Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis.

I will update if I am able to find info on the photographer responsible for this remarkable and sobering image. 

UPDATE: This image was taken and posted by reddit user dudleydrone. 

My doggo, Ezri, who rarely barks and mostly borks.

When I got her, she’d been abused and would cower and pee at almost everything, and had been mistreated when she’d barked, so she never would. One day months after I had her she got excited on a walk and borked at a bird, and then immediately cower-peed. I had to re-teach her to bark by gathering her whole human pack and having everyone bark and howl and feed her treats and pet her till she got excited enough to join in, and then got more treats. Took a while but I was able to teach her to bork on command (and she’s gotta be excited or she just stares at me like “Sorry, the bork system needs charging”) and she’ll do it happily when she’s excited to go for a walk or upon seeing a friend, and at birds. I love her croaky borking, especially when she started off terrified of making a joyful noise.

What kind of dog is Ezri? I love her!!

I… did not expect this post to blow up this much but I am delighted at all the tags and replies and Ezri has been told the internet thinks she’s a Very Good Dog. :D

She’s a German spitz - in the same family as keeshonds and pomeranians. She might be crossed with something else as her freckled coat, non-pointy nose, and personality are not standard for her breed (they’re usually a lot more high energy and excitable - she’s super laid back and chill). She’s a bit less fluffy than breed-standard too, mostly because she’s grown out from her spring/summer trim (not usually necessary/good for her type of coat but she gets terribly itchy otherwise). It also makes her look like a puppy of a large breed:

Ezri’s best friend is Murder Cat, who is a gentle friend to humans and Ezri, but does things to mice that would make Hannibal Lecter go “Isn’t that a bit much?”

I got Murder Cat as a kitten, and she used to try to nurse on everything when she was small. Eventually, she settled on her favourite thing to nurse on, Ezri, who has never had puppies and a little confused at first but eventually went with it. She grew out of it, but they have stayed snuggly buddies ever since.

New Years here is full of fireworks outside and Ezri gets Vry Scared. I usually set her up somewhere with a snuggly spot right by me, and Murder Cat comes and does this all night: 

She goes everywhere with me in my bakfiets (cargo bike) and lets me warm my hands in her fur on cold days.

And her ears disappear if I say her name to get her attention.

ok so great thanks for coming to my TED talk about my dog, good night, drive safe

I would die for her. She is precious.

pretty sure this silent film was robbed of an Oscar

“A sleepy Arctic Fox yawning in Svalbard Norway”

(via)

Oh to be a sleepy fox yawning in a Norwegian field

more than you ever wanted to read about the difference between Panic!’s two 2006 national headlining tours:

so I’ve been seeing posts & videos that seem to combine the summer 2006 tour with the arena tour at the end of the year as though they’re the same thing. They were for the same album but had totally different costumes, makeup, stage design (and size), dancers, support bands, scripts, and… well they were just completely different productions. You get it. 

These tours were both iconic works of freaking art & deserve some major individual appreciation so let me just break them down and we can get nostalgic about something we’ll never ever see….

JUNE & JULY 2006:

Their first national headlining tour (not an arena tour) was in June & July 2006 when Spencer was 18, Ryan & Brendon were 19, and Jon was 20.

The stage had the giant moon and Moulin-Rouge-type windmill since they were hugely inspired by that movie & soundtrack. The band filmed their show in Denver and then turned it into the Live in Denver dvd for the AFYCSO box set that had the same “1920s Moulin Rouge” theme as this tour. (x) 

Panic! did a costume change halfway through each show so the main outfits for this summer were:

Jon also had a random blue shirt for the first half of some shows, but for the most part this summer followed a red/white/black theme with some GORGEOUS floral detail going on in some pieces. Brendon also had that amazing black coat with gold buttons to go with the shirt on the left:

Right after this tour the band went back to a simplified all-black or black & white look with the occasional blazers, so these costumes were mostly for that summer (except the rose vest showed up on their fall European tour). The ryhawk disappeared by the end of August, though.

Panic! had used the Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque (their name at the time) for the I Write Sins Not Tragedies video and then brought them along for this summer tour:

And then the opening bands for most of this tour were The Hush Sound & The Dresden Dolls but Ok Go and some other bands were there for a bit too.

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2006:

During their 2006 fall European tour Ryan said that their next national tour at the end of the year was “going to be our biggest tour we’ve ever done. We’re planning a lot of production on that tour. We have a drum riser that’s gonna be like 8 feet tall and look like a carousel… and then we got like 6 performers coming out… It’s just gonna be a big show and something we haven’t seen a band do.” (x)

The Nothing Rhymes With Circus tour was a Very Big Deal™ and is the one that Rolling Stone shadowed the guys during for their 2007 cover article. This was Panic!’s first headlining arena tour and went for most of November & early December. Brendon and Spencer were 19, Ryan was 20, and Jon was 21.

So this theatrical tour is where we get several versions of the puppet makeup & incredible costumes styled by Anthony Franco:

The band brought in a few elements from other tours (like their light-up name, white piano, and Brendon’s choreography in There’s A Good Reason), but most stuff was completely different. The much bigger stage was like a massive circus tent with Spencer, Eric, and Bartram up on risers:

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— ophelia in paintings: moodboard

petting zoos are pretty fucking tight is it normal for a 21 year old to go to a petting zoo.

is it normal for a man to love? to cherish and to yearn? you tell me

*slams fist down on a beautifully crafted oak desk*

Joe Biden’s campaign registered the domain “berniesander.com” and had it redirect to a donation page where you have to scroll up to see that you are donating to Biden. real scumbag shit

This is legit though I just checked it what assholes

it really is so so fuckin funny that padme died of just a broken heart while hooked up to 6 billion high tech medical instruments 

general grievous is basically two charred muscle cells rescued from a dead body and reconstructed into a whole ass biomechanical monster but we can’t keep miz amidala from being diagnosed with Terminal Sad,

I be like “communication is key ” then ignore everyone

"What! What are you- [laughs] Stupid, give it back! [laughs some more] Let it go!"

Yee-claw!

Are there gay bugs?

he performed this when he came to my school and that shit was funny as fuck especially because a lot of the audience was LGBT ppl and we like Got It he’s so ridiculous

I’m sorry but Bruce Wayne and Harleen quinzel being in the same med school and they’re friends but no one (not even themselves) are sure how they get along

Batman being forced to solve a case with Harley Quinn : You’re my punishment for dropping out of med school

Harley Quinn making the connection between this edgy goth man bat and the edgy goth med student who she suffered all nighters with:

It’s even funnier the thought of them becoming unlikely friends again and teaming up for missions.

Super man: why is a convicted criminal just sitting in your living room?

Harley, sipping her tea: I was actually invited you jealous whore

bruce: ...it’s movie night. or at least it was going to be until your uncle zod decided to bring down the wrath of krypton, clark. get him a new hobby that doesn’t involve leveling cities

Harley: hey Brucie!

The rest of justice league that are only allowed to refer to him as Batman:

The cat’s name is basically Maya Cream-nose thats so adorable!!!

thinking about that picture of miles morales holding a baby. its very good

this. this is very nice

Glacier National Park