DE MERFAKIN International Tree Climbing Competition

So Arborists climb trees as part of their job. Some of them are really fucking fast. Arborists from fourteen different countries competed in regional competitions in order to enter this bitch at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. Actually pretty entertaining.

"AND WHO OUT THERE IS REPRESENTING THE UTILITY SECTOR!?! THROW YER HANDS UP!"

WHAT URP!?


In other news, most of the arb is underwater.

Jeep Music and Melville in the Morning

Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels the uncompromised, indifferent as his God.'

^ booty.