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If you know only a little Spanish, you might be excused for thinking Grito de Dolores means that raw oyster you ate had some sand in it, and you have a stomachache. After remedial classes, you might mistake it for I yelled until I had a headache. But
Her room came to me in a dream last night. Just a door with a window straight across halfway down the hall in our pokey ranch. A room suitable for a penitent. One who had never committed a sin, and never would, except maybe to listen. There was
I will now attempt the lowest form of internet content. No, not pictures of cats. There is a circle of intertunnel hell below the feline meme zone: recipes. Only taking pictures of restaurant food while on vacation ranks lower. But by golly, I’m wading into this pool. I’m
Well, it’s Tuesday. Time to clean out the bookmarks I’ve been meaning to read. I’ll post them here, to avoid reading them properly. It’s the only way I can delete them without feeling foolish. The most beautiful bridges in the world Not hardly. Most of the included examples
Squeeze from 1979, from the Cool for Cats album. Cool for cats, indeed. That’s only their second album, and they look it. They’re as fresh-faced as high-schoolers in that video. I’m always impressed when musicians are that young and that sophisticated about the songs they write. Mostly the
Everyone’s talking about Homer’s The Odyssey these days. Now, don’t get me wrong, Homer’s OK. If you want to get hopped up on hoplites, The Iliad‘s a great read. It’s got Achilles hectoring Hector until they go mano a mano in front of the trailer park of Troy.
[This video is dedicated to Kathleen Murphy, whose support of our boys is as constant as the sun] If you’re new in these parts, Unorganized
So, if movies went through a process of Spenglerism, from rude iconography to cheap entertainment to low art to high art, where exactly did they
She’s gone past gray to the shores of Thanatos. And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The
