Angels
Month: February 2013
But the problem is that, for the great majority of people on our planet, historical films “based on fact” are becoming our history books. Whether it be Mel Gibson or Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln, or Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, taken together they substitute tedious print with a patchwork of spellbinding tales and dramatic images—a beguiling but often distorted or completely false vision of ourselves and our past.
Barry Lando (via azspot)
Folkvangr
In Norse mythology, Fólkvangr (“field of the host” or “people-field” or “army-field”) is a meadow or field ruled over by the goddess Freyja where half of those that die in combat go upon death, while the other half go to the god Odin in Valhalla.
Fólkvangr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. According to the Prose Edda, within Fólkvangr is Freyja’s hall Sessrúmnir.
So my husband had never heard that Loki mated with so many, um, beings….and was a little distressed by the rock thing. He was convinced that it went down like this: “Look, Loki must have been the first person to discover Viagra, and he was probably just sitting in the middle of a field like *adapts soft, throaty English accent*
“I….fucked….everything.“
”What am I supposed to fuck now?”“TELL MEEEEEEEEEE!”
THEN he sees a rock and thinks, “hm….well now, there’s something I hadn’t originally considered.”
*Cut to a few minutes later*
“no, no, my pet, I love you despite your moss….it gives you character.”
Loki is english now? Or is it one of those things like in american films, everyone foreign somehow has a prim english accent?
I think it’s a Hiddleston thing.
Except all those things in the private sector were innovations made in the public sector. DARPA, MIT, Bell Labs were all publicly funded, then the technology was given away for the private sector to make money on. The reason why the things for the public sector look so outdated is because of budgets. NASA, public schools? Fuck them. We have no money for people.
22. I am the Snake that Giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be Strong o man! Lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny for this.