Rose Water Drink

Hay todo tipo de bebidas de extraño sabor en la vera del señor.

Chiste

¿Sabían qué Adán y Eva eran cubanos?

No usaban ropas ni calzado, no podían comer lo que quisieran y, a pesar de todo, les decían que estaban en el paraíso.

Facebook

¿Qué haría toda esa gente que siempre está en el chat del Facebook si no existiera el Facebook?

¿Qué hacían antes?
¿Chateaban en el chat de msn? ¿Miraban la televisión?

Palabra del day

Bigotry, que no significa acción de tener bigote, sino:

[big-uh-tree]
–noun, plural -ries.
1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
2. the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.

Origin:
1665–75; bigot + -ry, formation parallel to F bigoterie

—Synonyms
1. narrow-mindedness, bias, discrimination.

Una palabra más para el diccionario activista.

Poesía erótica

¿John Milton escribía poesía erótica?
Académicos de Oxford encontraron a hand-written poem que atribuyen al escritor inglés.

Miren qué belleza de poema, praising la sexualidad de las dames.

Have you not in a Chimney seen

A Faggot which is moist and green

How coyly it receives the Heat

And at both ends do's weep and sweat?

So fares it with a tender Maid

When first upon her Back she's laid

But like dry Wood th' experienced Dame

Cracks and rejoices in the Flame.

John Milton (1608-1674)

El link a la noticia, para los hombres de poca fe.

Esquivel jiutepecense

En la versión en español del wikipedia dice que Esquivel murió en Jiutepec en 2002... ¿Habrá sido en mi colonia?

Juan García Esquivel[xuan gaɾ.'θi.a es.ki.'βel], conocido como Esquivel, o Esquí (Tampico, 20 de enero de 1918 — Jiutepec, Morelos, 3 de enero del 2002), fue un arreglista, pianista y compositor internacional. Es conocido por crear un estilo de música único en su género, ocasionalmente llamado"Lounge" o "Space Age Pop", en México también se le recuerda por haber hecho la música del programa infantil Odisea Burbujas.

Link a la entrada en Wikipedia.

Las reflexiones del compañero Fidel

Fidel Castro tiene un blog, se llama "Las reflexiones del compañero Fidel".

El nombre no deja de inspirar cierta ternura, y la imagen de un dictador viejito escribiendo aprendiendo a usar las nuevas tecnologías para escribir un blog...

Ahora mismo leo : La infinita hipocresía de Occidente, donde critica la persecusión de los Roma en Europa desde el siglo XV y las acciones actuales de Sarkozy.

No sé por qué siento que falta alguna referencia a los campos de trabajo para curar a los homosexuales y a los disidentes que había en Cuba a comienzos de la Revolución.

Remedio para la calvicie

Quería verse bonito, ¿no?

¡Pues órele!



Fragmento de film Mondo dos tres "London in the Raw" (1969).

Diosito santo

Qué buenos están casi todos los hombres.

Word of the day

foul /faʊl/
–adjective

1. grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.

2. containing or characterized by offensive or noisome matter: foul air; foul stagnant water.

3. filthy or dirty, as places, receptacles, clothes, etc.

8. grossly offensive in a moral sense.

9. abominable, wicked, or vile, as deeds, crime, slander, etc.

10. scurrilous, profane, or obscene; offensive: foul language.


Foul actions around me every day.

On the origin of the interview

Interviews are a distinct form of social encounter. They differ from ordinary conversation and the more coercive process of interrogation by dint of the institutional framework in which they occur and the specific protocols or guidelines that structure them. Interviews occur in anthropological or sociological field work; they go by the name of the “case history” in medicine and social welfare; in psychoanalysis, they take the form of the therapeutic session; in law the interview becomes the pre-trial process of “discovery” and, during trials, testimony; on television, it forms the backbone of talk shows; in journalism, it takes the form of both the interview and the press conference; and in education, it appears as Socratic dialogue. Michel Foucault argues that these forms all involve regulated forms of exchange, with an uneven distribution of power between client and institutional practitioner, and that they have their root in the religious tradition of the confessional.

- From Introduction to documentary. Bill Nichols. 2001.

End credit from 60s movie

From Alice in Acidland (1969). Dir: John Donne.

Nett, oder?

Script lines from bizarre erotica movie

We are now going to position number 438 which is a little bit more complicated, but you should still be able to get a laundry basket. It is important that the cord is twisted as much as possible, which requires some muscular strength,
but it will pay off afterwards when your lady spins downwards.

This position was invented by a French lieutenant in the year 1938. It is supposed to result in very strong feelings of lust, which might cause 2nd degree burns.

- Dorotheas Rache. (1974) Dir: Peter Fleischmann.

Group of elderly women listening to domestic violence statistics

Fragment from Federick Wiseman's "Domestic Violence I" (2001).

Si estáis interesados en el documental (que dura 3 horas y 15 minutos aprox), podéis encontrar más información aquí.

La joie de vivre

By Anthony Gross, Hector Hoppin. 1934.

About the art of oratory

[S]ince all the activity and ability of an orator falls into five divisions, ... he must first hit upon what to say; then manage and marshal his discoveries, not merely in orderly fashion, but with a discriminating eye for the exact weight as it were of each argument; next go on to array them in the adornments of style; after that keep them guarded in his memory; and in the end deliver them with effect and charm. (De oratore, I.xxxi).

- Cicero.

There's a king and captain high

There's a king and captain high,
And he's coming by and by,
And he'll find me hoeing cotton when he comes,
You can hear his legions charging in the regions of the sky,
And he'll find me hoeing cotton when he comes,
There's a man they thrust aside,
Who was tortured till he died,
And he'll find me hoeing cotton when he comes.

He was hated and rejected
He was scorned and crucified,
And he'll find me hoeing cotton when he comes.
When he comes! when he comes!
He'll be crowned by saints and angels when he comes,
They'll be shouting out Hosanna! to the man that men denied,
And I'll kneel among my cotton when he comes.

- Negro spiritual

Los afroamericanos estadunidenses llevan una tradición cristiana evangélica muy enraizada. Parte de ello incluye canciones espirituales conocidas como Negro spirituals. Esta es una de ellas, cuyo mensaje es el de servir a Dios a través del trabajo. Claro, esto puede despertar sentimientos anticapitalistas, pero al final y al cabo, no hay como ganarse la vida.