A Love Extraordinary As Any Other

I stumbled across this today. I’m not usually one for silent films (call it a feat of a short attention span on my part) but this one was interesting. “The Kiss” (1896). Probably purely for the controversy— if it wasn’t for the apparent critical outrage (“The spectacle of the prolonged pasturing on each other’s lips was beastly enough in life size on the stage but magnified to gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.”) I probably wouldn’t have looked twice at it. But it kind of adds to it, in a way. Nothing like some good old fashioned haters to make your work look that little bit more badass:

I also have some sort of growing fascination with Laika, the Russian space dog and one of the first animals ever sent to space, partly because of the excitement of it all (I love me some 50's space program enthusiasm) but also some kind of appreciation of the kitschy weirdness that can only come about by sending a domestic animal into space. The stamps are particularly delightful:

("Laika, first traveller into the cosmos")

And then of course, there's shit like this:

(... no words.)

Currently resisting the temptation to buy a pair of Laika earrings while simultaneously questioning my life choices.

But if dogs can go to space, what can't I do? Amirite?!

This is the point in which I leave you. 
Keep it classy. x