8.21.2011

Cherry Season

This year the cherry season seems without end. And I eat by the pound...
 When I was a kid the season lasted two weeks at most. We could afford to buy only once, rarely twice a year. Many years I would even miss entirely. This left a craving ...
Had also a craving for bananas.  By twenty six,  I had eaten not more than five bananas. Maybe fewer.  The first day in Paris I ate left overs from the plane food and the cake brought from home. The following day, with my ten francs I went shopping for food and noticed how cheap the bananas were. Spent all my money on bananas. Got serious stomach troubles as I did not realize they were raw. Since then....And still don't know how to peel one.
Had to wait till now for cherries...and yes I enjoy them although I know this season is a fabrication...
Mais ou sont les dames du temps de cerises

8.14.2011

Homo sum...., latest version

The NOTAX dogma is evolving. New addition  - corporations are people. Yes, people without shame, compassion or ethics. This is the  republican man.
If one drills deep one can see that in  Romney's view the people are not as important as the corporations. Of course, his support does not come from the people but from corporations.
Interesting note-  the sacred? man, homo sacer, is nobody, it can be killed by anyone.

8.09.2011

hee haw vs see saw

 The other day Obama in a major speech used "play the market". Lapsus linguae , suddenly the professor seemed  tongue twisted. Or did he mean it? ..
See Saw market. How do you know if you are in see or in saw.
Hee Haw was clearer  - gloom , dispair and agony. 
At the end the saw will cut you down.