seduction

Figured out how he seduced the cleaning woman in two minutes. Spoke French to her.
This one didn't like his accent.

Ron Paul and le Cid

Do republicans have a heart? Suspect that Ron Paul alone ... would not be embarassed to have one.

Rodrigue, as-tu du coeur? in fact means - Do you the guts, Rodrigue
from Le Cid. (spanish hero who fought the maurs or whatever immigrants...)

revolutionaries in Latin America

Saw Ariel Dorfman, an unrepentant revolutionary, kissing Mika Brzenski's hand.. Did Trotsky bow and kiss  senoras' hands when he was in Mexico ?

Just the wrinkles

Some people look so much more interesting with sun  glasses on. Is it because their eyes have nothing to say. Or because the sun glasses hide what these eyes say?

Russian Ballet

Look how beautiful democracy operates in Russia. The most loved politician gets to become president. Again.
The second most trusted politician gets to be prime minister. A strong leader he fired his  minister of economics on the spot. The left leaning press does not matter. The billionaires create jobs. The country is doing well. Like Texas.

Snooping on culture

What surprised me visiting people in the States was that they did not have any books on display in living rooms or anyplace else. Wondered - was it a use and dispose books culture?  Then  noticed the coffee table book style. Was it the people I was in contact with? When I  searched for a room share on the Harvard campus noticed the exhibition of LP covers piles.  Audio culture?
 Later I built my entire library from books sold for a buck at St Agnes NYPL branch fairs.
They all make a library of books that I would love to have read. ...
As to titles of songs on my iPod? These are the tangos I would have danced.
and of course  If I only had time

Location, location, location

Got depressed when found out the sailing maps store on Duane St,. closed. Felt like I needed a scone or something. Went to Starbucks but clung to my diet and bought just a coffee. Needed something sweet and got four bananas for a buck from an Arab street vendor who was greeting a client with salamalekum. Crossed the street and saw a short line. A neighborhood Cuban store was giving free empanadas. Oh god had heard me. Next block by the subway stop got a free train ride from Nucky Thomson of Boardwalk Empire.
Only in America or should I say Only in New York.

starvation

 No last meal in Texas.
Don't think the intent is to stop crime. To stop immigration.

Dying hungry in Texas

Tradition on death row. No more "last meal" in Texas. So what is this? Cutting spending to be able to afford more executions? Effects of low taxation? During WWII, the Nazis moved from shooting Jews to hanging them. The Jews saw it as a good sign. "They are running out of bullets."

Dear Friends and Colleagues

This is how Ahmadinejad started his speech at the UN. Understand the friends part, but who are the colleagues? Colleague is defined as
A person with whom one works, esp. in a profession or business.
What common profession (politician?) or business (atomic bomb) ? Or was he aiming for collegiality.

qui quinnipiac

Back to the polling. So what if they in fact got thru to me? What box do I fit in?  What's my tag? Not with any party. Can one be an independent if not even  registered?  So who is eske? An outlier.
A square that does not fit in any box.

apps for everything and every-man

Paul Krugman qualified iPads (and Steve Jobs) as a frilly diversion for the current semi-depression. Maybe. But imagine sailing without an ipad. In fact I am sure that there is already an app for solving the deficit problem.

politically correct

Pool locker room. This dad telling his six year son: I like frogs. They have personality.

One in a million

Quinnipiac called. Not the university with parking lot full of BMWs. Their polling institute. On my cell. Finally I was going to count. Finally was going to give my opinion. Except I was driving and asked them to call me back. As they say -when the ugly girl got invited to dance the orchestra took a break to pee.

The classics, Carville, the classics

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem they said. But panic?

Obama, take it from the French

 Malraux to De Gaulle ( or to himself as De Gaulle) on Politics And History. (Their exchanges were always in capital letters):

  Rational analyses are fragile.

Obama show a little craziness. For your own good....

 

orthodoxy

When visiting catholic churches keep feeling surprised  that the mass is not in Latin. And when I meet Russians wonder how come they don't know Dostoevsky. Or Marxist dialectic....

Ahead of the Times

This blog.
Could not figure out how my post on Saint Simon got  noticed. It turns out Jakie O was recommending his memoirs to her husband.
As to my Sunday post on smiling, See this on laughter.
Correction - Snobs do not smile,  they sneaker-.

Coffee-shop proper behavior

OH! To kill time in a coffee shop. So many ideas! So many words! Note them fast on a napkin. Throw it immediately in the waste basket.

To smile

A woman? Never to smile? She is crazy.

9-11

Why are innocent victims honored more than those who died as volunteers? Soldiers. Firemen. Explorers.
Probably people identify more with...

moved

Flags. We are conditioned to honor, salute, burn, follow...whatever.  Was walking aimless and suddenly saw this. It moved me.

Symbols of History.

Bastille was this terrifying stone tower.Few prisoners but a symbol of tyranny. So the people of Paris took it. The demolition contractor thought of a way of making money. He started to advertise the taking of the Bastille. Sent  troupes of actors around France to reenact the event.14 Julliet became famous  and the contractor became rich selling the stones from the demolition. Sold stone by stone, Never-mind these details. The French Revolution had been a real thing..
The Berlin Wall was a real thing as were the twin towers...

wtc

Bridge between the sky and the mound.

wtc

Z  A band of sunlight

the Internationale in vernacular.

I am going to jog today. And sing the Internationale. In the local version. Or is it the wrong date? The wrong beach? The wrong air?.