“How much can you lift?” she asked. I paused. Your last words are going to be a lie.
— “The Plane Was About to Crash. Now What?” - Noah Gallagher Shannon, The New York Times
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I dare you to listen to this song just once
Are we just going to ignore this? Action Figure by Hyehwa
I know! Let’s take a really depressing Holocaust movie and make sad-eyed action figures based on it.
Snoop Lion…and Miley Cyrus? Weirdly lovely.
View Larger Final Embrace
Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too. — Taslima Akhter.
Image: Two victims of a garment factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh by Taslima Akhter via Time Lightbox. Select to embiggen.
We identify so easily with fictional characters in movies, even if they’re not like us, and we care about them so much that we even feel like they’re real.
It’s the real ones we have trouble remembering are real.
Everything about this is great.
View Larger Vonnegut volunteers for the Kennedy campaign. “On occasion, I write pretty well.” (h/t @pbump)
Cool.
Really fucking cool
I don’t miss this show so much as I miss the way that it made me feel.
(Source: a-v-studies)
