FANTASIES OF CASUALNESS – DISORDER – AND CONTROL So a new person in town complains because he wants a relationship leading to marriage and dates nice women he meets at Mass, but none is interested in any arrangement except “friends with benefits.” He is horrified and asked me about it. I said I was also … More Please Translate These Fragments
I could, but do not have the energy or time, to reproduce my spontaneous speech in class today but it was only the second time I have ever had students applaud and the first time was at the traditional time, at the end of class on the last day. It was in response to certain … More Professor Zero Discusses History
The election was only last week and it is as though years had passed, life seems so different. I was desperately nervous on Election Day despite all the predictions, and it has taken me days to thaw out. I have nationalist sentiments although they are not right wing ones. A student wrote on my Facebook … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: John McCain
All of these things are interrelated and if I had time I would explain to myself how, writing a nice little essay. Instead I will only put them together in the same post. 1. The key issue in Reeducation was the invalidation. You are not valid, your past is not valid, your present is not … More Non Random Bullets
If you had followed me on Twitter today – and I do not “Tweet,” although I do “Facebook” – you would have seen that I: prepared class, gave class, prepared class, gave class, met with students, met with faculty, and did paperwork. All of this took 11 straight hours during which I ate 1/2 of … More Corazonada
These things are at the back of my mind so I am putting them here as a way of aerating my gray matter so it can better do the things it must do today. 1. I have joined InDaWriMo. This was an excellent choice and I recommend it, as it helps very much with focus … More Random Bullets of Working
A. I dreamed and woke up with a three paragraph poem about this in my head, with interesting characters and good images, but it is gone and I do not have time to reconstruct it. Some practical thoughts learned from the poem, about abusive relationships. This is more or less how they proceed: 1. You … More Oneiric
It is the weekend, and this video is what we are singing. At 10 AM EST on Saturday, however, HURRICANE PALOMA was leaving the Cayman Islands as a CATEGORY FOUR STORM and heading to Cuba, where it is expected to make landfall at CATEGORY THREE. C’est fatigant. Axé.
When I first arrived in Bahia I was picked up at the airport by a chauffeur driven Chevette and taken to the house, which turned out to have mango trees and a broad porch with large white columns. On the porch stage center was a matron Velasquez could have painted, holding a small dog, standing … More Visceral Whitemen
1. I am still busy flying the Barack Obama flag. Obama lost in Louisiana almost 2-1, but that does mean more than one in three people are Obama voters, many of them young. They say things like: I was born in 1988. When I heard Obama had won the election, I felt that a great … More On Autonomy
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