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FormSpring: Complaints, criticisms, questions, queries, random acts of kindness or (most preferably) invitations to a wild night on the town…any townTumblr (3.0; @kvetchlandia)http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c291da47062371b70256de3a6c49e19e/tumblr_mn6ot0Irow1qzz5ieo1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>Thomas Henry Huxley     Uncredited Photograph     1846</p> <p>“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.” Thomas Henry Huxley, “Darwiniana: the Origin of Species” 1860</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050712397http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050712397Tue, 21 May 2013 22:05:24 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d35851644d09d75680777a17091b6b7d/tumblr_mn6opdq70d1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Thomas Henry Huxley     Uncreditd Photograph     c.1880</p> <p>“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” Thomas Henry Huxley, Address at the British Association, “Biogenesis and Abiogenesis” 1870</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050598263http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050598263Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:13 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/da7fb963e4d9dfe784b076eeeb8ba05b/tumblr_mn6oc0UeWD1qzz5ieo1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>Theoretical Physicist Niels Bohr     Uncredited and Undated Photograph</p> <p>“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” Niels Bohr</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050159026http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050159026Tue, 21 May 2013 21:55:12 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ce9cfb36201248cdc683dddf22062675/tumblr_mn6o81W6Im1qzz5ieo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Theoretical Physicist Niels Bohr     Uncredited and Undated Photograph</p> <p>“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.” Niels Bohr</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050027404http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51050027404Tue, 21 May 2013 21:52:49 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/85032df09789ea318dbf6c214f8c1916/tumblr_mn6njm2Xu91qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>F. Schmutzer     Albert Einstein, Vienna     1921</p> <p>“Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.”  Albert Einstein</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51049188286http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51049188286Tue, 21 May 2013 21:38:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ad221f59b99f9578c75e0be377b9b448/tumblr_mll956bXaC1qzkyblo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://frenchcinema.tumblr.com/post/51047918421/francoise-hardy-at-the-cannes-film-festival-1963" target="_blank">frenchcinema</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Françoise Hardy at the Cannes Film Festival, 1963</p> </blockquote>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51048341981http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51048341981Tue, 21 May 2013 21:24:35 -0700“He knew that he was still alive.<br/> More he could not say.”<br/><br/> - <em><strong>Bertolt Brecht</strong>, <em>On Hegelian Dialectics</em> from <em>Flüchtlingsgespräche</em>, translation by Charles Senger (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://frenchtwist.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">frenchtwist</a>)</em>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51048260008http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51048260008Tue, 21 May 2013 21:23:15 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1e77d962b9370fd5c6c29268398e29fe/tumblr_mn6c1dPbcm1qddzmko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51048120224http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/51048120224Tue, 21 May 2013 21:20:59 -0700<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/z9IIn3R6_50?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>The Doors     The End, Live in Toronto     1967</p> <p>Ray Manzarek,  1939-2013,  Ave atque Vale</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50972583934http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50972583934Mon, 20 May 2013 23:00:16 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0e446c85292411f63b1afa75a7b1de38/tumblr_mn4w96p9zY1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Ray Manzarek     Uncredited and Undated Photograph</p> <p>Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist for The Doors, 1939-2013,  Ave atque Vale</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50972159486http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50972159486Mon, 20 May 2013 22:51:06 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c98a3e23d795d384edf8ef192cab6b14/tumblr_mn4w67Stq91qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Ray Manzarek     Uncredited and Undated Photograph</p> <p>Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist for The Doors, 1939-2013,  Ave atque Vale</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50972076162http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50972076162Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:19 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/32c64d77f90f7aaff55e587042304352/tumblr_mmypisfjoC1qzy30io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/50913357486/mississippi-john-hurt-and-skip-james-wtbs-fm" target="_blank">doomandgloomfromthetomb</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong><a href="http://www.themidnightcafe.org/?p=4121" target="_blank">Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, WTBS-FM, Cambridge, MA, October 1964</a></strong></em></p> <p>Very casual but very amazing broadcast featuring these two American heroes, shortly after they were “rediscovered.” Must’ve been a fairly bizarre experience for them, after having been ignored for 30+ years, to suddenly be on the radio, interviewed by fawning fans. James, in particular, seems to be taking it all in a stride, though — as if he expected it to happen all along. Al Wilson, later of Canned Heat, pops up too. A very worthwhile listen via Midnight Cafe. </p> </blockquote>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50962467938http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50962467938Mon, 20 May 2013 20:14:41 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e0c4c2607331930f2250dd13bc877c7a/tumblr_mn2zyaEhnP1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>La Beauté Est Dans La Rue (Beauty is In The Street), Student Graphic, Montpellier, France     May, 1968</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50887259511http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50887259511Sun, 19 May 2013 22:15:46 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6a3a9292cd1de666d2658974c55c6042/tumblr_mn2zn7dnXX1qzz5ieo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Nous Sommes Tous Indesirables (We Are All Undesirables), Student Graphic, Paris     May, 1968</p> <p>This poster shows student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit, AKA Danny the Red (both for his politics and for his red hair).  Cohn-Bendit was the French-born son of German Jews who had fled the Nazis into Paris in the 1930s.  Although born in France, Cohn-Bendit had spent much of his youth in Germany before returning to France.  His background led conservative  opponents of demonstrating students and workers to refer to him as an “undesirable German Jew,” hence the poster “We Are All Undesirables.”</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50886900157http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50886900157Sun, 19 May 2013 22:09:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/757ac55646f5e482c9fafba85679bef5/tumblr_mn2xq6LoTa1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Uncredited Photographer     Il Est Interdit D’Interdire (It Is Forbidden to Forbid), Student Grafitti, Paris     May, 1968</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50884385924http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50884385924Sun, 19 May 2013 21:27:42 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/be6ed80ab55cf4bba213db4bd7b2f1d2/tumblr_mn2xhjP9Ks1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Bruno Barbey     A Dummy in the Form of a Factory Boss Being Hung Outside the Renault Car Factory, Which is On Strike, Boulogne-Billancourt, France      May 68</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50884050937http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50884050937Sun, 19 May 2013 21:22:31 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1ae7983342ec4ca0050cfd6477ce84d5/tumblr_mn2x8g29DH1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Bruno Barbey     Students Occupying the Sorbonne, Paris     May, 1968</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883688025http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883688025Sun, 19 May 2013 21:17:04 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ee6ffc3d02531c66eae6f9781f148c3a/tumblr_mn2x5cy8GU1qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Simos Tsapnidis     Unionized Workers Demonstrating In Conjunction with Students, Paris     May, 1968</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883561417http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883561417Sun, 19 May 2013 21:15:12 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/96a6207d566b7c8188f288482827404b/tumblr_mn2x3xzXY61qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Simos Tsapnidis     Unionized Workers Demonstrating In Conjunction with Students, Paris     May, 1968</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883504481http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883504481Sun, 19 May 2013 21:14:21 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a3aeca6c5ceb8556e5ba4ebe67f2faab/tumblr_mn2wzn9ZZ51qzz5ieo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Bruno Barbey     Student Demonstrators, Paris     May, 1968</p>http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883329206http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/50883329206Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:47 -0700