demnagvasalias:

“The picture was taken before she was famous,” Michals remembers. “I had simply been told she was super talented and big things were in the wings. We went up town and ran around the Marquis theatre and had a lot of fun. I asked her to dance and she was as joyful as she seems in the photograph, just radiant.”

meryl streep photographed by duane michals, 1975. 

onion-souls:

sexhaver:

tilthat:

TIL that until 2006 Russian Cosmonauts carried weapons into space. This included a pistol, shotgun, and machete. The purpose of these weapons was to defend the Cosmonauts from wolves, bears and other wildlife after their return trip to the Siberian wilderness

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there’s something poetic about the idea of surviving the most inhospitable environment in the universe and the several-mile fall from it through the power of technology and then being lain low by a fucking bear

And the idea that Russians are always, even in cislunar space, ready to fight bears