Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Galicia Vice
Parece que nuestros queridos galleginhos Cobra y Berga ya empiezan a rodar una nueva serie de televisión llamada “Galicia Vice”. Para interpretar su papel de Sonny, Cobra está dejando la barba perpetúa de tres días.
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
Let there be light
The other day while hanging the laundry, I happened to look out into the small inner courtyard of the building where I have been living for the past five years. I had never really looked out into this courtyard before. I looked up at one of my neighbor’s windows and noticed a wonderfully painted room and a […]
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Thanksgiving with the Changster, Natalia, Regeneration and Depletion, and Coltrane
Like all things in life, weekends need a fine balance. I had wanted to write a few different posts on various unrelated topics, but instead I will summarize all of them here as the (abriged) story of my weekend:
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
It’s not always that easy
This morning I got to thinking that it’s not always that easy. It isn’t easy being a son or a father. It isn’t easy being a mother or a daughter. Or an older brother or a younger brother. An older sister or a younger sister. It can’t always be easy being a husband or being a wife, […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
What’s always bothered me about Rudolph’s plight
Ever since I was a fairly young kid, I was always bothered by the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Yes, boys and girls, you know the one. Rudolph was born a smaller than usual sized reindeer and had an ackwardly shining red nose. As a matter of fact, had you ever seen […]
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
France and Lebanon
Here is an insightful article by Robert Fisk on France’s historic and present interests in Lebanon. Anyone interested should also check out the scene in the film “West Beirut” where at a French high school in Beirut, a student is told by his teacher that it was the French who gave Lebanon its nation and freedom.
A French colonial legacy […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Christmas Time is Here and My Poor Neighbors
Here is my 1.4 hour Christmas Carole playlist:
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Bruce Lee and when NOT to be like water
At the end of April, I posted my favorite Bruce Lee quote. Well, in the past two months, a very popular BMW commercial has featured another Bruce Lee quote; this one about water. In context, Bruce Lee talks about how his variation of martial arts (Jeet Kune Do) strives to be like water, for it […]
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Just a few more days
In just a few more days, it will be Friday, November 24th. That is the day after Thanksgiving, and that is the day that I can officially start listening to my favorite Christmas Caroles by the likes of Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Elvis. And in about a month’s time, […]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Meandering
A few weeks ago when writing Time to Meander, I was wondering whether my Spanish readers would understand the English word ”meander”. I decided to look up the precise Spanish translation and then researched the etymology of the word to see if it had an anglo-saxon origin. What I discovered is kind of interesting (at least to me):
