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jthenr-comics-vault: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:33:17 -0500

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.”

caliphorniaqueen: “During the civili rights struggle,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:09:30 -0500

caliphorniaqueen:

“During the civili rights struggle, Birmingham canceled high school prom for many black teenagers. This weekend, the dance went on for the Class of 1963

"I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now:..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:58:19 -0500

“I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me.”

- Thought Catalog (via bukowskeet)

wow this is new

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:22:45 -0500

no one has ever called me a slut before

huffingtonpost: Texas Photographer, Recreates Iconic Women’s...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:15:54 -0500

huffingtonpost:

Texas Photographer, Recreates Iconic Women’s Portraits With Her Daughter

By: Ryan Grenoble

When Jaime Moore’s daughter, Emma, turned 5, the Texas mom and photographerset out to commemorate the occasion in pictures. Searching for inspiration online, however, she was dismayed to find the majority of girls at that age dressed up, unrealistically, as fairy-tale princesses. So Jaime decided to raise the bar.

Mom searched for better role models, and together with Emma selected five real women that a girl can actually aspire to be like. Then, they replicated iconic portraits of those figures — Susan B. Anthony, Coco Chanel, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller and Jane Goodall.

The title of the series, “NOT just a girl,” is meant to be an inspirational message for young women seeking to realize their full potential — beyond vague dreams of Disney princesses.

Read More: http://huff.to/14hMaKg

Photo Credit: Getty Images/Jaime C. Moore

indefenseofart: So I logged in this evening after the longest...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:09:20 -0500

indefenseofart:

So I logged in this evening after the longest Monday to see that my love child of a blog now has over 1,200 followers! Thanks again to all of you, both old and new and stick around for more art, design, and all the angst of a baby academic. You are all so beautiful and I’ve got all types of love for you!! (well…maybe not comic sans, ~~the horror!~~)

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Sat, 11 May 2013 10:35:37 -0500

Pictured above is Robert, a purportedly cursed doll given to...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:32:07 -0500

Pictured above is Robert, a purportedly cursed doll given to Key West artist Robert Eugene Otto in 1906 by a Bohemian family maid said to practice voodoo. Eugene, a mere six at the time, became at first attached to and then obsessed with the doll, keeping it until his death in 1974.

Eugene’s parents would spot him talking to Robert — and sometimes it seemed like the doll was talking back. In the beginning they believed it was just Eugene disguising his voice to speak for Robert but in time their opinions changed; they would even go on to swear they sometimes heard the doll emit a frightening laugh or saw it darting between rooms. Some nights Eugene would wake up screaming and they would rush to his bedroom to discover the furniture scattered all over and their child, still in bed, yelling “Robert did it!” in a terrified frenzy. Neighbors claimed to see Robert moving in the windows and guests sometimes said they saw his face change expression before their eyes.

When Eugene was older, he took up painting and managed to make a career of it. He would do the lion’s share of his work alone in the house he grew up in and now owned, accompanied always by Robert. By this point he had married a lady named Anne; his wife detested the doll but humored her husband, who would take Robert everywhere with him and insisted that he sleep in a chair by their bed. Eventually Anne tried to give Robert a “room of his own” away from them in the attic, but it didn’t take long for Eugene to insist that Robert was angry with this new arrangement and wanted a bedroom with a proper view.

Robert’s new home became the house’s turret room, where passersby would again claim to see him moving about in the window and watching them as they passed. Eugene, becoming increasingly obsessed and impossible to deal with, eventually locked himself away in the turret room with Robert and ultimately died there with the doll by his side. Finally free, Anne fled from the house.

The house’s next owners discovered Robert tucked away in the attic and the doll fell into the possession of their ten year old daughter. She too would soon begin to wake screaming in the night, claiming to see Robert move and that he would even sometimes try to attack her. Supposedly, she insists to this day that the doll was alive and attempting to murder her.

These days, Robert lives in a locked glass case at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West. Visitors are warned not to photograph the doll without first politely asking him for permission. As the legend goes, if you don’t ask nicely or if Robert doesn’t agree by tipping his head to one side, he hasn’t deemed you worthy of photographing him and will curse you and your family if you try to…

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Fri, 10 May 2013 06:22:05 -0500

onscreenkisses: Dead Poets Society, dir. Peter Weir...

Fri, 10 May 2013 06:21:30 -0500

onscreenkisses:

Dead Poets Society, dir. Peter Weir (1989)

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weirdvintage: Rude anti-suffragette postcard, c. 1910s (via...

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:55:37 -0500

weirdvintage:

Rude anti-suffragette postcard, c. 1910s (via Retronaut)

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Mon, 06 May 2013 20:33:07 -0500

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Mon, 06 May 2013 20:31:58 -0500

galaxys4: hello students. welcome to my math class. we will be having a class trip this year, the...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:20:10 -0500

galaxys4:

hello students. welcome to my math class. we will be having a class trip this year, the first ever math field trip in history. it’s to hell. here we are