Hot Take: Satan’s actual aim in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was to trick Johnny into committing the mortal sin of pride. Since he succeeded, the Devil gets his soul anyway. But enjoy your functionally useless golden fiddle for the next few decades, I guess.
Even hotter take: Johnny seems like the kind of cool and fun person who was going to go to hell for enjoying life to the fullest anyway, so all the Devil really achieved was a truly impressive self-own in the form of an immortal folk song commemorating Johnny absolutely destroying him in a fiddle duel, despite the fact that the Devil cheated by summoning an entire band of demons to back him up.
Gift of Catherine and Robert Harper, in memory of Drs. Grigor and Arax Acopian, 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Exterior: pasteboard, papier-maché; opaque watercolor, gilded and lacquered
Interior: mirror
“The most Gothic description of Capital is also the most accurate. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.”
— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (via poeticsofdissolution) i heard
from my housemate that dead people’s facebook accounts are being reanimated as anti-net-neutrality bots (via marxferatu)
Look at this fantastic pounce by a snow leopard! We often get videos of athleticism in domestic cats, rarely for bigger ones. You can see how that huge tail helps counterbalance the leap in mid-air. This is a great example of enrichment that encourages natural behavior, too.
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