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These hot, boiled crawfish from University Seafood broke da mout.

amandapalmer:

amandapalmer:

was tweeted this photo from @duchessloves, who took it of her friend, who is in the hospital.

the lyrics are from “in my mind”.

everything’s a circle.

sometimes i don’t know if you guys understand how much you save me.

good lord. I just came across this picture again…only to find it had almost 50,000 notes. it must have been making the rounds.

that makes me happy. it’s worth sharing.

I love you.

Amazing pic & blogpost. Truly inspiring. Really puts life in perspective.

newsweek:

The Oscar nominations (with Seth McFarlane!) kick off in five minutes have been annonced. We’ve got the stream up on our homepage, click here to watch it.  

They are: 

Best Picture: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings, Zero Dark 30, Lincoln, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Amour, Django, Argo

Best Actress: Naomi Watts, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Emmanuelle Riva, Quevenzhane Wallis

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Hugh Jackman, Bradley Cooper, Joaquin Phoenix (!)

Best Director: David O. Russell, Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, Michael Haneke, Benh Zeitlin

Original Screenplay: Flight, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, Amour, Moonrise Kingdom

Adapted Screenplay: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Argo, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Life of Pi

Best Foreign Film: Amour, No, War Witch, A Royal Affair, Kon-Tiki

Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Anne Hathaway, Jacki Weaver, Helen Hunt, Amy Adams

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Alan Arkin, Tommy Lee Jones

“Throwback Thursday.” Saw this pic on Tumblr & had to share. Shaquille O’neal was unlike anything we had seen before or since. A physical force of nature whose name was pure poetry. A 7-footer with the grace of a guard & the power of a Brahma Bull. An irrepressible man-child who rapped & wrecked rims. A ridiculously accessible superstar. (He was without a doubt the biggest fish in the pond that was Baton Rouge in the early ’90s, but he still took the time to autograph his first SI cover for a kid from Franklinton, La. who dropped by Broussard Hall completely unannounced & simply asked for Shaq, as if they were close friends.)
Long before he actually infringed upon “the Man of Steel’s” Trademark, that gold #33 meant Superman to a generation of kids in South & Central Louisiana. Shaq was so big at LSU that Al Gore immediately went work on the Internet so we could disseminate information about him more quickly. He’s the most “Can’t-Miss” number one pick of all-time in any sport. The most un-guard-able player of all time in any sport. The man of a thousand names — 998 of which he gave himself. And my second favorite LSU athlete of all-time (behind his running mate, Chris “Action” Jackson). Give it up for “the Diesel,” “the Daddy,” Shaquille O’Neal.

4gifs:

Multicultural Obama

Awesome imagery; the way President Obama seamlessly transitions from one generation to another in mere seconds with a simple handshake.

(via 4gifs)

Apparently this is the NY Times Sports cover page for Thursday, January 9, 2013. An appropriate homage to the baseball writers who put themselves above the game by declining to select a single player — among them, the greatest player of all-time, Barry Bonds — for induction into the MLB Hall of Fame. Baseball writers, we salute you — NOT.

nfloffseason:

Afterword: Shanahan and RG3

by @steven_lebron

Reading a lot about the reaction to Mike Shanahan and the Redskins coaching and medical staff’s decision to leave RG3 in the game despite the obvious risks of further injury (which in this case, happened).

Interesting to note that in this Shanahan profile by Stefan Fatsis, Shanahan himself suffered his own career-ending injury while playing quarterback at Eastern Illinois. From the article:

“Shanahan grew up in suburban Chicago in the 1960s, the son of an electrician and a housewife. He nearly died when he was speared by a linebacker while playing quarterback at Eastern Illinois, the only college that offered him a football scholarship. A priest was summoned to read last rites. Shanahan lost a kidney, recovered, petitioned unsuccessfully to rejoin the football team and began his coaching career upon graduation.”

Which both baffles me as to why he wouldn’t take more precaution with his own quarterback and makes me wonder if his own experience desensitized him to injuries. Or, quite simply, he was a coach who thought leaving his quarterback in gave him the best shot at winning a playoff game?

Fascinating piece on Washington Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan. I really like the way the blogger questions the link between Shanahan’s injury history & how it may have potentially influenced his decision to allow RG3 to play through obvious pain.

Choosing sides for tomorrow’s National Championship Game has been extremely difficult for me. While I want to support the #Hawaii boys on Notre Dame’s squad & wish them the best, I’m somewhat sickened by the venom being spewed by the anti-#SEC contingent. Decisions, decisions. #GeauxTigers #LSU