Secret cinema found beneath Paris
In September 2004, French police discovered a hidden chamber in the catacombs under Paris. It contained a full-sized movie screen, projection equipment, a bar, a pressure cooker for making couscous, a professionally installed electricity system, and at least three phone lines. Movies ranged from 1950s noir classics to recent thrillers.
When the police returned three days later, the phone and power lines had been cut and there was a note on the floor: “Do not try to find us.”
(via postmodernsleaze)
I got to meet a Newfoundland puppy named Murphy on Friday. In other news my friend Jordan requested that I update this blog bc it’s her homepage (my doing) and she said that the 2 posts below are plaguing her. HAHAHAHAHHAHA
I NEED NOWWWWW
(via handsomedogs)
“She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn’t boring.” —
Zelda Fitzgerald (via literarynerd)
(Source: brookemcc, via awesem)
5 year old Jahessye Shockley missing since Tuesday, 10/11/11:
Police also set up a separate phone line for the case and received a couple dozen tips by Thursday. The number is 623-930-4357.
Police said Jahessye is a black girl with brown eyes. She’s 3 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 55 pounds and was last seen wearing a plain white shirt, blue jean shorts and pink sandals.
One woman reported seeing a girl matching Jahessye’s description wandering around the Glendale, AZ neighborhood before being pulled into a black sedan through the passenger door.
Please reblog.
(via najelle)
If Kim Jong Il wasn’t so freaking adorable we’d probably have toppled his regime and taken him out, too.
this may make me reconsider foreign adoption in the future. or atleast foreign rental for halloween
Soooo cute
This is the type of fun i was having on the great wall.
RIP NANCY WAKE (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011)
Ms Wake, who has died in London just before her 99th birthday, was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France.
Work began earlier this month on a feature film about Nancy Wake’s life. Ms Wake, one of the models for Sebastian Faulks’ fictional heroine, Charlotte Gray, had mixed feelings about previous cinematic efforts to portray her wartime exploits, including a TV mini-series made in 1987.
“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”
Ms Wake was also furious the TV series suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.
Even before she escaped to Britain, through Spain, in 1943 to train as a guerrilla leader, Nancy had been top of the Gestapo’s French “wanted” list. With her husband, she ran a resistance network which helped to smuggle Jews and allied airmen out of the country.
Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.”
We all need role models.
Bad Broads in History.
!
Back in TX, time for rush, time for new shoes!
“The Katie Holmes Project” cd at Salvation Army on 23rd Street. Killing time waiting for julia and i found this. Emily Rosenfeld, have you heard of this?