I was standing in line behind a young man who suddenly turned around so that I saw his face, and it was this face. He turned out to be from Saudi Arabia so it all makes sense, but it was still quite a singular experience. Perhaps that is my visit from the other world this … More Lorca Sighting
At the Hallowe’en party I learned this song and I have a question: was the video shot in New Orleans? It looks like it. The party was on the side of a bayou off the old U.S. 190, the back way to Maringouin. I first drove this road twenty years ago, on the way from … More Afroman
It was for a while the case that rest did not rest me but now it does because I am in serious resistance against Dat Whiteman, the result of which is that rest really is rest. Ergo: resistance enables rest and does not disturb it. Axé.
Too tired to sleep, I am musing on the blog but what the random kids at the corner store said was: “Wow! You have cool shoes. Your whole atmosphere — you don’t seem like someone from here!” Why not I asked, and they said, “Because you have so much energy, and such a calm energy!” … More Down on the Corner
I am overworked and I know it is a crime, but that has not been the point of the last two months of posts. My small point is, do not overdramatize because I can show you overwork and this person can show you still more. My larger and real point, and this is an individual’s … More Rainbow Sign
For someone I wish I knew how to get in touch with more directly, this is a picture of our good man I took today. Grab it girl, I shouldn’t keep this post up too long. Vous-autres, sorry for the mystery; I will explain or have explained, if you have been with me long enough … More A Smoke Signal
“My own University (U.C. Berkeley) was also approached in an inappropriate manner during that same Winter of 2005-06, but such untoward pressures were simply rebuffed. That, in the end, probably goes right to the heart of what really separates a top-flight university with one of the top Colleges of Engineering in the nation (and the … More Raymond B. Seed
And I quote: “At least he’s not in jail.” Axé. Lagniappe this election day: my post on abusive relationships, at the Seminario.
The Iraq War “ends,” but: The final drawdown will leave behind thousands of private security contractors and State Department employees. “As promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,” Obama said during his announcement. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.” Is … More A Privatized War
I do not agree, really, but I am charmed. We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our … More A Petition from 1845
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