This post is a pause and reset for Good Friday and the beginning of the new advertising year. Shop with my blog supporters, y’all, and consider becoming one toi-même. The author of this text was Mayan; he is a skull on a stela of Uaxaclajuun Ub’aah K’awiil. I who narrate am only a performer of … More 18 Rabbit
We have been discussing my identity on this blog. Let there be no doubt: I am Mexican. I was invited to be Mexican long ago, and after some deliberation I accepted. Mexican though I may be, Mexican that I am, I cannot go home because I have expenses, which I am negotiating in the oral … More “Debajo de un rebozo, tapar las penas”
“Mujer andina, te vengo a cantar mis penas y mis dolores,” says the huayno, but for this weekend I wanted to put up Greco-Portuguese and Sephardic music sung by other beautiful women. But video is not embedding for me and anyway I am in Greater Mexico now; in its honor I offer you Mujer ladina, … More Mujer Ladina
The Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich was garroted March 2, 1974. We went down from Jutland at Easter, to spend a week in the sun. I signed up to study in Barcelona, and learned many Lluís Llach songs. This is one of the most beautiful. It is about the 1974 rebellion in Portugal, but I … More On dorm la lluna blanca
Years ago I took a class from this interesting professor, on Mário de Andrade and music. Before Reeducation I did a lot of things like that. Reeducation was not able to believe we could have had any kind of rich experience in our past, and yet we did. Axé.
It is one thing to say that universities have problems. It is another to argue, as Taylor is effectively arguing, that the universities are the problem—that the system that allegedly began with Kant (in fact it began much earlier) has reached the end of its intellectual and social usefulness, and needs to be swept away … More David A. Bell
Axé.
…de tout partout; les Mardi Gras s’en viennent, principalement de Grand Mamou. The Mardi Gras riders are on their way. I am spending this Mardi Gras looking for my cat. But when I lived in New Orleans what I liked about the season were the random events. A tambourine in the distance and then across … More Les mardi gras s’en viennent…
I have heard that during the two years Thoreau spent at Walden, he sent his laundry back to town for doing. This is funny but I actually think it is all right given the nature of his project. “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts,” said Thoreau in Walden, … More Walden
This is Carnaval weekend. I am going to spend it looking for my cat. If it is his body I find, I hope he looks as peaceful as Eurydice, at minute 6:30 of this clip. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 