The Wandering Nomad

Stories, pictures, journeys, commentary, insights, thoughts.

[thelostcanyon]

In the desert foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Pima County, Arizona.

[thelostcanyon]

Sun beams over the solitary hill, J-Six Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

[wanderingnomad84]

Beautiful.

[wanderingnomad84]

Gowron seems like a perfect psychological motivator for Miles. Right?

[wanderingnomad84]

Tis’ the season. With stores running out of toilet paper once more, it seemed fitting.

[thelostcanyon]

Arizona Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus wislizeni), in the arid grassland near Mescal, Cochise County, Arizona.

[geologyedinburgh]

What is better than the ability to walk inside an outcrop? This can be done at Parajd, Harghita, Romania, where a massive salt dome has been mined since the time of the Romans, through the Ottoman period, through Communism, to the European Union!

Parajd salt mine is a popular tourist destination, where an amusement park has been built, inside one of the mined out salt chambers. 

I had a great time visiting the place!

[wanderingnomad84]

Incredible!

[wanderingnomad84]

We lost Aron Eisenberg a year ago today. Passed beyond the veil, above the clouds, and into the stars above. His character on DS9 grew up from a listless teenager and found purpose to be the first Ferengi to serve in Starfleet. More importantly, his character represented how people should not be stereotyped based on who they were perceived to be, but on who they actually are. Rest well, Aron.

[whatbigotspost]

If this resonates with you at all PLEASE, for your benefit, go read this tweet thread on “fawning”

Oh my god i finally have a word for it….

[whatbigotspost]

There’s such enormous power in naming and understanding things, isn’t there 🙏

[deftonesdick]

Oh shit

[drumsanddogtags]

The tweet author also made this into an article, available here.

[whatbigotspost]

Thank you for sharing that link!

Lots of peeps on this post have asked things like “so what do I do about this?” which the twitter thread gets into but I know many will find the article more readable and it expands further and has additional resources. Check it out!

People-pleasing can be a result of trauma. It’s called ‘fawning’ — here’s how to recognize it.

“I avoided those relationships where love was free and easy. Because it didn’t feel ‘earned,’ so I didn’t feel worthy.”

[wanderingnomad84]

Aint that the truth.

[wanderingnomad84]

Full power! Damn you!

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Feels like how political decisions have been made over the past few years.

[blogging-at-your-funeral]

[lessdanthree]

what drugs were they on when they made this

[meanmisscharles]

Cab Calloway rotascoped!

[badgyal-k-deactivated20190901]

Whoever thought of this was drinking absinthe

[protectblkwomen]

Thanks, Now I have nightmares

[brunhiddensmusings]

this was long before cartoons were ever thought of as ‘for kids’, the target audience of this one was roughly 20-40 betty boop cartoons featuring cab calloway singing, yes, but slang has changed so much you dont realize he was singing about opium, sugar daddies, death, weed, sex, booze, and gambling back when gambling was nearly as tabboo as sex and drugs. ‘minnie the moocher’ where cab calloway is a dancing walrus is specifically about someone who does literally everything on that list but die

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

[peathefeary]

idk why this is making me so emotional???

[mcloveleigh]

I love this. I’ve always had a love for cartoons

[melaninondeck-deactivated201907]

Cab Calloway, he was a legend performer and entertainer, although he’s listed as a jazz singer he did much more with his voice, his singing style and delivery was very unique. Cab (with his band) was the first black artist to sell over a million copies of a single record and he paved the way for many artists to come. Happy Black History Month.

[impormable]

sorry to make this long post longer, but I feel like it needed some actual photos of Cab Calloway, who is, in fact, the greatest

[thestoicgod]

G.O.A.T.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[thevisualvamp]

Cinematic moments

[1oldbear]

A legend in his own time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway

[wanderingnomad84]

Loved him in the Blues Brothers.

[wanderingnomad84]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg. March 15, 1933- Sep 18, 2020. Rest In Power.

[thelostcanyon]

Ash Creek, foothills of the Rincon Mountains, Arizona.

[wanderingnomad84]

You can’t love someone more than you can love yourself.

Reference to a biblical passage told to me by a high school teacher. In some ways, it makes sense. It doesn’t mean to have a narcissistic and self centered ego, but to be able to find peace with who you are and who you can be. The ability to love is directly tied to an individual sense of self. Persons who have self hatred will eventually project it onto a person they may have feelings for or someday, out of the blue, just cut that person out.

[nevver]

Hollywood, Eric Nash (because)

[wanderingnomad84]

I love button copy signs.

[wanderingnomad84]

No respect for the girls!

[wanderingnomad84]

Othello with all female cast.

Harlem Shakespeare Festival in partnership with The National Arts Club present William Shakespeare’s OTHELLO: The Moor of Venice, in an exciting 90-minute all-female stage-adaptation by Lisa Wolpe; with sound design by David D. Wright.  

OTHELLO stars international actress/producer, Debra Ann Byrd, who recently received the Broadway World Best Lead Actress Award for her portrayal in the title role. This live classic Zoom production is led by celebrated director Vanessa Morosco and performed by a cast of ten classically trained actresses, who tell the story of a love that defies the boundaries of race; and a hatred that defies all boundaries of reason.  Together they transform a lover’s world of sighs into a universe of hurt ... Othello: “Be careful who you trust!”

WHAT: Harlem Shakespeare Festival Classical Lab Reading Series WHEN: Monday, September 21, 2020 at 8pm ET; Zoom Room Opens at 7:30pm WHERE: Streaming Live via Zoom and Facebook RSVP: http://bit.ly/HSFOthelloRSVP

------------------------------------------ WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY ------------------------------------------ OTHELLO: Debra Ann Byrd IAGO: Lisa Wolpe CASSIO: Mary Hodges RODERIGO: Amanda Barron DESDEMONA: Jennifer LeBlanc MONTANO: Amy Driesler EMILA: Natasha Yannacanedo BIANCA: Kim Wuan SAILOR 1/HERALD/Female CVR: Anja Lee SAILOR 2/Male CVR: Aixa Kendrick - - - Zoom Director of Production: Norman A. Small Zoom Production Technician: Nidal Q. Harvey Marketing & Promotions: Natalie Clarke Marketing Associate: Tom Martin Associate Producer: Jackie Jeffries Producing Artistic Director: Debra Ann Byrd Associate Artistic Director: Dathan B. Williams 🎭 Producing Partner: Voza Rivers/ New Heritage Theatre Group 🎭 Producing Partner: The National Arts Club * 📷 Photo by Yasmine Lawler 💻 Graphic by dabgrafix designs 💃  Original Costume by Gail Cooper-Hecht

[nevver]

Smokey mountains, Bryan Denton