This music video could be good to use in class. I must teach Spanish literature from 1700 to 2010 soon, a topic about which I do not know enough to create a non-stiff survey. I usually teach it with a set of representative texts. I survive it, but I am not truly current in this … More Río Ebro
It is the weekend, so we must sing, and this is Pasatono, the wonderful Mixtec string orchestra I discovered in Oaxaca de Juárez. Axé.
The Professor Zero character is intended to resemble some rather severe individuals like Xolotl, Uaxaclajuun Ub’aah K’awiil (18 Rabbit), Augusto C. Sandino and Benito Juárez. But Professor Zero has come to resemble some aspects of the present narrator I would rather not have taken on even in real life. Lately I have been looking forward … More Among Stelae
This is Yasmin Levi. “Mother, I want to go to Jerusalem, to eat of its fruits and drink of its waters.” Her next show is this Tuesday at 8 PM, for those of you who may be in Istanbul. Axé.
Mother, I want to know where the singers come from, for I find them very gallant and I want to meet them; with their fascinating lyrics that I want to learn. Where are they from? Could they be from Havana? From proud Santiago? They come from the hill, and they sing on the plain. They … More Son de Maringouin
Today the Sun moved into Gemini and it became summer here on the Tropic of Cancer. I have mysteriously recovered from this semester and we are walking to Oriental rhythms along the quais, as the oil washes in. I am about to recede into my stela at Copán, now in the country called Honduras, to … More Gemini Sun
This was in 1996 in Green Ranch, Texas, at the Monterey Well #1. “A river of oil is seen running from this well. The oil is spewing out despite the ‘blowout preventers’ being closed. One location over a new well is to be drilled today, in today’s new world of high oil prices. http://www.EnergyInvestmentGroup.com is … More Music Video: Texas Oil Well Blowout
This is subtitled, so you can listen and read. I have felt saudades all week for different things. I am observing vegetables from the garden on an earthenware plate. They look like a Rembrandt. Axé.
This is extremely interesting, but what about moving directly to anarchy? While waiting, we must see this film. Axé.
On May 13, 1888, slavery was abolished in Brazil. One can compare dates for this throughout the Americas, and it is instructive. In news of my own, less important emancipation of which this blog is an instrument, I might be adjusting at last to Maringouin. This is very interesting since I have been here a … More Treze de Maio
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