Phrontifugia

"…Recovery is about Progress Not Perfection."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:30:17 -0400

“…Recovery is about Progress Not Perfection.”

- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

fat-feminist: “In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:15:19 -0400

“In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time.”

*suffragists

suggragettes was a term coined by the media to belittle the feminist movement and turn these women into “ettes”, feminine, docile and powerless.

climateadaptation: After reading Adam Welz’s take down,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:59:11 -0400

climateadaptation:

After reading Adam Welz’s take down, “Bloodthirsty “factual” TV shows demonize wildlife,” of the Discovery Planet’s animal killing TV show, Yukon Men, I did a little bit of research. The City of Tanana, where the show is filmed, is absolutely not the secluded, dangerous place as the Discovery Channel advertizes. The town has never been “attacked” by bears, wolves, wolverines, lynx, etc., as the show will have you believe. Still, each type of these animals is gunned down for your viewing pleasure.

The City of Tanana (above) is small, no doubt. But it is not a remote outback full of danger.

Above, a TV show character uses an AR-15 semi-automatic (rather than a hunting rifle) to kill a wolf.

Local Alaskans posting in various wilderness and hunting forums are calling Discovery’s ‘Yukon Men’ a joke, full of lies and exploitation. They even make fun of the choices of guns that the characters in the show use (no local hunter, they say, uses an AR-15 to shoot animals in Alaska).

One man wrote that, unlike actual remote villages, the City of Tanana has a burger joint, functioning utilities, and cell phone, internet, and satellite services, making it far from “remote” and hardly dangerous.

I dug around and found other interesting facts that belie the Discovery Channel’s claim that the town is a dangerous remote outback. Tanana has schools, an agricultural extension of the University of Fairbanks, annual foot and dog-sled races, and even family and emergency services provided by the Tanana Chiefs Council (this is in addition to services provided by the State of Alaska).

Indeed, Tanana even has its own airport, with over 3,000 flights per year (see #516). The airport has a webcam, radio towers, and weather stations. This is not remote. Nor are provisions hard to obtain - twice daily a plane lands with food, fuel, mail, visitors, and materials.

Learning from and enjoying the wilderness is one of the greatest privileges we Americans enjoy. Creating a false myth that nature is scary is not what we need, especially now with so many people unhealthy from increasingly sedentary lifestyles. In my opinion, Discovery needs to set the record straight. They need to refocus on educating viewers of the deep importance of our dwindling natural resources. They need to do this rather than exploiting animals and creating fear all for a quick buck.

"It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars. She’s lived in my memory for sixty years. Death..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:51:49 -0400

“It was May, a time of lilacs and shooting stars.
She’s lived in my memory for sixty years.
Death steals everything except our stories.”

- Jim Harrison (via nickmiller)

"He feels about the ritualistic daily Please and Thank You prayers rather like a hitter that’s..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:12 -0400

“He feels about the ritualistic daily Please and Thank You prayers rather like a hitter that’s on a hitting streak and doesn’t change his jock or socks or pre-game routine for as long as he’s on the streak.”

- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

cumaeansibyl: heatherbat: cumaeansibyl: wnycradiolab: atlasob...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:30:27 -0400

cumaeansibyl:

heatherbat:

cumaeansibyl:

wnycradiolab:

atlasobscura:

Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science - Arthur Pollock - 1984

It kills me that I didn’t get to witness this.

DINOSAUR IN THE SKYYYYYY

I CAN FLY TWICE AS HIIIIIIGH

TAKE A LOOK

IT’S ON A HOOK

A FLYING DINO

IT GOT BETTER

"Note: the inbreath is willed, the outbreath is automatic."

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:15:54 -0400

“Note: the inbreath is willed, the outbreath is automatic.”

- Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

amandacharchian: NEW WORK: Ginger Blossom Braids for El May

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:45:14 -0400

amandacharchian:

NEW WORK: Ginger Blossom Braids

for El May

"History is a discipline of aggregate bias. A history may emphasize social events, or cultural or..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:30:10 -0400

“

History is a discipline of aggregate bias. A history may emphasize social events, or cultural or political or economic or scientific or military or agricultural or artistic or philosophical. It may, if it possesses the luxury of voluminousness or the arrogance of superficiality, attempt to place nearly equal emphasis upon each of these aspects,

but there is no proof that a general, inclusive history is any more meaningful than a specialized one.

”

- Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

tenderghost: awwww-cute: One of my friends got chased by...

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:15:15 -0400

tenderghost:

awwww-cute:

One of my friends got chased by little piggies during his bike ride

this is the opposite of a problem

"The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:45:20 -0400

“The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandry man uses his skill to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.”

- Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:30:17 -0400

"Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:15:16 -0400

“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selecting breeding.”

- Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins

explore-blog: Mapping LGBT rights by country. Also see this map...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:22 -0400

explore-blog:

Mapping LGBT rights by country. Also see this map of LGBT rights in the American workplace and the Guardian’s stellar visualization of LGBT rights by state.

Pair with The Politics of Homosexuality, the seminal 1993 article that turned the tide.

"The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:30:28 -0400

““The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.””

- James Salter (via theparisreview)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 06:15:54 -0400

"When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:45:10 -0400

“When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within.”

- Don’t Go Back to School (via explore-blog)

myampgoesto11: Illustrations by Daehyun Kim

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:30:06 -0400

myampgoesto11:

Illustrations by Daehyun Kim

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally,..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:15:09 -0400

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

- Pearl S. Buck (via theonlymagicleftisart)

kateoplis: “You have to pick the places you don’t walk away...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:45:15 -0400

kateoplis:

“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.” —Joan Didion

Photo: Elina Brotherus