#Seaboard

[michelristenpattsworld]

The Seaboard Rise 2

[tenth-sentence]

The true rainforests ringing the seaboard and penetrating deep into central Africa are the face of the continent to much of the Atlantic.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Crossing

Philip Booth

STOP LOOK LISTEN

as gate stripes swing down,

count the cars hauling distance

upgrade through town:

warning whistle, bellclang,

engine eating steam,

engineer waving,

a fast-freight dream:

B&M boxcar,

boxcar again,

Frisco gondola,

eight-nine-ten,

Erie and Wabash,

Seaboard, U.P.,

Pennsy tankcar,

twenty-two, three,

Phoebe Snow, B&O,

thirty-four, five,

Santa Fe cattle

shipped alive,

red cars, yellow cars,

orange cars, black,

Youngstown steel

down to Mobile

on Rock Island track,

fifty-nine, sixty,

hoppers of coke,

Anaconda copper,

hotbox smoke,

eighty-eight,

red-ball freight,

Rio Grande,

Nickel Plate,

Hiawatha,

Lackawanna,

rolling fast

and loose,

ninety-seven,

coal car,

boxcar,

CABOOSE!

"Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith

[tama-the-toe]

Illuminate Your Music.

Light up your sound with the world’s first keyboard controller with per-key pitchbend and polyphonic aftertouch, plus whole-key illumination that sparks new ideas for playing and composing. Watch as ROLI’s three instruments – Seaboard RISE 2, Seaboard BLOCK M, and LUMI Keys Studio Edition – come together to create a symphony of multidimensional harmony and witness the future of musical…

[digitalcreationsllc]

ROLI's Seaboard RISE 2: seamless integration into the expressive world of MPE [REVIEW] - DJ TechTools

ROLI – the company behind the original Seaboard, which came out over 14 years ago and then the Seaboard RISE more than 8 years ago – has returned with the Seaboard RISE 2. Today, we’re diving into our experience testing it out, and how it stands out in the space of MPE controllers. What is the Seaboard RISE 2? The RISE 2 is a versatile MIDI keyboard with options for any musician. You can plug in…

[paraparaparadigm]

[doctorheadly]

The Orioles are a pretty well established institution in Baltimore. I was surprised to learn they used to be the St. Louis Browns. Did anyone else here know that without looking it up?

Shirts, stickers and more can be found in my shops.

RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/146942411 TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/46527745-baltimore-baseball?store_id=123458 Threadless: https://doctorheadly.threadless.com/designs/baltimore-baseball

[lizardkingeliot]

what if lestat plays his final show in new orleans… back in his one true home with louis… maybe it's where they make love for the first time in 8 decades… maybe it's where (just when lestat thinks he's safe in the arms of his beloved) akasha takes him 🥲

[have-you-seen-this-animal]

Hi! I haven't gone through all the animals you've done yet, but I have a few requests from my local area:

- rainbow lorikeet

- brush-tailed possum

- crimson rosella

- king parrot

- greater bilby

- stonefish

- Sydney funnelweb spider

- red-belly black snake

- rock wallaby

Wonderful! Don't worry, I'll check for anything I've already done. I'll go in order.

[fearwasalwaysanoption]

Back at it again with an art dump! First one is a redesign of my first WOF oc from my fantribe the Shiftlings, second is a fullbody I made of a Sharkie i recently obtained, and last is a noofing :)

Pacific Rim custom for someone on Amino

New oc, Seaboard- a NightLight x Albino Night Fury

[bloodydeanwinchester]

OF COURSE dean would find cas removing his weapons sexy

blackout on the eastern seaboard

[tenth-sentence]

The shipwrecked sailor, crawling painfully to the summit of basalt cliffs, or the ironed convict, dragging his tree trunk to the edge of some beetling plateau, looks down upon a sea of fog, through which rise mountain-tops like islands; or seed through the biting sleet a desert scrub and crag rolling to the feet of Mount Heemskirk and Mount Zeehan – crouched like two sentinel lions keeping watch over the seaboard.

"For the Term of His Natural Life" - Marcus Clarke

[widowshill]

ALEXANDRA MOLTKE AS VICTORIA WINTERS IN DARK SHADOWS, 1966-71.

[browsethestacks]

5 Random Comics

[thecurioustale]

The "Middle West"

I was recently watching Trump speak (not something I typically do 🤢), and the most interesting thing he said had nothing to do with anything he was actually talking about: It was that he used the term Middle West to refer to that generally north-central part of the United States, centered on the Mississippi River, that is neither the South nor the Northeast (nor the Mid-Atlantic, but that's really just a subcategory of the Northeast that Northeasterns use to not get lumped in with each other).

We all know it today as the Midwest. But in times past it was much more commonly known as the Middle West.

(Tangent: It is also one of many geographical region-name reminders of our national East Coast beginnings, as America has like six different kinds of "West": the Midwest, the Southwest, the (Pacific) Northwest, the Mountain West / Interior West, the West Coast / Pacific West—and that's not counting the deprecated terms (such as "Far West," i.e. distinguished from the Midwest) or the old Northwest (which would've referred to places like Ohio and (what we know as) West Virginia)!)

Over the course of the 20th century, "Midwest" became an increasingly common form of the term, eventually overtaking "Middle West" in popularity and, by our lifetimes, completely replacing it. The only people who still use "Middle West" today are very old. I'm only aware of the term's existence because I'm a fan of midcentury media and if you go watch (for example) old Dragnet episodes from the 1950s you'll hear the term used.

I was looking at the Google Ngram Viewer to get a sense of the relative usage frequencies of these terms, and I noticed something interesting: Not only has "Middle West" been driven almost extinct from active usage, but "Midwest" itself has also declined precipitously in the 21st century. People today are not calling the Midwest the "Midwest," at least not with the frequency and relevancy they once did. I was curious if this was another permutation of the usage, so I also looked up "Midwestern" (which I included in the link above), thinking that maybe people nowadays are calling it the clunkier "the Midwestern states" / "the Midwestern US," but the adjectival has declined in step with "Midwest." It really does seem to be that people are just using this geographical category less often.

Perhaps unsurprisingly: the sociopolitical cohesiveness of the Midwest has significantly diminished over time. I think most Midwesterners would still recognize and affiliate with the term if you applied it of them to their faces, but increasingly I think many of them do not think of it in their daily lives as a personal or cultural identifier. Which has many fascinating implications that I'm not going to get into.

(Another Tangent: I feel like I've talked about specifically this "Middle West / Midwest" thing on Tumblr before, but I feel that way about half of everything because after all I've been writing down my thoughts for over 20 years and I've been having thoughts for considerably longer than that, and it's often not clear to me what I've talked about publicly and where.)

Anyway, this entire post is really just me scratching the itch of verbal brain noise about the orange guy using a term in a public address that I never hear people use in the present day. A little piece of lost language, hearkening back to a completely different era and world.

[jasposeyblog]

My commission of John Stewart Green Lantern vs Green Guardsman sketch cover by Luis Fernando de Freitas

If you have seen Justice League cartoon "Legends" episode, you know that John Stewart's childhood comic heroes were the Justice Guild of America in Seaboard City.

Of course the Green Guardsman does not know who John Stewart or the Green Lanterns are so a battle has ensued.