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Birthday of the great African-American prose stylist, Ralph Ellison: March 1, 1913 - 1994…
“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.” - R.E.
Original caption: Author Ralph Ellison siitting at typewriter at the American Academy in Italy, 1957
Photographer: James Whitmore, LIFE

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Birthday of the great African-American prose stylist, Ralph Ellison: March 1, 1913 - 1994…

“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.” - R.E.

Original caption: Author Ralph Ellison siitting at typewriter at the American Academy in Italy, 1957

Photographer: James Whitmore, LIFE

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his show is next wednesday and I can’t miss class or i’d be there for sure.

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OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo)

AWESOMEST music video—ever. Who are these guys?

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perpetua:

The B-52’s
“Hero Worship”
Live in Atlanta, 1978


I love how washed out this footage looks, it makes it all seem even further in the past and far from reality. This is less like a document and more like an amazing dream.

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[I’m honored to have collaborated with Jerry Mitchell on this article appearing on page 1 of today’s Jackson Clarion-Ledger. —BG]

By Jerry Mitchell and Ben Greenberg
The Clarion-Ledger

Convicted Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen says there wasn’t enough legal evidence to imprison him for the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers and that God is going to get whoever helped put him away.

Those written remarks are among the most recent public stirrings from Killen, who also filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the FBI alleging his civil rights were violated.

“Almighty God … is listening and is recording your acts, thoughts and deeds. One by one you will give account to him,” Killen wrote in a six-page letter obtained by The Clarion-Ledger from a Klansman. His lawyer confirmed the letter is indeed Killen’s.

District Attorney Mark Duncan, who along with Attorney General Jim Hood prosecuted Killen, responded, “I don’t have any trouble standing before God with my role in it.”

In 2005, a Neshoba County jury convicted Killen, now 85, on three counts of manslaughter for his role in the Klan’s June 21, 1964, killings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, commonly known as the Mississippi Burning case.

The FBI is reexamining the killings. Four suspects in the case are still alive.

In his letter, Killen lambasted prosecutors and Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon, who sentenced Killen to the maximum 60 years in prison. Killen, a former Union sawmill operator and part-time preacher, is serving his time in the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County.

Killen blamed the media and the people of Neshoba County. “You had all the news media that helped indict me for murder on three counts, which you had no legal evidence,” he wrote. “All your grand jury heard was slick tongue talk from a couple of politicians.”

(More at the link…)

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9GAG - What The Fun!
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Earlier this month, five French-speaking journalists spent a week in a house in the French countryside. No cell phones, no TV. They could use only Twitter and Facebook in their reporting. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Janic Tremblay of Radio Canada to find out how the experiment turned out.

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Thom Yorke - Reckoner (acoustic solo)

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David Bowie-Wild Is The Wind (via syd2007)

There’s a rumor buzzing around Twitter that Mr. Bowie is seriously ill. I hope it isn’t so.

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