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Let’s face it: Mrs. Robinson was always the real hero of The Graduate.

Happy Birthday, Anne Bancroft!

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Snik - "Souls Apart"

Found this graffiti on my usual walk in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, back in August and snapped the pic.  It has been my wallpaper on my phone ever since.  Never knew who did it or anything about them.

Just found out about the artist(s), Snik, and that there are prints of this very image, "Souls Apart", out there.  

Way after I first saw it "in the wild" at Sweetzer and 3rd St.  

Grabbed a print.  2nd pic.

Super psyched!!

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Just got my new Faile print in the mail!!!!  Wall space I needed to fill just got a lot cooler!  "Call To Adventure", along with a few more new paintings and prints we've recently picked up! Dface "Hollywood Boom". Morley "Despite Everything".

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This Is Spinal Tap 

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Awesome. Woo!

A Better Tomorrow

Submitted by donaldchicken

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“There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger!” The Last Bookstore Los Angeles, California

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Dare to dream!

Popular Science

1979 Vol. 214, No. 5

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The Daily Cartoon by Paul Noth: http://nyr.kr/1hKAmY5

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Old station wagons ruled!!!

Popular Science

1979 Vol. 214, No. 5

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RIP. So few real heroes exist in this world. Mandela is one.

Remembering Nelson Mandela

The renowned world leader and civil rights icon passed away today at the age of 95.

Mandela himself was reticent to indulge in the myth-making that surrounded him:

"In real life we deal not with gods, but with ordinary humans like ourselves: men and women who are full of contradictions, who are stable and fickle, strong and weak, famous and infamous," he wrote in a letter to his wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, from prison in 1979.

But his lifetime of action, and transformation from being branded a terrorist and imprisoned by his opponents to a universally-applauded hero for not just his homeland of South Africa, but the whole world, makes him more than one of those “ordinary humans.”

Read our full obituary of Mandela, or follow along Mandela’s incredible life in our timeline.

Photos: Kim Ludbrook / EPA, John Parkin / Associated Press, Jurgen Shadberg / Getty Images

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Truth. In traffic. Hollywood, CA.

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The legendary Black Crowes!

Live @ The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles.

For the first time I was hooked-up with PIT PASSES and the lovely Heather (A.K.A. H-Dub) & I, were front row, on the railing!!!!!

They sounded awesome, were really tight, and they played like half of “Amorica”! …and a blistering “Twice As Hard”.  They’re such a great hybrid of blues rock and a jam band.

An amazing performance and unbelievable experience!

GO SEE THE BLACK CROWES!!!!

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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.  The whole wilderness in unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar.  The very stones seem talkative.  Sympathetic.  Brotherly.  

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.  Places to play in and pray in.  When nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.  This natural beauty hunger is made manifest in our magnificent National Parks.  Nature's sublime wonderlands.  The admiration and joy of the world."  --John Muir

Photo: Vernal Falls, Yosemite Natl. Park, California, USA Copyright Daniel Kiger, 2007

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On The Road...Again!  

Wyoming this time.  Wild Bison, Elk, Deer, Moose, Bald Eagles... AMAZING!!

'MAREKUH THE BEE-YOO-TEE-FULL INDEED!

I love to travel.

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A true American hero!

June 18, 1983: Sally Ride Becomes First American Woman in Space

On this day in 1983, at the age of 32, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. After the voyage, Sally Ride received many honors for her contributions to the field of science and space exploration.

In May 2012, Sally Ride became the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

On July 23, 2012, Sally Ride died at the age of 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

 Visit PBS NewsHour to learn more about Sally Ride.

Photo: Courtesy of NASA