Look at this cool new t-shirt I made for fans of Abraham Lincoln! I made it on my own time, with my own resources, and without any affiliation to existing public or private institutions concerned with history, education, hospitality, culture or retail. You can find it at my new Threadless shop or directly at bit.ly/imissabe
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ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.
remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).
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Olympus O-Product 35mm film camera Designed By: Naoki Sakai (1988)
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People be like "Russia is not imperialistic"🤡 - and then the most famous Ukrainian chef cannot open a restaurant of the most famous Ukrainian cultural food in Japan, because Japanese widely consider borscht a Russian dish and so would avoid the restaurant thinking it to be Russian🫤🫤🫤🤯🤯🤯
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Guillermo del Toro goes Japan to promote his film, Pacific Rim.
In an earlier press conference in Japan, they asked him what places he'd like to visit and he said one of them is Nakano Broadway.
So the host brought him to Nakano Broadway, it's an alternative to Akihabara, where all things Otaku are.
Out of all the Tokusatsu Monsters available in the shop, the host ask him to pick one, which is his favourite of them all.
He had a hard time choosing. As much as he love Godzilla, he eventually picked Red King in the end.
He explained how Tokusatsu films played a big part in his childhood and they influenced his films like Pacific Rim and Hellboy.
It gets more wholesome when they get Alien Baltan, one of his favourite monsters to show up!
Bless this man for not being afraid of show his inner child to the world and never lost that childhood curiosity and innocence.
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Vivienne Westwood for Kera Magazine (2004)
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