Bourgeois Art Gallery

The Google Art Project is a beautiful thing.  It lets you explore the collections of some of the world's finest museums, as well as a lot of obscure ones, all in high-definition.  I thought I'd start a new series sharing some of the stuff I've come across.  Here's the first one.  (My only complaint: they don't let you save the images, so I have to link directly to the artworks.)

Statuettes of High Priest Amenhotep and Priestess Renai

Two Pups

The Threatened Swan

Padmasambhava


Manuscript Page of Vajrapani and Manjushri


Vaishravana, Guardian King of the North


Saber and Scabbard

Indigo-Blue Sake Ewer

Rye

The Rape of Europa


Snow Fields


Washington Sea Eagle

Fall in the Foothills

Evening Tones

Tugra

Levha

Skimpy Sunday

(Via Roids and Rants [NSFW]; Bill in Exile [NSFW]; Overnight to London [NSFW])

Crossing My Legs and Wincing

SLUG SEX, THEN SEVER! 

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, WRONG!

How we misinterpret Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Fellow Travelers

It's amazing how much we depend on other organisms for the continued functioning of our bodies. 

Triumph

Thumbs up and laurel wreaths to Adrian Murdoch for completing the Emperors of Rome series!  An awesome undertaking, but one he did with both erudition and concision.  Plowing through all those Barracks Emperors alone is worthy of ovation, not to mention hacking through the thickets of usurpers.  And, yes, one could cry foul that he's contained himself to the Western Empire, or that each usurper didn't get their own episode, but we'd be here all decade, and one has to draw lines somewhere. 

If you haven't followed along, go back and watch all the episodes.  Even committed Romanophiles will learn something, especially about all those obscure emperors.

Makin' It Through The Day

I'm not sure what I'd do without a daily dose of Cute Overload. 

Memorial Day Salute To The Troops

(Via Bits of the Memory [NSFW]; Bill in Exile [NSFW])

Skimpy Sunday

(Via Aatombomb; Bill in Exile [NSFW]; Bits of the Memory [NSFW])

This Is What Happens When A Zebra Tries To Change Its Stripes

Continuing my fascination with animals of unusual pigmentation: a zebra of a different color.

(Via Towleroad)

Hey Nerd, Don't Be An Asshole!

Through some lucky quirk of fate, my contact with fellow geeks and nerds, even on the Internet, has almost always been positive and generally pleasant.  I've never had the misfortune to much come in contact with the nerd-rage, entitled fan cesspool that gathers in some quarters.  Heck, most of my nerd-friends have been girls!  But I am aware (especially via the rantings of Dorian), and saddened by, this contingent, even if I know they're only one facet of the larger community, and also that every group has assholes.  So this article meets with my most enthusiastic and hearty approval.  Nerds shouldn't be close-minded jerks!  What a concept!

Skimpy Sunday

(Via Bill in Exile [NSFW]; Roids and Rants [NSFW])

The 2012 Mayan Apocalypse...

...does not exist.  Again, some more.

Ancient Aliens

My typical reaction to watching fifteen minutes (my upper limit) of Ancient Aliens is a random series of jaw-droppings, eyebrow-raisings, and eye-poppings.  Thankfully, someone else has managed to pretty much sum it up, in coherent (and hilarious) form. 

Skimpy Sunday

Pay Attention, Straight Boys!

The G-spot is real, and you have to pay attention to it! 

No One Tell Ahab!

In keeping with Bourgeois Nerd's long fascination with unusually white animals, here is a white orca!

(via The Hairpin)

Skimpy Sunday

  

(Via Roids and Rants [NSFW]; Bill in Exile [NSFW])

I Just Can't Get Them Out Of My Head

I am a martyr to earworms.  Sundays have the Game of Thrones theme (best theme ever?  y/y?); Monday has RuPaul's songs du season (this season "Glamazon" and "The Beginning"); the rest of the week can be anything from Kate Bush to wrestler YouTube channel theme songs.  I can't get no relief!

Porn With STYLE

Copy-editing porn: someone's gotta do it!