standing by Friends as true as the stars Give us a call Cellino and Barnes on Mars Were you exposed to cosmic radiation? Experienced bone density loss? Did the surface vacuum pressure  Blow your stash of Martian sauce?  We’re standing by Friends as true as the stars Give us a call Cellino and Barnes on Mars

Rick Cellino and Steve Barnes dissolved their partnership in 2020.

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No party is as good As not being at that party

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The Summer continues on In its shining and glorious pace But very few things could get me To leave my air conditioned place

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To the tune of Jerusalem.

I will not cheese my future’s past As I live in simple hope That we renew the Astrodome And blend some piney Astro soap

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Un-waffle my heart Say you'll stick to my side Despite my taste in pods Despite my taste in syrups And stack up the good days Un-waffle my heart

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La vecchiezza è male sommo: perché priva l’uomo di tutti i piaceri, lasciandogliene gli appetiti - Giacomo Leopardi

(Old age is the greatest evil: for it deprives one of all pleasure, while leaving them with the appetite)

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Say it with flowers.

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Satisfatorio Try not to be a boreio Finish up your chorios Meet me at the bookstorio We’ll have a wonderful time

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Though some might see flowers and greeting cards as empty expressions for people who can afford such things, mainstreaming those gestures helped forefront a kind of romantic expressivity that has sadly wilted in the era of hot takes and over-exposed emotions.

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Set in a tiki bar in Orange County, California, Jack Lord takes on the role of Timon, Shakespeare's misanthropic King who suffers to understand what everybody seems to understand from the jump. If indecision was Hamlet's tragic flaw and if Macbeth was felled by ambition, Timon's tragic flaw is that he's a jerk.

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Charles Dickens considers how the Industrial Revolution will continue for hundreds of years.

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Longtime New York Yankees radio play-by-play caller John Sterling would often summarize a terrible turn of fortune in a baseball game by saying to his co-host, Suzyn Waldman, "That's baseball, Suzyn!".

So, over the years, the phrase "That's baseball, Suzyn" became an all-purpose New York response to any request for an explanation of an act of God.

i.e.

"Why was the Deegan Expressway closed today?"

"That's baseball, Suzyn!"

"Why are they charging fifteen dollars a beer?"

"That's baseball, Suzyn!"

"Why do friends forsake you when you're facing a crisis?"

"That's baseball, Suzyn!"

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The Lady-on-Fire Gals in Members of the Book Lovers Blog try to resolve their latest comments section drama.

Les filles-en-feu dames dans Les amoureux des livres résoudre le dernier drame survenu dans la section des commentaires.

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There will be dogs!

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In appreciation for the long weekend and the country as a whole, a panoramic view of the classic "shirtless parking lot fight" of season one of Vanderpump Rules.