Pauline Tangiora
One of 13 indigenous grandmothers, Pauline is a tribal wisdom keeper and environmentalist. See more
Running Man?
Head Over to this on MTV
Appreciation Friday: Jean Jullien
IKEA print: SHELFIE
The French-born artist presents a humorous take on that concept and also how the human element fits when it comes to creating balance. “This balance having to rely purely on the individual is something I thought could be interesting,” he says. “A literal take on this idea.”
#MOAB
How about that mother of all bombs bastards?
The mother of all bombs --> The US dropped one of the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in Afghanistan. Originally developed to intimidate Saddam Hussein, the weapon has a 1-mile blast radius; at The Week, Jeva Lange notes that experts once called it an "indiscriminate terror weapon."
Trump drops #MOAB then flies to Palm Beach on a Thursday afternoon for an extended golf weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago. pic.twitter.com/yyp25YKiYg— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 14, 2017
Drone footage shows #MOAB drop aimed at #IslamicState in Afghanistan https://t.co/n3smfwv3ng pic.twitter.com/Qj5ORfXE9W— USA TODAY Video (@usatodayvideo) April 14, 2017
The mother of all bombs --> The US dropped one of the most powerful non-nuclear bombs in Afghanistan. Originally developed to intimidate Saddam Hussein, the weapon has a 1-mile blast radius; at The Week, Jeva Lange notes that experts once called it an "indiscriminate terror weapon."
The Belle of Amherst
Cynthia Nixon plays the older Emily Dickinson, portraying her as multitudinous, assertive, rebellious, principled, shrill, demure, sensitive, coy, and vain.
MOVIE: The Blessing and Curse of Emily Dickinson’s Homebound World
I have not been to visit inside her homestead/castle in Amherst, not far from me, but I did like her poetry... BOOM!Part Two: Nature
XXIII
| A BIRD came down the walk: | |
| He did not know I saw; | |
| He bit an angle-worm in halves | |
| And ate the fellow, raw. | |
| And then he drank a dew | 5 |
| From a convenient grass, | |
| And then hopped sidewise to the wall | |
| To let a beetle pass. | |
| He glanced with rapid eyes | |
| That hurried all abroad,— | 10 |
| They looked like frightened beads, I thought | |
| He stirred his velvet head | |
| Like one in danger; cautious, | |
| I offered him a crumb, | |
| And he unrolled his feathers | 15 |
| And rowed him softer home | |
| Than oars divide the ocean, | |
| Too silver for a seam, | |
| Or butterflies, off banks of noon, | |
| Leap, plashless, as they swim. | 20 |
constant buzzz | spring clean the mind
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it all ties together
On May 24th, YouTuber Very Bad Goyim uploaded a video of Donald Trump saying “let’s give them a helicopter ride” followed by a clip showing a fleet of helicopters marked with “Trump” (shown below). On June 2nd, the God Emperor Trump channel uploaded a video of the Trump clip followed by edited footage of Hillary Clinton being thrown out of a helicopter.
“Free Helicopter Rides” refers to extrajudicial killings known as “death flights,”[4] in which military forces throw people from aircraft into large bodies of water. Online, the phrase is often used by members of the alt-right in jokes about executing their political opponents (via helicopter).
On May 11th, the donaldtrumpepe Tumblr[8] blog shared an illustration of Pusheen throwing “Carl the Cuck”: out of a helicopter (shown below). On May 20th, the blog[9] posted an illustration of Feels Guy being thrown out a Trump helicopter by Pepe the Frog" : http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog (shown below).
On June 17th, the feminist blog We Hunted The Mammoth[7] published an article about the helicopter ride meme. On November 5th, FunnyJunk[6] user mortuz submitted a screenshot of a Twitter argument between conservative comedian Steven Crowder and a person named Leah titled “Leah needs a fucking helicopter ride.”
So the helicopter has a unique significance in 2017... and to this BOOM blog...
“Free Helicopter Rides” refers to extrajudicial killings known as “death flights,”[4] in which military forces throw people from aircraft into large bodies of water. Online, the phrase is often used by members of the alt-right in jokes about executing their political opponents (via helicopter).
On May 11th, the donaldtrumpepe Tumblr[8] blog shared an illustration of Pusheen throwing “Carl the Cuck”: out of a helicopter (shown below). On May 20th, the blog[9] posted an illustration of Feels Guy being thrown out a Trump helicopter by Pepe the Frog" : http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog (shown below).
On June 17th, the feminist blog We Hunted The Mammoth[7] published an article about the helicopter ride meme. On November 5th, FunnyJunk[6] user mortuz submitted a screenshot of a Twitter argument between conservative comedian Steven Crowder and a person named Leah titled “Leah needs a fucking helicopter ride.”
#reaccomodate
Southwest nailed it! Love this response to #United and their shameful treatment of customers. #reaccommodate pic.twitter.com/MAr1c6dNIv— Terry Jones (@TjonesSprint) April 11, 2017
"We had to re-accommodate the passenger! " - United CEO#NewUnitedAirlinesMottos #reaccommodate #unitedAIRLINES pic.twitter.com/tNrNBXYqR1— Aditya Sharma (@AdityaTweeted) April 11, 2017
Isn't #reaccommodate the same policy the U.S. government used on Native Americans in the 19th century?— Dan Sousa (@TXJust4Kicks) April 11, 2017
(big bad news day)
United CEO after Sean Spicer's comments about Hitler and Holocaust Centers 🤔#NewUnitedAirlinesMottos#BoycottUnitedAirlines pic.twitter.com/rZNOhcsdNm— Aztec (@1stAztecWarrior) April 11, 2017
collector item
Here's a close-up of the official 2017 GOLD @WhiteHouse Easter Egg. All eggs have stamped signatures of @POTUS and @FLOTUS pic.twitter.com/rXNMrTDG7l— WH Easter Egg Roll (@wheastereggroll) March 28, 2017
I'm kinda the queen peep on this blog...
taxes are a joke (kidding)
- “The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.” –Will Rogers
- “It is more deductible to give than to receive.” –Henry Leabo
- “Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.” –Evan Esar
- “An income tax form is like a laundry list—either way, you lose your shirt.” –Fred Allen
- “Tax reform is when you take the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and put taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before.” –Art Buchwald
- “I figured out why Uncle Sam wears such a tall hat. It comes in handy when he passes it around.” –Soupy Sales
- “There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.” –Mortimer Caplan, former IRS director
Exploring American Monsters: Massachusetts
One of the original thirteen British colonies in North America, Massachusetts was pivotal in the American Revolution. It is the third most densely populated of the fifty states, and the seventh smallest. It’s the birthplace of printer, author, inventor, and political theorist Benjamin Franklin, President John F. Kennedy, author Dr Seuss, author Edgar Allen Poe, and Captain America Chris Evans. The state has coastal and interior lowlands, several large bays, and residual mountains. A 200-square-mile area called “The Bridgewater Triangle” in the southeastern part of the state is the home to UFO encounters, ghosts, animal mutilation, and Bigfoot reports. Oh, and don’t forget the Pukwudgie.
Pukwudgie
Many American Indian mythologies have stories of little people. The Wampanoag of Massachusetts’ legend is of the Pukwudgie. Jealous of the affection the Wampanoag showed the giant Maushop (well, the giant did create Cape Cod for them), the Pukwudgie began to torment the Wampanoag Indians, playing tricks on them, stealing their children, and burning their villages. Pukudgies are described as humanlike, two to three feet tall with large noses, and ears. Their skin is grey.
The Pukwudgie can become invisible, use magic, and create fire at the snap of their fingers, but their most dangerous antics involve shooting poison arrows (with which legend says they used to kill Maushop and his five sons), and turning into a half-porcupine/half-troll. These diminutive human-like monsters have been known to lure humans to their deaths either by poison arrow, or pushing the human off a cliff. Afterward, the Pukwudgie can control the souls of their victims.
In modern times, people have reported encountering Pukwudgies in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, which includes a reservation in the Wampanoag Nation.
Thunderbird
Another American Indian legend, the Thunderbird is an enormous bird that’s name comes from the thunderous beating of its giant wings. Seen over the centuries across the continent, the thunderbird closely resembles a family of bird called the Teratorn that existed between the Miocene and Pleistocene periods. These monster birds (Teratorn is Greek for just that, “monster bird”) had wingspans of eleven to twenty feet and weighed anywhere from thirty-three to 176 pounds.
American Indian stories of these flying terrors across North America are eerily similar. Thunderbirds can create storms, and shoot lightning bolts. They have been known to swoop low and scoop up children and animals for food.
Sightings of Thunderbirds have occurred all over Massachusetts, including this one from Easton as reported in The Boston Globe from a story written by famed cryptozoologist Loren Coleman. According to the article, police Sergeant Thomas Dowdy drove home from his shift during the summer in 1971 when a bird about six feet tall with wings twelve feet long lifted from the side of the road and soared over his vehicle and disappeared into the night.
An account on about.com by an anonymous author who posted as “Bob,” involved what he thought was a hang glider in the sky around dusk one autumn in 1995 near Weston, Massachusetts. Bob drove over a hill, and saw the “glider” heading straight toward his vehicle. Bob slammed the brakes, and saw something he couldn’t believe. The flying object wasn’t a glider; it was a bird with a wingspan of around twenty feet.
According to a story at cryptozoologynews.com, in August of this year, two men working near Blandford, Massachusetts, saw a huge bird they at first thought was a small airplane. They realized it was not an airplane when it began to flap its wings.
Dover Demon
For a few days in the spring of 1977, the town of Dover, Massachusetts was terrorized by a demon. At around 10:30 p.m. 21 April, seventeen-year-old Billy Bartlett saw a four-foot-tall humanoid creature standing near a wall on Farm Street. The creature had a head like a watermelon, and glowing orange eyes, but no mouth or nose. Bartlett told The Boston Globe in 2006 the demon was real. “I have no idea what it was,” Bartlett told The Globe. ‘‘I definitely know I saw something.’’
Five more witnesses came out claiming to have seen the demon in 1977, including fifteen-year-old John Baxter who stood within fifteen feet of the monster on Miller Hill Road at 12:30 a.m. as he walked home from his girlfriend’s house. The next day, fifteen-year-old Abby Brabham saw the demon sitting on Springdale Avenue.
Carl Sheridan, a former police chief in Dover, told The Globe the story has always bothered him. “I knew the kids involved. They were good kids … The whole thing was unusual.”
Beast of Truro
During autumn of 1981, pets and livestock were slaughtered by an unknown creature around Truro, Massachusetts, a small town on the northern tip of Cape Cod. The first victims were dozens of cats found torn apart in an area of the small town. Various deaths continued through 1981 and into 1982 when hogs were found injured, their “flanks ripped by deep claw marks,” according to a story in The New York Times. People suspected a pack of wild dogs until the sightings began. Locals reported seeing a “large furry creature that they did not recognize,” according to The Times.
The clearest sighting was from a married couple from Truro, William and Marsha Medeiros, who were taking a walk near Head of the Meadow Beach. “It had a very definite long ropelike tail like the letter J,” Marsha Medeiros told The Times. “We figured it was about as tall as up to our knees and weighed 60 or 80 pounds.” The animal had a catlike face and short ears. Marsha Medeiros was convinced they had seen a mountain lion.
Others reported seeing something that looked like a mountain lion, although the last reported mountain lion in Massachusetts was in 1858. Despite numerous sightings, footprints were never found. Eventually the sightings, and animal deaths faded.
Gloucester Sea Serpent
The first report of the 100-foot-long serpent in the harbour of Gloucester occurred in 1638 when British traveler and author John Josselyn wrote the tale of a “sea serpent, or snake, that lay quoiled (sic) up like a cable upon the rock at Cape Ann; a boat passing by with English on board, and two Indians, they would have shot the serpent, but the Indians dissuaded them, saying that if he were not killed outright, they would all be in danger of their lives.”
In 1817, fishermen claimed to see a snake-like reptilian beast with the head of a horse and a foot-long horn from the center of its head. It poked its head above the surface of the harbour, and looked around before sinking back into the depths. That was by no means the last sighting. Two women claimed to see the creature on 10 August 1817. By 1818, seamen and clergymen said they saw the monster.
Sightings have continued through the decades. Although the number of encounters has decreased over the years, two of note occurred in the 1960s, and in 1997.
Next up: Michigan.
The Pukwudgie.
Pukwudgie
Many American Indian mythologies have stories of little people. The Wampanoag of Massachusetts’ legend is of the Pukwudgie. Jealous of the affection the Wampanoag showed the giant Maushop (well, the giant did create Cape Cod for them), the Pukwudgie began to torment the Wampanoag Indians, playing tricks on them, stealing their children, and burning their villages. Pukudgies are described as humanlike, two to three feet tall with large noses, and ears. Their skin is grey.
The Pukwudgie can become invisible, use magic, and create fire at the snap of their fingers, but their most dangerous antics involve shooting poison arrows (with which legend says they used to kill Maushop and his five sons), and turning into a half-porcupine/half-troll. These diminutive human-like monsters have been known to lure humans to their deaths either by poison arrow, or pushing the human off a cliff. Afterward, the Pukwudgie can control the souls of their victims.
In modern times, people have reported encountering Pukwudgies in Freetown-Fall River State Forest, which includes a reservation in the Wampanoag Nation.
The teratorn. Could this be the legendary thunderbird?
Thunderbird
Another American Indian legend, the Thunderbird is an enormous bird that’s name comes from the thunderous beating of its giant wings. Seen over the centuries across the continent, the thunderbird closely resembles a family of bird called the Teratorn that existed between the Miocene and Pleistocene periods. These monster birds (Teratorn is Greek for just that, “monster bird”) had wingspans of eleven to twenty feet and weighed anywhere from thirty-three to 176 pounds.
American Indian stories of these flying terrors across North America are eerily similar. Thunderbirds can create storms, and shoot lightning bolts. They have been known to swoop low and scoop up children and animals for food.
Sightings of Thunderbirds have occurred all over Massachusetts, including this one from Easton as reported in The Boston Globe from a story written by famed cryptozoologist Loren Coleman. According to the article, police Sergeant Thomas Dowdy drove home from his shift during the summer in 1971 when a bird about six feet tall with wings twelve feet long lifted from the side of the road and soared over his vehicle and disappeared into the night.
An account on about.com by an anonymous author who posted as “Bob,” involved what he thought was a hang glider in the sky around dusk one autumn in 1995 near Weston, Massachusetts. Bob drove over a hill, and saw the “glider” heading straight toward his vehicle. Bob slammed the brakes, and saw something he couldn’t believe. The flying object wasn’t a glider; it was a bird with a wingspan of around twenty feet.
According to a story at cryptozoologynews.com, in August of this year, two men working near Blandford, Massachusetts, saw a huge bird they at first thought was a small airplane. They realized it was not an airplane when it began to flap its wings.
The Dover Demon.
Dover Demon
For a few days in the spring of 1977, the town of Dover, Massachusetts was terrorized by a demon. At around 10:30 p.m. 21 April, seventeen-year-old Billy Bartlett saw a four-foot-tall humanoid creature standing near a wall on Farm Street. The creature had a head like a watermelon, and glowing orange eyes, but no mouth or nose. Bartlett told The Boston Globe in 2006 the demon was real. “I have no idea what it was,” Bartlett told The Globe. ‘‘I definitely know I saw something.’’
Five more witnesses came out claiming to have seen the demon in 1977, including fifteen-year-old John Baxter who stood within fifteen feet of the monster on Miller Hill Road at 12:30 a.m. as he walked home from his girlfriend’s house. The next day, fifteen-year-old Abby Brabham saw the demon sitting on Springdale Avenue.
Carl Sheridan, a former police chief in Dover, told The Globe the story has always bothered him. “I knew the kids involved. They were good kids … The whole thing was unusual.”
Newspaper account of the Beast of Truro.
During autumn of 1981, pets and livestock were slaughtered by an unknown creature around Truro, Massachusetts, a small town on the northern tip of Cape Cod. The first victims were dozens of cats found torn apart in an area of the small town. Various deaths continued through 1981 and into 1982 when hogs were found injured, their “flanks ripped by deep claw marks,” according to a story in The New York Times. People suspected a pack of wild dogs until the sightings began. Locals reported seeing a “large furry creature that they did not recognize,” according to The Times.
The clearest sighting was from a married couple from Truro, William and Marsha Medeiros, who were taking a walk near Head of the Meadow Beach. “It had a very definite long ropelike tail like the letter J,” Marsha Medeiros told The Times. “We figured it was about as tall as up to our knees and weighed 60 or 80 pounds.” The animal had a catlike face and short ears. Marsha Medeiros was convinced they had seen a mountain lion.
Others reported seeing something that looked like a mountain lion, although the last reported mountain lion in Massachusetts was in 1858. Despite numerous sightings, footprints were never found. Eventually the sightings, and animal deaths faded.
The sea serpent of the harbour at Gloucester.
Gloucester Sea Serpent
The first report of the 100-foot-long serpent in the harbour of Gloucester occurred in 1638 when British traveler and author John Josselyn wrote the tale of a “sea serpent, or snake, that lay quoiled (sic) up like a cable upon the rock at Cape Ann; a boat passing by with English on board, and two Indians, they would have shot the serpent, but the Indians dissuaded them, saying that if he were not killed outright, they would all be in danger of their lives.”
In 1817, fishermen claimed to see a snake-like reptilian beast with the head of a horse and a foot-long horn from the center of its head. It poked its head above the surface of the harbour, and looked around before sinking back into the depths. That was by no means the last sighting. Two women claimed to see the creature on 10 August 1817. By 1818, seamen and clergymen said they saw the monster.
Sightings have continued through the decades. Although the number of encounters has decreased over the years, two of note occurred in the 1960s, and in 1997.
Next up: Michigan.
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