Little Krishna

I last saw my cat, an important personage, exactly six months ago. I had named him Krishna. Earlier he had been called Melody, then Mel when he turned out to be a boy. I do not know what his name is now. Axé.

Tepoztlan

This place is superior to my present location, as Ubuntu 11.04 is superior to Windows. Seriously. This Dell Windows box I have in the office, upon which I am now typing at 5:50 PM, used to be much fancier than anything I had at home but it pales in comparison to the post-IBM laptop I … More Tepoztlan

29 August 2005

I became quite interested in this song when my cat, who may have been Turkish, disappeared earlier this year. He celebrates his eleventh birthday today and his sixth month of disappeared status Friday. When he was first absent I would sing this lullaby in case he was hurt or scared somewhere, and to calm myself. … More 29 August 2005

Numa sala de jantar domingueira, lendo jornal…

Not From the Tourist Board Student: There is a very dark side to that famous Cajun joie de vivre and all the other forms of insistence that Louisiana is a happy place. Professor Zero: The poverty, the political hierarchies, and the colonial social and economic structure? Student: Those things, yes, but also the domestic violence, … More Numa sala de jantar domingueira, lendo jornal…