It’s cold. I heard a popping sound last night from the corner of the house and it seems to have been the siding cracking. I caulked and painted it four hurricanes ago. Now there is a rotten, frozen hole in it so fragile I am afraid to touch it. What stands between me and the … More Sounds on the Street
On teaching, via A Gentleman’s C. Here comes more classic Branford, but do not fail to click on that link. Axé.
It is the weekend, so we must sing. I sing that I am leaving in the morning. I sing that despite the difficulties that tend to come to me in this town and that I tend to bring to it, I am sad to go. I sing that I want to come back. I did … More Luís Vaz de Camões: “Com que voz”
It is Twelfth Night, so it is Carnival time. The Phunny Phorty Phellows as well as the new Krewe of Jeanne d’Arc, Maid of New Orleans, roll tonight. From Open Source Food, here is the marzipan-filled King Cake I like. One great Carnival reveler was ORSINO, DUKE OF ILLYRIA: If music be the food of … More Rosca de Reyes
I never get over missing the Western landscapes and Woody Guthrie’s song “Roll On, Columbia” never fails to make me nostalgic. The video has majestic photographs, but listen closely to the song lyrics. They are racist, colonialist, anti-environmentalist, and although Guthrie would never admit it, they favor big business. These are some errors in modernization … More Limits of Modernity
A few days ago I was standing on a New Orleans wharf watching the ships come in, and just after noon today, Pacific Standard Time, I will be on a San Francisco dock waiting for the Larkspur Ferry. If you fly to San Francisco from Houston this morning, you may see me on the plane. … More On the Docks
This is Dance With Me by Nouvelle Vague. * Shopping Update: This week I have acquired a bicycle pump. I want the Mad River Synergy 12 canoe/kayak hybrid. Axé.
MUSIC TO GRADE BY It is a working weekend, so we will sing work songs! I never paid a great deal of attention to the Creedence Clearwater Revival but I associate them with California because when I was a child, they were on all the radios. As a result of this they are the soundtrack … More Creedence Clearwater Revival
It is the weekend, so we will sing! Here is the Rankin Family on Fare The Well, Love. I am singing that I am back from the Lousiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and that the visit was not too depressing this time somehow. The Death Row guards are always so nice, and so glad to … More The Rankin Family
Seu Jorge and Ana Carolina are not Reeducated, they are free. One of the important things I study so as to repair myself from Reeducation is how not to take things to heart. In Reeducation one had to take everything to heart because it was supposed one did not feel, and needed to learn how. … More Seu Jorge e Ana Carolina
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