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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
—  Kurt Vonnegut – God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt (via pantslessprogressive)

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Day One Family Vacation Checklist:
Cried for four hours after being made into a scapegoat? Check!
Sleeping on the floor? Check!
Threatening to leave until harsh realization that car is parked almost 200 miles away in a stranger’s driveway? Check and check!

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[Baseball was] born out of the enlightenment and the philosophies so beloved of Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton … designed as geometrically as the city of Washington … orderly, reasoned, judiciously balanced, incorporating segments of violence and collision in a larger plan of rationality, absolutely dependent on an interiorization of public rules … a Lockean game, a kind of contract theory in ritual form, a set of atomic individuals who assent to patterns of limited cooperation in their mutual interests.
— Michael Novak, philosopher (via mightyflynn)
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ubiquitousamericana: Secret cinema found beneath Paris In September 2004, French police discovered a hidden chamber in the catacombs under Paris. It contained a full-sized movie screen, projection equipment, a bar, a pressure cooker for making couscous, a professionally installed electricity system, and at least three phone lines. Movies ranged from 1950s noir classics to recent thrillers. When the police returned three days later, the phone and power lines had been cut and there was a note on the floor: “Do not try to find us.” (via) This is a thing I must write about.

ubiquitousamericana:


Secret cinema found beneath Paris

In September 2004, French police discovered a hidden chamber in the catacombs under Paris. It contained a full-sized movie screen, projection equipment, a bar, a pressure cooker for making couscous, a professionally installed electricity system, and at least three phone lines. Movies ranged from 1950s noir classics to recent thrillers.

When the police returned three days later, the phone and power lines had been cut and there was a note on the floor: “Do not try to find us.” (via)

This is a thing I must write about.

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There’s a language, I think it’s called Mescalero, in which verbs don’t change tenses. There’s no future or past tense in that language. I was thinking… if we could learn that language, we could live longer…
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from Ca.Blues,1981 by Milan Oklopdžić [Mika Oklop]

(translated by and via billyjane)

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lnr: charlottesweb: stop-requested: in-north-carolina: Cheerwine Krispy Kreme doughnuts are back for the month of July! If y’all didn’t try them last year, go whole hog and do so! this is a thing!? i need to go to NC this summer! my sister emailed me about this yesterday, we are so trying one Looks like I’ll be buying a box of these over the weekend. I feel like, as the unofficial Northern States spokesmen for Cheerwine, they should send these to me for free. 

lnr:

charlottesweb:

stop-requested:

in-north-carolina:

Cheerwine Krispy Kreme doughnuts are back for the month of July! If y’all didn’t try them last year, go whole hog and do so!

this is a thing!? i need to go to NC this summer!

my sister emailed me about this yesterday, we are so trying one

Looks like I’ll be buying a box of these over the weekend.

I feel like, as the unofficial Northern States spokesmen for Cheerwine, they should send these to me for free. 

Me, rocking Cheerwine for the NYT.

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jennlevo: One of my favorite local graphic designers made a pretty sweet Ohio print, I love how the Frisches logo is “just about” where Hillsboro is. If I were you and I was from Ohio, I’d buy this asap.

jennlevo:

One of my favorite local graphic designers made a pretty sweet Ohio print, I love how the Frisches logo is “just about” where Hillsboro is. If I were you and I was from Ohio, I’d buy this asap.

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aperfectcommotion: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure’s cyanometer, an instrument that measures the blueness of the sky [a study of blue]

aperfectcommotion:

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure’s cyanometer, an instrument that measures the blueness of the sky

[a study of blue]

(Source: mythologyofblue)

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simplebaseballthings: Idea submitted by amylaura9. I truly dislike all of these “numbered” tumblrs, but Bobby Valentine’s Met-satch is one of my all-time favorite things, ever. 

simplebaseballthings:

Idea submitted by amylaura9.

I truly dislike all of these “numbered” tumblrs, but Bobby Valentine’s Met-satch is one of my all-time favorite things, ever. 

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