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Shout out to all the spare humans

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Ohio Total Solar Eclipse

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What an autistic person says: "How long is it going to take?"

What they mean: "I want to know whether to activate my short term waiting mode where I just wait and do nothing else, or activate my long term waiting mode where I occupy my mind with something else. I fully understand that both are possibilities, and I have no problem whatsoever with either one, but I want more information so I can best adapt to the situation."

What neurotypical people hear: "I am impatient and demand that everything I want happen right now. Please scold me and publicly humiliate me for it."

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Charl Stols Wildlife Photography

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Grey Wolf taking a roll call and gretting responses from seemingly the entire forest.

Sound on.

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Arctic Fox (by C-Turtle)

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Branch manager

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Cat software on dog hardware

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THE WAY THIS GUY DESCRIBES HIM

i mean he's not wrong...

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one of my fav things about led zeppelin is that every photo is either they are absolute angels, the most majestic beings you've ever seen, or

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Rock and Roll Comics #13 - Led Zeppelin

link to the blog where this is archived for the whole thing

Scott Jackson wrap-around cover Art & Story by Greg Fox & Mary Kelleher

(1990)

^always love a meet cute though it doesn't do justice to 'I thought you were the roadie

^I like this page for the unlikeliness of Jimmy being both naked and chatty next to quite so many women

^this one because Bath was hot (bonus Robeardo)

^this page shows how unauthorized this is because we all know Jimmy would do his nut at any suggestion the sigils were Robert's idea [honestly, Jimmy, mate, I'm just posting this for the archive - we all know the boy didn't have ideas like that in his pretty head. You're the mage, Page]

^ I guess it is worth remembering how spoiled we are now with vast internet archives, some salacious books, and some serious geeks on the attention to detail. In 1990 what did people have to do research (so for example Zep only rented Headley Grange - I bet today I could just look at the land registry in 20 mins to check that. I mean I'm all over Robert's tax records)

^yeah Robert it's so important you don't overly contribute to the NHS but it's fine for you to fund half the narcoterorism in Coloumbia (well it's a good excuse to spend more time with Jimmy so why am I complaining)

ok let's skip to the end and you can go read the tragic bits yourself

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Never thought Robert was such an ambitious careerist that the day, when he and Jimmy planned musical world domination in a forest, would be the happiest one with the biggest blue sky by that moment.

(from Trampled Under Foot/The Oral History by Barney Hoskyns)

They usually say such sentimental things about falling in love, getting married or having a child. Or making one's first record as Robert said about 1966 career-wise later.

Neither knew Robert was so money-oriented.

(from Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of All Time by Jon Bream)

I still can't figure the exact number of people who went there because it changes depending on who and when tells the story. If I remember correctly, Cole even said that Robert had relationship problems with Maureen then, so they went to the cottage to improve their relation. Apparently, with 2-3 roadies, Jimmy and Charlotte for moral support lol But I doubt Maureen and Charlotte were there the whole time, I just can't see that they were doing nothing at all (although I like the image) while the roadies turned into housewives in the kitchen.

"The initial plan was to get away and enjoy the serenity of the Welsh countryside accompanied by roadies Clive Coulson and Sandy McGregor, with occasional visits from their ladies Maureen and Charlotte. With guitars on hand, however, fragments of ideas began to take shape. The lack of domestic electricity ensured that these new ideas were performed entirely acoustically, thus setting the flavour for their third album.

“We’d been working solidly and thought it was time for a break, or at least some time to get away from the road,” said Page. “Robert suggested going to this cottage in south Wales that he’d once been to with his parents when he was much younger. He was going on about what a beautiful place it was and I became pretty keen to go there. So off we went; took along our guitars of course. It wasn’t a question of ‘Let’s go and knock a few songs in the country’. It was more of a case of getting away for a bit. As the nights wore on the guitars came out and numbers were being written.”

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Roadie Clive Coulson told journalist Phil Sutcliffe: “They just wanted some peace and quiet. They met local people while they were there. They ended up buying some goats from one of the local farms. Jimmy and Robert went into Machynlleth and to a pub called Owen Glendower. Everyone mucked in at the cottage, there was no superstar shit. Pagey was the tea man. The cottage was stone freezing cold. There was an open hearth fire. Pagey had a Martin guitar and they wrote a lot of songs at the cottage.”

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An indignant Robert Plant went on record in the following week’s Record Mirror and, under the headline “Plant Slams Zep III Critics” he vehemently defended the album:

“You can just see the headlines, can’t you: ‘Led Zeppelin go soft on their fans,’ or some crap like that. The point is that when you begin a new album you don’t know how it’s going to come out. When we conceived those numbers at Bron-Yr-Aur we started to see what we wanted to do with this album. It was obvious it was going to work and it just grew from there. Now we’ve done Led Zeppelin III, the sky’s the limit. It shows we can change and it means there are endless possibilities and directions for us to go in. We won’t go stale and this proves it.”

(from Record Collector article, November 2010)

The sky was so blue that they quoted LZ III acknowledgment of Bron-Yr-Aur in 1994 P/P project word for word.

In Zep lore there are two special, magic places — Wales and Morocco. The main tribute to Morocco is forever preserved in Achilles Last Stand. It's a pretty common knowledge, except for those people who believe the song was written about the Trojan War.

There are two Bron-Yr-Aur songs which pale in comparison with ALS, at first glance. They aren't so straightforward or telling about the trip in an almost diary way. One of them is even instrumental (and borrowed from Bert Jansch) lol But the first does preserve the memory and the spirit of the trip sweetly as well. With smiles, laughter, etc.

P.S. If you have the full text of the interviews by Nigel Williamson and Phil Sutcliffe, please, let me know. I'm looking for them.

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Young Jimmy Page before the formation of the Led Zeppelin band, 1965

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me: i'm not jealous at all

how i look when the person i like is talking to someone other than me:

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10 Tests For Guilt at the Salem Witch Trials

Rhetoric is only as potent as its source material – this is why any allusion to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is so effective. What comes immediately to mind is the hideous and completely unfound legal proceedings – based mostly on superstition, irrational paranoia, Puritanism-fueled mass hysteria, and deception–which resulted in 19 wrongful executions, each one hanged, burned, or drowned for some ill-fated finger-pointing. The imagery evoked is just as barbaric and painful as the means by which these accused “witches” were tried and ultimately “proven” guilty. (In actuality, most of the “afflicted” were just suffering from some mental illness medical science hadn’t quite caught up to at the time, “evil” being amongst the worst know epidemics.) Here are ten ways their verdict was ascertained:

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Witch Cake

This voodoo-inspired test, the ingredients of said cake were rye meal… and urine from the girls said to be afflicted by the witch’s evil incantations. The test had dogs eat this cake, after which the alleged witch should scream out in pain – for in the process of her cursing the victims, she sent invisible particles of herself (the embodiment of pure evil, that is), which would show up in the urine. The cake, then, was effectively a voodoo doll of herself in a way. This superstition came from the Cartesian “Doctrine of Effluvia,” which logically was prescribed as a document of medical fact.

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Spectral Evidence

This type of evidence is based on claims by accusers that they would see the individual accused of witchcraft in dreams or visions doing the Devil’s bidding. The argument against this was that the Devil could take any shape, while the counter-argument was that the Devil could not inhabit an individual’s body without their permission. This form of evidence was somehow enough to convict several accused during the time it was deemed plausible. (When it was later thrown out, the conviction rate decline severely and hastened the trials’ conclusion.)

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Eye Witnesses Testimonials

Some witnesses would confess to actually seeing the alleged witches practicing their black magic, which was enough to tattoo guilt all over them. Of course there was nothing to stop accusers of making up stories just to see people they disliked or deemed strange taken away. Many accusations stemmed from the belief that a death or illness had been caused by witchcraft, which upon filing with a magistrate and being deemed credible would lead to an arrest. On the charge of “affliction with witchcraft” or “entering a covenant with the devil.”

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Witch’s Teat

If you’ve ever heard the expression “cold as a witch’s teat,” now you know the origin: the aforementioned teat corresponded to any kind of mole or unusual skin blemish which all witches (and frankly most humans) are characterized to have. The test was that this teat would be pricked with a needle, and if the recipient didn’t bleed or feel it, then surely there was a witch in our midst. Often times, however, needles would be purposefully blunted so it would be easier to demonstrate just how “cold and unfeeling” this teat really is.

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Artifacts

Sought after in the accused home were any artifacts corresponding to witchcraft that could be used as evidence for condemnation. These included poppets (a voodoo doll of sorts through which spells could be cast), cauldrons full of ointments, and books on palm reading and horoscopes. Also having flying broomsticks, talking black cats, and pointy hats would be instant red flags (at least in the Harry Potter universe).

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Lord’s Prayer Test

This was a literal test of faith. The accused would be made to recite the “Lord’s Prayer” without error – this included any stumbling, stammering, or outright spasming. As elocution is a painstaking art, it seems that any average human would slip up, but under “God’s eyes” (as well as whoever else sees themselves fit to judge) mistakes are unacceptable. As far as fits go, try forcing someone who may be mentally-retarded or hysterical (medically-speaking) or hallucinating from LSD-fungus-covered rye bread (another suspect of these ubiquitous “fits”) to read from the bible with absolute level-headedness.

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Touch Test

This test is all about the performance. If an afflicted person – throwing fits and the like – suddenly becomes calm after the accused places their hand on him/her, then the toucher is most certainly a witch. This is said to be because all the “venom” and assorted evil toxins (stemming from the witch’s eye) that originally addled the afflicted soul have returned to their evil host.

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Forced Confession by Dunking

Those who didn’t admit to being a witch and under heavy suspicion were usually induced to confess by way of torture. One method was dunking, in which the accused would be held under water repeatedly until they were successfully broken down. This is also an effective means to brainwash someone into believing a lie, anything to make the inhumanity cease.

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Pressing

Another means of torture designed to make the accuser talk, but made it impossible for them to talk, much less breathe. Called “pressing,” the subject is placed beneath heavy stones, meant to literally crush you into submission. One such recipient endured this very treatment, an 80 year-old man named Giles Corey accused of being a warlock (yes men could be accused as well). He refused to give a plea each of the several times he was asked, and was ultimately crushed to death by the stones, which, as it turned out, were more likely to speak than he was.

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Bound Submersion

There was no favorable result in this test; essentially the alleged witch would be bound at the hands and feet – with heavy rocked attached – and thrown into a body of water. If the body floated to the surface, that was proof, along some kind of whimsical lines, that the accused was indeed a witch (at which point they’d execute her by some other means). If she sank to the bottom – and inevitably drowned – she was innocent. Given that none of these girls had received any proper Navy Seals training – inhale, hold your breath, don’t panic – about 100% of them drowned, with apathetic standers-by shrugging it off, thinking ‘Oh well. Now we know.”

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I was so proud of him...with emphasis on HIM

When you talk about someone you're madly in love

Robert, dear, your starry eyes are showing

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