I <3 old octopi. And squid. And tentacles.

#tentacles #animatedGIFs

It's Friday and my mind is not on my work.

#fishbowllife

Kraftwerk 3D, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals & more for Longitude Festival in Marlay Park

MCD today have announced the lineup to their new July festival in Marlay Park on the outskirts of Dublin from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st of July. The crossover festival to the UK Latitude festival the debut lineup features:

Kraftwerk (3D set), Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Foals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Villagers, Hot Chip, Modest Mouse, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Jake Bugg, SBTRKT DJ set, Paul Kalkbrenner, Mark Lanegan, Local Natives, Django Django, Jessie Ware, Alunageorge, Flume, The Cast Of Cheers, Trentemøller, Kodaline, Mmoths, Tom Odell, Young Wonder, MØ, Mikhael Paskalev, S O H N, Petite Noir, Half Moon Run, Vondelpark and Stealing Sheep.

Kraftwerk’s Computer World has been on my personal rotation for decades. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by (of course) Phoenix has earned its rightful spot. And I couldn’t live without the tracks from Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs’ Fever to Tell.

Now only if I lived in Dublin and had €129.50 plus fees. Obligatory official site link.

#music #kraftwerk

I don’t take no prisoners and I don’t take no shit.

#photos #animalkingdom

“I am an ally” — don’t know where this came from but I <3 it.

I am not gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, intersex or asexual.

I just support this crazy thought that everyone should have equal rights.

Have a gay day.

#justice

Dead daises in the snow. I should’ve cut them last Fall but alas, there’s only so much time in the season.

#photos #flowers

This is Winter in Illinois. I’m just about done with 30°F temps and gray overcast skies.

#photos #weather

Did a Secret Vatican Report on Gay Sex and Blackmail Bring Down the Pope?

Pope Benedict XVI has claimed that he’s resigning the papacy next week because of old age. But according to the major Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the real reason he resigned is because he did not want to deal the repercussions of a secret 300-page Vatican dossier that allegedly found, among other things, an underground network of high-ranking gay clergy, complete with sex parties and shady dealings with the already scandal-ridden Vatican bank. Here’s what we know:

The report sounds menacing. According to La Repubblica, the dossier comes in two volumes, “two folders hard-bound in red” with the header “pontifical secret.”

Pope Benedict asked for the investigation. “The paper said the pope had taken the decision on 17 December that he was going to resign — the day he received a dossier compiled by three cardinals delegated to look into the so-called ‘Vatileaks’ affair,” according to the The Guardian’s translation of the report.

The Vatican has a Velvet Mafia — and the Velvet Mafia is being blackmailed. The dossier alleges that a gay lobby exists within the Church, and has some sort of control on the careers of those in the Vatican. The dossier also alleges that this group isn’t as covert as it thinks — and got blackmailed by people on the outside. “The cardinals were said to have uncovered an underground gay network, whose members organise sexual meetings in several venues in Rome and Vatican City, leaving them prone to blackmail,” reads The Sydney Morning Herald’s translation of the report.

I think they meant two folders hard-bound in red leather and handcuffs.

#religion

It grew under water from an egg. She also needed to put it back in the water after a day or so, s/he was getting dried out and starting to shrink again.

#photos #science #maggie

I just ate eight pieces of pizza. I'm a stuffed hog and also like homonyms.

#foodies