Elisabeth Meurer

Actor, Filmmaker, Concretesmith. We unapologetically celebrate men here, without whom we’d all be dead. Almost immediately.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Someone explain this to me slowly, because I'm clearly the idiot here.

We plant a Mediterranean nut in a Californian desert. It doesn't rain there, so we drain a ten-thousand-year-old aquifer until the ground itself sinks a foot a year and whole towns get shorter. The trees can't fight off fungus, so we spray the lot. They can't pollinate themselves, so every February we truck thirty billion bees across a continent and let a fair share of them die in the crush. Then we chill the harvest and sail it six thousand miles to Britain, where it rains constantly and always has, to be blitzed with water and gums and sold to you at £2.40 a carton with a green leaf on the side.

That is the environmentally friendly option.

Twelve miles down the road there's a bloke with cattle in a field. Rain falls on the hill. Grass drinks it. Cow eats grass. Nothing pumped, sprayed, chilled or shipped. No bees died. Her entire supply chain is weather.

That is the planetary emergency.

And it'll be explained to you by someone holding a carton of desert water, wearing a fleece made of crude oil.

Asking for the cow. She's been very patient about it.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The greatest warrior who ever lived was told, after his death, that he should be happy.

His answer is one of the most devastating things ever written...

Achilles had been given a choice while alive: a long, quiet, forgotten life at home, or a short one at Troy that would make his name immortal. He chose glory. He chose to die young and be remembered forever.

In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes down into the land of the dead, and Achilles comes to meet him. Odysseus tries to comfort him. He tells him he has nothing to mourn:

"For of old, when thou wast alive, we Argives honored thee even as the gods, and now that thou art here, thou rulest mightily among the dead. Wherefore grieve not at all that thou art dead, Achilles."

You are the most blessed man who ever lived, he says. You were worshipped in life, and now you are a king among the dead. What is there to grieve?

Achilles answers immediately:

"Nay, seek not to speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose, so I might live on earth, to serve as the hireling of another, of some portionless man whose livelihood was but small, rather than to be lord over all the dead that have perished."

He would rather be a day labourer, working someone else's field, for a master so poor he can barely feed him. He would take that life over ruling every soul that ever died...

Achilles chose to die young so that his name would live forever. And then, in the Odyssey, Homer let him speak from the other side of that choice. And this is his answer, to Odysseus and to us: being remembered is not the same as being alive. And the ordinary day you are living right now is the thing the greatest hero in the world would trade eternity to have back.

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

Freedom isn’t free. It is precious and must be protected, defended and guarded. Happy 250th birthday, America 🇺🇸❤️💙🎇 Thank you to all our brave fighters who secure our freedoms.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

@Heccles94 Elon is the single highest taxpayer in US history.

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

The Guardian today:
The 2016 Ghostbusters wasn’t for you superfans. Losers. It was ‘a reimagining for a new, young audience unencumbered by nostalgic baggage’.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

@GuertlerThomas @end3of6days9 What about radon?

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

🛫🇺🇸🔥

[Top Gun @TopGunMovie]

Chills every time. 🎶 There's nothing like hearing the Top Gun theme. See TOP GUN and TOP GUN: MAVERICK in theatres TODAY for one week only! Get your tickets now: https://t.co/k6Xpofqed5 #TopGun

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

Happy Mother's Day

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Mama swan carrying her little babies..🦢❤️

"Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing mothers!"🙏❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

❤️❤️ Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️

Appreciation to mothers everywhere who brought us all into the world and nurtured their beloved children 🥰

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

There's something oddly beautiful about how men who have never met will silently unite when a problem appears. No introductions, no small talk-just a shared understanding that something needs fixing. 😃

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

For 86 years Variety dodged getting Chuck Norris’d.

Until today.

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

Officially my favorite San Diego Comic-Con ever - look who we ran into!

A one-of-a-kind incredible actor.
Warm, funny, and gracious.
Few will ever compare.

Thank you @AlecBaldwin !

[Elisabeth Meurer @ebethmeurer]

No one loves us (the audience) like Tom Cruise loves us

[Michael Ryan Hahn @MichaelRyanHahn]

This ALIEN THEORY scene was originally conceived as happening in an open field. But we had to change it to a very opposite “in a house” location last-minute, and I’m thrilled we did.

If you’ve done your directing homework, throwing out your storyboards and changing locations—even drastically—isn’t necessarily a problem because you know what you want.

Preparation correlates to clean spontaneity.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Here is your yearly reminder that Whitney Houston sang the best ever rendition of the National Anthem, and it will never be topped. We should play this video before every Super Bowl. Thank you.