On this day, 6 May 1919, Alejandro Finisterre, the Spanish anarchist poet and inventor of table football or “foosball” was born. His political idealism seemed to be realised with the outbreak of the Spanish revolution in 1936. However his house was bombed by nationalist forces and he was severely injured. Seeing many injured children who are unable to play football with their friends, he built a table out of pine and attached players to steel bars - inventing modern table football. After the war he had to flee the Franco regime to France, and was imprisoned for four years in Morocco before heading to the Americas. More info in our short biography of him here: https://ift.tt/2whqIgX
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I liked the part where the possums ate fruit
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me and my various becomings
Student Bodies (1981)
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Ladies and gentlemen, in order to achieve an “R” rating today, a motion picture must contain full frontal nudity, graphic violence, or an explicit reference to the sex act. Since this film has none of those, and since research has proven that R-rated films are by far the most popular with the movie-going public, the producers of this motion picture have asked me to take this opportunity to say FUCK YOU.”.
The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilisation is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress; for it not only refines our enjoyments, but produces a variety which enables us to retain the primitive delicacy of our sensations.
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