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zoomar:

An article I wrote on the possible connection between religion and ventriloquism.

Thousands of years ago, ventriloquism was no trick; it was the key to deep religious belief.

The Greeks had a term for it, gastromancy. This is not a word that spell check will recognize, but it was the magical art of spirit voices that came from the stomach. Don’t confuse it with borborygmus — it is actual speech generated inside the stomach, as if someone or something were trapped there. The Greeks looked at this stomach-talking nerd and thought they had found religious truth. You could not only get prophecy from these voices, but also talk to dead relatives that, for a short time, had become lodged in this person’s large intestine and decided that they would stay there to shout things up through his/her mouth.

It didn’t stop, or start, there. History is littered with religious occurrences that could be attributed to a rogue ventriloquist abusing his power to speak without moving his lips.

Read the rest here

eldafto:

hypnogoria:

green earth stirs once more

leaf and bud, root and branches

wood begins to wake

This is my dragon.

I gave you that dragon!

comicallyvintage:

The Song Says You Must Die!

digitalyn: limeflavored: msadventures: thongxxxy: (via brouillon)

crowth: sexartandpolitics: mathewparkin: aoxomoxoaoxomoxoa:

CAT PLAYS THEREMIN.

This is perhaps the best thing I have ever seen.

autoreblog

The end was the bit that got me. I chuckled audibly.

inothernews:

AS EQUALS A man offered a rose to a woman to mark International Women’s Day in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday. (Photo: Marko Djurica / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)

Shaun Ryder got married today. Congrats Shaun, you look so happy!

comicallyvintage:

I Must Make Good!

johndurrant: suddenly:

My Big Little Golden Book About Turd (via captainpandapants)

Happy International Women’s Day

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somethingturkish:

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A pillar at the Gobekli Tepe temple near Sanliurfa, Turkey, the oldest known temple in the world (via Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com)

Nina Simone @ The Bitter End Cafe (1968) (via jdeucey24)

montycantsin: jillian-leigh:

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buffleheadcabin: loopier: alistairappleton:

“We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer ‘To hell with them.’ The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do” – Michael Foot

Mogadonia The Giffin’ Whizz

We made you a present, Mog! I did the song & burningfencepost did the visuals - he’s a bit of a whizz too! We hope you like it :)

Love from us x

PS Sorry about the distortion - that seems to be a little present from Vimeo.

seconddrawerdown:

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She’s a Girl in Glasses and Playing Ukulele - ukulele original (via UKISOCIETY)

jhnbrssndn:

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The Daily Mash - At the movies…

u k u l a l a . c o m: Ask Ukulala Vol. 4: Gaullimafry and KING DONKEY

Lads’ magazines such as Zoo and Nuts should be made top shelf titles with age restrictions on their sale, a report commissioned by the Home Office is to recommend.

The 130-page study argues that such magazines, which offer soft porn at pocket-money prices, are part of a “drip, drip” media landscape that is sexualising boys and girls at an increasingly early age. The report points to computer games, easily accessible pornography and the use of sexual slogans in advertising and branding as making up prevalent sexual images that are influencing the behaviour of children.

soulcleansed - He’ll Be Waiting - Christian dance music (via soulcleansed)

Pmsl!

I’ve featured this before but it’s such a good idea, it’s worth the repeat.

jhnbrssndn:

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uncertaintimes:

Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Six-foot-seven, and according to the stories able to support nine people and a steel cage (over a ton of weight) on his back, this Italian traveling strongman-turned-Egyptologist also designed hydraulic machinery and studied, briefly, for the priesthood. Ahh, in those days, resumes had to be a lot longer, and probably vetted by the censors. During his brief yet glorious archaeological career through Egypt from 1815 to 1819, Belzoni excavated the temple of Abu Simbel at Syene, discovered the tomb of Seti I in Thebes, opened the Pyramid of Chefren at Giza, and transferred the Cursed Memnon from Egypt to the British Museum. After this last task, he decided to seek the legendary city of Timbuktu by crossing the Sahara, but died of dysentery (or of Memnon’s Curse) in Benin in 1823 at the age of 45. (According to the celebrated traveller Richard Francis Burton he was murdered and robbed. - ed. #) Belzoni is most famous for his gleefully destructive methods: his memoirs speak of blasting open sealed doors with hydraulics or gunpowder charges, crushing whole necropoli full of mummies while searching for treasure, and generally inviting a whole litany of Pharaoh’s curses upon himself. - Kenneth Hite #

zoomar:

Come to sunny California and learn Radio-Television Talking Pictures

mogadonia:

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mogadonia: lacontessa: Pick-Me-Up magazine, 1895. (via)

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buffleheadcabin: darksilenceinsuburbia: airkingsound:

Banjo in the front yard.  Would love to hear a recording of what she’s playing.

(treebones:snakecharmer)

I hear her clearly, but then my head is chock full of banjo frailing.

jmarie3: poortaste:

Greek Protests 2010
(NWO SOCIETY SERIES/ Financial Crisis, Debt, Civil Unrest & Poverty)

Filed under: What you won’t see on Mainstream Media

comicallyvintage:

… My Life Was One Small Smoke-Filled Nightclub After Another…

uncertaintimes:

Piper Robbins

FILE

4AD Sessions - Tune Yards

Folklife 08 (via Nerd’s Eye View)

Nerd’s Eye View Blog

awesome-everyday: ohserena:

Carolina Chocolate Drops performing “Hit’ Em Up Style” (via knoxnews)

Manchester Street Art (via sheila_blige)

When is ‘disconnection’ not disconnection? When it is ‘account suspension’, of course.

The government therefore felt justified in a response to a petition on Friday of claiming that were not intending to ‘disconnect’ families from the net after accusations of copyright infringement. If you think they mean that their internet cabling will still be plugged in at the wall, then that’s true.

If you think they mean that these families will be able to connect to the internet, well, no they won’t. Their connection will be switched off.

montycantsin:

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feastingonroadkill:

Anti Social Behaviour stats on your smart phone.

This is real.

comicallyvintage:

Forget… Forget… Forget…

uncertaintimes:

Dogon (African people)

wondertonic:

A Capella Syllables For The Emulation Of Real-Life Instruments

A handy chart to help you figure out how best to sound like instruments with just your voice!

A good tube is a dead tube

via vruz: poobah

feastingonroadkill:

DRM, Still destroying value. Via