El Dorado

Lighting, in nature and in the home, is very important. A change in light makes a enormous differences in everything.  Some people like white light but I prefer golden light.
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Research Hours

Tnis is one of those old-old posts.
ON CERTAIN FALSITIES
Perhaps it is for no reason related to me that people have always gone on at me how to be and work. So this is another piece of my counterargument against those who threw so much unnecessary time management advice at me — at me, a veritable [...]

The Republican/Oil Princess Look

It involves:
+ cosmetic surgery
+ serious foundation and eye makeup
+ salon tan
+ red nails
+ rhinestone flip flops
+ salon dyed and highlighted blonde hair (very, very important)
+ shorts or little black sundress
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Padre A. Soler, Sonate Des-Dur Nr. 88

This weekend we are singing with Alicia de Larrocha (Barcelona, 1923-2009).
I was supposed to keep working when I got home last night, but I did not. I had been at it for twelve hours and was too overloaded to play, either. I understood at last why people have private lap pools, [...]

Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: The Glass Menagerie

I am reading The Glass Menagerie and it is heart rending. I am also reading excellent poems and seeing excellent videos for class, but I Tweeted some of them to my IRL Twitter account, and put others on class websites.
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I removed Reeducation, whose idea was that one should not control one’s life. Now I am [...]

Yoshishige Yoshida

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Toussaint L’Ouverture

Haiti’s neglected revolutionary history is one of the issues of which this weblog exists to remind people. Here we have just the first part of one Toussaint L’Ouverture video. If you click on it, you will find the next parts.
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Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Edgar Allan Poe

‘This old man,’ I said at length, ‘is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow; for I shall learn no more of him, nor of his deeds. The worst heart of the world is a [...]

Dios, que buen vassallo, si oviese buen señore!

This weekend we are singing in victory, so we invoke the Cid. Listen to the precise clashing of swords in the Poem of the Cid as transcribed at UT-Austin.
Here we have a much cuter version of the Cid — perhaps the very cutest ever.

The best kind of background music for the [...]

Arcángel

It is the weekend, so despite missing Rising Tide, we must sing. Here is a new cantaor, an archangel, singing a toná. He is really brilliant.

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