feel free to choose a topic!

[Arcadia]

s-t:
there is a saying here that translated would be something like : "when you burned (quemaste?) yourself with milk, you see milk and you cry" ... it´s quite posible also that you end being a milk-lover or that you discover that you like so much at the moment the orange juice that you can be entretenida/o with that and don´t put too much attention in the milk presence and the past burning-thing... , & yeah... we humans can also be so simultaneal, sometimes ...
& no, I still didn´t read Steve´s post about Obama but from what I already read from his posts I quite understood he´s a big fan! (I´ll read it later, gracias!)

[Arcadia]

it seems no more what is used to be called "chemical weapons" for nadie más in the world!!!! well, at least for Syria it seems it will apply...


http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultim ... 09-15.html

& Obama, Putin, Assad, Moon...: good that you all seemed to reach to an acuerdo! Let´s also hope some day we will see the disarming of all the countries from the other kind of weapons ... if one/s have weapons and the other/s not is not at all just or safe or equilibrate or is just what it is supposed to be...?

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultim ... 09-15.html

[stilltrucking]

I remember Allende, I remember the seventies, almost, I was so distracted by my own melodrama I hardly noticed what was going on around me. Maybe not much has changed since that time.

good that you all seemed to reach to an acuerdo!

Somehow I feel distant from the "you all." This is my homeland, my born and bred land, but I feel like a stranger in a weird land. A Patagonian in a Henry Miller novel. Putin and Obama, I would like to seem them play a one on one basketball game. Winner take all. In the meantime here in the land of the brave, women shoot up poison, neurotoxins, chemical weapons into their faces [Botox]in the war against WMD's "Wrinkles of Mass Destruction"
American woman stay away from me...
I used to think feminism was the real revolution.
But "girls ride horses too".


I don't know why I thought of that song,
I guess because "nothing is what it seems" in politics
I don't see much hope for a out patriarchal cultures.

[Arcadia]

gracias for reading & answering, s-t! , & good to know that you are you!

[Arcadia]

Listening now to an entrevista between Telesur & Al-Assad... the journalist is commenting to Assad that some analists said that Obama sounded somehow confused during his speech in the ONU ... well, Al-Assad seems to have a different opinion & he is telling Obama´s speech was very coherent & crystal clear concerning what USA international politics use to be.... "USA have interests in most of the world but it insist in defend its interests promoting desestabilization and that is, in fact, against its people interests and the world interests..." ... I´ll keep listening ... ( now he is speaking about the positive force of dialogue, respect and soberanía...). I wonder if most of the syrians feel listened by him ... (I know..., it´s not my problem, but let´s hope at least that it´s happening or it will be happening...! )

I didn´t listen to Obama´s speech myself (too much work at the moment to also listen to him ...! ) but here are some analisis of his speech made by one of his compatriotas ... it sounds sad...:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/25/ ... un-speech/

What I did listened (de casualidad!) early this morning was President Mujica´s speech, it was very moving!!!!!! (I don´t remember exactly what he said but it was moving ...! )

I´ll post a links later if I find them.

[stilltrucking]

we have pursued our own interests to the detriment of our own interests

yeah I like that

IDIOT AMERICA in the Middle East

here comes that rainbow again

pink clouds on the horizion

life goes on

things seem pretty desperate here amiga


sometimes I want to blame somebody

but usually I just say fuckit
and blame God
that's a cop out I know
but we humans are what we are
"welcome to the monkey house"


A hell of a mess the world is in, especially in the one place where a lot of shit came down five thousand years ago, oh yeah the cradle of civilization
"where ever man went he dropped a rich load of knowledge"
some say it started to go wrong before that, back in the garden, and it was a paleolithic woman's fault, some say god made men cause women were bored
what ever the reason I am glad to be one,
I am glad I am a man child in the promised land among the things of New SPain
where we worship the one true god, the enemy of both sides



sometimes I want to blame Eisenhower
saw a sign outside a Lutheran church yesterday

"One nation indivisible, under God, with liberty and justice for all"
Our pledge of allegiance which we used to say everyday till it was like a sacred heart mantra by the time we got to high school.
Eisenhower put the G word in there around 1954, then in the seventies all the atheists started suing the hell out of school boards.

Nobody's fault, no even the Jews.

Buddha Baby
on Broadway
dancing the night away

[stilltrucking]

Tired of the great white father
in Washington DC

I really think it is time for a serious feminist candidate to come forth. But all I see are want to be Margaret Thatchers

[Arcadia]

more Margaret Thatchers..?? oh, well ...




(bus stop, half block from my home, september 7 am ... long live to popular wisdom...! )

[one of those jerks]

she is my serious feminist
I got this avatar from a website called heartless bitches international

a site where women bitch each other out for the good of all mankind

I saw Rosario mentioned on the front page of The NY Times yesterday, something about a soccer competition dividing the town. I can't read the Spanish graffiti on the kiosk. what is the common wisdom?

I don't know what a serious feminist is, but I am pretty tired of this bullshit patriarchy we got here? Why do I think a matriarchy would be better? Maybe because I majored in anthropology when I was in college.

Watching this today, "The Dragon's Back" a BBC show about the Andes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Vp97PzbkA

About the only thing I like about the British is the BBC documentaries.

and dadio's poetry.

[Arcadia]

matriarcado vs patriarcado? I don´t know..., I´m only a schoolteacher and a Language & Literature university undergraduate ...

but hey!, Obama finally sounds in this title like Cristina, Maduro, Correa o Evo ... :

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1629917-obam ... l-gobierno

gracias for the dragon´s back, s-t & I like the Beatles & the Rolling Stones so I can like dadio too ...!

yeah, next sunday here is mother´s day, the classic between Newell´s & Central since three years and the taxi drivers announced an strike ... & last weekend the narcos or the pólice gave ten shots to the Governor house , as you can see we are plenty of news ...

the graffitti: "without darkness the light doesn´t shine"

[Arcadia]

epic in editing & cell phones times ... : it seems there will be always someone with enough fear, anger or curiosity to film you in your wild moods & show you and the rest of the world of your wild moods as they want to... interesting and at the same time sad times..., and maybe an unexpected way for learning and de-learning for Juan & all of us...

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 10-17.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEXiQl8-JY

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beyond the fact that Gonzalez and Cabandié are from the same partido (FPV), I consider this Gonzalez´s article about filiation, language, new technologies, politics, media, recent history and reality an interesting one to read:

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpai ... 10-18.html

[stilltrucking]

where there are no women there is no light

Ann McFeatters: Thank women for ending the government shutdown


Toiling behind closed doors as the men dominated the well-trod floor in front of the TV cameras, women legislators such as Sens. Susan Collins, R-Me., and Patti Murray, D-Wash., helped orchestrate enough of a compromise to stop, or at least temporarily end, the ridiculousness of defaulting on our nation's debts.

No kidding! The women of the House and Senate never stopped getting together for monthly meetings. They never stopped breaking bread together. They never shouted at each other. They never called each other names. They were, ahem, adults trying desperately to solve a problem that a group of men created and which will go down in U.S. history are one of the stupidest, most pointless political moves of all time.

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/ann ... -1.6278148

[Arcadia]

where there are no women there is no light yeah, maybe!

ufff...!: gracias to whatever, we still don´t have a regime according to the New New York Times, we have only volatile politics ... Curious that the newspaper is talking about Chevron and not about Brasil at the moment ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/busin ... =2&_r=0&hp

[Arcadia]

It seems it´s no easy to not get hooked in the model of "violent reactioning with indignation against violence" sometimes (at least in these lands and with our shared history...) maybe to be aware of it beyond the thrilling-thing and knowing it can "even" happen to you, paradoxically can let us ease our relationships and understand more their dynamics ...

Today accidentally? I found myself watching in Canal Encuentro a documentary- entrevista to Milan Kundera by an Spanish journalist (it was filmed in black & white so it maybe be from the seventies ). First time I listened to Kundera talk, it catched my attention the visible emotion in his eyes at some moments, the french words and some things he said about the surrealism in Prague, the lyricism of Stalinism and the fascination that totalitarisms produce... Here´s the link but I doubt it works enough to see the documentary:


http://www.encuentro.gob.ar/sitios/encu ... _id=120615