Bangs and Fast Food

here is what you do:

go to an optical store and try on frames until you find one you like

look on the inside of the left arm for the model number. this will be an abbreviation for the brand plus a 4-digit number. for example, a sferoflex frame might be SF 4567 or a tory burch frame might be TY 2345. if you're having trouble finding it among all the info on the left arm, ask an employee what the frame's model number is.

google this model number. you will undoubtedly find it for MUCH cheaper online than it is available in the optical store. my store literally sells frames for $200 that can be found online for $60.

once the frame is shipped to you, you can bring it back to the optical store to get lenses put in.

this way you get to try it on before buying online, plus you can see all the colors it comes in! the catch about buying frames this way is you can't use insurance for them, so if you have vision insurance i recommend getting a quote in the optical store about how much the frames would cost with your insurance and compare that to the online price. if you (like me) don't have vision insurance, online is always the better option.

please don't let luxottica and its competitors scam you. my heart breaks every time i see someone buy a frame for triple or quadruple its real price. i just picked a $309 frame off the wall next to my desk, googled it, and found it for $119 online. that's almost $200 lining luxottica's pockets!!!

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

From left to right: 1795 Michał Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter Elżbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough

in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:

First Lesson by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 - 1931)

Un Coup De Main (The Helping Hand) by Émile Renouf (1845 – 1894)

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

Ignorance = Fear, 1989

I thought I might share one of my new tattoos. A couple years ago, a dear friend and I coined the term “fish bag moment”

A fish bag moment might be sitting all alone in an empty new apartment after coming out and upending your life, or starting a new job in a brand new line of work because it’s closer to your dreams

It’s what happens when you take a leap of faith or make a hard decision for yourself, when the future is so hard to visualize and everything feels scary. You’re just a fish in a bag and you can’t see where you’re going

Have you guys seen that clip