Yesterday, 1 November, Big Medicine posted excellent recapitulation of recent events in Oaxaca, with shocking new news. Pinko Feminist Hellcat had a good post on Oaxaca yesterday as well. This article, on fighting in the streets, written in the present tense, is eleven minutes old as I link to it. The Spanish language Wikipedia offers … More Big Medicine
As a bearer of the name Zero I must at least mention events in Oaxaca this week, although time constraints prevent me from discussing these in any detail. Fortunately, the Unapologetic Mexican posted on these matters both yesterday and today. So did Written Rebellion and the Woman of Color Blog. In these last two posts … More Oaxaca
My youngest brother was born after my aunt, who paid for the rest of us to go to college, died. And we do not have the savings she had, and he worked his way through college, here. First, he waited on tables. Then he moved up to installing DirecTV. At that time circumstances dictated that … More T-Frère
All academics know that October, not April, is the cruellest month. Every grant, promotion, tenure, and job application deadline seems to press in October. It is one of my favorite months, for the weather, and the deadlines can be energizing and exhilarating. We polish up our plans, we look at past accomplishments, and we review … More All Hallows, All Saints, Day of the Dead
The radio just played a mountain song, accompanied by a banjo, sung in a minor key. It was first heard during the Civil War, but white caskets are also coming home now. Activities continue abroad, at black sites. Axé.
I was born and raised in the country, Mama but I’m stayin’ in town. That is a fragment of Pig Meat. Now playing, however, is the Bourgeois Blues, composed around 1935, when Leadbelly also played the MLA Convention in New York. Two of the Leadbelly songs I have had running in the back of my … More Huddy Ledbetter
Now singing is Lupe Fiasco, who is Black, Muslim, from Chicago, and named Lupe. (Which is short for Guadalupe, which is Mexican.) My student said I would like his music, and I do. But I am also very impressed with his website. Click on the street signs, and see how they flicker. Axé.
It is time to thank the Unapologetic Mexican and his marvelously creative site for permission to use the images of Emiliano Zapata and of the UFW flag which now appear in my sidebar. If you click on these, you will go right down the rabbit hole, and end up somewhere very interesting. In honor of … More Take This Hammer
Yesterday in class I learned that there is a rap lyrics database, the Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive. This fascinates me because while the electronic sound of rap is not my favorite, I am interested in rap lyrics and narrative structure. Now I can read them, like poems and stories. Rap styles, as we know, are … More Nice White Lady
I saw The Three Burials of Melquíades Estrada earlier this week, and liked it. I did not think I had a great deal to say about it beyond what has already been said in the voluminous press it has generated. I could have said something about this voluminous press, yes. I could have said that … More Three Burials
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