Welcome to the whale fall!

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

Top row: unused early trick animations for Peach and Daisy found in the files of Mario Kart Wii.

Bottom row: in the finished version of the game, they were replaced with these animations.

so there's this old cartoonist i like, WK Haselden right? bit of a born curmudgeon, if you've ever seen those old vintage comics that are like "damn these modern women things used to be better in the 80s! the 1880s that is!!!" thats usually a haselden, maud of the 80s vs gladys of today etc

im forever FASCINATED at all the slice o life satire cartoons he does bc there's like, the regular shit to be grumpy (flappers driving cars, ladies hats are too big etc) about but there's also comics of fads that i could not BEGIN to fathom what it woulda been like to live through them through the eyes of this one dude like

?? was there a live meat/game meat trend in 1906??

this one's captioned "bull fighting up to date" like ????? was there a safety craze amongst bullfighters in '06???

i... i guess this one's mocking vaudeville??? like variety acts where you do a bunch of wild bullshit whilst playing an instrument perhaps?? tf was up in 1921??

man i didnt realize ping pong was such a thing of contention in..... 1922??

what the fuck was happening with elopement this year:

bitch you live like this??? 1915 edition. i do like that egg fellow in the corner though

man can't believe we've been making the pride and prejudice and zombies joke this whole time, this one's called "why not a crook drama harlequinade"

yknow you're right they SHOULD breed horses like harvestmen what were we thinking. not sure whats happening with that milk diet tho.

"Needy, unable to cope" (<- you try coping with chronic pain)

"Comfort seeking" (<- you mean.. having a preference for not being in pain.. how criminal)

"Using or trying to obtain drugs on a long-term, chronic base" (<- do you understand what 'chronic pain' means.)

"Asking for pain med then returning to sleep."

"States he’s level 10 pain, but does not appear to be in pain (or ‘5= on appearance)." (<- it is well-known that chronic pain patients tend not to display pain in the same way as acute pain patients)

"Dramatic response to pain" (<- notice how this directly contradicts the comment above. you cannot win)

"Gets IV med, then leaves unit to smoke or walk around" (<- wow requiring medication and then going off to do something you needed pain meds to be able to do is so suspicious)

dentist: i'm going to prescribe you antibiotics. you'll take them every 8 hours for 5 days.

me: ok

*later*

dentist, typing up prescription on the puter: so how often are you going to take these?

me: every... 8 hours?

dentist: and for how long?

me: .......5 days?

dentist: good! ^_^

not sure why i rewrote the copy on the men’s clothing section of the uniqlo website, but i did it. the words are different now.

and here’s one that didn’t fit in the photo set: