I spent five days there. The first two, I did not bring the laptop because I did not realize you could plug them in and mine had short battery life. Then I realized this was because I needed a new battery, so I took the computer to the shop and was without it for two … More Biblioteca de Catalunya
Solving the SNCF mystery. The sun in the cathedral, with its palm trees. The Archive of Aragon, with Columbus’ original capitulations. Getting a library card. The port. The theatre listings, the Café de la Opera. The tourists, the trendy shops. Buying green shoes. The rain. Lost and there were no locals to ask for directions, … More Some notes on Barcelona today
It has commercials, but here you get to see how it was to go up the Hudson, and visit prisoners in 1974. Axé.
Or one week of goodness, although I am hoping to get three. I had four days of peaceful writing at home, and four days of excellent work at a summer institute. Otherwise this summer has had more problems and far less calm than had been foreseen or planned. Now I am going on three weeks … More Quatre jours de paix
Journalists, exiles, editors, underground conspirators, this was by definition an intelligentsia without positions or place in the institutions of the state. Read all about it. Axé.
Una piedra en el camino / me enseñó que mi destino / era rodar y rodar / rodar y rodar / rodar y rodar… That is from the most hilariously machista and probably gun-slinging song that could exist, but look what a beautiful voice Vicente Fernández had when he was young. The song comes to me … More Rezar y rezar
I am interested in this piece. Axé.
Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a … More Thomas Brudholm
“The campaign on Dryades was calculated to start just before Easter because that’s when people bought lots of clothes,” Elie said. Black students from Xavier, Southern University of New Orleans and Dillard, along with a few white students from Tulane and University of New Orleans, joined picketers on Dryades. In mid-1960, former Xavier student-body head … More New Orleans Then
This is The trouble with normal, a 1981 song lyric I did not know. I notice that Cockburn had the same insight I did, then. Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it’s repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic … More Bruce Cockburn
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