Zeugmatador - A Thing Of Beauty

The spooky & beautiful Mr.Dastmalchian as photographed by the great camera slinger J. Konrad Schmidt on Instagram.

"Because I have to cry every so often for a living, I find it mortifying if it spills over into my daily life and I haven’t really managed to do it for years."

"I’m gonna tell you a story. […] Like all great stories, it’s a love story. And like all great stories, it’s terribly tragic."

Lee Pace as Calpernia Addams in Soldier’s Girl (2003).

STILL ON PATROL

I learned something new and horrifying today which is… that… no submarine is ever considered “lost” … there is apparently a tradition in the U.S. Navy that no submarine is ever lost. Those that go to sea and do not return are considered to be “still on patrol.”

?????

There is a monument about this along a canal near here its… the worst thing I have ever seen. it says “STILL ON PATROL” in huge letters and then goes on to specify exactly how many WWII submarine ghosts are STILL OUT THERE, ON PATROL (it is almost 2000 WWII submarine ghosts, ftr). Here is the text from it:

“U.S. Navy Submarines paid heavily for their success in WWII. A total of 374 officers and 3131 men are still on board these 52 U.S. submarines still on patrol.”

THANKS A LOT, U.S. NAVY, FOR HAVING THIS TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL HORRIFYING TRADITION, AND TELLING ALL OF US ABOUT IT. THANKS. THANK YOU

anyway now my mother and I cannot stop saying STILL ON PATROL to each other in ominous tones of voice

【HQ】Lee Pace at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association press conference for “Soldier’s Girl” in Los Angeles, CA on July 17, 2003.

lf only my Death resembled him, I'd go gentle into that good night.

Not your ordinary Black Friday sale.

All of them in one picture.