This place is superior to my present location, as Ubuntu 11.04 is superior to Windows. Seriously. This Dell Windows box I have in the office, upon which I am now typing at 5:50 PM, used to be much fancier than anything I had at home but it pales in comparison to the post-IBM laptop I … More Tepoztlan
We went over to Lafayette, to this store called Right On Fashions, to see whether we might buy Stetson hats. It seems they are $125 hats, but the store could “let us have them” for $99 plus tax. Yeah, right we said. Nobody knows the trouble I seen, nobody knows the sorrow. Axé.
28 June, 1915 – 29 August, 2011 and had shows scheduled. Axé.
This is tight. Goodnight, Irene. Axé.
I became quite interested in this song when my cat, who may have been Turkish, disappeared earlier this year. He celebrates his eleventh birthday today and his sixth month of disappeared status Friday. When he was first absent I would sing this lullaby in case he was hurt or scared somewhere, and to calm myself. … More 29 August 2005
See the Northern Gaijin. “A comparative cultural study of the two attempts at creating a utopian community by bring in an outside group into a different culture would be an interesting research paper for someone,” says he, and it is true. I think the N G must have lived in this area at one time. … More On Magnaville and Fordlândia
La Selva, Salomón de. Tropical Town and Other Poems. Houston: Arte Público, 1999. 978-1558852358. $27. We have two copies of this book and I almost put it on an acquisitions list again; I seem to have fetishized it. I appear to believe that ownership of this book signals that our library is on its way … More On Commodity Fetishism
Not From the Tourist Board Student: There is a very dark side to that famous Cajun joie de vivre and all the other forms of insistence that Louisiana is a happy place. Professor Zero: The poverty, the political hierarchies, and the colonial social and economic structure? Student: Those things, yes, but also the domestic violence, … More Numa sala de jantar domingueira, lendo jornal…
Afternoon is fading in Maringouin and I did not get to Rising Tide, which must have been an adrenalin filled event since Hurricane Irene made landfall as a Category One storm in North Carolina this morning. I have written Eric Cantor: Bayou Maringouin, LA. Today marks the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the Hurricane … More Irene, Good Night
This song is for that Spanish Professor and Clarissa. It is truly American, and it explains a great deal. * I hope, but cannot promise, to be at Rising Tide today. This year August 29 falls again on a Monday, as it did in 2005. Classes had just started and things were hectic, and we were … More Gates of Eden
