Tell me anything you know about Ricardo Rivera Aybar. I really need to know. My notes on one novel, taken in a sleepy library, are: Lucanor Arias y Reynaldos, early colonizer, goes with 5 ships, and does not realize he will found a variegated tribe, a family tree with many different branches. He leaves Spain … More El reino de Mandinga
I have always considered myself preacademic in some way, but perhaps it is really postacademic — and perhaps neither pre- nor post- has to do with time … they could be currents. Postmodernism, Calinescu said, is a movement within modernism, so… I would rather live in California, but I did not relate at all to … More Things to consider
These include commenting on blogs with “capchas.” They also include finishing my MOOC, which is not worth it and is too much trouble. It has been interesting, though. Axé.
The neoliberal world and the corporate university have made an annoying appropriation of the verb “to learn.” To listen to advertising and infomercials is to “learn” or “learn more.” Training sessions on the use of Moodle and WebCT, or on the newest university policies, are “learning.” Now, my Coursera MOOC “invites” me to “visit” the … More Sobre el verbo aprender
Its soundtrack is by the Kronos Quartet. I have missed it in San Francisco but this link has opening dates for the whole country. Axé.
In Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, page 397, we find a notice printed on Barcelona music hall programs in 1938: JUST A MOMENT, COMRADE The United Syndicate of Public Spectacles begs you to have the greatest respect for all the comrades you are going to see on stage. They are workers just as … More Vallejo
My grandfather and my (great) uncle Dmitri were football fans and Cal fans, but they rooted for Stanford due to scandalous decisions made by the Cal coach in 1928. My father was 4 at the time and did not understand the details of the scandal. The result, however, is that he was taken from Berkeley … More “An athletic organization posing as an academic establishment”
I am going on vacation. Listen to this sonic vévé. We will all meditate. Axé.
Stanford, CA Princeton, NJ Storrs Mansfield, CT Evanston, IL Cambridge, MA La Jolla, CA Amherst, MA West Lafayette, IN Ithaca, NY Davis, CA Urbana, IL College Park, MD Somerville, MA State College, PA Ann Arbor, MI Oxford, OH Blacksburg, VA Chapel Hill, NC Stony Brook, NY Provo, UT East Lansing, MI Lexington, MA Allendale, MI … More US Cities with the most brain activity
Staged after the death of the lovers and their father, and the loss of the family lands and fortune, María asks the reader to mourn a world that felt moribund well before its passing. The noble characters seem marked for death: María suffers from the epilepsy that also felled her mother, and Efraín’s father spends … More 365 — now I have finished my clarion call, and can go into the material, but is this repetitive already?
coldhearted scientist وداد 