The 40th Anniversary of the Corning Musueum of Glass Disaster
… is June 23, 2012. Wikipedia says:
In June 1972, disaster struck as Hurricane Agnes emptied a week’s worth of rain into the surrounding Chemung River Valley. On June 23, the Chemung River overflowed its banks and poured five feet four inches of floodwater into the Museum. When the waters receded, staff members found glass objects tumbled in their cases and crusted with mud, the library’s books swollen with water. According to Martin and Edwards, 528 of the museum’s 13,000 objects had sustained damage (1977, 11) [4] At the time, Buechner described the flood as “possibly the greatest single catastrophe borne by an American museum.” [4]
I am posting this to raise awareness about the vulnerability of our nation’s glass museums to natural disasters and (yes) terrorist attacks. For too long, the needless emphasis on bulls in china shops allowed serious vulnerability to go unnoticed. Please join me on June 23, 2012 wherever you happen to reside to raise awareness of this serious problem by drinking mudslides in antique glassware and honoring the significant glass collectors in your own life. Glass museum vulnerability is a problem we can only combat TOGETHER.
seriously I laughed way too much at what derrick said. And also I love what camille said hehe that was pretty sweet =;v=.dying
OH MY GOD!!
when is it okay to kiss someone? “when they’re rich”
“…even if she looks like a truck.”
Best
“There sure would be a lot of kids to explain”
KELVIN
“I’d run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns.”
craig is mericky ftw
Craig & Ricky lmao =)))
(Source: devoureth, via panicmajestic)
This photo captures the severe damage inflicted on a section of sidewalk hit by a bolt of lightning in Pico Rivera, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
(Source: malformalady, via loveyourchaos)
Spirit Airlines Blows, Never Use Them
Do not be seduced by their cheap prices or slick website or the fact that they’ve pumped Google Flights full of their ads. Spirit Airlines is an organization built on grift and flim-flam. Flim-flam, I say!
I was trying to complete the simple task of exchanging money for a plane ticket, a ticket that happened to be for someone other than myself. You would think that Spirit Airlines would be into this type of transaction, you know, because that’s sort of their business and stuff. But no. It’s not just that they are not into it — they have made that species of transactionimpossible.
Spirit Airlines requires that the person who bought the ticket use the same credit card to check in. Thus, the simple action of buying a ticket for a person who is not physically traveling with you, is impossible. They neglect to mention this until after you have selected your flight and forked over a bunch of information. It is mentioned as if it is something that could be resolved with a phone call. I literally couldn’t believe that an airline would make a transaction this obvious and necessary for business flights impossible. I was wrong.
Their flight insurance is also a sham. If you call to cancel a flight (even if you bought cancellation insurance) they will charge you a $33 “spoilage” fee. A very Indian “Andre” told me that this was to “cover passenger use”, a statement that he admitted was nonsense given that it was being applied to flight cancellation. He told me that the flight insurance was a different department, and that I the process of filing a claim was an involved and lengthy process with uncertain results.
In summation, fuck Spirit Airlines. They took me for a ride, but you can still save yourselves. It is a self-evidently shady enterprise and should be avoided like the bubonic plague.
