Corndog with a mustache

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Most accounts indicate that [Mary the Elephant] calmed down after [smashing the head of an assistant] and didn’t charge the onlookers, who began chanting, “Kill the elephant!” Apparently within minutes, a local blacksmith tried to kill Mary, firing more than two dozen rounds with little effect […] The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the potentially ruinous situation was to kill the elephant in public. On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, she was transported by rail to Erwin, Tennessee where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town’s children) assembled in the Clinchfield railroad yard.

The elephant was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane. The first attempt resulted in a snapped chain, causing Mary to fall and break her hip as dozens of children fled in terror. The severely wounded elephant died during a second attempt and was buried beside the tracks

This only confirms my suspicion that states without coastline are just batsh*t crazy. There’s just something about being landlocked that violates any assemblence of sanity in the human condition. That’s my theory, anyway.

(Okay, I realize this happened almost 100 years ago. Still, bizarre, right?)

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officiallyrad:

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Found this last night, and have decided it is the greatest image on earth.

Epic. I could watch this movie a thousand times.

Also, did you know he names the childlike empress ‘Moonchild?’ How lame is that?

I’m either going crazy, or my computer is. One of the two.

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deliberatepace:

The Self-Manufacture Of Megan Fox

Lynn Hirschberg, editor at large for the New York Times Magazine, interviewed Megan Fox over the course of a few weeks.  After reading this article, she seems more like a real person and less like a blow up doll.  Also, girl is kind of smart.  Who knew?

“People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she’s so serious and stoic,” Fox explained. “I’m the opposite. When I do interviews, I say things that I think are hysterical. But because we live in a world of sound bites, you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor. Sarcasm doesn’t translate in print at all. And neither does self-deprecating humor. I’m not a tigress like Angelina. Of course, people want me to be. But I want to be the contradiction of that.”

“If I had been a typical starlet and said all the right things, I wouldn’t have escalated to this level,” Fox explained. “I sit down and do an interview and I talk like a person and that, for some reason, is shocking. All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You’re sold, and it’s based on sex. That’s O.K., if you know how to use it.” Fox paused. “It’s been a crazy year. I’ve learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they’re going to tear you down. And I created a character as an offering for the sacrifice. I’m not willing to give my true self up. It’s a testament to my real personality that I would go so far as to make up another personality to give to the world. The reality is, I’m hidden amongst all the insanity. Nobody can find me.”

This is really out of the way of something I would normally reblog, but this is an extraordinarily fascinating delve into one starlet’s psychology. I’m not sure I’ve ever read such a detailed, thoughtful analysis of an individual in popular media.

Last post of the day. I swear.

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Star Trek— my (not so) secret weakness.

I apologize to all of my new followers who may have not figured out how big of a geek I am.

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adventuretime:

Adventure Time Press Art: The first piece of official Adventure Time press art from Cartoon Network.

Coming (for a full season) to a Cartoon Network near you in late 2010. I adore the short and can’t wait to see the full version. An early animatic just made it’s way onto the interblorgz a little while ago. Looks like the new stuff is gonna be just as random as the original.

Ah… nothing gets yah quite in the heart like a 12-year-old boy yelling ‘rhombus!’ to the background tunes of a Commodore 64. That’s not just me, right?

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Instant reblog for classic awesome. Also, I still can’t believe people actually thought this was real.

Although, they did go on to make a pair of shoes in honor of the movie.

So this is more than a little disturbing. I’ve always thought of Emma Watson as a truly classic beauty… but now I can only see her as a little mannish.

I wanted to make sure this wasn’t a shopped image, so I found the original photo, too. Looks about the same to me.