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11:32 am |
May 8 2012
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Tags: the princess bride
How I feel about everything.
12:44 pm |
May 7 2012
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Tags: arrested development gif michael cera feeling feelings
A note/rant on the Titanic
So, I’m watching this thing I DVR’d on NatGeo yesterday about the Titanic. I have always been intrigued by the story of the ship, of the disaster, of the exploration lead by Robert D. Ballard, of the artifacts, etc. This was way before the 1997 movie was even a glint in the eye of American pop-culture. My interest was piqued maybe in third grade. We talked about it in school, and I took it upon myself to find books to read about it.
I saw something disturbing on Twitter today. It scares me. It scares me for what kinds of things kids are learning in school today, and it scares me for the ostensible LACK of curiosity. There are people in this country, who are not tiny children, who have just recently been made aware that the ship was a REAL FUCKING THING?! Are you kidding?
Here’s the thing that bothers me the most. There is a picture that I remember seeing as a child that has stuck with me all these years later. It is, to me, the most jarring image of the entire debris field that sits 2.5 miles down in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean:
These are someone’s shoes. They are too close together, too perfectly positioned to have been an abandoned pair left in a room. These shoes were ON a person, a human being who was living when the Titanic hit the iceberg. By the end of the night, they no longer were, and this is where they landed.
I clearly recall being shown the image in school. OUR TEACHER explained to us that the shoes are here but the body wasn’t because 1) It had been 80 years since the sinking, and 2) the pressure at that depth of the sea floor would have been too much for body and bones to withstand, and they disintegrated. The shoes, made of leather, however, could withstand.
8 years old then, and we were told this was the way it was.
17 year olds now didn’t even know the ship was a real thing. They thought it was all just a movie.
Spot the difference. Spot the difference in our future.
Edit: In a flash of memory, I just realized the shoe picture I posted above is not the image I saw as a child. This is… and when I found it my heart seriously jumped and I felt ill. THAT’s how striking this image is. And how important it is that we learned about it
11:21 pm |
April 9 2012
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Tags: Titanic i fear for the future
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light
‘Cause oh that gave me such a fright
But I will hold as long as you like
Just promise me we’ll be alright
12:03 pm |
March 14 2012
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Tags: mumford and sons ghosts that we knew
Here’s an oldie but a goodie that some of you may not have seen. This is a snippet of Mumford & Sons performing “Dust Bowl Dance” at The Borderline in London on August 24, 2009 that involves Winston rocking out so hard that he crashes into and knocks over the drumset in the middle of the song. Just watch.
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And Marcus just keeps going. Amazing.
9:41 am |
March 13 2012
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Tags: mumford and sons winston marshall marcus mumford
Will this song ever not bring me to tears? I’m thinking no…
