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Homes on the Kalvanes estate, along a branch of the Hardanger fjord on the north side of Odda, Ullensvang Kommune, Vestland, Norway.

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Broadcast | Before We Begin | Haha Sound (2003)

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Whoever You Are | Give it Back! (1997)

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Rain at Ushibori, Hasui Kawase (1883-1957)

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Reflection, Tyre, Lebanon, 2020 - by Jad G Ghorayeb, Lebanese

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Well, @mommylap did it again! She made a dish for the first time and hit the ball out of the park.

We both have loved a dish served in the summer at a Minneapolis ramen shop (Ramen Kazama) where they call it "Summer Ramen" and it's amazing! I believe the Japanese name for this is 冷やし中華 or Hiyashi Chuka. It's cold ramen noodles with a mild vinagarette-type sauce that has a foundation of soy sauce and sesame seed. The noodles are topped with any of the room-temperature delicious things you like. We included many of the common items: ham, surimi (mock crab), cucumber, bell pepper, perilla leaf, tiny shrimp, egg omelet, and cherry tomatoes (I'm not a tomato guy, so they are missing from my portion). I garnished mine with Japanese hot mustard, radish sprouts, and Gochugaru chili flakes.

It was amazing. Perfect for a hot, humid day like today.

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Just watch this. Jeremy Brett was a brilliant-fucking-actor. I believe every single moment of this scene.

Being Sherlock Holmes is not only the role of a lifetime for him, I think he was better suited to playing Holmes than any other actor who has played the role. I'd go further and suggest no actor has ever been so well-suited to play any established literary character before or since.

"Well, Mr. Holmes. l've seen you handle a good many cases in my time, but l don't know that l ever knew a more workman-like one than this."

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) || The Six Napoleons ―Jeremy Brett and Colin Jeavons as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Lestrade

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Open Heart Surgery | Bravery, Repetition and Noise (2001)

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I want to do this!

the clothes in the washing machine

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Chronicles in Amber (Italian editions) by Roger Zelazny

Cover art by Mariella Anderlini under the pseudonym Allison

Libra Editrice, 1978-1980

Chronicles in Amber back to back you might be saying? YES! Do you see how gorgeous Mariella Anderlini's covers are? Have I gotten lost staring at le armies di avalon? MAYBE!?

I couldn't not share them once I found them on this wonderful blog while digging through some of the publication history of Zelazny's books.

I get the sense that I'm about to deep dive into Italian sci-fi/fantasy art. I am so excited.

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Lord knows that the United States has and continues to commit atrocities. I can't justify that. And the current political situation here is scary as hell. But I love this place. I love the Atlantic Ocean and New York City and the Pacific Northwest. I love my Blue Ridge Mountains with my whole entire heart. I love cardinals and mockingbirds and kudzu and possums and black rat snakes and the way the woods smell in the mornings. 

I love that Americans are known for complimenting strangers. I love that we fry everything, and that we do it well. I love 12-foot-high plastic Halloween skeletons in people’s yards and tacky Christmas lights that stay up too long. I love that we are an unabashedly goofy people.

I love bluegrass music. I love stepping. I love that there are always folklorico dancers in my town’s Mardi Gras parade. I love that my town has a Mardi Gras parade, even though most people here aren’t Catholic or French and didn’t grow up with any kind of Carnivale tradition. I love that if "Livin On A Prayer" comes on a pizzeria, at least one person at each table won't be able to stop themselves from singing along. I love that the middle school gym shakes to the rafters when families cheer for THEIR baby finishing eighth grade and that they bring balloons and bouquets and flower garlands to celebrate.

I love the 80 year old couple at our local No Kings protest. I love all the little kids there with their families, too. I love the brass band that always shows up at protests here and plays old union songs and gospel music. I cry like a damn baby every time I hear “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”

This country is horrible and selfish and destructive, but it’s also wonderful and kind and full of people loving and fighting and trying to make things better. And the people saying that there’s only one kind of real American, and that if you don’t look like they do or talk like they do or think like they do, then you don’t count, those people can go pound sand. I’m as real American as they come, and those people aren’t the only ones who get to love our country.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Anemone | Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (1996)

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The Uffington Horse in winter.

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A Dream Trip by Frank Kunert