IT'S YONKI TIME

Sean to some. Snewman to all.

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It's Been Awhile, Tumblr!!!

Actually, it hasn't been that long—I've just been spending more time at my new blog, @spicy-n-sad, where we've got only the best content for a sadder America. Y'all should check it out, and if you have any suggestions on how to improve it in any way I'd love to hear em!!!

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Gene Wilder has died at 83. We will play our 2005 interview tomorrow, in remembrance of him. 

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The Cradle of the Sea-Bird, 1872, Peter Graham

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Up all night, Jonas Berggren

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understand farmer lingo

lol - lots of lettuce tbh - the bean harvest gtg - got to graze

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Look at those ears! Magnificent. Not only do they look good, they’re amazing sensory organs. But good luck spotting those tufts in the wild, this cat likes to prowl throughout Africa, the Middle East, and India at night. Today, enjoy a few facts about the caracal (Caracal caracal).

This cat’s name comes from the Turkish word “karakulak,” which means “black ears.” Those ears are extremely powerful, with each one controlled by 20 separate muscles. This allows caracals to adjust each ear independently, which is a useful adaptation for hunting down prey.

Caracals are mid-sized cats. They measure about 40 centimeters (16 inches) at the shoulder, and weigh between 8 and 18 kilograms (18 to 40 pounds). They are remarkable jumpers, able to leap more than two meters (6.5 feet) into the air.

Jumping high helps caracals while they hunt because they like to hide in cover, sidle up to animals like birds, and then leap into the air, striking at birds as they flush. The cats will also eat other types of small prey: young antelopes, hares, rodents, mice, fish, and reptiles.

You might confuse the cat with a lynx (both have tufted ears), but caracals are not spotted, nor are they blotched like a lynx. Instead, caracal coats are usually somewhere between a tawny-brown and a brick red, with white underparts.

The animal appears to have been important to ancient Egyptians. Caracal sculptures were believed to guard the tombs of pharaohs. 

(Image Credit: Creative Commons, Nathan Rupert, Tambako the Jaguar / Source: Cat Specialist Group, Smithsonian Channel: Speed Kills, Wikimedia Commons, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species)

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😻  -Emily

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In This 2005 Interview, Gene Wilder Explains How He Learned To Get Laughs

When Gene Wilder was 8 years old, his mother had a heart attack — and he took it upon himself to try to cheer her up. “It was the first time I ever tried consciously to make someone else laugh,” Wilder said. “And when I was successful, after peeing in her pants, she’d say, ‘Oh, Jerry, now look what you’ve made me do.’ ”

Wilder — who was born Jerome Silberman — went on to become a comic actor whose film credits included Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory and The Producers and Blazing Saddles. He died Monday of complications related to Alzheimer’s.

In a 2005 interview with Fresh Air, Wilder said that those moments with his mother sustained him throughout his career. “When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you,” he told Terry Gross. “She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.”

Today, we’ll listen back to Wilder’s 2005 Fresh Air interview.

Photo: Art Selby & Al Levine/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

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My recommendation: Listen to this interview and then watch your favorite Gene Wilder movie. -Emily

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We’re not going to bury the lead here: Bob Ross’ hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone — he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter, she says.

“He got this bright idea that he could save money on haircuts. So he let his hair grow, he got a perm, and decided he would never need a haircut again,” Kowalski explains.

Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company’s logo — Ross hated it. “He could never, ever, ever change his hair, and he was so mad about that,” Kowalski says. “He got tired of that curly hair.”

But viewers never got tired of Ross or his show The Joy of Painting. With his soft, hypnotic voice, he’d bring his viewers in close as he created 30-minute masterpieces — distant mountain ranges, seascapes, forest scenes, always with those happy little trees. He’d sling his palette around, blend the titanium white paint, whisper about his life in Alaska, then gently tap his fan brush to create a canvas full of fluffy clouds. With his partly unbuttoned chambray shirt, his halo of tight curls and his soothing demeanor, Ross was a fixture on PBS.

Re-watching the show decades later — it’s now streaming on Netflix — The Joy of Painting still feels like a personal art lesson. And yet the oil painter we spent so many hours with remains a mystery. Ross led a private life and did only a few interviews during his career.

The Real Bob Ross: Meet The Meticulous Artist Behind Those Happy Trees

Photos: Bob Ross Inc.

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On Black Cat Appreciation Day, LIFE looks back at the time 152 cats auditioned for the title role in Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 short story “The Black Cat,” which would appear in the 1962 horror compilation “Tales of Terror.” (Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #catsofinstagram #blackcatappreciationday

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A very important holiday. 😻  -Emily

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Golden Years - David Bowie (Station to Station, 1976)

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singing dog

Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305

Verdun, BM, ms. 107, fol. 8r

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when ur son is about to run into a hedge

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Recording now: This magnificent lady. 

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I can’t wait for this interview!! -Emily

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David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson photographed by David LaChapelle 

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isolating the vocals on the last verse of Once In A Lifetime reveal many dark secrets

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fyi that rough cut right in the middle of a “same as it ever was” isn’t my doing, that’s in the actual mix, somebody apparently needed to stitch that last bit together right in the middle of a word

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Hasui Kawase Pagoda of Ikegami Honmonji Temple