Last sunrise of 2023 from Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Views near Lake Hamilton, Hot Springs, AR

Virgil Finlay - The Lake of Life

(Weird Tales - October 1937)

A very fun trip to Fort George this summer to see the 1812 reenactment. As I get older the camp life stuff and work in the kitchen becomes a lot more interesting than just the drill and soldiering (still fun). Met lots of great people and learned a lot of cool stuff.

I was sitting on my couch lamenting the lack of poc queer rep there is in both the media and in fandom spaces when i realized that the most wide spread black trans character....is FUCKING MIKU BINDER THOMAS JEFFERSON

My silly little headcanon for children of Apollo (Cabin 7) is that every kid was born pre-loaded with knowledge of the entirety of Hamilton the musical.

They know all 46 tracks/lyrics and can have their voice sound similar to the actors. They are all massive theater kids too.

Even the ones who don't think they are or don't like theater/musicals/Hamilton just have pre-installed lyrics of the tracks. And they are annoyed by it.

Whenever someone talks about Hamilton or says a sentence from a song, they just burst into one of the tracks and start singing for the next 2 hours.

(Yes, I just finished watching Hamilton for the first time and the tracks are looping in my brain-)

Cedar Lake by Anna Nielsson

Via Flickr:

Cypress knees around Cedar Lake, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.     

Ah yes my favorite Rusty Lake character Alexander Hamilton

miranda hamilton you are so folklore coded to me

“....the expansion of the artificial swimming pool system [occurred] in the context of increasingly polluted waterfronts. The growth of cities could crowd out and damage the spaces in which public swimming took place. One response to the bacteriological revolution - the extension of sewers to remove dangerous germs from all home environments - generated a public health crisis, by transporting bacteria to the places where citizens might swim. Concerns about water quality, and the ability to quantity it, both prompted and complicated efforts to find healthy places to swim in industrial cities.

....the development of Hamilton [Ontario’s] municipal swimming pool system [was situated] in the context of the environmental degradation of the industrial city as its commitment to economic expansion compromised an aspect of public health. Like the construction of the city’s elaborate water supply and purification systems, the building of swimming pools allowed city officials to continue using Hamilton’s bay [on Lake Ontario] as a sink for residential and industrial wastes, and to do so without significant investments in wastewater treatment facilities. Until the Second World War, Hamilton’s city leaders and medical authorities confidently believed that they could identify, delineate, and construct safe swimming areas along the shores of their harbour, and supplement them with a few public swimming pools. After the war, however, they abandoned their efforts altogether. For those who could not flee the city for clearer waters of northern lakes [because they could not afford to], municipal authorities offered artificial swimming pools as the only healthy place to swim locally. ...while swimming pools reflected a number of social and cultural values, they must be recognized chiefly as a technological fix for an urban public health crisis. Artificial pools for swimming allowed Hamilton’s city leaders to abandon the natural waters of the bay and the public beaches frequented by the working class to the effluent left by “the constructive power of the profit motive.””

- Nancy Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank, “Abandoning Nature: Swimming Pools and Clean, Healthy Recreation in Hamilton, Ontario, c. 1930s-1950s,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Volume 28:2, 2011: p. 318-319

Helena Hind at MMFA:

Once again, a national broadcast outlet has failed to adequately identify a conservative man-on-the-street source in its television coverage. This time, CBS News omitted any mention of an Arizona activist’s well-documented working relationship with Arizona Senate candidate and election denier Kari Lake.

During a report on Arizona Republicans blocking another effort to repeal Arizona’s near-total abortion ban, CBS News featured a soundbite from Merissa Hamilton, identifying her only as an abortion rights opponent. “We need to save freedom in our state,” said Hamilton. “We need to save our constitution. Our rights are under threat every single day.” Beyond being an “abortion rights opponent,” Hamilton has an illustrious career as both a right-wing operative and a political candidate. Last May, prior to Lake’s October announcement about her Senate run, the Trump ally named Hamilton to lead a ballot-chasing operation, because, in Lake’s words, “we cannot allow them to steal another election from we the people.” [...]

The New York Times similarly quoted Hamilton without making the connection to Lake, but the paper at least noted her position as president of an activist group in Arizona, EZAZ.

In 2020, Hamilton ran for mayor of Phoenix and ultimately lost to the incumbent candidate by a large margin. During the campaign, an investigative report from The Arizona Republic revealed Hamilton’s membership in a private Facebook group filled with far-right conspiracy theories and hateful rhetoric against Muslims and LGBTQ people, which drew condemnation from the Human Rights Campaign. [...] In addition to Lake's well-documented election denial — which includes denying the results of her ill-fated Arizona gubernatorial bid in 2022 — the candidate has a history of flip-flopping. Most recently, she was called out for backtracking in her previous endorsement of Arizona’s 19th-century abortion ban.

CBS interviewed Merissa Hamilton, an anti-abortion activist with ties to the Karl Lake campaign and didn't disclose it to the viewers of CBS Evening News.

Hah take this shitty meme I made within a few hours

The city of Hamilton as seen from the Niagara Escarpment in 1859

honestly the hermes casting makes sense to me. if everyone else got parents that chose to look like pro wrestlers and famous comedians/actors and mine just decided to willingly walk around looking like lin manuel miranda???? oh id be murderous enough to overthrow the gods too