"A puzzled orangutan standing next to TV set playing the image of Pres. Richard Nixon as commentator discusses his 17- page message to Congress, during a study of ape TV addiction at Yerkes Primate Research Center of Emory Univ."
well, naturally.
"You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, before, finally, white men--which meant you never rooted for white men. He laughed and told you he was used to not being rooted for, his mother taught women's studies."
- "The Thing Around Your Neck," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
cilantroknees reblogged
this is for you, yomo7.
underwater ballet, 1945
"The illustration shows how a mouse has climbed up [twelfth-century scribe] Hildebert’s table and is eating his cheese. Hildebert lifts a stone in an apparent attempt to kill the mouse. In the book that he was writing, we find a curse directed at the cheese-nibbling beast: “Pessime mus, sepius me provocas ad iram; ut te deus perdat” [Most wretched mouse, often you provoke me to anger. May God destroy you!]"
cat pawprints on 15th c manuscript