this is the time capsule of the future.

L’Albatros

Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’équipage
Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,
Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.

À peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,
Que ces rois de l’azur, maladroits et honteux,
Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches
Comme des avirons traîner à côté d’eux.

Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!
Lui, naguère si beau, qu’il est comique et laid!
L’un agace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,
L’autre mime, en boitant, l’infirme qui volait!

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.

— Charles Baudelaire

This looks awesome.

mostabortedsamo:

This reading is being held at Bluestockings, a radical bookstore/fair trade vegan cafe.  Bluestockings is located at 172 Allen St (F/V to 2nd Ave - Lower East Side or J/M to Essex/Delancey St)

Friday, October 30th @ 9PM - Free
Reading: Candacy A. Taylor “Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress”
Waitressing is one of the most common jobs for a woman to have and like most women’s work, it is often dismissed, stigmatized, or simply ignored. Come celebrate America’s hardest working women who have been waitressing in diners throughout the US. Author, Candacy A. Taylor drove 26,000 miles documenting career waitresses aged 50 and older who have been dishing out everything from eggs to insults for up to 60 years. Pie will be served!

In response to the extra credit question on a quiz: What does B.C. stand for? What does B.C.E. stand for? What is the difference between them?

One student:

B.C. means when before christ. B.C.E Before Christ Ever. The difference is Before Christ ever came and the second is just Before Christ.

Another student:

B.C. stands for Before Christs, B.C.E. is Before Common Error. The difference between them is other people who didn’t belive in Before Crists so the used Before Common Error.

Third student:

Before Criss Crist. Before Criss and Evilusion.

Precious kids.