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Jock Macdonald, Phoenix, c. 1949

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Bored in a waiting room. Please contribute ideas for the most terrible and stupid fake etymology for a word you can think of.

Hard mode: No acronyms

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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

Internet Archive

1.) Euglena viridis

2.) Difflugia pyriformis

3.) Arcella vulgaris

4.) Nothrus silvestris

5.) Neobisium simoni

6.) Campodea staphylinus

7.) Onychiurus sp.

8.) Orchesella cincta

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do you ever see paleolithic art and go “oh fuck that’s good” like they hadn’t developed agriculture or the wheel but god damn could they paint horses real good

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being in a long-term committed loving relationship with a neurodivergent person, as someone very much neurotypical, has been a beautiful exercise in both humility and communication

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Do you love the Eras of the Earth?

Which One?

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ginkgo tiles

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We can never touch without being touched in return

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A mule deer doe and her fawn are drinking at desert waterhole at sunset

by Bruce Taubert

NANPA’s 2024 Showcase - North American Nature Photography Association

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Another thing is that really central themes in horror are often topics that make people uncomfortable due to being horror and it makes talking about it such an ordeal. I'm trying to discuss themes in my franking Stein but to people who aren't into gothic horror like that I just look like I'm showing up to the function in a t shirt that says "I ❤ incest" saying hey guys does anyone want to talk about incest

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Interesting how the proposal that Kafka was actually actively funny is often met with bewilderment by many people at first. Including by me - when I first heard the metamorphosis described as a tragicomedy I was like what the fuck, nothing about it is funny, it's deeply sad and serious. I think it's partly that the culturally inherited image of Kafka and The Kafkaesque is one of tragedy and brooding, which predisposes us to read the text a certain way. But it's reported that when he read the metamorphosis to his friends they were all laughing, and if you gave the metamorphosis to someone who had zero preconceptions about Kafka they might well find it funny.

David Foster Wallace talked and wrote about this, about the inability to get students to read Kafka as funny. And that a lot of Kafka stories are actually constructed/structured like jokes! Think of "before the law", for example... And the fact that his comedy doesn't cancel out his tragedy.

I think it is a failure of being unable to see Kafka as a full person if we can only imagine him sad and brooding - the one picture that everyone uses of him was the picture taken not long before he died... there are other pictures in which he looks lively and funny... It would also be a failure to reduce him to a comedy author (I don't think anyone is doing this though). But it is interesting to shift your view and see if you can't read the things you read as sad as funny instead.

I think there's an intersection of comedy and tragedy/horror that's much larger than we usually appreciate, and Kafka lives right in that intersection. A lot of jokes and funny things are horrible if you don't laugh. The point of laughing is to relieve the tension. If the world is horrible and senseless and ironic, you may as well laugh at it. Who are we to deny Kafka that relief?

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Timothy Barr (USA b. 1957) Lafayette Sycamore (2024) oil on panel 61 x 81.3 cm

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im really in a bad place i hope the sun doesnt start setting crazy early at like 4pm. i said i hope the sun doesnt set early at like 4pm that would be bad for me

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Halee Kirkwood // "Shipwreck Pastoral"

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‘Bat and Dove’, Mel Chin 2007 pigment, ink, egg yolk on paper 10 ½ x 13 inches Airborne Holy symbols embrace/battle in an inky sky. https://melchin.org/

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A Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing Limbs