#three million dollars

[transmechanicus]

The audacity of well established bands to only sell merch for their most recent album. You bastards, you fiends, your peak popularity was in 2007, sell me a tshirt with old album art for the love of god.

[cloudabserk]

i hate my boss i hate my boss i hate my boss

[caterpillarinacave]

Somebody should really let me direct a NATM spin-off TV show about Ahkmenrah's life before he died. It would toss Night At The Museums family friendly atmosphere out the window with a well lit, symbolism heavy, blood soaked hand, which could only be created by an autistic poet overly enamored by Shakespearean tragedies and practical effects in film but man. it would be glorious.

[vittoriaisfuckingpathetic]

johnigail but the three cheers for sweet revenge cover. is anyone hearing me on this. do you guys see the vision please

[19spicykitty93]

Imagine the contribution the memory scanner had to Alzheimer's and Dementia research. 😭

[diltonsstrangescience]

DANG. Absolutely cold-blooded.

[mintowls]

everyday at work i hear something that makes me want to strangle rich people even more

[platypusisnotonfire]

My number one luxury item that I desire (I’ve ALWAYS wanted one since the very first time I saw one but rn it’s wormed it’s way to the top of my luxury list)

A pinball machine.

[awesomefringey]

8 years ago today the photos of Harry and Kendall on the yacht came out.

RIP winter girlfriends!

[fragariavescana]

Tumblr search feature:

Results are paginated even when there are none. 14 whole pages of no results.

[ravencromwell]

For the last half year, I've watched @pinkcupboardwitch periodically wax rhapsodic here on the delights of chai tea. Having finally taken the plunge I can report apparently I shall be learning the intricacies of brewing chai because I'm thoroughly hooked. I had a chai latte, rather than the straight tea, but some cursory googling informs me milk is the best complement to the flavors, so fortune smiled in that regard.

Two things surprised me most: what a full sensory experience it was, and just. how well flavors my very American self wouldn't put together naturally gel. The spice aroma almost scared me off: it was strong and I'm not used to teasing out cinnamon and cardamom etc. When my nose smells "strong" I instinctively default to pepper and oh, hell it's going to be _hot rather than flavorful. But once I took that first tiny sip--think kid inching their toe into water and you'll have a good idea--and the flavor burst, not exactly sweet but bright and rich across my tongue, I started prolonging the experience. Inhaling the spice became aslow prelude, sweetening the anticipation of the flavors bursting across my pallet again.

I like wine, but I'll be honest. About all I can smell when I try to "discern its bouquet" is sharp and acid, to the point I have to work actively not to inhale because I know I'll enjoy the flavor once it's on my tongue if the aroma doesn't put me off entirely first. But this was strong, bracing and made me want to go sniff cardamom and ginger etc. to se if I can untangle the individual notes.

And erm. ginger is actually quite good in certain combinations, apparently? My (again very American. very southern.) take on ginger was too sharp, too _bitter in all the dishes I'd had it in except gingerbread but well. we Southern folks put so much sugar in gingerbread, I figured it could cover up *anything*. I couldn't imagine how vanilla would clash with what I expected to be a bitter ginger note. So I was delighted to learn that ginger, in small quantities, actually seems to contribute to the brighter notes, cutting through some of the sweet richness of the milk and (maybe) cardamom and vanilla along with the cinnamon.

When I've had coffee, I'm the kind of person who has to spice it up: yeah, I'm drinking coffee, I'll say as I drink something decadent with peppermint and white chocolate and a coffee base--it's less about the coffee than the frills, downplaying coffee's strength rather than complementing it. (My subsequent google made me cackle, because apparently a lot of coffee people actually really love black tea, and I couldn't find them more different. Mom was a coffee person, so I tried a fair bit of it and without an infusion of something, it was always so _bitter to me. But the dregs of the cup--which I figure come closest to the original tea flavor just tasted a little nutty, but so _fresh. Just such a different flavor profile, at least for me.)

[david-watts]

ok. right. having something to eat, ignoring the fact that I am spiralling a tiny little bit, this hour on a tuesday night in late february is a perfectly valid time to completely overhaul my life and plan to take a step into the great unknown. how do I do that

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

I’ve been looking at chinoiserie and chinese furniture for like two months now on marketplace and it is BAFFLING how many people have no idea how valuable their pieces are

[ctommyisnt]

I’m actually winning a political discussion with my dad this has never happened