November 17, 2009
O Ship of State
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'Tis of the wave and not the rock;
'Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee, -are all with thee!
With apologies to classical liberalism, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
H/T Destructoid for the Steampunk Mickey from Epic Mickey.
Looks like the Browns before/during/after last night's game.
Posted by: Cappy at November 17, 2009 8:03 PMThe Ship of State is listing to port...big time.
Posted by: Yabu at November 18, 2009 8:14 AMshit...
Posted by: rob sama at November 18, 2009 9:35 AMYabu: Agreed. All hands on the poop deck! A shit storm is brewing on the horizon.
Posted by: PeggyU at November 18, 2009 3:20 PMThere is something melancholy about the art. It is almost Hieronymous Bosch-y. That whole "no hope for salvation in this life, and not much reassurance about the next one" quality to it. I am not so good with words, so I can't quite encapsulate it.
Posted by: PeggyU at November 18, 2009 3:25 PMPredictably, I am now inspired to ride It's A Small World after melting a tab or two.
Posted by: Andy at November 18, 2009 5:29 PMoh, god!!! DizzyWorld is falling???
Posted by: Jean at November 18, 2009 6:17 PMI knew you could turn those images into a melancholy State of the Union message... but little did I imagine how masterfully you'd do it.
Mickey Mouse meets Hieronymus Bosch and gets sodomized. I love it.
Posted by: Elisson at November 19, 2009 12:36 AMOh, well done, V-dude!!!
Posted by: Marianne at November 19, 2009 3:09 PMI went to Disneyland about 1o-12 years ago, a young midwestern farm kid raised to work on cars and cattle. Knowing nothing of big cities and strange people, we went knowing only excitement and joyous expectation. I don't remember much. The one thing that stands out most of the ordeal.
It's a small, small world scarred me deeply. I remember mostly a duck, sitting calmly amongst the eatery tables under a tree. I had never seen an animal act this way before and decide to approach it. Unphased by my proximity I naturally assumed the duck was another part of the proximal security system; a robot duck camera. Horrors, dearest children, horrors of unimagineable darkness await ye who enter that hallowed place of Epcott.