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Eddie Carvery is a political protester from Africville, Nova Scotia. The mainly black community in Halifax was destroyed by the city in the 1960s as an “urban renewal” project.

True day of remembrance of the fallen but not forgotten and in accordance (curse the day that birth these bastards curse the deed that condemned us all and whoever prosper from our downfall curse all y'all until yall all fall this is God’s law in the land of murder Have a spiritual memorials day

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:

“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit:

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it:

Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacales. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!" Kurt Vonnegut

/// Wild Revolution · Deja Hu / Posted by Michael Harper / Photo - Kurt Vonnegut - Steve Pyke

Revenge 15 years in the making.

This one came from my brother-in-law after a conversation that we had last night.

They had a family friend, we’ll call him John, that had a wage dispute with an old boss, we’ll call him DB, for douchebag.

John used to work for DB back in the 90’s on a construction crew. DB was the general contractor. John was a good employee, but DB was a stingy penny pincher that was notorious for shorting wages and paying late. It was a terrible work environment, so of course, John quit.

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