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My favorite part of every Mountain Goats show is when John tries to sing something from his back catalog, something that he hasn't played in years, and promptly forgets the lyrics.

Then, he turns to the audience for help, and without fail, someone right up front, has all thing lyrics to Counting Song for Bitter Children tattooed on themselves.

Every single time he's baffled, as is by now he doesn't know his fan base are all lunatics

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boutta wash some 1880s wedding bloomers :D

(worn by the mother of the bride)

#brick collector #conservation #fashion history'

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tugboat just TOOK my hashbrown out of the toaster and RAN away with it

#brick collector #orange cat #tugboat the cat #he is so smart

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#tmg <3

On this day 85 years ago the last known thylacine, ‘Benjamin’, died of exposure in Beaumaris Zoo, Tasmania. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) just recently released a restored and colourised version of footage taken of Benjamin at the zoo, it’s amazing to watch, I used it as a reference for painting these two quick little illustrations. Lyrics are from the song ‘Deuteronomy 2:10’ by The Mountain Goats.

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The United Kingdom has returned 32 gold and silver treasures stolen from the Asante Kingdom more than 150 years ago in what is today’s Ghana on a six-year loan, Ghanaian negotiators have said. The artefacts, comprising 15 items from the British Museum and 17 from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), were looted from the court of the Asante king during the turbulent 19th-century clashes between the British and the Asante people. Ghanaian authorities have for years tried to reclaim gold treasures looted by British soldiers from the Asante kingdom, which is also known as Ashanti.

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apparently I am no longer allowed to lean my entire body out of the second floor windows at the museum to try and see the pigeons on our roof

I dont care that it "looks concerning" and I "might fall" they are MAKING A NEST

#brick collector #maybe they can live in my office #museum curator #pigeon #birds #bird watching #pigeons #museum

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felt awkward at the bank and made too much small talk about the money tube

#personal blog #brick collector

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Blue Silk Faille Reception Dress, 1867

3-piece robin's-egg blue faille decorated with cream satin-stitch, tambour and french-knot embroidery, bodice having long sleeve, prong-set oval opalescent buttons; trained skirt with large embroidered repeats above the hem, deep, stiffened hem binding; small separate peplum with embroidered waistband.

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thinking about when I interned at a library and 100% handled an arsenic bird

#oops #taxidermy #well its ok #at least I know now!! #also though maybe they should have like.. offered me gloves? #personal blog #museum stuff #brick collector

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don’t!!! fake!!!! your!!!! interests!!!! to!!!! make!!!! someone!!!! like!!!!! you!!!!

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Sometimes somebody is nonbinary and they're just a normal guy without gender. And sometimes someone is nonbinary and they're someone whose deeply uncomfortable with being either gender so they need to transition to something else. And sometimes someone is nonbinary because they hate gender and want to kill it. And sometimes someone is nonbinary in an otherworldly and eldrich way like an android or a fallen angel and it makes people think they're cool. And sometimes someone is nonbinary in a whimsical and magical way like a faerie and it makes people think they're cute and charming. And sometimes those are all different people and they're that way forever. And sometimes someone is many of those at once or at diffrent times. And that's just how being nonbinary is.

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mountain goats lyrics all exist on the axes of ridiculous sounding/serious sounding and actually unserious/serious

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PLS ALL I WANT IS TO WEAR THIS AND LIKE, WALK DOWN SOME FANCY STEPS

Day Dress

c. 1837-1840

printed challis and lined with glazed cotton and linen from Great Britain

Victoria and Albert Museum

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today has been so overwhelming but also so good our clothing expert just gifted me a bag of vintage scarfs and handkerchiefs??? and my coworker gave me a homemade rice crispy treat???? :))))))

and also I got to carpool with my partner which was so happy and nice <3

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hello Tumblr I have recently discovered eBay

#personal blog #brick collector #can't stop bidding on things

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anywho hope everyone has a great day love u

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the last post i made was actually supposed to be a draft guess who just found out what the add to queue button does

gonna not delete it though