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Norman Mailer once said that “[Willam F.] Buckley’s personality is the highest Camp we are ever going to find in a mayoralty. No other actor on earth can project simultaneous hints that he is in the act of playing commodore of the Yacht Club, Joseph Goebbels, Robert Mitchum, Maverick, Savonarola, the nice prep-school kid next door, and the snows of yesteryear. If he didn’t talk about politics - if he was just the most Camp gun ever to walk into Gunsmoke - I’d give up Saturday nights to watch him.” and I need to process all of that for a bit I think.
this video sends me every time. the lip syncing. the source material. iconic
I reblogged this one time and someone else who reblogged it from me tagged it with #violence
I know I’ve talked about it before but it never ceases to amaze me that the city of Toronto created this labyrinthine series of underground walkways that stretch for kilometres under the heart of downtown and they called it the fucking PATH. like how much more ominous could that even be. It doesn’t even stand for anything it’s just the PATH, all caps. What fucking fae named this artisanal bakery maze.
@asimovsideburns #it doesn’t even stand for anything?????
It doesn’t!!! even stand!! for anything!!!
“PATH is downtown Toronto’s enclosed pedestrian walkway linking 29 kilometres of shopping, services and entertainment connecting Toronto Coach Terminal to Maple Leaf Square/Air Canada Centre. The Acronym (PATH) does not stand for anything - just signals that there is a pathway.”
Like I always lose my mind at this. If it doesn’t stand for anything it’s not an acronym Toronto!! Toronto!!!!!!!!!
Copying my tags:
I’m not exaggerating about the part without a ceiling:
This is, by the way, right under Bay & Bloor, dead centre of the city and some of the most expensive real estate in Canada. It radiates an incredible aura of menace.
Okay far more poeple have reblogged this than I thought and I just wanted to clarify- the horror of the PATH is not that it all looks like a spooky basement where you’re about to get murdered. There ARE spots like that, but to understand the ~vibe~ of the PATH, you have to understand that it is essentially one very large mall co-designed by like, 70+ different corperations who all have different aesthetics. SO, the PATH looks like that, but it also looks like this
and like this
and like this
and like this
Here’s an entrance to the PATH at Union
And here’s another- also at Union
And here’s another a few blocks away, though tbh I have never been able to enter here because it always seems to be locked, no matter how much I want Wendy’s that day.
And you’d think these mixed aesthetics would make it easier to navigate, or at least figure out where you are, but again, there are over 70 different entities designing this shit and not one original thought between them. So while you may well know when you step from one property to the next, whatever the look of your current section it’s more than likely they’re a nigh identical section somewhere further just to confound your mortal sense.
Basically, everyone tagging this with the Magnus Archives is very correct- If any place on earth could be the true domain of the Spiral it’s the PATH, and it’s just a shame Jonny didn’t know about it before the show wrapped up.
It stands for Puzzling, Aesthetically Terrible Hallway.
Just adding to the fucked uppery of this. PATH doesn’t mean anything. But the colours of the letters do.
Blue represents the cold weather of the North Red represents the warmth of the South Yellow represents the rising sun in the East Orange represents the setting sun in the West
Because… yeah, uh, sure! Sometimes you see signage that follows this. Sometimes not, because, as mentioned above, this place is 12 malls stitched together by subway stations and condo basements
*And by "now" I mean "since Gargoyles vol. 3 #12, published more than a year ago".
So...my thoughts on this.
On one hand, I get how one might consider this a worthwhile direction for the character. Law enforcement has been part of Gargoyles' DNA from the start, in a way that has been quite specific to it--not even Batman: TAS features cops so centrally, and law enforcement is not at all part of its TMNT DNA--and, with gargoyles getting a measure of legal recognition, in recent stories, it makes sense for their usual work in the shadows to change in some respect. What's more, there's clear dramatic potential: not only does it give Goliath some new characters to interact with, it also puts him in a position to question his loyalties and practices (no reason to assume a group dealing with gargoyles will work for them). And again, seeing Goliath in this new context would also shed some much-needed light on gargoyles' current status quo.
THAT SAID...
This still feels really ill-conceived. Given how public perception of cops has changed since 1997 (or even 2004) and how important it is to Greg Weisman for him to be seen as a progressive, I'd have expected the current revival would disassociate the gargoyles from the police. The "Goliath on trial", in fact, seems perfectly positioned to do exactly that, and if Elisa had been actually permanently fired as a consequence of her actions during that story, it would have made complete sense. Instead, we not only still have Elisa as a cop, we now have Goliath as a member of the Gargoyles Task Force, complete with badge--not the development I imagine very many fans were hoping for.
Does the direction have potential? Sure. But that can be said of the millions of developments since the original cartoon series ended. Gargoyles' problem has never been lack of stories with potential: it's that there's simply far to many of them for any of them to get the development they need, and this is just another thing to be introduced and not serviced, even when the nature of the story demands it.
Since this development, we've had one entire arc spanning multiple in-universe months--Elisa's months-long suspension after Goliath's trial has come and gone--and during this time, "Goliath is a cop" has simply not been a factor, and has seemingly changed absolutely nothing about how the gargoyles live or operate. One could have excised the panels referencing the development (all...five of them?) and nobody would have been the wiser. What's more, what we have seen has featured no conflict (internal or external) and no character development. One moment we're told that "the NYPD" has made an offer, and another panel where Goliath has already accepted--just enough material for GargWiki to be able to say it happened, but nothing that makes an actual story.
In storytelling ecologies, there are certain stories that are like cacti: they don't need a lot of constant attention, and they work perfectly fine as something that is given focus only occasionally. This is how Gargoyles the cartoon worked most of the time, in part because it generally had a very stable status quo; it is not how Gargoyles the comic, with its constant status quo changes and BIG DEVELOPMENTS, works. "Goliath joins the Gargoyles Task Force" is not something that you can pick up months down the line: it is, inherently, a story about first impressions. If that is not a story Greg Weisman wasn't interested in telling, then the development shouldn't have happened at all.
dude.
i knew a surgeon and he once told me “nobodys insides look like how the textbooks say they will. you never know what you’re going to find in there once you open them up” and that was easily the most ominous thing anyone’s ever said to me
when i was taking my first year anatomy lab, we’d occasionally find a cadaver where things would branch off or attach in the wrong order, and when we’d ask our prof about it, he’d just shrug and say “they must not have read the book”
When my friend was in med school one of the cadavers donated for them to autopsy didn't have a belly button, just smooth skin.
In the past 10 years of teaching in an anatomy lab, I have seen:
- A donor with a scrotum the size of my head. When we opened it up, we discovered it was a MASSIVE inguinal hernia and a good 1.5 ft of intestine were trapped down there.
- A donor with situs inversus totalis, whose organs were a mirror image of what we normally see (ie their heart pointed right and their liver was on the left, just for starters)
- A donor whose right common carotid artery branched off the aorta waaay over on the left hand side of the body and crossed alllll the way back across the thorax to get where it needed to be.
- A donor with 4 lobes for their right lung (should only be 3). We named the 4th lobe the Lisa Loeb, but all of the students were too young to appreciate our sparkling wit.
- A shocking variety of penile and breast implants. Y'all would not believe the number of different ways science has come up to counteract gravity.
- A couple of cases of ectopic kidneys, where a kidney didn't rise to its typical position just deep to the lowest ribs and instead stayed in the pelvis.
There is probably some other stuff that I am forgetting. Take home point is: the human body is weird and wonderful and you should learn more about yours!
....duuude.
Spleens Georg
14???????
My contribution: client co pinched nerve in L side of neck. I asked about health hx; she said, “I've got some extra ribs on that side.”
me: “some?” (!!!!!??!?!??!???)
Some was 2, but that’s crazy enough.
Yeah, I don't discover the anatomical weirdness but I've had clients come in with extra ribs, missing ribs, extra vertebra, accessory muscles (that's when you have duplicates - sometimes fine, sometimes not), bones connected where they shouldn't be (spoiler: if your lumbar spine is connected to your hip, it Causes Problems), all sorts of stuff. Bodies are weird!
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This made me remember that I had a friend in high school who had one thumb that was like half an inch shorter than the other. Not sure how that happened.
even the things you never think about are a spectrum
500-pound stained glass crab sculpture by the late Jackie Leatherbury Douglass and her husband John Frederick Douglass, on display in Baltimore's airport
Jennifer Connelly for Technics
Gonna summon an airstrike on Jareth the Goblin King.
DC's tribute to Peter David
