Le log du 14 août

14 August. Got hold of Ruffinelli book. 15 August. Got some study abroad things done. 16 August. More study abroad. And some bureaucratic progress. I am behind but the main thing is, I am feeling all right. I have to keep feeling all right and not do anything self-destructive. 17-21 August. From the list below, … More Le log du 14 août

Outside Lands

I learned that the Foo Fighters are headlining Outside Lands tonight.  Shaquille O’Neal has become a performance DJ, and he was there yesterday. And DJ Qbert who basically invented the scratch form of hiphop, was there with his original crew, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz. One is to see the documentary Scratch. And there is more to … More Outside Lands

Dependency theory and literary history: the case of Latin America

Here is the text (from my library, it won’t work for you) as published in the Minnesota Review in 1975. I’ve downloaded it. I’ve been carrying around a paper copy of it as a NYU working paper for 48 years. It’s still fresh. There is a lot in it and I carried it around because … More Dependency theory and literary history: the case of Latin America

Le log du 1 août

31 July. Did hair, discussed brow and eye dyeing, contacted dentist, talked to colleague about Spain, thought about AI, set up voicemail on phone. 1 August. Had stayed up too late, which meant a slow morning. I did a few necessary things. Cool was that I did open university e-mail and there is a home … More Le log du 1 août

Holiday Presents

I think now instead of buy things when they come up, I will get holiday presents, like Christmas and birthday presents. My current list, not necessarily all for the same year, follows. What I can get before then are stage makeup as I run out of it and urgently, a little powerbank / generator, like … More Holiday Presents