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flannelanimal:

Doll #18
Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation

As promised, a brand new Parks and Rec doll.  There were just too many great things to include, I had to leave a few for another time.  

Tejo championship! (Taken with instagram)

historicalmeetups:

 

Samuel Beckett

Playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate

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André the Giant
Gargantuan professional wrestling legend

In 1953, fresh off the success of Waiting for Godot, Beckett bought a plot of land near the hamlet of Molien, in the commune of Ussy-sur-Marne, about forty miles northeast of Paris. There he built a cottage for himself with some help from a group of locals, including a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff. Over the years, Beckett and Rousimoff became friends and would occasionally get together for card games. Rousimoff had a son, André, known as Dédé, who was something of a physical marvel. By the age of 12, André was over six feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. No school bus could hold him, and his family lacked the means to buy a car big enough to schlep him back and forth to school in Ussy-sur-Marne. Enter Boris’ old card-playing buddy Beckett, who owned a truck and was more than willing to pay his friend back for his help with the cottage by giving a lift to his enormous pituitary case of a son on his drives into town. Years later, when recounting his conversations with Beckett (which he did often), André the Giant revealed that they rarely talked about anything besides cricket.

Graffiti@Tegui in Buenos Aires (Taken with instagram)

Street Jazz@San Telmo in Buenos Aires

fromme-toyou:

Busy day in Manhattan… but there’s always time for the paper.