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  • Hitting the trifecta

    So yesterday we headed up to Seattle. Although we’ve been up there on holidays before, we’d not been to visit the city since we got back. We’d been up to see people, but not just trailed around doing fun stuff. But Kathryn spotted this artist called Basia Bulat who looked very cool (hey, Autoharp), so we’d booked tickets.

    So when Kathryn got back yesterday, we hopped in the car and meandered up – and managed to hit the trifecta.

    We haven’t had a proper celebratory meal just-us since we moved, nor did we really celebrate our anniversary with a nice dinner (which is traditional for us). So we had a table booked at a nice looking restaurant…and it was excellent.

    Stateside serves delicious Vietnamese food, and really nice cocktails.

    Clams…trumpet mushrooms… oh happy day. Good food is one of the best things in the world…

    …as is good music. We headed over to the Basia Bulat gig – which was excellent, although very, very loud.

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    I am glad that in the bottom of my bag was lurking my ancient set of earplugs, as we’d ended up very close to one of the speaker stacks, and both of us actually found the audio level pretty uncomfortable. I remember when I was a yoof, and would go to gigs, I’d come out with my ears ringing and not care. Now my hearing’s so crappy I’m a bit defensive of it… anyhow, the plugs did their thing, and the music was ace.

    Beyond the autoharp and her fantastic voice, she also plays a 1970’s electronic piano, which sounds fantastic.

    So we bought the CD, obviously.

    And then, heading out, hit up Elliott Bay which, it turns out, is open to 11pm on Fridays. How awesome is that. I mean, Elliott Bay is pretty damn cool already, then as a bonus they’re open ’til 11pm. Just in case it’s 11pm and you want to buy a book. Which we did. So that was handy…

    …then we headed back. And now I’m knackered, because it turns out that getting back after midnight and waking up at 8… is not enough sleep.

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    fahbee:

    airspaniel:

    utf2005:

    fluffy-overlord:

    bitchwhoyoukiddin:

    drst:

    unbelievable-facts:

    Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters – the costume and special effects teams.

    *fistbump*

    Confirmed.  He’s also dumped millions into cancer research.  I really do love Keanu Reeves a lot.

    Keanu Reeves is like the nicest person. He still lives in an apartment/flat and he gives most of his money away to charities and people who need it. He even invites some paparazzi people to sit down and eat with him when he’s at a coffee shop or restaurant. He’s such a nice person.

    When I was working on the UWS, one of my delivery guys accidentally backed his scooter into a parked car in front of the restaurant. I went out to help, since the driver didn’t speak much English, and it turned out the car belonged to Keanu Reeves. He helped us pick the scooter up, and when I asked if we could exchange insurance information (because the front of the car was pretty banged up), he kept telling us not to worry about it and put his hand on the driver’s shoulder and said “I just want to make sure you’re okay, man. Are you okay?” And he was so sincere about it and so kind that I decided in that moment I would always defend Keanu Reeves at all costs. He is an excellent man.

    This is important to know. If we’re willing to boycott movies starring actors who are total pieces of shit (*cough* melgibson! *cough*) then we should also be willing to support movies starring truly good, generous human beings.

  • tastefullyoffensive:

    Perfect fit.

  • tinierpurplefishes:

    breelandwalker:

    hayleylis:

    concept: Donald Trump is sacrificed to the gods. in return, they save the bees, the refugees, and trans kids from any and all harm. gun violence no longer exists. Democrats control congress again. all the shelter animals get a permanent home. the minimum wage is a living wage. my girlfriend and i rescue a cat for christmas. Bernie Sanders is president. 

    You had me at “Donald Trump is sacrificed to the gods.”

    Isn’t the point of a sacrifice that you get rid of something actually valuable, tho? Would the gods want him? Would we want to make an offering to gods who did?

    Yes, the concerning thing with this is that by sacrificing Trump, you’re saying to the gods “here, this is what we think you’d like”. I just imaging that bringing endless wrath. I mean, I’d bring the wrath if someone turned up a party we were having and was like “Oh hey, this is my +1, Donald Trump….”

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    Oh hey Oly, you’re looking very pretty in the sun… on Flickr.

    Oh hey Oly, you’re looking very pretty in the sun…

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    I am very much looking forward to this place opening… on Flickr.

    I am very much looking forward to this place opening…

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    songscloset:

    dduane:

    “"What you’re looking at is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin
    along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex, which
    creates happiness. You’re looking at happiness.“ 

    …Or at least a rush. But still.  :)

    (Source: http://www.xvivo.net/animation/the-inner-life-of-the-cell/)“

    This is one of my favorite videos of all time. I love all of it – the little proteins growing, the real science at the root of all of it, the way you can see everything that’s really happening in your cells at every single second.

    Plus it’s got cute music.

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    tinierpurplefishes:

    flustered84:

    rosalarian:

    secondlina:

    suzeart:

    suzeart:

    I’d been kicking this idea around for a while and trying to think about how to articulate it. Pretty happy with how it eventually turned out! 

    Sometimes I think about my reasons for getting tattoos (just for myself, not because they need justification). Adding onto this painting metaphore, I think getting ink is a way for me to put down portable roots. I move a lot and will be doing it again soon, and until I can actually settle down and paint some walls I’ll take visual control of something more accessible, namely myself.

    Morning reblog!

    Damn that was beautiful.

    I feel this so hard!

    Hear hear!

    I need to get some tattoos. Reclaim my body a bit since I had to give up my tongue stud

  • Science Fighter – What if the great scientists had special moves…by Diego Sanches.

    pr1nceshawn:

    Charles Darwin – Evolution

    Albert Einstein – E=mc2

    Pythagoras – Tetractys

    Marie Curie – Radium

    Stephen Hawking – Wormhole

    Pythagoras – Pythagorean Theorem

    Isaac Newton – Opticks

  • fullcontactmuse:

    The Washington State Human Rights Commissionissued a statement regarding the Seattle locker room Incident.

    “When a man recently entered a women’s locker room at a Seattle pool, his intent was obviously to make the women and girls in the restroom upset and uncomfortable, and to make some kind of misguided point about the Human Rights Commission’s rules regarding equal access to gender-segregated facilities.

    “His behavior is inexcusable and reprehensible.”

    The full statement is available here: http://ift.tt/1n2q5xM

    “…Men cannot go into the women’s locker room, as this man claimed he had the right to do. Only women, including transgender women, can go into the women’s locker room. Persons who enter the wrong gender-segregated facility for nefarious purposes can be asked to leave in no uncertain terms. And they would have no recourse.”