Couple Taking Engagement Photos Encounters Black Metal Band In The Woods
John Awesome and Nydia Hernandez were having an engagement photoshoot with photographer Janet Wheeland in Holy Jim Canyon, California when they stumbled into an entirely different kind of shoot. Black metal band Coldvoid happened to be in the same woods shooting promo photos under the full moon, and the two groups decided to join forces.
“During the last part of the session, we noticed a few guys with some corpse paint makeup on sitting at a nearby bench blaring out some black metal music,” Awesome told ABC News. “We just randomly thought it would be a funny idea if we could get them to be a part of our engagement shoot. So we approached them and asked and they more than happy to accept! Super nice people. I seriously can’t make this stuff up.” X
{ As it turns out they are a pretty good Black Metal Band from Cali, check them out in the link to their Bandcamp}
I worked with toddlers and pre schoolers for three years. Sometimes I accidentally slip and tell a friend to say bye to an inanimate object (“say bye bus!”) & occasionally they unthinkingly just do it.
I’m glad there’s a teacher version of “accidentally called teacher ‘mom’”
when I worked at Medieval Times occasionally I would slip in real life and call people “my lord”
One time during family prayer, dad began: “our father who art in heaven, American Airlines, how can I help you?”
One time my dad went to the White Castle drive-thru and the lady (who was supposed to say ‘Welcome to White Castle, what’s your crave?’) asked, “Welcome to White Castle, what’s your problem?”
She apologized profusely while my dad proceeded to lose his shit laughing.
Yesterday I went to Wendy’s and the girl said “Welcome to McDonalds” and then just sighed
Somebody in the elevator asked me what floor I lived on, and I answered “please open your books to page eight”, and we just kind of stared at each other, blinking.
i work retail full time and my script gets frequently messy – ill ask the same question twice, or say “$2.60 is your total” while handing back their change, or say “how are you doing today?” instead of “have a good day!” like name it ive bungled it
but anyway, this lady came thru my line buying a book and the review on the front said: “few books are well written, fewer still are important, and this book manages to be both”
as i handed her the bag i was trying to say “thanks, youre all set” and instead my brain mashed up the review and i said “thanks, youre important”
there was this short pause in which i tried to figure out what the fuck id just said. she blinked and then said “oh thank you! youre important too!”
the real kicker was one of my coworkers. when i was relating this story later his response was “at least you said something NICE. last week i accidentally combined ‘youre welcome’ and ‘no problem’ into ‘youre a problem’”
one time, since I used to work as a daycare teacher with preschoolers, i was on my college campus in my gym, and someone was running in the weight room and tripped over a machine and fell, and instead of offering to help, I just stared and said, “This is why we use our walking feet.”
we both sat there for a while until the guy nodded and said, “yeah, okay, i should’ve done that.”
I used to work super early mornings stocking at A.C. Moore (5am, store doesn’t open till 9am) so my brain doesn’t always work when helping customers.
I help a lady and as I walk away I turn to tell her “If you have any questions, just ask” but it mixed with “it was no bother” and proceeded to tell her “If you have any questions don’t bother asking” I had to stop in my tracks and proceed to apologize as she started laughing at my confusion
mate it’s hard to explain mate it’s just like one day you’ll just be wif your mates having a look in jd and you might fancy curry club at the ‘Spoons but your lad Calum who’s an absolute ledge and the archbishop of banterbury will be like ‘brevs lets have a cheeky nandos instead.” and you’ll think “Top. Let’s smash it.”
people who discuss martin luther king jr as a successful example of anti-violence should know they’re part of a pretty vast propaganda campaign that’s existed since the late 70s to whitewash the history of the civil rights era. as soon as king took aim at desegregating northern cities, especially chicago, hate for him exploded. according to gallup, he was actually reviled by 1966, with two thirds of the country saying they had a negative perception of him. the major responses to his assassination mostly track with governor ronald reagan’s assessment of him, that he deserved his own death. it was common to see letters in newspapers and in senators’ offices that said things like “It is my firm belief, and [that] of all my neighbors, that King should be taken into custody. … Today, the insufferable arrogance of this character places him on a pedestal as a dark-skinned Hitler…. When greedy Mr. Hitler started taking over other countries, people at first thought ‘give him a little more, then he will be satisfied.’ Give greedy Mr. King a little more freedom then he will stop. Isn’t that what we are being told today?… Is the ultimate aim the same as the Soviet Union when all property was collectivized?“ (all from nixonland, rick perlstein). white public opinion even blamed him directly for the riots going on in american cities, as in this cartoon:
this in response to his disagreement with the war in vietnam and his effort to ensure those selling their houses couldn’t refuse to sell them to black people because they were black. king preached non-violence, and white people despised him for it.
I don’t get this post. People hated MLK, yes, and eventually murdered him. But he still won. The civil rights laws passed. How is that unsuccessful?
As a non-USian, I also don’t get it. At first they painted him as violent, then they portrayed him as a pacifist, and both times it was slander? What are you trying to say in this post, OP?
Not OP, might not say anything they agree with.
King had a particular strategy. They lied (type A) to discredit him, but his strategy still perserviered (I don’t say “won” because it’s not like racism stopped). Now they lie in the other way (type B), in order to discredit the movements they’re trying to lie (type A) about now. Because in juxtaposition when you push strategy in the direction of lie B, it makes the stuff in the same place look like they’re type A, when you don’t realize you’re on a spectrum.
Violence or non-violence is probably a false dichotomy, and a mixed strategy can be nuanced, contextual, and successful because it can potentially win through pathways locked out from one of the paths.
It’s like, if you say only yellow movements can win, and red only leads to ruin. Well you got this orange guy you can’t stand so you call him red so everyone abandons him and his movement fails. But he “wins”. So you recast him as yellow, because he has yellow features and only yellow wins, but in fact he was always orange, the ill-defined region between the two. And it’s really unfair to orange, because now orangists are called red by yellow, the same yellow plus a generation that stood against orange a generation ago. It’s just false because he was neither red nor yellow. And continuing to present the false dichotomy is bad, because it’s a strategy used by people dishonestly manipulating the playing field.
Like, the Dalai Lama is not a peacenik; he educates guerilla organizations in India for the ultimate purpose of taking Tibet back from the PRC. He’s not yellow, and weaponizing him against the Tibetan liberation movement is to dishonor him and inaccurately characterize them. Of course it doesn’t follow that he’s actually bad (i.e. red) and therefore the PLA and the PRC are the good guys (that yellow is good), but that’s the kind of how the propagandists want you to see the situation. It’s giving the reigns to other people.
You’ll want to skip medications or go for a run or not eat as often/much/little/etc as you should. And you’ll sit in the pain and suffering just to make your body hurt as much as you do mentally. But take a deep breath, and know that it doesn’t help. You’ll do it two or three or ten times before it truly sinks in, but remember, it doesn’t help.
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