“I am sorry I said the wrong thing. I am sorry to have upset you. I hope you can get over it.” Meaning: “I refuse to apply normal standards of behavior when dealing with you. I will say abusive and dismissive things, I will ask inappropriate questions, and I will make inappropriate remarks. “I am … More “I Said the Wrong Thing”
Communicative Language Teaching in Action explains a great deal about what is now happening. It is not required reading for me, but it is most illuminating and so it is a true pleasure. Axé.
I have discovered that tourist visas to Brazil now cost over $200, and I have not been able to find a cat sitter yet. The house is not in good enough shape to rent because I cannot afford to get it into such shape, so I need a sitter I can trust. I had not … More Unrealistic
Sunday in the offices, but do not think we are not singing. In fact, we will be twisting the night away. Axé.
Mercedes Sosa, 9. VII. 1935 – 4. X. 2009, recorded 2008 in Montevideo: Buen viaje. Axé.
It is the weekend, so we are singing, but I am not putting on music of my own because I have so much work to do. There is music in the town, and on WWOZ. * Our friend Tasneem Khalil has launched a bimonthly human rights focused world news magazine, and you should subscribe to … More The Independent World Report
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way? Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence … More For Friday: The Whiteness of the Whale
I As we know, I was always told not to be a professor. It was hard to make tenure because you had to publish. A girl, I would teach and not publish, so I would never make tenure. I heard this again and again. I would be on the street and have to get used … More Labor Day II, Some Very Old Notes
It is now that day in September upon which the heat leaves, ending five months of Hell. I have been outdoors. Outdoors! It will be a dry eighty for an entire month, and might get to the low seventies or high sixties at night. I might get a slight tan. Axé.
Sí, tu niñez ya fábula de fuentes. El tren y la mujer que llena el cielo. Tu soledad esquiva en los hoteles y tu máscara pura de otro signo. Es la niñez del mar y tu silencio donde los sabios vidrios se quebraban. Es tu yerta ignorancia donde estuvo mi torso limitado por el fuego. … More TU INFANCIA EN MENTON
coldhearted scientist وداد 