Jane's necklace

I can't take my eyes off that necklace, Jane Pauley. (on CBS Sunday Morning a few weeks ago)

Radioactive?

The good old days, when all the eggs brought by the Easter Bunny were radioactive. https://t.co/TpACrdSmMk

— Undine (@HorribleSanity) April 14, 2017

bunny and fox as friends

We have wonder all around us. Like this photo. I have no idea how a photog could do this photo unless he had kept this bunny and fox as pets. A fox isn't a pet but a bunny could be... This speaks to me that all of us can get along, and be a comfort to each other. I wrote a story about a bunny terror in my book BECOMING. Bunnies mean alot to me. They have taught me so much. There was also a little silver fox that lived on the land at my late mom's house. I never saw the bunnies and fox together but they shared the land in northern Wisconsin. They shared the land the way we can share the land.

Noisy?

Have you ever wondered about life in the deepest depths of the ocean? Oregon-based oceanographers did, so they dropped a microphone seven miles down. ↶

LISTEN! HERE: Oregon Scientists Eavesdrop On Ocean's Deepest Deep, Surprised How Noisy It Is . News | OPB

fairy lights

I have this thing about shooting photos from a moving car at night. Yup, I'm like that... BOOM

#EarthDay Hero Pauline Tangiora

Pauline Tangiora

One of 13 indigenous grandmothers, Pauline is a tribal wisdom keeper and environmentalist. See more

Running Man?

Or take The Running Man. Do people still watch that movie? The Running Man stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a wrongly accused helicopter cop who has to slaughter his way through a violent reality-TV competition hosted by a deranged game-show emcee played by Richard Dawson. Outside, the world is burning after an apocalyptic economic collapse; on the show, convicted criminals battle WWE-esque enforcers in a fight for survival that turns civilizational collapse into fuel for runaway ratings. (The story is based on a novel by Stephen King, incidentally.) It's 1987's white-knuckle view of 2017, and Donald Trump — who started out as 1987's white-knuckle view of itself — is every single male character in the movie. He's the brutish cartoon-chainsaw killers (remember when he dabbled in pro wrestling?) and the grim hero snapping necks and one-liners to win over a hostile audience, and he's the leering, mic-swinging host who wants you to be afraid, truly afraid, of the world outside your door — not because he plans to fix it, but because it means you'll tune in to his show.
Head Over to this on MTV

Appreciation Friday: Jean Jullien

Jean Jullien is a French graphic artist currently living in Los Angeles, where he continues to develop his observational, critical and playful style of illustrations. “I try to capture moments that people react to, to establish a connection with the viewer,” he says. Jean espouses a humorous reflection of the times that we live in. “My work is much like journalism,” he says. “I observe what is around me and try to sum it up into visual articles or stories.”

IKEA print: SHELFIE

‘Shelfie’ is inspired by a quote from Chuck Palahniuk’s cult film ‘Fight Club’ – “The things you own end up owning you”.
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?

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

Spring Clean the Mind? It is possible. HERE

AND THERE'S MORE (IN A GOOD WAY)

... you’ll love listening to the Infomagical project: five days of challenges designed* to help you find focus and cope with the constant buzz of digital life.

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...

#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

I wish I was laughing... BOOM!