Effin' Effable

lookslikegelfling: hahahahahaha I laughed. Sorry, I’ll...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:20:27 -0600

hahahahahaha

I laughed. Sorry, I’ll never be a grown up.

“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:10:54 -0600

“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.
So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”

I saw her — boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.

I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.

And then all of the sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.

Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”

That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

callmekitto: YOU CAN’T CATCH ME GAY THOUGHTS shit dead end

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:02:33 -0600

callmekitto:

YOU CAN’T CATCH ME GAY THOUGHTS shit dead end

vintagegal: Affectionate gals c.1946

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:10 -0600

vintagegal:

Affectionate gals c.1946

foxmouth: Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Trails, 2013by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:32:05 -0600

foxmouth:

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Trails, 2013
by Danielle Hughson

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Wed, 22 May 2013 00:21:38 -0600

westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:10:16 -0600

westeros’s celebs read mean tweets (ps: all tweets are real)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 00:02:51 -0600

Tumble into Peeka: Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:16 -0600

Tumble into Peeka: Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent:

mentalflossr:

Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.

1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
You…

duedlyfirearms: MISANDRY

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:57:26 -0600

duedlyfirearms:

MISANDRY

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Sun, 19 May 2013 00:50:41 -0600

Take that cigarette out of your mouth and I’ll take you...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:49:50 -0600

Take that cigarette out of your mouth and I’ll take you home. Karl won’t mind. I mean, you’re Danny Zucco!

AH BATS I LOVE BATS

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:50:04 -0600

AH BATS I LOVE BATS

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Sat, 18 May 2013 02:49:42 -0600

Doing it right.

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:48:49 -0600

Doing it right.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:42:52 -0600

blua:

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Fri, 17 May 2013 17:37:49 -0600

Me.

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:35:09 -0600

Me.

oftheforest: grimsperation: Michele Caragher Embroidered...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:13 -0600

oftheforest:

grimsperation:

Michele Caragher

Embroidered details in Game of Thrones

‘Michele Carragher is a London-based Hand Embroiderer and Illustrator who has been working in costume on film and television productions for over 15 years. She studied Fashion Design at The London College of Fashion, where the course incorporated design, pattern cutting, garment construction, embroidery, millinery and illustration. At the same time she attended a three year evening course in Saddlery at Cordwainers College learning skills in leatherwork.

After leaving college Michele worked in Textile Conservation, repairing and restoring historical textiles for private collectors and museums, specialising in hand embroidery. She then moved into a career in costume for film and television, initially working as a Costume Assistant/Maker on productions such as the BBC’s Our Mutual Friend, ITV’s David Copperfield and Mansfield Park. She soon gravitated towards the decoration and embellishment of costumes, using skills in hand embroidery and surface decoration, taking inspiration from the many historical textiles she had encountered working as a Textile Conservator.

The first production that saw her undertake the role of a Principal Costume Embroiderer was for HBO’s 2005 Emmy Costume award-winning production of Elizabeth 1. Her most recent work has been on HBO’s 2012 Costume award-winning television series Game of Thrones, working on all three seasons.

As a Costume Embroiderer Michele specialises in hand embroidery and surface embellishment, using traditional hand embroidery techniques, smocking, beading and surface decoration. She works directly onto the completed garment or starts with motifs and textures on silk crepeline/organza, which are applied to the costume and then worked into once on the actual garment. She also works on existing machine embroidery designs that are not too dense, adding some hand stitching and beading to give a more authentic, hand-finished look.

Michele finds hand embroidery has more flexibility and diversity than that of embroidery created by machine, as there is a greater variety of thread choice and colours to use. It is also possible to work more easily on garments that are already constructed. However, machine embroidery in combination with hand work can be very useful when completing many repeats by creating light outlines or a less dense machine stitch, work can then be completed by hand and again can be carried out on a finished garment.

Michele is a highly creative Costume Embroiderer, producing original designs as well as working closely to a costume designer’s brief to create their desired look.’

Text and images from http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com

God, that embroidery is so gorgeous! I had no idea that third dress was so detailed after seeing it on the show… Amazing work.

oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:45:53 -0600

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live