Fantasy Homeland
“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.” ~Charles de Lint
Maysen | student | aspiring artist | poet | dreamer
Here’s to the crazy ones the misfits the rebels the troublemakers
My name is Terry Cannon, and I am a Staff Assistant at the Allendale Branch of the Pasadena Public Library, where I enjoy curating a variety of public programs and providing content for our branch Facebook page. When I am not tending to my library duties at Allendale and posing with stone sculptures at Caltech, I run a traveling baseball museum, the Baseball Reliquary, which houses a variety of odd and wonderful artifacts including Eddie Gaedel’s athletic supporter and a chunk of skin from the inner left thigh of Abner Doubleday. It’s sort of like a sporting version of the Museum of Jurassic Technology. If you have the stomach for it, check out the Web site at http://www.baseballreliquary.org/ — and, while you’re at it, visit the Allendale Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/allendalebranch?fref=ts. How’s that for shameless self-promotion?
Coming Soon of the Day: Neil Degrasse Tyson Will Host the Sequel of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
Though it’s been quietly in the works since 2011, Fox has officially confirmed that Carl Sagan’s monumental 1970 sci-ed miniseries Cosmos: A Personal Voyage will be getting an updated sequel next year, which will consist of 13 episodes produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and hosted by one of the Internet’s most celebrated astrophysicists, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Fox is hoping the show will have as much as of cultural impact as Carl Sagan’s original series, which still remains one of the most watched PBS series in the world to this day.
(Image by Richard Davies)
freedom of speech means that the government is not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up. it doesn’t mean that i am not allowed to tell you to shut the fuck up.
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Kerry Washington being amazing as always.
Understand colorblinders out there. Please get it.
Sing it for the people!
The Colorblinders, post-racialists and “reverse racism is real” idiots will never get it, so it’s just best to ignore them and quit wasting our time, oxygen and energy trying to convince them.
Thank you. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are giving $70 million to USC in Los Angeles to establish a four-year undergraduate program for students interested in a mix of the arts, visual design, entrepreneurship, computer science and marketing. The gift will create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, with the intention of attracting students “who challenge conventional views of art and industry.”
That’s exactly the type of program I would be interested in.
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TW: Police brutality - Judge tosses indictment in Ramarley Graham case, says grand jury was misled
May 15, 2013A judge has thrown out the indictment against an NYPD officer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in his Bronx home last year, but said prosecutors can present the case again, NBC 4 New York has learned.
Officer Richard Haste, 31, had been indicted on manslaughter charges in the February 2012 shooting death of Ramarley Graham and faced up to 25 years in prison.
On Wednesday, a judge dismissed the indictment on a technicality, siding with defense lawyers who had argued prosecutors gave flawed instructions to the grand jury that indicted Haste.
The Bronx district attorney’s office couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Graham’s family left the courtroom after the judge’s decision, cursing and calling the officer a “murderer.”
Graham was shot to death in the bathroom of his home on East 229th Street after police chased him inside.
Security video showed Graham entering his home, and police running after him. Police at the time said officers witnessed a drug deal and pursued Graham, believing he had a gun.
They went in and found him in the second-floor bathroom, and shot him in the chest. He died shortly afterward.
Police said later that Graham was not found with a gun.
“This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice and an insult to the family and supporters of Ramarley Graham. We demand that a new Grand Jury is convened immediately and that the case is re-presented.” - Rev. Al Sharpton
Pictured: Ramarley’s parents, Franclot Graham & Constance Malcolm
This actually made me cry. Police brutality is a serious issue all around the world, and not enough people are realizing that. As I quoted to my dad the last time we talked about police brutality: “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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