I’d like to go to this. In the meantime I have turned my compost heap, and it had created a great deal of fresh soil. Then I deleted many of the links on this blog. I have so many that I tend not to see any, and the space feels cluttered. I have created a … More Postcards from Houston
Am I the only one who has a hard time watching Berlin Alexanderplatz — so interesting, but so scary, rough, and sad — and would rather read the book? Watching the film is very good for my German, but I really want to look away. Key words and resources: Ernest Pawel on Döblin, NYT 1983; … More Berlin Alexanderplatz
Amo tanto la vida porque me costó tanto gozarla … me costó mucho sentir que era protagonista y no una basura. Axé.
Neo-nomadic music. Axé.
I think Obama and the Republicans are trying to destroy the country. I think the plan is to get as much US capital into the top 1% of bank accounts, and invest it elsewhere. From yesterday’s New York Times: On Thursday, President Obama met with Republicans to discuss a debt deal. We don’t know exactly … More Paul Krugman
My prose fiction narrative having been rejected from where I had sent it, and it being based on the idea of stories which are told or, importantly, not told, I decided it might need revision. It is under the influence of these so-called neo-baroque Latin American writers I read, and it may be entirely too … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Mihai Grünfeld
Discuss, taking into consideration this commentary. Axé.
I heard Assange and Žižek on KPFT, 90.1 on your FM dial, today while stuck in traffic on US 59N in Houston, and I was quite positively impressed by both of them. If I had the drive to do over again, I’d go downtown on surface streets and get on I-10E from San Jacinto, a … More A to Z
I saw this van in the parking lot of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Its front license plate says “Texas Turn-On.” I am multiplying it by five to create an art installation right here. At the state welcome center on the Sabine River I had seen a granite megalith erected in 1962 by … More Period Piece(s)
One of the things I did on Independence Day was see There But For Fortune, the documentary on Phil Ochs, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, which is a very good museum. I liked the film better than some of the reviewers I have read did. This was the last day and someone … More Phil Ochs
coldhearted scientist وداد 