We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.
(On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)
This. Read this. Then read it again. Then if you have a daughter apply it to her…If a little green hair can lead to her being comfortable with herself her entire life without anyone else having to cosign it, help her pick what shade of green.
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Show Notes
Umm, it’s all nonsense this week although here is a funny looking bloke doing yoga,
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Wow. Nine plays, after mine. I guess the Kardashian dropping worked its nominal charm. But you do exhibit here a worryingly natural Yoga voice. I’d watch that if I were you.
Jack Flash Rabbit
Before they were famous #2332
In The Engineer of 1901 is a picture (by their ‘house’ artist) of the Russian Battleship known as the Kniaz Potemkin Tavritchesky.(or Князь Потёмкин Таврический, if you’re into Cyrillic). This is four years before the 1905 uprising. The craft was launched only a year before this picture.
No Superman
If CDs were old tech
Out the Window
I wonder who will recognise this scene and the film it’s from.
There’s another film I remember from wayback. It was set somewhere in Central America (or maybe even South) and at the end of the film the villain fell off a mountain. The hero, when asked, uttered the line which has stayed with me all my life - Gravity got’m.
On the Fourth of July, 1775
Taken from the book Local records; or, Historical register of remarkable events, effectively a blog from 1828 by one Mr John Sykes of Newcastle upon Tyne. One of those there old books scanned and epubbed by google.
The workmen employed in taking down the ruins of Tyne-bridge, at Newcastle, found in the east corner of the pillar on which the tower on the bridge stood, the bones of a human skeleton.* And about eighteen inches lower was discovered a stone coffin, about six feet three inches in length, entirely empty. There was no inscription upon it. There were on this bridge, besides many houses and shops, three towers or gates, each formerly having had a portcullis: — one at the north end, called theMagazine-gate; a second, called theTower on the bridge; and the third, at the south end, in Gateshead. Near this last had been a draw-bridge. The Magazine-gate had been pulled down a short time before the fall of the bridge to widen its north entrance. On the front of the tower adjoining Gateshead, were the arms, cut in stone, of Nathaniel Lord Crewe, bishop of Durham. This stone was preserved by the late Hugh Hornby, esq., alderman of Newcastle, and placed in his garden wall, in Pilgrim-street.
The tower on the bridge was a place of temporary confinement for disorderly persons. There was a stone with the town’s arms on it, placed on the south front, with the motto Ffortiter defendit triumphans, 1646. This stone was also preserved by Alderman Hornby, and placed in his garden-wall. The house and garden is now the property of Anthony Clapham, esq., who has paid every attention to the preservation of these relics of the old bridge; having built upon the garden ground, the stones are placed in the wall over two office doors. The above cut is taken from an original drawing, in the possession of Miss Hornby, daughter of the late Alderman Hornby.
* there appears to have been a hermitage on Tyne bridge, could this have been the skeleton of an anchorite who had been buried in his cell?
What happens next?
No way anybody could know.
The geishas’ now obsolete custom of Ohaguro; dyeing their teeth black. A maiko (geisha in training) would dye her teeth black before becoming a full fledged geisha as it was thought that black teeth emphasized the white in their skin and red in their lips.
I have two questions.
First, is it nothing at all to do with the idea, in Japan, that the colour black is - in theatricals (e.g. kabuki) at least - regarded as invisible? I.e. that a geisha had either no teeth or invisible ones?
Second, the geisha was originally a male rôle (taikomochi) and it was only during the 18th century that women started to overtake men. Did the taikomochi also do this ohaguro, or did it arrive with the women?
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