Jeliza Patterson

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September 2011

332 posts

Reblog this if you support gay rights. I want to...

August 2011

161 posts

It's still racist if you do it ironically

thefremen: (also applies to sexism, ableism, so on and so forth)

For the “Make Em Laugh” number, Gene Kelly asked Donald O’Connor to revive a trick he had done as a young dancer, running up a wall and completing a somersault seen near the end of the video). The number was so physically taxing that O’Connor, who smoked four packs of cigarettes a day at the time, went to bed for three days after its completion, suffering from exhaustion and painful carpet...

Reblog if your Tumblr picture is actually you.

The Problem We All Live With

I recommend this excellent article on the history of Norman Rockwell’s famous (and unusually political) painting “The Problem We All Live With”