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Monday 4 April 2016

There is a guy at my school

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World in focus – best photos for March 31, 2016

French riot police take cover during a protest by unions and students in Paris
: photo by Thomas Samson / AFP, 31 March 2016


At night above the street the colors of the ruined trees 
repeating themselves in the flashes of headlights
no interval wave after oncoming wave of cars
approaching far then near then fading back into black
perhaps perhaps perhaps   
                                      this must be the place
where the gentleman with no pants said he lived 
in absence there is nothing to be sad about
in presence there is nothing to think about
but why be sad or think about anything
or be alive and old in any of this alone or with others  
when you could be young and full of anger 
about everything that made you what you are...
or not 

 
World in focus – best photos for March 31, 2016
 

Child models gather outside the venue of a fashion show during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week in Beijing: photo by How Hwee Young / EPA, 31 March 2016

Female Kurdish Peshmerga attend their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho

Female Kurdish Peshmerga attend their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate in Iraq: photo by Ari Jalal /Reuters, 31 March 2016

Female Kurdish Peshmerga attend their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho

Female Kurdish Peshmerga attend their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate in Iraq: photo by Ari Jalal /Reuters, 31 March 2016

People walk during a polluted day in Shenyang

People walk during a polluted day in Shenyang: photo by Reuters, 31 March 2016

People walk during a polluted day in Shenyang

People walk during a polluted day in Shenyang: photo by Reuters, 31 March 2016

World in focus – best photos for March 31, 2016

People walk during a polluted day in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China
: photo by Reuters, 31 March 2016

World in focus – best photos for March 31, 2016

Yorkshire Terriers sit on a miniature car for photographs at the ‘Interpets’ international pet fair in Tokyo, Japan
: photo by Franck Robichon / EPA, 31 March 2016

World in focus – best photos for March 31, 2016

Opposition parliamentary campaigners dressed as Superman perform on a street in Iksan, southwestern South Korea
: photo by Yonhap / EPA, 31 March 2016


Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived

Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived | by efo

Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived (Philadelphia): photo by efo, 11 March 2016

Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived | by efo

Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived (Philadelphia): photo by efo, 11 March 2016

Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived | by efo

Where the gentleman with no pants said he lived (Philadelphia): photo by efo, 11 March 2016


Untitled (Newark): photo by J Perez, 12 May 2013


Untitled (Newark): photo by J Perez, 17 September 2013


Untitled (Newark): photo by J Perez, 25 May 2013
 

Untitled (Newark): photo by J Perez, 25 May 2013
  


Untitled (Newark): photo by J Perez, 25 May 2013


Reality and fiction (Stockholm): photo by Jimmy Dovholt, 25 November 2010


Electricity (El Cerrito, California)
: photo by efo, 8 February 2014



[Untitled]: photo by J Perez, 25 May 2013

There is a checkpoint at my school

Above: Pro- Palistinian students set up a mock Israeli checkpoint near Sather Gate at UC Berke ley. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle  

Pro-Palestinian students set up a mock Israeli checkpoint near Sather Gate at UC Berkeley: photo by Leah Mills / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April 2016

David McCleary (right) takes video as Palestinians’ supporters role-play during a mock Israeli checkpoint demonstration near Sather Gate at UC Berkeley. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle  

David McCleary (right) takes video as Palestinians’ supporters role-play during a mock Israeli checkpoint demonstration near Sather Gate at UC Berkeley: photo by Leah Mills / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April 2016

Protesters role-play detained Palestinians at the border during the mock demonstration to raise awareness about Israeli-Palestinian relations and protest Israel’s security policies. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle 

Protesters role-play detained Palestinians at the border during the mock demonstration to raise awareness about Israeli-Palestinian relations and protest Israel’s security policies: photo by Leah Mills / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April 2016

A person role playing a Palestinian is grabbed by another person role playing an Israeli soldier (all of whom preferred to not give their names) during a mock Israeli check-point demonstration near the Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus March 29, 2016 in Berkeley, Calif. The event was sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and was part of a week of events meant to raise awareness about the Palestinian situation. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle 

A person role playing a Palestinian is grabbed by another person role playing an Israeli soldier (all of whom preferred to not give their names) during a mock Israeli check-point demonstration near the Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus March 29, 2016 in Berkeley, California. The event was sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and was part of a week of events meant to raise awareness about the Palestinian situation.: photo by Leah Mills / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April 2016

Right: Yasmeen Ahmed and David McCleary construct a wall. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle

 Yasmeen Ahmed and David McCleary construct a wall: photo by Leah Mills / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April 2016

Protesters who preferred not to give their names role play as Israeli soldiers with a person role playing a Palestinian during a mock Israeli check-point demonstration near the Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus March 29, 2016 in Berkeley, Calif. The event was sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and was part of a week of events meant to raise awareness about the Palestinian situation. Photo: Leah Millis, The Chronicle
Protesters who preferred not to give their names role play as Israeli soldiers with a person role playing a Palestinian during a mock Israeli check-point demonstration near the Sather Gate on the University of California, Berkeley campus March 29, 2016 in Berkeley, Calif. The event was sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and was part of a week of events meant to raise awareness about the Palestinian situation. . photo by Leah Mills / San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April 2016

There is a guy at my school


WHO DID THIS? WHO DO I BLAME FOR MY NIGHTMARES HMM? #TedCruzIsTheZodiacKiller: image via TheLitCritGuy @ TheLitCritGuy, 3 April 2016


"There is a guy at my school...": Jessica Kanra Murphy via Ted Cruz Is The Zodiac Killer, 23 March 2016



The receipt for these bumper stickers is AMAZING #tedcruzisthezodiackiller #decision2016: image via Angela Speight @angelaspeight, 3 April 2016



 whew! went on a great run today :): image via Kevin Tang @Yolo_Tengo, 25 February 2016


Kid grabs selfie with @tedcruz  at Wisconsin campaign stop today, writes pretty epic caption (cc: @darth): : image via Frank Thorp V @frankthorp, 29 March 2016  Wisconsin, USA


  
Wait a second, there's ANOTHER #tedcruz selfie from yesterday on Instagram with a Zodiac Killer reference! whew! : image via Frank Thorp V @frankthorp, 29 March 2016  Wisconsin, USA


be careful who you call ugly in middle school: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 28 March 2016 



be careful who you call ugly in middle school: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 28 March 2016

 
when your crush says "i need a serial killer like you" and youre a serial killer like you: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 26 March 2016


we got em boys: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 25 March 2016


the LAPD just got a new letter which came from a man claiming to be the zodiac killer and this is it: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 23 March 2016



 even donald trump knows now: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 22 March 2016


i miss these memories!! #InternationalDayofHappiness: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 20 March 2016

   
 this is me: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 20 March 2016

 
[Untitled]: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 19 March 2016


when she gave you the best you ever had but metro boomin doesnt trust her: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 19 March 2016



[Untitled]: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 2016


Proof #23: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 2016



Proof #23: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 20196



Proof #21: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 2016


this is why i have trust issues: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 2016


Proof #5 this was on an episode of wheel of fortune: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 2016



Proof #2 you can do a faceswap and it will look the same: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 16 March 2016


Proof #1: image via Zodiac Killer Ted @TedTheZodiac, 15 March 2016

this is why i have trust issues


Trump's probability of winning the nomination drops: betting site
: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 1 April 2016


#BREAKING @WonderElectrodeImplants can lift your mood from "Dismal" to "Superbright" in less that .02 seconds @Hildebeest 2016
: image via Liars for President @Liars4Prez, 1 April 2016


Assad: Look at me! I saved Christian relics and ancient Palmyra, too! : image via ReutersOpinion @Reuters Opinion, 31 March 2016


[Untitled]: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 1 April 2016


[Untitled]
: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 1 April 2016


[Untitled]: image via baraa al halabi @baraaalhalabi, 1 April 2016

Sunset in Srinagar


World in focus – best photos for March 31, 2016

A Kashmiri man paddles his boat on Dal Lake during sunset in Srinagar
: photo by Tauseef Mustafa / AFP, 31 March 2016

4 comments:

tpw said...

Wow. Ted Cruz is scarier than we thought. Where are the birthers when you need them?

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

Thanks Tom, efo's photo of "where the gentleman with no pants said he lived" isn't coming up (disappeared?) would I could see it . . . a checkpoint at my school, "when you could be young and full of anger" . . . "when your crush says "i need a serial killer like you" and youre a serial killer like you" --- boy, is Ted Cruz scary . . .

Hilton said...

It seems your waking life is such a dream collector - so many evocative and scary dreams and words - that I can't imagine your sleeping dreams. Zodiac or not, Ted Cruz is a killer, even more frightening than Trump - and I want both creeps out of my dreams!

TC said...

Thank you, gentlemen... and I am going to take it on trust that everyone is wearing pants, here.

Yes, Ted is dreamy, in that horror movie nightmare way we can't even permit ourselves to entertain without extreme discomfort. Though... maybe later. This afternoon, say.