“Louis Agassiz, the eminent nineteenth-century founder of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, once described the barnacle as a “shrimp-like animal standing on its head in a limestone house kicking food into its mouth.” As the tide recedes, exposing them to air, barnacles close up shop, withdraw the feathery feeding parts (with which they kick food into their mouths) into their hard, shell-like plates, and sit out the dry spell. Massing on the wet and often slippery rocks, they become, willy-nilly, nonskid pavement for humans. My list tells me that barnacles here belong to the species Balanus balanoides, a Greek name that means “acornish acorn.”
— Sue Hubbell, Waiting for Aphrodite
May. 23 2013
#barnacles = ridiculous #nature #zoology #marine life #louis agassiz #science #lit #sue hubbell
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donnalethal: Bertie Beaumont.

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Bertie Beaumont.

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nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada nitanahkohe: powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada

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powerful new work by Corey Bulpitt & Larissa Healey at the National Gallery of Canada

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“There was no country scene in her hometown, no love for hillbilly culture or cowboy couture. So among the city’s patrician class Patsy was known simply as a loudmouth and unregenerate flirt. She called out to passersby from her porch swing and sang at disreputable venues with all-male bands. She had a deadbeat father and a divorced mother, and didn’t even have the decency to feel ashamed of it.

Worse still: She wore pants.”
—

A Closer Walk With Thee: The Complicated Hometown Legacy of Patsy Cline.  (via winesburgohio)

Fantastic.

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malformalady: The late morning fall air was just cool enough that the sap weeping from the trees would solidify in mid flight… creating beautiful marbles of amber falling to the ground. Kingston Mills Water Locks - Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Photo credit: © Jay Foulds/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

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The late morning fall air was just cool enough that the sap weeping from the trees would solidify in mid flight… creating beautiful marbles of amber falling to the ground. Kingston Mills Water Locks - Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Photo credit: © Jay Foulds/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest)

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ianturnerillustration: Listening to one of my favourite albums for the first time in a long time. “Blackflies” off Coke Machine Glow by Gord Downie. Holds up.

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Listening to one of my favourite albums for the first time in a long time. 
“Blackflies” off Coke Machine Glow by Gord Downie.

Holds up.

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archiemcphee: Who’s ready for another Geyser of Awesome field trip? This time we want to go to the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaidō, Japan. And to get there we want to ride the Asahiyama Zoo train because the seats are furry and shaped like animals - two-headed animals with wide, staring eyes. It’s just the right combination of cute and creepy. [via Neatorama] archiemcphee: Who’s ready for another Geyser of Awesome field trip? This time we want to go to the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaidō, Japan. And to get there we want to ride the Asahiyama Zoo train because the seats are furry and shaped like animals - two-headed animals with wide, staring eyes. It’s just the right combination of cute and creepy. [via Neatorama] archiemcphee: Who’s ready for another Geyser of Awesome field trip? This time we want to go to the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaidō, Japan. And to get there we want to ride the Asahiyama Zoo train because the seats are furry and shaped like animals - two-headed animals with wide, staring eyes. It’s just the right combination of cute and creepy. [via Neatorama] archiemcphee: Who’s ready for another Geyser of Awesome field trip? This time we want to go to the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaidō, Japan. And to get there we want to ride the Asahiyama Zoo train because the seats are furry and shaped like animals - two-headed animals with wide, staring eyes. It’s just the right combination of cute and creepy. [via Neatorama]

archiemcphee:

Who’s ready for another Geyser of Awesome field trip? This time we want to go to the Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaidō, Japan. And to get there we want to ride the Asahiyama Zoo train because the seats are furry and shaped like animals - two-headed animals with wide, staring eyes. It’s just the right combination of cute and creepy.

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blastflyrant: hayleyfails: I’m just…… “Businessman Paul is on a beachside vacation to unwind and enjoy the sun, the sand and the surf - sometimes from below the waves. While scuba diving, he encounters a trio of cuttlefish that turn out to be much more than they seem: they’re shapeshifters, and they want Paul for their own! Warning: 18+ only! Contains partial shifting, hot gay sex, and a cuttlefish shifter gangbang! Read an excerpt:“You know how you wanted to see what it was like to be one of us?” Irvin asked, his deep voice quiet.“Yes?”“We’re gonna show you.”Paul found himself surrounded by the three cuttle-shifters, all of them naked, all of them eager to get his clothes off him. What the hell, why not, he thought. It was a vacation, after all.Quick, wiry little Apama’s and Simon’s fingers worked at the buttons of his shirt and pants, shucking them off him as easily as they might shuck an oyster. They worked quickly and soon he was naked as the rest of them, the ocean breeze playing across his freshly-tanned skin and making him shiver. Irvin was looking him over, his eyes hungry, taking in each inch of him.” Yeah, what the hell? You are on vacation. Why not have an orgy with strange cuttlefish men?  I want to buy this so bad, but I can’t find a reason to justify this purchase in a court of law yet. “Contains partial shifting, hot gay sex, and a cuttlefish shifter gangbang!” I just sent this to half my department at work, and we all traveled into the Amazon Kindle-only erotic shapeshifter fiction K-hole together. It’s…it’s just…. (WITH BONUS BBW) (A cat-shifter gets stuck up a tree and a fireman rescues him and then THEY DO IT) What…what is happening. Is this real life?

blastflyrant:

hayleyfails:

I’m just……

“Businessman Paul is on a beachside vacation to unwind and enjoy the sun, the sand and the surf - sometimes from below the waves. While scuba diving, he encounters a trio of cuttlefish that turn out to be much more than they seem: they’re shapeshifters, and they want Paul for their own! Warning: 18+ only! Contains partial shifting, hot gay sex, and a cuttlefish shifter gangbang!


Read an excerpt:

“You know how you wanted to see what it was like to be one of us?” Irvin asked, his deep voice quiet.

“Yes?”

“We’re gonna show you.”

Paul found himself surrounded by the three cuttle-shifters, all of them naked, all of them eager to get his clothes off him. What the hell, why not, he thought. It was a vacation, after all.

Quick, wiry little Apama’s and Simon’s fingers worked at the buttons of his shirt and pants, shucking them off him as easily as they might shuck an oyster. They worked quickly and soon he was naked as the rest of them, the ocean breeze playing across his freshly-tanned skin and making him shiver. Irvin was looking him over, his eyes hungry, taking in each inch of him.”

Yeah, what the hell? You are on vacation. Why not have an orgy with strange cuttlefish men? 

I want to buy this so bad, but I can’t find a reason to justify this purchase in a court of law yet.

“Contains partial shifting, hot gay sex, and a cuttlefish shifter gangbang!”

I just sent this to half my department at work, and we all traveled into the Amazon Kindle-only erotic shapeshifter fiction K-hole together. It’s…it’s just….

(WITH BONUS BBW)

(A cat-shifter gets stuck up a tree and a fireman rescues him and then THEY DO IT)


What…what is happening. Is this real life?

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