So, this “apartment” trended unexpectedly in Croatia yesterday and I’ll let you guess why. While looking at the first few photos, I wondered why the flat looked so ‘round’ and why it had only two windows and then… I saw the photos of the outside.
Nothing beats stepping out of your home only to get hit by a car
50 years ago this evening, Anton Szandor LaVey
opened the adamantine gates as he founded the Church of Satan—a social
experiment in blasphemy, liberty, and individualism. Once he and his intrepid
cohorts stepped within, they found not a sanctuary, nor a fortress, but instead
a road, for Satanism is not a place or position where one cowers and stagnates,
but is instead the journey each one of us takes over the course of our vital lives.
He envisioned a cabal of erudite, civilized ladies
and gentlemen who would treat one another with the gentility of true nobility arising
from ability, but who also could rouse savage opposition when confronted by foes
whose intent was to thwart freedom and enforce conformity. You have realized his Is-To-Be!
In celebration of the man who inspired us all, we include him
in the roster of dread demons and deities, for those in millennia to come might
look back and see his smiling diabolical countenance as archetype, rather than
the reality that some of us were fortunate to experience. As he would wish, in
saluting him, we hail ourselves, for he was the champion of our individual
godhood, and he would have us put no one before our sovereign selves.
Hail Anton Szandor LaVey! Hail the Church of Satan! Hail Satan!
On this day, 2 March 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old Black schoolgirl, refused to give up her seat on a bus that she had been ordered to vacate for a white passenger. She was arrested and charged with multiple offences for violating the city’s segregation laws. Leaders of the Black community considered attempting to make her case a cause célèbre and a test case for the civil rights movement, but, according to some local activists, Claudette’s dark skin and working class background caused concern. One, Gwen Patton, told Guardian journalist Gary Younge, “It was partly because of her colour and because she was from the working poor… . It was a case of ‘bourgey’ Blacks looking down on the working class Blacks.” After Colvin became pregnant as a result of a statutory rape, the leadership decided against pursuing her case.
When Rosa Parks – educated, married, and lighter-skinned – was arrested later that year, civil rights leaders had their standard-bearer. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1663229377195539/?type=3
