This music video could be good to use in class. I must teach Spanish literature from 1700 to 2010 soon, a topic about which I do not know enough to create a non-stiff survey. I usually teach it with a set of representative texts. I survive it, but I am not truly current in this … More Río Ebro
GP: 1) Global Peace Index, 2010 edition, launching today. 2) Global Petroleum Show and Conference, also launching today; in addition, “global partners” and other neoliberal euphemisms. 3) Good-looking paleface. The ultimate English translation of the Spanish phrases “güera preciosa,” “güerita rebuena,” and so on. Axé.
I visited the former Hacienda Santa María Regla in the state of Hidalgo and it amazed me. The property is now being turned into a hotel with a temescal in one of the old factory buildings. You can rent the entire place to hold your wedding. All I can find on it is tourist information, … More Hacienda Santa María Regla (Dissertation Topic [final en laguna])
I have seen reference made to the perils that afflict so many graduate students: anxiety, self-doubt, fear, paralysis, and shame. I have suffered from these things only since becoming a professor, and it has been due to harassment — and also, I see darkly, due to having ministered too kindly to people suffering from the … More A Question on Graduate School
It is the weekend, so we must sing, and this is Pasatono, the wonderful Mixtec string orchestra I discovered in Oaxaca de Juárez. Axé.
I really recommend the Museo Franz Mayer, which has existed since 1986 but where I had not been before. I recommend its collections, its cloister, its fountains, its patios, its café, and last but not least its working library. This is one of the important places to know about in Mexico City and it is … More Museo Franz Mayer
One of the reasons I come to Mexico is to go to the luxurious Cine Lumière Reforma and see new Latin American and international film. I was excited to get to see a recent Bolivian film but did not discover until the end that the director and some of the actors were in the audience. … More Zona Sur
This film, which opened Friday, is required viewing because it is by a famous director. The screenplay was by an actual writer, and the film was originally supposed to be shot in 1978. Now it is one of many cultural artifacts marking the Mexican bicentennial. Another film, whose previews look truly terrible, will open on … More Chicogrande
It is Wednesday, and Julio Cortázar is re-fascinating me. This is the beginning of the first chapter of Rayuela, called chapter 73. Sí, pero quién nos curará del fuego sordo, del fuego sin color que corre al anochecer por la Rue de la Huchette, saliendo de los portales carcomidos, de los parvos zaguanes, del fuego … More Chapter 73
The author of this codex is in now in his stela, but the narrator is located in the place of cactus petals. It is a great metropolis. I have realized I may have something in common with those people who cannot work without the television on. I can only really work in cities. Ya busco presuroso … More La región más transparente del aire
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