"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
Jack Kerouac (via mirunette)
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Gymnosomata, commonly known as Sea Angels. An apt name- the sea angels are the ethereal, translucent, fluttering angels of the sea.
In hard scientific terms, they’re small swimming sea slugs, but we’ll pass over that for now and just admire how delicately beautiful these wonderful creatures are.
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when you know you’re doing it right
Oh my god, if only all kids were like that…
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if you ever call me annoying, even if it’s just jokingly, the chances of me ever speaking to you again are slim to none because I’ll be so afraid that every little word or sound that comes out of my mouth will aggravate you and make you cringe and hate my existence
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Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.
Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.
Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.
When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.
Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.
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Le Projet d'Amour: 7 trend-uri bucureștene de ultimă oră.
1. Bicicliștii ultra-para-echipați. Au costum din spandex, caschetă, genunchiere, cotiere, ochelari de protecție, sticlă de rezervă pentru apă, led-uri, beculețe, stegulețe, etc. Și asta doar pentru a pedala cu o viteză eroică, în general în week-end, pe traseul de maximă dificultate, Victoriei-Aviatorilor.
2. Galeriile de artă care nu vând nimic, în care nu intră nimeni, niciodată, nici măcar femeia de serviciu. Pentru că nu există o femeie de serviciu.
3. Petrecerile reușite la care sunt invitați, pe facebook, circa 12.897 de oameni. Dar la care vin 15. Organizatorii, barmanii, prietenii lor și femeia de serviciu.
4. Ceainăriile. Le ador!!! Muzică în surdină, decor feng-shui, lămpi din hârtie colorată și, evident, un sortiment incredibil de ceaiuri. Nu poți consuma alcool, nu poți fuma. Dar poți comanda câte o tartă expirată cu morcovi. Evident, de casă. Evident, bio.
5. Homosexualii care nu sunt homosexuali și lesbienele care nu sunt lesbiene. Tot orașul știe, de fapt, care-i treaba dar ei insistă că treaba e alta.
6. Meseria de PR de modă. Îți tragi un tricou penibil cu mesaje haioase (de preferat de la un designer român), dai niște mail-uri, țaca-paca, vă așteptăm la eveniment, pupi, xoxo.
7. Mersul în week-end în Bulgaria, la degustat scoici. S-a terminat cu Vama. Ne-am mutat 15 kilometri mai încolo. E altceva, domne’! Civilizat, frumos, fețe de masă în carouri. Ah, si juma de București! La desert se dă, bineînțeles, check-in!
Tschuss!
