I have taken today, which was a beautiful day, off and dedicated it to doing very little beyond reading blogs. Clarissa’s department is being turned from Foreign Languages and Literatures to World Languages and Cultures. Why do you think people are so anti-literary? I, too, dislike it but I have an advantage over some people … More On literature, dolça metzina
While I resent the way the French treat the Spanish at my university; while I deny that French Louisiana is all Acadian and that Louisiana is all French; and while I, a skull on a stela at Copán, do not love France in the way I might if I were an upper class postcolonial criollo; … More On French
I now see why I have had these Moustaki song fragments floating through my head all semester: when I was my exchange student’s age I also lived in France, and it was Moustaki songs that floated out of the cafés in the Rue Mouffetard. This song is about the Mediterranean spring and García Lorca would … More Ahora que es primavera
Speaking of places to live, here is an interesting one, on an interesting site. Observe all the apartments, in the list of links at the left. Depending on which tab you have chosen at the top, you will have different links at the left; some pages offer many interesting links to apartments and lofts in … More Vivienda
…who keeps talking about how she let the generation above her down by being who she was and wanting the things she wanted, and who tries daily to explain to herself how she got to this life she has now, which she chose not expecting it to be as it is, and where she is … More Sé que hay una persona
– Housework beyond basic cleaning – Yard maintenance – Painting – Doing own nails – Dyeing own hair – Grocery shopping in the car – Anything involving large shopping centers, parking lots, or big box stores A large, modern or modernized urban studio or loft is the place for me to live, seriously. It could … More Things I dislike and am not good at.
In 2013 I want to spend more time in art museums and concerts. I want to read more without taking notes. I want a real stereo system again, but I think this is another of those unattainable goals. Axé.
The rain is so hard it keeps waking us up. Here is another, very interesting meme, from Momo: The 100 “Greatest” Documentaries In November 2012, POV asked its viewers, “What do you think are the greatest documentaries of all time?” Viewers were allowed to define “greatest” however they wished, whether that meant the most expertly … More Another meme
Here is an interesting meme post that I cannibalized into a meme: books and projects that interested you before high school. (The original post is much more specific, since its question is what book or experience made one into an intellectual; here I answer that question and say more things.) My intellectual question while I … More Meme
This is what I decided to get for vacation. “The BoatLoader’s extendable arm slides out from inside your Yakima crossbar so you can effortlessly load kayaks.” Axé.
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