Archive for March, 2007
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Desire and Temptation
Over the past few months, I have been reading almost exclusively novels written by Arab writers or about the Arab World. Nevertheless, I have decided to take a short break and read the new novel from one of my favorite authors, Nuriddin Farah, entitled Knots. All of his novels take place in his native Somalia, […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
But Still You Are Beautiful
Lucio Battisti has two songs that I absolutely adore. The first one is “La canzone del sole” about a young man who, at the moment of his first intimacy with his young girlfriend, is shocked and intimidated to discover in her composure a much greater level of security and experience than in his (the […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The United States of Whatever
Last Saturday, my Bro and I partook in Safe Democracy’s International Conference, Three Years after March 11: Regional Challenges for a Globalizing World. I was part of a round table discussing immigration in Europe and my Bro was on the one discussing Africa. Afterwords, my Bro and I reflected on some of the “cultural” […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Essays, Living la vida española by eric
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Eric Dolphy’s Flute
Now that Radio Blog Club is up and running again, I can finally post one of his flute pieces. This is “Ode to CP”. Enjoy!
No Comments » - Posted in Jazz by eric
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Great Interview with Ejovi
I just visited Ejovi’s blog and found these videos from a 2005 PBS interview discussing his book Hacker Cracker. I don’t pretend to know Ejovi that well, but I did get to know him a little bit during the time he worked with us at FON and during a short stay in Madrid.
These two […]
No Comments » - Posted in FON, Friends / Family by eric
Friday, March 16th, 2007
Eric Dolphy on Flute
For the past 10 days or so, I have had the great pleasure of having visitors stay with me (Manolo, then my Bro, then Manolo again). With people occupying all of my free time, I haven’t had much time to read or listen to music. It took me twice as long to finish Naguib Mahfouz’ […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Jazz by eric
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
What would Bill Collins say about Terry Tate?
I wonder what the great Bill Collins, HR and OB guru, would have to say about Terry Tate, Office Linebacker and Sensitivity Training.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get Cobra to do the same at FON?
3 Comments » - Posted in Friends / Family by eric
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Juegas todos los días
con la luz del universo . . . quiero hacer contigo lo que hace la primavera con los cerezos.
No Comments » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
En el Imperio de FONopático
Por lo visto, mientras que yo esté en la tercera planta redactando contratos y revisando todo lo escrito (y equivocándome por todas partes), en el imperio de la planta cero los Hombres de Negro lo están pasando como si fuera otra galaxia. Este video da fé a ello y quedará archivado en la historia de […]
1 Comment » - Posted in FON by eric
Friday, March 9th, 2007
Que respire
Hay tantas cosas por ahí que necesitan respirar, y yo aquí ahogándome.
