It is not a great film but I liked it, perhaps because it was cathartic; that summer was traumatic for Nick Carraway and really, trauma and interpretation are the topics of this journalistic article I have been writing. I want to publish its two versions and a follow-up partly as revenge or payback for academic … More The Great Gatsby
“Race was the color of the system, but the system was not about race; it was about power.” Then there is this one, with a Miles Davis soundtrack: Axé.
Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1960) is a documentary film made at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, and filmed and directed by noted commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern and the film director Aram Avakian, who also edited the movie. The Columbia Records jazz producer, George Avakian, was the musical director of … More Bert Stern
The amount I have spent this year trying to find shoes that will address my foot problem is not consonant with the budget of one who is trying to save for travel, but I now think I need this shoe for medical reasons: They are a current style, so I do not have to acquire … More Z shopping fantasies while writing and answering mail…
This may be one of those essays that seem more intelligent than they are because the stiltedness of the non-native Spanish becomes poetic. Still, I liked it. It begins by talking about the value given to originality and authenticity in art. The idea of authenticity leads to a consideration of origins and originality, says my … More Sobre la autenticidad
Paulo Freire is in this post if you read closely. Axé.
I have found the best Mycra Pac raincoat and it is the long parachute coat, but the one I saw was more amazing than this one as it was reversible to a mesh printed with an amazing comic book and bordered in black. It has a drawstring around the hem. It is futuristic looking indeed … More Comic book print
Learn all of Shakespeare. Start talking that way and remember many good quotations and their contexts. Get into the administration of the university and comment upon it in early modern English, using the quotations as well. Lily-livered boy! … My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight. I think, but dare not speak. Axé.
“Make thick my blood.” Axé.
I think I could go to the beach here. There is an old hotel where you can stay four nights for the price of three. The price of three is apparently $221 … for which I would get four … whereas two nights at my place in Houston comes to $234 … and in Houston … More Apalachicola and Carrabelle
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