May 2013
“I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my...”
– Ivan E. Coyote (via seols)
Archaeological News: Scientists Finally Pinpoint... →
archaeologicalnews:
For nearly 150 years, starting in the late 17th century, millions of people living in Ireland subsisted largely off one crop: the potato. Then, in 1845, farmers noticed that their potato plants’ leaves were covered in mysterious dark splotches. When they pulled potatoes from the ground, most…
“Why is there very little utility to women’s clothing? Why don’t we get pockets...”
– Kara, “The Feminist and the Handbag” (via athenasaurus)
here's that bad advice you were hoping for: Must I... →
ellenkushner:
thatbadadvice:
Civil Behavior, April 30 2013:
Dear Civil Behavior: I’ve been helping my daughter plan her wedding to her girlfriend and everything’s been going fine — until now. We’re about to address the invitations. The calligrapher is lined up and time is getting a bit short. Here’s the problem. My…
OK, just one more…..
The fact that these are all genuine original letters...
“Fieldwork is like sex: It is often messy. It can be awkward, especially at...”
– Patty Kelly, “Awkward Intimacies: Prostitution, Politics and Fieldwork in Urban Mexico”
(Looking forward to that dissertation…)
Archaeologists do it in the dirt! (via dead-men-talking)
The Broke Medievalist.: goblinonaswing:... →
goblinonaswing:
terrasigillata:
bemusedlybespectacled:
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the…
The Broke Medievalist.: galesofnovember: kerdea:... →
galesofnovember:
kerdea:
It is not even 9 AM and my mom is telling me a story she read last night before bed about a pet chimpanzee that pretty literally tore someone’s face off because his owner put Xanax in his cup of tea
(I have not heard this story in any detail…
I was neutral about chimpanzees, even the videos of in-species infant cannibalism, until my professor mentioned...
“But the biggest surprise of “Aschenputtel” [Grimm brothers version of the...”
– from Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein. (via feminishblog)
