Ajeno
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A nadie le conviene acordarse de lo ajeno, sería acumular demasiados
recuerdos. La vida es como un secundario y las relaciones un juego maestro
de hilos e...
Numbers
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I was just thinking about two quantities: the number of posts I've made on
this blog in the past few months, and the number of books I've read in the
same ...
Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
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November 12th, 2009
Published in The Nation
The other day I received a pre-publication copy of *The Battle of the Story
of the Battle of Seattle,* by Davi...
47 + 2 = 49
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My grandmother died on Monday night. It was truly a blessing. She was
imprisoned by Alzheimer's disease and dementia for the last four years, so
I'm very h...
How to Make Persimmon Pudding
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Oh, there's nothing like a warm slice of persimmon pudding on a crisp fall
evening. Looking at this photo, you can see why a lot of folks confuse some
pu...
Heekah-Who?
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Have you ever heard of a "yam bean"? Of the three cultivated species of yam
bean, the first to be scientifically recorded was the Mexican species
Pachyrhiz...
Lest We Forget:
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I've experienced three other Remembrance (Veterans) Days in Oxford. I've
written about one of them...about the beauty and simplicity of the poppies,
about ...
Virgin With Butterflies
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Had a pretty sleepless night, so I read the first chapter of Ayn Rand's Atlas
Shrugged and finished most of my second Harlequin Romance, Virgin With
Butt...
Yo que tú no lo haría, forastero
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A raíz de la entrada anterior, discutíamos en los comentarios sobre esas
palabras que utilizamos en nuestras conversaciones normales porque las hemos
escuc...
1 day ago
Books 2009
11. Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France by Christine Pevitt Algrant
10. Poor People by Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. by Olga Shartse)
9. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
8. Language and Gender by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet
7. Catálogo de sonidos por Terrell A. Morgan
6. Thinking Spanish Translation by S. Hervey, I. Higgins, and L. Haywood
5. El hombre acecha / Cancionero y romancero de ausencias por Miguel Hernández
4. Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved trans. by Jonathan Star
3. Palestinian Walks by Raja Shehadeh
2. King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Films/Television 2009
Arrested Development Complete Series (2003-2006) Mitchell Hurwitz
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Carlos Saldanha
Pornography: A Secret History of Civilization (1999) Chris Rodley
Arrested Development Season 1 (2003) Mitchell Hurwitz
Behind the Green Door (1972) Artie & Jim Mitchell
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Nicholas Stoller
And God...Created Woman [Et Dieu... créa la femme] (1956) Roger Vadim
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009) David Yates
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Rawson Marshall Thurber
Eli Stone Season 2 (2008) Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim
Eli Stone Season 1 (2008) Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim
Transformers (2007) Michael Bay
Che: Part One (2008) Steven Soderbergh
Quanto Vale Ou É Por Quilo? (2005) Sergio Bianchi
Madame Satã (2002) Karim Ainouz
Santitos (1999) Alejandro Springall
Bar El Chino (2003) Daniel Burak
Viva Cuba (2005) Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti & Iraida Malberti Cabrera
Wayne's World (1992) Penelope Spheeris
LOST Season 5 (2009) J.J. Abrams
Death in Gaza (2004) James Miller & Saira Shah
Network (1977) Sidney Lumet
Up (2009) Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
Crash (1996) David Cronenberg
Star Trek (2009) J.J. Abrams
LOST Season 4 (2008) J.J. Abrams
Wolverine (2009) Gavin Hood
LOST Season 3 (2007) J.J. Abrams
Entre tinieblas (1983) Pedro Almodóvar
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de 'nervios' (1988) Pedro Almodóvar
Pepi, Luci, Bom (y otras chicas del montón) (1980) Pedro Almodóvar
Adventureland (2009) Greg Mottola
Watchmen (2009) Zack Snyder
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) Ken Kwapis
Gilmore Girls Season 7 (2007) NOT Amy Sherman-Palladino
Inkheart (2008) Iain Softley
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Danny Boyle
Il Postino (1994) Michael Radford
Prayers for Bobby (2009) Russell Mulcahy
The Wrestler (2008) Darren Aronofsky
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Scott Derrickson
The Boys (and Girl) from County Clare (2003) John Irvin
"Algunas veces hay que decidirse entre una cosa a la que se está acostumbrado y otra que nos gustaría conocer." - Paul Coelho
"Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something." - Gil Scott-Heron
"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level." - Paul Wellstone
"We must never separate the lives we live from the words we speak." - Paul Wellstone
"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means, paint... and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Can Gogh
"The dreams of childhood...its airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good, to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown." - Charles Dickens
"Every moment of one's life one is growing into more or retreating into less." - Norman Mailer
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” - Jalal ad-Din Rumi
"I am interested in this world, in this life; not in some other world or future life." - Jawaharlal Nehru
"To this day Palestinians still have no state or armed forces. Our occupiers subject us to curfews, expulsions, home demolitions, legalized torture, and a highly imaginative assortment of human rights violations. No justifiable comparison can be drawn between the level of official accountability to which Palestinans are held for the actions of a few individuals and the responsibility for the systematic and intense violence against the entire Palestinian population practiced with impunity by the state of Israel." - Samah Jabr
"There is a secret in our culture. It is not that childbirth is painful, but that women are strong." - Laura Stavoe Harm
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." - Eeyore (from Winnie the Pooh)
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness, and many of our [American] people need it sorely on these accounts." - Mark Twain
"An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity." - Nicholas Kristof
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." - Goethe
"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you. They are unique manifestations of the human spirit." - Wade Davis
"In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, all are responsible." - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." - James Michener
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