Tusks Family Blog: Archive

1920’s Jell-O advertisement, featuring fitness icon Jell-O Girl.

Dec 31st

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We were supposed to give the kittens flea goop

the other night, but when we remembered they were in the middle of bathing each other. So I thought “I will wait until they finish licking each other’s necks.” But the neck-licking continued for like two hours, and finally I had to go to bed. They got their medicine the next day.

Dec 31st

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Dec 28th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

Takashi Murakami at the Palace of Versailles →

Dec 17th

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Dec 16th

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“A fine sixteenth-century Hungarian description of a whole ox, stuffed and spit-roasted over a wood fire built underneath it, comes from George Lang. The ox was prepared with the head, horns, and feet left on; these were covered in wet rags to protect them from the fire and the feet were tucked up and secured to the shoulder blades. The stuffing consisted of a quail larded with bacon and...

Dec 16th

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“According to Lord George Senger, who saw what he believed to be the last exhibition of a live pig-faced lady [around 1837]…. the pig was really a fine brown bear. The paws and face were kept closely shaved and the white skin under the fur resembled that of a human being. Over the paws were fitted white gloves, with well-stuffed fingers, sos that the pig-faced lady seemed to have nice...

Dec 10th

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Dec 9th

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Watch

Make Love in This Anime Cosplay Club by Channing Kennedy The ending is so good.

Dec 9th

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“In actuality what makes you older is when your bones, muscles, and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.” -Richard Brautigan, The Tokyo-Montana Express

Dec 9th

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Dec 8th

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The Battle for Christmas

This is one of my favorite books ever. Did you know that Christmas presents were invented as an attempt to prevent the horrible violence that had been the Christmas tradition? Did you know that Puritans banned all Christmas celebrations? Did you know that rich people used to buy a huge feast for homeless children and then make them eat it on stage so they could watch the resulting food fights?...

Dec 7th

I am going to pet a reindeer and ride a carriage... →

And then maybe at some point I’ll work on my finals and do the laundry, too. ;_;

Dec 5th

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