take some time to look at these. you’ll thank me later 🙂
via buzzfeed via cecile
by henry jun wah lee
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via aaron
as our plane angled across nevada towards las vegas, I looked out the window and saw something unexpected. we were flying low just above a cloud bank, near our final approach, and the window was filled with fluffy white. and there, pacing us, was the perfect shadow of our airplane, spotlighted by a triple full-circle rainbow.
the sun was directly to the right of the aircraft, leaving me (window seat, left side) in just the right position to see the shadow. as we passed different clouds the shadow moved closer or farther away, the halo expanded and contracted, sharper and fuzzier, the colors got softer and then became more vivid. I wondered how many people on the plane noticed it too; I wondered how many humans had ever seen this unusual and beautiful phenomenon.
tomorrow I leave for illinois, and I’m staying with cecile for one night. sadly, I won’t see this little cutie, but I WILL get some irazu, so I suppose that will have to do.
first of all, I had no idea the 80s version of this song was by george harrison. probably because I was five when it came out, and I was not really paying attention to who sang the songs I liked (not that I pay a lot of attention now either). second, this lesser-aired music video stars alexis denisof! behold: a sampling of photos of alexis denisof during his super-hot run on ‘angel’:
read about it over at scientific american