Comparison of sea urchin with Chumash rock art figure. Ever since reading Guthrie’s “The Nature of Paleolithic Art,” an ecological explanation of rock art forms is, for me, never too far from the visionary or shamanic—nor must the two be mutually exclusive. Foraging societies are steeped in natural history (and corresponding myths of “when the animals were people”). I know the Chumash spent much of their 13,000 year-long history eating a diet dominated by shellfish, urchins included, and that, ala Levi-Strauss, “what’s good to eat is good to think.” Note the circle within a circle in the figure’s chest, which resembles the “nested” appearance of the sea urchin’s mouth, as do the figure’s expanding “arms” and “legs” with the urchin’s shell pattern. Finally, consider the Chumash’s association of the sun with the sand dollar and its patterns. Their art, like their thinking, was probably homologous.
[UPDATE: Archeologist Al Knight has since directed me to Hoskinson’s 1983 article “Sand Dollars, Sea Urchins, and Chumash Rock Art.” So there is a connection.]
The Reptile House
Hello, darling.
If you go up one flight of stairs and realize there are four more flights to go and there is no escalator here, the escalator was on the other side of the subway platform… don’t be too proud to go back one flight of stairs and take the escalator. Don’t try to pretend you meant to go up all those stairs.
(Source: icanread, via organictea)
teachimera said:
Meanwhile teachimera hair is either fluffy or SUPER FLUFFY (or mohawk if I just got out of bed)
I LOVE when your hair gets superfluffy. :3 Also it gets spiky when you’ve just had it cut.
The Man Who Lives Alone
My Intro to Comics final about ghosts and love.
CHASE CHASE CHASE IS AWESOME
Oh. Oh, god.
The bizarre nose of the Moose/Eurasian Elk (Alces alces). It isn’t known what all of this novel anatomy does, but it is probably involved with nostril closure.
Clifford, A. & Witmer, L. (2004) Case studies in novel narial anatomy: 2. The enigmatic nose of moose (Artiodactyla: Cervidae: Alces alces). J. Zool., Lond. 262, 339–360.
I always wondered about those nostrils!
August chub rub
life :/
fucking summer is upon us, the season of sweaty chub rub, how many pairs of pants will my thighs render inappropriate for the office, i have a zit on my inner thigh already and it HURTS SO BAD.
Deodorant on the inner things changed my lyfe! Fuk chaffin
+baby powder and cornstarch
Better than any of this - I use monistat chafing cream which is $5 which can add up but HOLY FUCK a dime amount on each thigh lasts all day
i have scabs. already
TMI but whatever nobody knows about my tumblr but people I am okay being imperfect in front of. THANK YOU TUMBLR FOR AFFIRMING THAT THIS IS NOT A STUPID SHAMEFUL THING, even though I am weirdly stupidly ashamed of it. Sometimes, body issues. :c
I love dresses and skirts! I have many, and I keep getting more. They are kind of freeing and cool for warm weather, except for the whole thing where if I do not have a buffer between my thighs they become awful. I own spanx not for their slimming/smoothing properties, but entirely to keep my own fucking legs from wearing holes into each other. Do you know what is not freeing and cool? A pair of spanx. Tights and hose are also awesome, but also not particularly freeing, as my tushie is vast like mountain, and finding ones that just…fit is a rare thing.
I’ve often thought that I should just get some lighter bicycle shorts, but I will also try some of these other ideas IT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME THAT THEY WOULD JUST. MAKE PRODUCTS FOR THIS.
Deodorant on thighs: I have not tried this but might, just to see how it goes.
Monistat anti-chafing cream: Not a miracle, but still pretty effective; like a good 85% relief. A really good option.
Cutting a pair of leggings into a pair of bike shorts for under my dresses: my no-shame this-is-a-thing-I-do-as-plan-A-mosta-the-time solution.
How to piss off every New Yorker in 36 seconds
So much truth to this.
(Source: youtube.com, via katzmatt)
So Tuesdays are my Mondays, which means I came to work to a looong to-do list. I did find time to snap a quick pic of this ostrich neck + skull before it heads out - a nice young man bought him last week!
I always get really excited when a customer clearly loves what they’re buying. It’s a nice feeling to know that some bones are going to a good home, if that makes sense. A little overly sentimental, perhaps, but that’s just the sort of person I am.
It’s okay, no worries. That’s what I get for reblogging without checking! I deleted it from my tumblr, and I hope anyone who reblogged it from me sees this and is able to correct themselves as well.
Sorry, guys! I try to be a font of reliable scientific info, but we are all fallible, and sometimes even the most skeptical of minds is led astray by pretty graphics.
This morning, Boyfriend was able to lure me back into bed by shaking his booty at me even though I had other morning-things to do before work. I feel that provides some answer to your question.
