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Really frickin rude that I have to make so many appointments to get treated for Can't Make Appointments Disease

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The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

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The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

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Artist: Marianne Faithfull Song: “North Country Maid” Year: 1966

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The Oh Hellos, releasing Soldier Poet King: This is a song about Jesus. It's a metaphor for the second coming of the Christ

Every repressed nerd on this website: This is a song about my dnd party. It's a metaphor for gay.

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Reminder that people can and often do say that shit’s “traditional” or “ancient” when it was actually made up pretty recently, or was actually localized to a really specific time and place.

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traditional knife 石镰shilian specially used to harvest glutinous rice

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“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

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Wow. This one. Extraordinary talent. Pure class. R.I.P. Dame Angela Lansbury 💔

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Have you ever heard of Priest Holes? Well, if you live in England, check your attic, b/c you may have one. Once upon a time, it was illegal to be Catholic in England.

King Henry VIII needed a male heir & blamed Catherine of Aragon, his 1st wife, for not giving him one.  On these grounds, he asked the Pope for an annulment, which was refused, so Henry founded his own church (the Church of England). And because he was King, the entire country was required to convert to his new religion.

It was high treason for a priest to even enter England.  Priest Holes are pretty much what they sound like: Small, tucked-away medieval cubbies where Catholic families could hide their priests.

They had to be small, b/c priest hunters were out to find the heretics. They were no taller than four feet, wedged in any space in the house that could discreetly accommodate them.

When priest hunters became wise to these hidden spaces, they would wait until the families thought they had gone, and then seize the priest when he came out. Some homes like this one, had multiple Priest Holes.

This one, formerly a medieval sewer, was found under a kitchen. 

This man found one in the wall of his home.

Here’s one that was found above a bread-oven, in the thickness of the chimney stack.

Nicholas Owen was a carpenter who specialized in building Priest Holes. Owen  worked alone and at night to avoid suspicion.

Some of his work throughout England may still be undiscovered. For example, this one, rediscovered in 1858, was not fully opened until 1910, and “still inside were a rope ladder, a small tapestry, bedding and a folding leather altar.”

Owen did eventually get caught. The first time he was discovered, in 1594, he was tortured, but did not reveal the names or locations of his fellow Catholics. He was released after a wealthy Catholic family paid a fine on his behalf, and went back to building Priest Holes.

In 1606, though, Owen was arrested again.

But, this time, he was tortured so badly, he died an awful death, having revealed nothing to his inquisitors. He later became Saint Nicholas Owen, the Patron Saint of Illusionists and Escapologists.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/03/24/another-reason-to-check-your-attic-priest-holes/

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LJS 102 is an illustrated Ethiopian prayer book in a fantastic coptic binding with wooden boards. Don’t be fooled - this isn’t that old, it was made in the early 20th century using traditional methods. Online: bit.ly/3NBKFlO

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1927 Dress, slip and cape which belonged to Marjorie Merriweather Post. The dress is of sheer green silk chiffon with narrow shoulder straps and a flared skirt. Decorative mistletoe motifs of bugle beads, clear stones and pearls adorn the neckline, left hip and skirt. The skirt is comprised of twelve triangular shaped panels decoratively stitched in a “lettuce leaf” design with a scalloped lower edge. Mrs. Post wore this to her daughter Eleanor’s debut dance at the Ritz Carlton. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau and 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group.