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Marilyn was a big supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Ella Fitzgerald was one of Marilyn’s idols and a major inspiration. However, the Mocambo nightclub in West Hollywood, the most popular dance spot at the time, refused to let Ella perform there because she was black. Outraged, Marilyn told the owners that if they would let Ella perform, she would be there in the front row every time Ella was onstage. She did, and the two became friends.
According to the great Ella Fitzgerald:
“I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.”
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Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. So let us leave behind all these boys’ philosophies—these over simple answers. The problem is not simple and the answer is not going to be simple either.
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Tyree Callahan - Chromatic Typewriter, 2011 - A 1937 Underwood standard typewriter modified to produce colors instead of letters
I NEED THIS
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I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I’m going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it.
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Pokemon Mega-Post
EVERY. SINGLE. POKEMON.
COOLEST. POST. EVER.
MADRE DE DIOS
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I used to think my past was my greatest strength, tragedy and all, because it’s what defined me. But I realize now that’s not true — not exactly. We’re not defined by our tragedies or turning points. We’re defined by the choices we make in the face of them. We’re defined by how we choose to react to being challenged.
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A couple lying in a small boat together, looking up at the sky. Photograph by David E. Scherman. United Kingdom, 1942.
I like how her fingers are lightly in the water.
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