I keep telling myself that New Orleans just is seedy with spots of glory, that is its nature, but the fact is that it has gone downhill since my heyday in it in concrete ways such as the following: – the public schools have all been converted to charters – the Times-Picayune only publishes three … More Nuevos apuntes del fin de semana
– criminal justice as a racialized system of control – the domestic war on crime is part of the global wars on drugs and on terror – the prison industrial complex and other technologies of domination which: capture, immobilize, dehumanize, liquidate – the system must be uprooted, not reformed – email quigley77@gmail.com – the criminal … More Algunos apuntes del fin de semana
We drank this nero d’avola, a wine from a grape I did not know about. It is grown, made, and bottled on a fief that calls itself a fief (the Feudo Principi di Butera) and has existed since at least 1543. We toasted research, which we are now undertaking in rebellion against some of the … More To Research
This is 12th century Occitan, and it resembles Catalan. It is part of a Cathar ritual. (The Middle Ages are such a strange country, I find.) [2.1] Nos em vengut denant Deu, e denant vos, e denant l’azordenament de santa Gleisa per recebre servisi, e perdo, e penedensia de tuit li nostri pecat li qual … More Occitan
At last I put the bicycle together and rode it back and forth from work. I have not had a bicycle with good gears except for a few hours once, decades ago, before it was stolen and I can now say that bicycles with good gears are an entirely superior experience. It is stressful to … More En bicicleta
For Labor Day I worked on repairing my deck, and then went kayaking in a lake. After that, I fixed bicycles. I called a neighbor to borrow a tool, and gave him a beer. All of this was very American, with that Indian summer feeling of water and sun and and exercise and sweat. Now … More An American day
I have a lot more time in the day now that I do not spend time dealing with self doubt or handling harrassment at work. Harrassment at work was ended because someone finally took my complaint seriously and acted on it. But this was a matter of luck, not a matter of hard work on … More Mediodía estancado entre relentes
It exists. Does the (laudable) reduction in OPP population — laudable because pictures of it look like pictures of the Middle Passage — mean fewer people are kept in jail, or that they are just housed elsewhere? Axé.
Even as amusement during a hurricane I did not have the patience to watch all of Lars von Trier’s 2011 film, although I did see the spectactular end. It reminded me of Tree of Life, which is from the same era, but I will say that this film is less meaningless than Tree of Life. … More Melancholia
Isaac is downgraded to a tropical storm but it will stay another 30 hours or so, it seems, so we are still on watch. Last year around this time I had fairly serious roof damage, including interior wall damage from Lee which was also a mere tropical storm. In the past my typical hurricane roof … More The Thunderstorm
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