The death of the common enemy – Obama and Osama´s head

Seeing Obama tell people to be happy because Osama had been killed felt exactly like one of those political meetings in 1984, where people enter into a hate frenzy against "the enemy."

3 May, 2011

In Cuba and thinking of CHANGE

WHAT IS THE GOOD OF AN INTELLIGENCE WHEN IT REASONS ALWAYS THE SAME WAY AND ALWAYS REACHES THE SAME CONCLUSION

1 May, 2011

Manhattan, here I come

Remembering New York, imagining New York

30 April, 2011

GRECIAN MIRAGE (Greece, Summer 2006)

It must have been Erota luring me with her olives and her wine

28 April, 2011

A Genocide cannot be erased – April 24th, 2011

Hitler said " Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" to counter the argument that it would be impossible to "get away" with wiping out the Jews. That´s what pushing a genocide under the rug will do; beget another one.

24 April, 2011

Catfish and The Social Network: No ode to Facebook

There´s no more reality on Facebook than on the Hollywood-style broadcast of the Irak war.

20 April, 2011

A beautiful voice (to Roger Ebert)

Though I knew little about Ebert and had never seen him, in my mind, he was not necessarily a "nice" man, more like a Neptune with his trident, letting films pass in front of him, and decreeing which ones would live and which ones would be sentenced to death.

18 April, 2011

Cherchez la muse

I have a friend who is obsessed with muses. She keeps saying, jokingly, "what did she have that I don´t?" referring to women like Gala, who inspired Paul Éluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dalí alike.

14 April, 2011

Through inside passage – Cruising Alaska

This land of low clouds and scattered islands

11 April, 2011

REALENGO, Rio de Janeiro

No, this is not a post about how wonderful it is to travel round the world. It is about the death of children, the most unnatural of all unnatural things upon our ailing Earth.

7 April, 2011