musings of a normal boy

centuriespast:

Fountain of the Four Rivers

Title Variant:

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi

Date:

ca. 1651 CE

Image View Description:

Detail: Snake facing east

Creator:

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo

Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History, Columbia University

Biologists would have you call this thing an Armadillo-Girdled Lizard, Cordylus cataphractus, but I won’t be fooled. This is clearly a baby dragon. They also have this adorable habit of biting their own tails for no discernible reason. Which is adorable until you remember what the ouroboros is, and inevitably conclude that these things are also dark magic.

Magical dragons. It all makes sense.

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channelate:

Bonus Panel.

nprfreshair:

Mel Brooks tells David Bianculli about turning down the Kennedy Center Honor the first time he was offered it:

I shouldn’t say this … but I’ll say it anyway. I was offered this — the Kennedy Center Honors — maybe a year or two before and I said, ‘Well, I’m going to wait for another president if I’m still alive if you don’t mind.’ I just didn’t feel comfortable when Bush was president to accept the honors. … Had I not gotten 110 awards, you know, I’m an EGOT so I don’t need any more. … The Kennedy Center Honors at the moment, I didn’t need them. … The only award I haven’t received, I think, is Woman of the Year and I don’t know if that’s not in the works just as an honorary Woman of the Year. I may get that too, but I’m not looking for it.

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blood-splattered-satisfaction:

bandsandfur:

THIS IS SO CUTE

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50you50me:

An adorable desert fox walking against the wind in Morocco. 

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