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Kittyinva: 1928 Daybed from the apartment of George Gershwin. From Ken Nailon, Facebook.
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This is pure pedantry, but please, folks: it's nepotism if the unfair advantage is because of your relatives. If it's because of your friends, it's cronyism.
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official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate
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due to convergent evolution as well as modern genomancy muddying the waters, it is a common misconception that the porcelain doll and the soft doll are sister taxa. In reality they are more distantly related to each other than a human is to a sponge: porcelain dolls are of course arthopods, but new research suggests that soft dolls are actually a highly-derived fungus! more samples are needed but they seem to be fairly closely related to the chytrids.
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Sculpture with rooster head, was found in a tomb at Gaochang, a Tang city on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, 7th-10th century, Tang Dynasty, China.
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in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like
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tacky kitsch is the real backbone of united states culture. roadside attractions, weird diners, buildings shaped like objects, restaurants with like a shark or a car sticking out of the roof, lawn flamingos – this is the true heritage of the west
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