RandomCitizen

Saw this and thought of sharing it because it is very beautiful

So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI

“How does one hate a country, or love one?… I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love for one’s country; is it hate for one’s uncountry? Then it’s not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That’s a good thing, but one mustn’t make a virtue of it, or a profession.”

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

Damn, Rome really looks great in all four seasons

Mel Brooks on taking studio notes:

These two 🥹🤍.

I'm not a gatekeeper so yall. the best thrift stores are the ones that look bad. do not go to cool trendy thrift stores with hot alt twenty-something employees. (I mean you can if you want but enjoy paying $40 for a fuckass shirt.)

Man at that point I'd just pretend i don't know. How the hell am i supposed to answer her riddle? And what? make her feel bad?

On this day, 4 July 1972, students at Fort Street Boys’ High School in Sydney went on strike when they were told by the principal that their shoulder-length hair was too long, and that unless they cut it they would be prevented from sitting their graduation exams. 100 students held a mass meeting on the lawns of the school, and voted to immediately strike. The next day they were joined by more students, ran their own strike flag up the school flagpole, and gave interviews to TV crews arguing for democratic control of the school by students and teachers, rather than the education authorities. After the strikers returned to classes, the schoolauthorities retaliated and suspended six students “for inciting a strike” and for “gross insolence”. 200 students then held another mass meeting and went on strike again, while the school’s unionised teachers issued a statement calling for the withdrawal of the hair rule. In a bid to end the unrest, the NSW Department of Education interviewed and reinstated the six students in early August, while no further students at the school were harassed for the length of their hair. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11258/fort-street-high-school-students'-strike