I am an honorary Mexican, so I get to like this video especially. In the black felt hat Obama looks like a Louisiana man. Check out further selections from the diverse selection of beats at the brilliant Obama Jukebox – from the middle aged white couple tangoing for Obama to the Mighty Sparrow who has … More El 4 de marzo en Texas
I won a prize today in my piece of the academic industrial complex. C’est un valuable prize. I have won prizes as valuable before, but never when I needed them as much as I do this one. And it being the weekend, and I not having renounced pleasure for Lent, we will seriously sing. Axé.
That was the Facebook Song. In this post we also have links to the songs of YouTube, WordPress, and the Web 2.0 in general. H/T Momo. Axé.
I voted, and then danced down the street just like this. It is the weekend, so we will sing; this video was found by Parlancheq, who leads us to further fascinating images of Bolivian carnaval. In honor of Bolivia, a brilliant country, we will also listen to the Kjarkas on Imillitay: Muyuspa muyuspa imillitay korik’entijinay … More Carnaval boliviano
Yesterday at sunset someone knocked on my door and it was a man selling shrimp he had caught out in the Gulf that morning for $3.25 a pound. I bought twelve pounds for $39, which if it really is twelve pounds is a decent deal. The bags had a lot of water in them, though, … More Mardi Gras
A friend informs me that I am in utter rebellion against superficiality. It is interesting that she puts it that way; I would have only said I did not like superficiality. But it appears I am in utter rebellion against it. Reeducation said I was unfeeling but, I now discern, only meant I was not … More On Authenticity
Now we will sing. This is Narciso Martínez, hurricane of the Río Grande Valley (AKA el valle). We are singing because my stomach ache turns out to have been not a mystery of my organism but a stomach ache which has plagued the entire town for five days, and because it is over. Axé.
Esoteric reading for this week: Escrivania by Jesús Sepúlveda. Although I am not terribly impressed with this particular collection it is inspiring just by existing and by being complex. Someone had the ideas for it went so far as to polish them. And poetry is deep, and although classes have started I vow to make … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Jesús Sepúlveda, Barbara Ehrenreich, James Lee Burke
The images here are dated but the content is not. I had not thought of Donovan in a long time, but I was reminded recently of how ethereal his voice still is, and how prevalent it was on long ago radios as we rode to beaches, where sometimes sun would break through and other times, … More Love Like Heaven
Let Me Ride, recorded January 15, 1935. Axé.
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