vimyvickers:

Songs and ballads concerning smuggling.
Cover image is a print by John Atkinson entitled “Smugglers”.

  • Schooner I’m Alone– Woods Tea Company
  • Valparaiso In A Rowboat– Shanghaied on the Willamette
  • Boston Smuggler– Martin Simpson
  • The Smuggler– Jess Arrowsmith
  • The Female Smuggler– Pete Castle
  • A Smuggler’s Song– Peter Bellamy
  • Acadian Saturday Night– Stan Rogers
  • Smuggling the Tin– Liam Weldon
  • The Poor Smuggler’s Boy– Angela Brasil
  • French Perfume– Great Big Sea
  • Smuggler– The McCalmans
  • Nellie J. Banks– Manchester Run

12 tracks; 42 mins. {Playmoss}

justnoodlefishthings:

Some Smithsonian National Zoo Zookeeper: hey guys, orangutans are primarily an arboreal species, we should give them a massive climbing trail throughout the zoo so they can climb like they would in the wild!
Smithsonian National Zoo Exec: excellent suggestion Zookeeper Smith the tourists will love it

*cut to a crowd of horrified tourists screaming in terror as the orangutans gleefully pee on the unsuspecting masses*

Smithsonian National Zoo Zookeeper: enrichment

exhibit opening: T – 1.5 hrs

I’m torn between assuming ‘everything is going to go great but no one will show up’, and ’everyone in the seattle museum community will show up but everything will go wrong’

so thursday night, before exhibit install started, I went climbing and ended up smacking my left knee and elbow on the wall as I fell, and then landing on and twisting that knee when I hit the mats

and then this morning, right outside the doors of the museum as I came in to do final touch-ups, I rolled my ankle on an uneven bit of pavement and wiped out in the middle of the street, catching myself, again, on my left knee and elbow

I gotta say, there’s nothing like making an entrance by requesting bandaids so you don’t start bleeding through your clothing and onto the exhibit panels

I just reached the bottom of a page in the book I was reading and automatically my thumb swiped upwards to scroll down and I experienced a moment of total disorientation and now I feel more millennial than I have ever felt in my life