I’ll tumblr 4 ya

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by Doctor Science

I just started using Tumblr: doctorscienceknows.tumblr.com. Mostly I’m using it for keeping track of images: when I’m working on an Obsidian Wings post, I tend to flip through lots of images, save a few, then forget where I got them from. No more of that! she said optimistically.

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Demon Tumbling Downstairs, by Erica Van Horn. Part of Yale University Library exhibition The Book Remembers Everything.

To make her Illuminated Books, the artist purchased inexpensive books at a used bookstore in Paris, until the booksellers discovered what she was doing with them—wiring them together and rendering them unreadable—and refused to sell her any more.

I can’t say I blame them, really …

Feel free to follow me, or to talk about Tumblr and Kids These Days, The Wacky Things They Do (on My Lawn, or otherwise). Don’t worry, I’m still not on Twitter — I can’t think in 140 character quanta.

Those too young to automatically start singing the title can get the idea by watching Culture Club’s video. Ah, the 80s. Even at the time I didn’t actually like this song — there’s something about the tonal softness that makes me feel as though I have cotton candy in my ears — but it’s still infectious.

9 thoughts on “I’ll tumblr 4 ya”

  1. Culture Club was a guilty pleasure of mine because of their facility for melodic hooks.
    Is this the Friday open thread?
    A daisy chain of Duh’Souzapornacopia, via Balloon Juice:
    http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/10/20/late-night-open-thread-probably-not-the-last-of-dinesh-dscrwsher/
    From a link within the bounty spilling forth, to more about the married fiancee:
    http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/big-love-king-s-college-dsouzas-mistress-was-also-married
    If you scroll down, there’s a picture of the bleached out little Christian scold sitting amidst her reading material.
    One title caught my eye: “Ayn Rand’s Critics”.
    In one photograph, the entire horny, murderous, but deliciously righteous, show me the money chimera of the Republican Party in its Randian, Old Testament, Moses-parts-Dagny Taggert’s-lady-parts-while-the-rest-us-are-left-with-Christ’s-stale-bread-body-and-grape-juice-blood is revealed like a centerfold in Bill Bennett’s new Atlantic City welcoming brochure, “Cum to Jesus”.
    D’Souza, in some infantile tract a few years ago, blamed the West’s falling away from traditional Christian morality (at the hands of you, and me, well, you mostly) for enraging the Muslim world and causing al D’Souzaqaeda to fly planeloads of Americans into buildings full of mostly Americans, whose only crime was that the hijackings and murders interrupted their completely innocent and ineffably human sexual longings.
    Al Qaeda could have targeted their attacks more narrowly (or bugger off), so as not to inconvenience the majority of us, by loading the entire political, religious, and media leadership of the Republican Party on to transport planes and flying the lot of them up D’Souza’s Brahmin butt.
    Then Obama could have put a bullet in Osama’s head as punishment and the two mortal threats to America, al Qaeda and the Republican Party, would be dead.
    The polls show the election as a toss-up.
    We may need more than two drum clips.

  6. Thanks, cleek – I never had any reason to look into tumblr until now. Many things are like bread – home-made is just yummier for some reason.

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