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From the March 30, 2012 Candlelight Vigil for George Hodgins, and Other Disabled Victims of Murder in Union Square, NYC.

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Samuel Beckett

Playwright, novelist, and Nobel laureate

meets

André the Giant
Gargantuan professional wrestling legend

In 1953, fresh off the success of Waiting for Godot, Beckett bought a plot of land near the hamlet of Molien, in the commune of Ussy-sur-Marne, about forty miles northeast of Paris. There he built a cottage for himself with some help from a group of locals, including a Bulgarian-born farmer named Boris Rousimoff. Over the years, Beckett and Rousimoff became friends and would occasionally get together for card games. Rousimoff had a son, André, known as Dédé, who was something of a physical marvel. By the age of 12, André was over six feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. No school bus could hold him, and his family lacked the means to buy a car big enough to schlep him back and forth to school in Ussy-sur-Marne. Enter Boris’ old card-playing buddy Beckett, who owned a truck and was more than willing to pay his friend back for his help with the cottage by giving a lift to his enormous pituitary case of a son on his drives into town. Years later, when recounting his conversations with Beckett (which he did often), André the Giant revealed that they rarely talked about anything besides cricket.

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All day long.  I answer to practically anything that starts with an A now (and sometimes, E), and have been accidentally Irish, several times.  And never mind SuperAleja…

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DISLABELED Film Series Premiere

DISLABELED is NYC’s monthly screening series dedicated to celebrating disability culture.

We showcase films that portray people with disabilities living full lives and then follow it up with lively, meaningful discussion.

Join us for our first night as we kick things off with the award-winning Spanish film YO, TAMBIÉN!.

Wednesday March 7th 6:00pm – 9:00pm.

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (between 34th and 35th Sts)

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With Special Guests Lawrence Carter-Long (disTHIS!) and first-time filmmaker Margot Cole (Drama Sighted).

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Nightwitches

Die NachtHexen

Ночные ведьмы

for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.

their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.

HOLY SHIT THIS IS RAD AS FUCK

HOLY SHIT

omg that is just so cool aaaa

Russians get shit done apparently.

Ennis did a comic about the Night Witches.  

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Application for Kanye’s Magical Awesomeness Factory.