Clearly, next year I will have to make Danish Christmas cookies at Thanksgiving and ripen them in tins. For this year I must go to the fancy store after herring, salmon, prunes, rye bread, red cabbage, songbirds and candles. 23 December is the day to do it. Very basic versions of the Scandinavian menus, modified … More Brave old menus (and brave new consulting business), revised
Spanish literature is not the prefiguring, emanation, or multiple expression of a Herderian national soul, as we were taught. If we must say it is one thing then it is the sardonic laughter of witty people who caught in an irrational situation and commenting upon it. Spanish literature is an adjective, not a noun. It … More Qu’est-ce que la littérature … espagnole?
“En un piso de la calle 52 Este de Nueva York, ante los ojos conmovidos de una mujer y un hombre que oyen tras las ventanas cerradas el viento del invierno y el rumor como de catarata de la ciudad a la que asoman muy pocas veces y encuentran en el baúl de Ramiro Retratista … More El jinete polaco
The younger set believes in going to the mall Saturday evenings after work. Had I not been induced to try it I would not have known that today you can have DKNY jeans for the price of Lee. So here they are, the Mercer Street Skinny, which means my new look is almost complete. I … More Brave new fashion (and brave new consulting business)
It is now winter, that beautiful season of cold and growing light. The Sun has moved into Capricorn, the best sign. To celebrate winter we will look at the fountain of Cibeles in Madrid, with snow, and the stela of 18 Rabbit, our ruler at Copán. Sur le Noël, morte saison Lorsque les loups vivent … More Winter
Here you can watch Chinese movies, as revealed by Hattie. China reminds me of California but only some of these videos are in Cantonese, which is what we would speak in California. China appears to be modern in many ways, but not in teaching methodology; I think this is how the students here, also old … More Zhongwen Movies
Here is a marvelous film on civilization and barbarism with which I may start the culture course in the spring, even though it does not involve Spain. Meanwhile, in news of current barbarism, consider: The contrast here is not only between the civility of the children and the cruelty of the shooter, but between what … More Civilization and barbarism
While I resent the way the French treat the Spanish at my university; while I deny that French Louisiana is all Acadian and that Louisiana is all French; and while I, a skull on a stela at Copán, do not love France in the way I might if I were an upper class postcolonial criollo; … More On French
Speaking of places to live, here is an interesting one, on an interesting site. Observe all the apartments, in the list of links at the left. Depending on which tab you have chosen at the top, you will have different links at the left; some pages offer many interesting links to apartments and lofts in … More Vivienda
The rain is so hard it keeps waking us up. Here is another, very interesting meme, from Momo: The 100 “Greatest” Documentaries In November 2012, POV asked its viewers, “What do you think are the greatest documentaries of all time?” Viewers were allowed to define “greatest” however they wished, whether that meant the most expertly … More Another meme
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