December 2009
181 posts
Solo una vez
ruris:
Hay algo que hago sólo una vez al año y es cambiar el gran calendario que tengo en la pared a la izquierda de mi escritorio por otro nuevo.
Quitar uno para poner el otro es todo un ritual. Despego el viejo con sumo cuidado y pongo el nuevo intentando que no esté demasiado torcido.
Después me dedico a copiar en cada día del nuevo calendario los cumpleaños correspondientes, fechas...
The Mind Without the Body →
This historian Tony Judt, who often writes for the New York Review of Books, recently revealed that he is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
In this article, he describes what it is like to live the “life of the mind,” without a functioning body.
If your ego and self-sustaining consolations are rooted in the intellect, you will find little solace here.
Goodbye land of the 76ers.
…
Iranian Police Chief: We'll Show 'No Mercy' →
seaofgreen:
Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for staged, state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders and chanted “Death to Mousavi” as Iran’s police chief threatened: “We will take severe action. The era of tolerance is over. Anyone attending such rallies will be crushed.”
It’s good to know these goons have...
“Non fu mai savio partito fare disperare gli uomini, perché chi non spera il bene...”
– Niccolò Machiavelli, Istorie fiorentine
“It was never wise to make make men despair, because he who does not hope for good does not fear evil.”
“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is...”
– [Alan Bennett] (via solidair) (via batchiara)
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I...”
– Mark Twain
“If once they [“our people”] become inattentive to the public...”
– Thomas Jefferson, letter from Paris, 1787
“It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say...”
– James Madison
The Federalist Papers
“To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for...”
– James Madison
The Federalist Papers
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening...”
– Thomas Jefferson on intellectual property (via tmblg)
…I’m still in Philadelphia.
“But from time to time. From time to time. What tenderness in these little words,...”
– Samuel Beckett, from Molloy (via petitchou)
Jon Stewart interviews Ebrahim Yazdi's Son →
seaofgreen:
Youseph Yazdi, the son of key Iranian opposition figure Ebrahim Yazdi said that his father’s recent arrest on Monday would not deal a setback to democracy efforts there. “We continue as before. The government is using the tools of fear and intimidation, but the key is not to allow that to slow anybody down,” he told NPR.
Yazdi, 72 and struggling with cancer, was last arrested after...
“Humans have immortal days, but their body is mortal.”
– ἀθάναται δὲ βροτοῖς ἁμέραι, σῶμα δ’ ἐστὶ θνατόν, Pindar. (via superfluidity)
The actions of a desperate regime →
seaofgreen:
Iranian intelligence officials have detained the sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
Ebadi said Monday that three men and a woman arrived at the Tehran home she shared with her sister, searched the house and seized Nushin Ebadi, 47, and her computer.
“They have detained her so I stop my work,” Shirin Ebadi, 62, told CNN’s Reza Sayah in a phone call from London. “She has done...
I almost cried.
kateoplis:
askjerves:
Larry Bird: “After we won the 1986 championship me and my wife Dinah went out to K.C. Jones’s restaurant. He had a rib place. I had two beers. Remember how we stopped drinking that year?’’ - the ’86 Celtics swore off alcohol for their playoff run - “Well, I had two beers and they didn’t even taste good. I was tired, anyway, so I went home an hour later.” “Bill [Walton]...
David Simon on Health Care →
Also, We Loved 'Cache', But It Kinda Made Us...
newsweek:
Marc Bain talks to Michael Haneke:
Your movies, as you say, deal with many uncomfortable topics. But they never give the viewer a sense of justice being served. Is there an emotional reaction you want from your viewers? I try to take the spectator seriously … Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured....
Is this Iran's second revolution? →
seaofgreen:
With every fatal bullet, with every ill-directed teargas canister and every ill-advised arrest, the heirs to Ayatollah Khomeini and the Islamic coup d’etat of 1979 find themselves stranded ever more invidiously on the wrong side of history.
Those who rose up with fervent courage to bring down the Shah 30 years ago are now cast in his vacated role of national oppressor, with their...
Ali Mousavi's Body Taken From Hospital →
seaofgreen:
Iranian authorities said Monday that they were holding the bodies of five slain anti-government protesters, including the nephew of the opposition leader, in what appears be an attempt to prevent activists from using their funerals as a platform for more demonstrations.
“In many photographs and videos in June, when the regime first cracked down, many...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Something remarkable is happening in Iran. Click through and watch the video.
(via ericmortensen)
(via soupsoup)
“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand...”
– Franz Kafka, diary excerpt from 19 October 1921 (via ontheborderland)
This is brilliant.
I’ve read these diaries. How could I have missed this??
(via enormousair)
Alas, it’s always been about the phantom limb and hand. A phantom, but felt.
“Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
I have now just arrived in Franklin’s hometown, Philadelphia, where my two primary activities will be to: a. shuck; and b. jive. There was a mistake in my travel arrangements, leaving me stranded with my bags for the next few hours. I’ve holed up at the Spruce Street...
How to Travel: Most to Least Civilized: The...
Walking
Canoeing
Rowing
Cycling
Sailing
Sledding
Cross-Country Skiing
Train
Motorcycle with Sidecar
Freighter
Rappelling
Horse
Camel
Hot-Air Balloon
Helicopter
Bus
Skateboard (Mrs. Tragos believes skateboarding is far less cool than polls indicate. The skateboard’s placement on this list represents consensus opinion at the Tragos household)
Vespa
Car
Plane
Jet-ski
ATV
...
“Wenn der Schnee ans Fenster fällt,
Lang die Abendglocke läutet,
Vielen ist der...”
– Georg Trakl, Ein Winterabend. (via the floating bridge of dreams) (via msodradek) (via enormousair)
