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Abandoned Bowling Alley Turns Into An Immersive Public Art Experience

What a time to be alive. The former Silva Lanes Bowling Alley in Santa Fe is now the “House of Eternal Return” - a trippy Victorian house built to scale inside the bowling alley by pioneering art collective, Meow Wolf.

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Visited yesterday and my mind was melted! It's amazing

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Jesus.

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Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.

We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.

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This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

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^^^ I hate that line. Because a great many people didn’t survive Reagan, and a good many more won’t survive Trump. People who say that clearly haven’t gotten a goddamned clue.

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Beyonce made a moving acceptance speech at the Grammys that insisted on a new media landscape that shows more positive images of girls of color

Gifs: The Grammys on CBS

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I am deceased

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minor update:

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Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black woman who invented that rock and roll sound

You know what’s sad, before I even read this article I was ready to refute this because I grew up believing Chuck Berry created Rock and roll. It’s said how so many knew of this great woman yet none spoke on her greatness.

I also discovered Big Mama Thornton, who’s another hugely influential early inventor of rock and roll — I’m pretty sure Hound Dog was originally popularized by her, before Elvis stole it.

Love Sister Rosetta Tharpe! #BlackGirlMagic

A few of her performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bX5mzdihs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M

Also I heard she was bisexual…

Happy Black History Month!

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She was a BEAST

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Black BISEXUAL women, have always been a creative force in our community

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I don’t preach like I used to buttttttt

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they don’t want you to be insecure but you can’t be too confident.

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I haven’t reblogged anything so fast in my life!!!!!

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Also the first Black woman to kiss a white man (Captain Kirk) on American TV in 1968.

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Funny story about that because this is one of my favorite stories of all time: William Shatner was instrumental in that first interracial kiss because the studio execs didn’t want to go through with it and they were just going to have them hug instead. They decided to “compromise” by letting him film one take where he kissed her and several others where he didn’t. They were planning on just using one of the non-kissing scenes later. Well Shatner was wise to their game and he was having none of it, so he filmed the take with the kiss, and then in every other take he made sure to make ridiculous faces at the camera. At the time it wasn’t like you could see every aspect of what was being filmed as it was happening so the editors didn’t realize until it was too late that the only take they could use was the kiss.

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It wasn’t just Shatner who purposely messed up the kiss, Nichols was in on it too.

“Knowing that Gene was determined to air the real kiss, Bill shook me and hissed menacingly in his best ham-fisted Kirkian staccato delivery, “I! WON’T! KISS! YOU! I! WON’T! KISS! YOU!”

It was absolutely awful, and we were hysterical and ecstatic. The director was beside himself, and still determined to get the kissless shot. So we did it again, and it seemed to be fine. “Cut! Print! That’s a wrap!”

The next day they screened the dailies, and although I rarely attended them, I couldn’t miss this one. Everyone watched as Kirk and Uhura kissed and kissed and kissed. And I’d like to set the record straight: Although Kirk and Uhura fought it, they did kiss in every single scene. When the non-kissing scene came on, everyone in the room cracked up. The last shot, which looked okay on the set, actually had Bill wildly crossing his eyes. It was so corny and just plain bad it was unusable. The only alternative was to cut out the scene altogether, but that was impossible to do without ruining the entire episode. Finally, the guys in charge relented: “To hell with it. Let’s go with the kiss.” I guess they figured we were going to be cancelled in a few months anyway. And so the kiss stayed.”

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There’s an article going around Tumblr right now that says that millennials read more books per year than baby boomers, but that they use libraries far less.

Everyone’s smug about the first half of the study, but kids!!! It’s such a shame that younger adults aren’t using libraries. THEY ARE SUCH A GEM. Think about it: you can read virtually any book you want for free.

Listen, I get the appeal of developing your own personal library, but as a future librarian, can I make a suggestion? Get your books from the library! And, if a certain book is so incredible that you feel you need it, buy it for almost nothing on AbeBooks or some other second-hand book retailer. (1) You will spend far less on books every year; (2) your bookshelf will actually reflect your interests; (3) you will protect the future of libraries–which need your patronage