neuroticpantomime:

friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt:

tilthat:

TIL the world’s oldest beer advertisement was on a Mesopotamian Stone Tablet dated approximately 4000 BC. It read “Drink Elba, the beer with the heart of a lion” and was accompanied by a “large breasted woman holding goblets of beer in each hand”

via ift.tt

I mean in that time and place, it was mostly women in charge of beer production, sale, and profit right? Maybe that large-breasted woman was the brewster herself! ¯_(ツ)_/ ¯

Having followed the links, it turns out to be more like “anthropologist known as ‘The Indiana Jones of Beer’ claimed to have found this tablet but no photos or evidence are extant…”

My good sir Editor, I have found of Late within myself a feeling, as of the flitting of a Sparrow or Butterfly of some description, that fell upon me as I did cohabit a House with several Poets, Writers and similar queer Folk. Even as the good Mrs Shelley did entomb herself in her Room, claiming that it was for her Writing, although we all know it was to avoid the lewd Talk of the Lord Byron, I found myself transfixed by the very Flesh beneath his Clothes. Indeed, I long for his Arse. Thoughts?

georgiansuggestion:

Gentle Reader–

It has been Some Days Since I read this Letter, and I fear I cannot in Good Conscience or with Any Degree of Sincerity offer Counsel to you, as the Breadth of your Circumstances are Simply too Fantastic to be believed! How can you Nonchalantly declare you are in the Company of that Notorious Lord and his Rebellious Companions, and that you are Enthralled by his Charismatic Presence? Is this Dr. Polidori?

Yours &tc.,

The Editor

diaphanee:

Archaeoacoustics

Aaron Watson’s sonic experiments inside megalithic structures from the British Neolithic suggest that their design incorporated elements that caused sound to behave in unsual ways, and that altered states of consciousness, even trance, could be induced through drumming and other percussive practices.
In Orkney, at the massive stone block of the Dwarfie Stane, which has chambers and passages that were hewn out of the solid rock in Neolithic times, they encountered another odd phenomenon: when they set up a resonant frequency inside the chamber using their voices, they found that the massive stone block and the air within it appeared to shake vigorously. The vibration was also evident to people standing outside on top of the tomb.

(Ph: David Anderson)
(Text: Archaeology of Shamanism, Neil Price)

The vibration was also evident to people standing outside on top of the tomb.

“Dammit, the barrow-wights are partying again.”