It is too expensive and self-indulgent for me to buy as a grocery, but the Point Reyes Farmstead needs support during COVID and is very good. I’m interested in the Quinta cheese and I am thinking of it for a birthday present in March. Axé.

Is Liddell’s Constantinople and Istanbul insufferably Orientalist? Why do both he and Pamuk say Istanbul is so mournful? It doesn’t seem so to me, although I have not seen it, and I wonder what Said would think. This Nation book review indicates that in After Said I should read Lauren Goodlad’s piece on worlding 19th … More Les livres

Workplace harassment. It is has not been clear to me what the correct interpretation of a certain situation is. a. Time to draw a REALLY firm line. b. No, that has already been done long since and many times, this is actual harassment, it is time to start documenting. c. No, it’s not harassment, it’s … More Pour développer

I need to write an abstract!

What is neoliberalism / what happened to Mexican film because of it / what is transnational Mexican film like / what image(s) of Mexico and Mexicanness, of nation and self, does it construct? I was going to start with Amores perros We’ll see: Amores perros**Como agua para chocolate** Danzón [I or we own it, but … More Films for class

Here is more reading to do, of some interest. Axé.