For this weekend we have a featured blog, which I found by chance – Guanaguanare which aggregates Trinidadian music and culture, and which has allowed me to share its Legba sign. We will imagine we can go to the Rio Scenarium, about which I know thanks to one of this blog’s friends, and read about … More De la musique pour le weekend
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This is more or less where I stood for Bacchus, and the long float is the Bacchagator. I love the torchlit night parades, with knights on horseback and everyone so well masked that they look like magical beings. Axé.
Maybe what I want to hear is that this prenominate war is natural and necessary and a sign of Towering Intellect: maybe I want a pep-talk, because I have to tell you I don’t enjoy this war one bit. I think my fiction is better than it was, but writing is also less Fun than … More David Foster Wallace
The St. Augustine High School Marching 100 on Napoleon Avenue, New Orleans, 19 February 2012. Axé.
Here are the Mardi Gras riders coming into Eunice, LA today. Axé.
Everyone should experience New Orleans Mardi Gras and I thought the right song by Martinho da Vila might be allusive enough to pass on the feeling. I found a good rhythm but these lyrics and video, while not Carnavalesque, are news and history and should be disseminated. When this wave passes, I will take you … More Quando essa onda passar
Out of laziness I went to a large meeting with no recording device and no computer, and took notes entirely by hand. My notes were better than ever and I was totally alert – as alert as in large lecture classes as an undergraduate. I had not felt so young, intelligent and competent for some … More Low Technology
What the State Department says at present: You should defer non-essential travel to the state of Zacatecas except the city of Zacatecas where you should exercise caution. The regions of the state bordering Durango and Coahuila as well as the cities of Fresnillo and Fresnillo-Sombrete and surrounding area are particularly dangerous. The northwestern portion of … More Zacatecas
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coldhearted scientist وداد 