TOMA, bajito de sal tu maní, the american way: if you haven´t got bananas... don´t be blue...
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A MORAL TO THIS SONG, FIFTY MILLION LITTLE MONKEYS
CAN'T BE WRONG...
3.31.2011
3.30.2011
manítostao
foto del obsequio hecho por Yoani Sánchez a Jimmy Carter, hoy, durante su breve reunión... algo que me pareció un gesto genial, lleno de frescura e ironía...
Post completo aquí, en Generación Y
Texto de la carta que acompañaba el regalo:
Cuarteto Patria y Manu di Bango... Manisero... el manisero se va, se va.... se fueeee
Post completo aquí, en Generación Y
Texto de la carta que acompañaba el regalo:
La Habana 30 de marzo de 2011
Señor Jimmy Carter:
En nombre de varios bloggers alternativos y de otras personas de la sociedad civil cubana, queremos entregarle este presente. Se trata de una muestra pequeña de los alimentos que trabajadores por cuenta propia logran hacer a partir del maní, palabra con la que en Cuba nombramos al cacahuete, ese fruto seco que usted conoce tan bien.
A lo largo de medio siglo, el maní ha sido uno de los pocos productos que ha escapado del control planificador de nuestro estado. Incluso en los días más duros del llamado período especial una de las pocas cosas que podía comprarse en mercado libre producido por personas independientes eran estos cucuruchos y confituras que hoy aquí le entregamos. Hubo momentos en que tuvo que pasar prácticamente a la clandestinidad y el tradicional pregón de “maní, el manisero llegó…” se convirtió en una frase susurrada en los oídos de los clientes.
Este transgresor alimento popular, al alcance de todos los bolsillos, se ha erigido en emblema de la resistencia ciudadana ante las pretensiones totalitarias, en un reducto de creatividad e ingenio ante el centralismo y el control. He aquí el maní, un vencedor de las dificultades, un porfiado desobediente transformado ahora en símbolo de unión, en punto de confluencia entre su pueblo y el nuestro.
Cuarteto Patria y Manu di Bango... Manisero... el manisero se va, se va.... se fueeee
3.29.2011
3.28.2011
contra83
Open publication - Free publishing - More artes visuales
contiene --en la pág. 18-- cuatro prosemas del prosemario inédito palabrerías aNalfabéticas, de om ulloa
contiene --en la pág. 18-- cuatro prosemas del prosemario inédito palabrerías aNalfabéticas, de om ulloa
3.26.2011
3.25.2011
3.23.2011
caldecuba
mañana nublada de primavera fría, tráfico lento y manejo al oeste de mi ciudad del norte pasando por barrios de boricuas de negros de chinos de árabes de polacos escondidos tras casuchas casitas casetas casettes casonas y de pronto me doy cuenta de que tengo que echar gasolina... aquí aquí que no es citgo y está más barata, me digo como si alguien me escuchara y aprobara con un gesto de la cabeza mi selectiva petrolera.
y ya, cuelgo la manguera en la bomba después de exprimir hasta la última gota de oronegro y me dirijo a pagar al interior, a la mujer hindú detrás del cristal antibalas que me sonríe tal vez en hindi o bengali mientras rastreo mis bolsillos en busca de calderilla... caldecuba... cuba... "Cuba Paris", nada menos. ¿y esta tabacuba tremens?, pensé al toparse mis ojos con la cajita llena de cubalas en la vitrina-mostrador delante de la mujer. y vi que ella me interrogaba con la mirada. "ma´am?", me cuestionó sospechosa de mi lentitud para pagar. por fin con una mano le di el billete de $20 y con la otra tomé uno de lo que parecía ser puros habanos en envases metálicos. y entonces sentí que se movía y corría dentro el líquido que contenía.
¿qué carajo es esto?, me dije y levanté la mirada. fijé mis ojos acusadores en el rostro moreno de la mujer, que ya me explicaba sonriente: "´tis perfume, ma´am, made in Miami. wanna try it?" miré la caja llena de las cubalas entre caramelos, condones, barajas, chicles, mentas para el mal aliento... estuches perfumadores a la semblanza de habanos bautizados "Cuba Paris", hechos en Miami, acuñados con un sello donde descansaba la imagen del rostro de ... ¿Benjamín Franklin? ¿licuado en 80% vol. y 35ml. 1.17FL OZ?
suspiré y recogí mi cambio, no sin antes pedirle permiso a la mujer para fotografiar aquel hallazgo que me hizo recordar --sin querer, por la frecuencia con que me lo recuerdan--, para lo que queda mi calderilla Cuba, mi caldecuba fragmentada por todas partes, exploglobalizada en menjunjes inesperados como éste, siempre dando una imagen falsa y engañadora. siempre pretendiendo ser lo que no es.
3.22.2011
allTOGETHERnow?
Obama dixit, en Chile:
... Which leads me to the final area where we must continue to partner, and that’s strengthening democracy and human rights ...
A decade ago, we reaffirmed this principle, with an Inter-American Democratic Charter that stated -- and I quote -- “the people of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”
Across the Americas, generations, including generations of Chileans, have struggled and sacrificed to give meaning to these words -- ordinary men and women who dared to speak their mind; activists who organized new movements; faith leaders who preached social justice; the mothers of the disappeared who demanded the truth; political prisoners who rose to become presidents; and, even now, Las Damas de Blanco, who march in quiet dignity.
...
Let’s never waver in our support for the rights of people to determine their own future -- and, yes, that includes the people of Cuba. Since taking office, I’ve announced the most significant changes to my nation’s policy towards Cuba in decades. I’ve made it possible for Cuban Americans to visit and support their families in Cuba. We’re allowing Americans to send remittances that bring some economic hope for people across Cuba, as well as more independence from Cuban authorities.
Going forward, we’ll continue to seek ways to increase the independence of the Cuban people, who I believe are entitled to the same freedom and liberty as everyone else in this hemisphere. I will make this effort to try to break out of this history that’s now lasted for longer than I’ve been alive.
But Cuban authorities must take some meaningful actions to respect the basic rights of their own people -- not because the United States insists upon it, but because the people of Cuba deserve it, no less than the people of the United States or Chile or Brazil or any other country deserve it. ...
... Which leads me to the final area where we must continue to partner, and that’s strengthening democracy and human rights ...
A decade ago, we reaffirmed this principle, with an Inter-American Democratic Charter that stated -- and I quote -- “the people of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”
Across the Americas, generations, including generations of Chileans, have struggled and sacrificed to give meaning to these words -- ordinary men and women who dared to speak their mind; activists who organized new movements; faith leaders who preached social justice; the mothers of the disappeared who demanded the truth; political prisoners who rose to become presidents; and, even now, Las Damas de Blanco, who march in quiet dignity.
...
Let’s never waver in our support for the rights of people to determine their own future -- and, yes, that includes the people of Cuba. Since taking office, I’ve announced the most significant changes to my nation’s policy towards Cuba in decades. I’ve made it possible for Cuban Americans to visit and support their families in Cuba. We’re allowing Americans to send remittances that bring some economic hope for people across Cuba, as well as more independence from Cuban authorities.
Going forward, we’ll continue to seek ways to increase the independence of the Cuban people, who I believe are entitled to the same freedom and liberty as everyone else in this hemisphere. I will make this effort to try to break out of this history that’s now lasted for longer than I’ve been alive.
But Cuban authorities must take some meaningful actions to respect the basic rights of their own people -- not because the United States insists upon it, but because the people of Cuba deserve it, no less than the people of the United States or Chile or Brazil or any other country deserve it. ...
cometogetherNOW
Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me
He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me
He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me
3.21.2011
3.20.2011
wishfulThinking ... Or not
3.17.2011
it´s we
3.15.2011
godieBeauty
Lee Godie, French Impressionist,
ArtInstituteChgo Blog
“Renoir was the greatest artist of all time. He always said he painted beauty. Now I always try to paint beauty, but some people say my paintings aren’t beautiful. Well, I have a beauty in my mind, but it isn’t always easy to make paintings beautiful.”
Oh. but you did, Lee, you did... and you are way better than Cezanne...
'Would you like to buy some canvases? I'm much better than Cezanne.’ Lee Godie
3.14.2011
3.13.2011
pingarte mayambanero
caminaba por el Design District de Miami y justo en la esquina de la NW 2nd Ave y la 25 St, me topé con este graffiti en la pared de la galería Pan American Art Projects.
mientras lo fotografiaba,una chica que trabaja allí y en ese momento salía me dijo que el dibujito no estaba allí la noche anterior... "pingarte para las masas", le dije sonriendo y se ruborizó a pesar de ser hip, artsy, joven y todo lo que eso implica. ella no sabía quién lo hizo y creo que tampoco le importaba mucho averiguarlo porque se alejó fumando y haciendo muecas de disgusto.
a mí, de paso voyeuristoide en la "capital del exilio", como siempre, me pareció muy adecuado graffiti mayambanero... perfect for these castrAting times, perfect for all the disembodiment going around, perfect for our indifferent awe in the face of despair, pero cargado de ese desparpajo machista cubano que quiere centrarlo todo en ese miembro viril --por reproductor-- que ahora, reproducido sobre el muro descansaba desmembrado, impotente y flácido y observador de quien se le acercara a observarlo.
ahí se los dejo... y si alguien sabe qué pinga é, o de qué va el graffitazo, que lo garabetee en los comentarios.
aussieCrooks
A collection of photos from Sydney's Justice & Police Museum exhibition Crooks. The pictures were taken by Australian police in the 1920s, capturing "individuals they thought were, or were likely to become, professional criminals."
via Boingboing
via Boingboing
3.12.2011
3.11.2011
3.10.2011
3.08.2011
womenOFcourage2011
"... And finally, Yoani Sanchez of Cuba. She is the young blogger that Mrs. Obama referenced. She has used technology to promote positive change. She has created an interactive space for the exchange of ideas and free expression. She has given voice to the concerns and aspirations of her fellow citizens. And, as governments are learning around the world, you cannot stop the internet. And so her words, despite her government’s best efforts, are being translated into other languages, are being picked up and spread around because freedom knows no boundaries. And she deserves our thanks for demonstrating that again and again."
También premiadas: Roza Otunbayeva, presidenta de Kirguizistán y primera mujer en liderar una nación centroasiática; Mara Bashir, fiscal general de Herat (Afganistán); Henriette Ekwe Ebongo, periodista y activista (Camerún); Jianmei Guo, directora del Centro de Estudios Jurídicos y Ayuda Legal para Mujeres (China); Agnes Osztolykan, primera gitana en el Parlamento de Hungría; Eva Abdu Halaweh, directora ejecutiva del Mizan Law Group for Human Rights (Jordania); y Ghulam Sughra, fundadora de una organización de desarrollo rural (Pakistán).
3.06.2011
ohmio
ohmio m. Unidad de resistencia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional de Medidas, equivalente a la resistencia eléctrica que da paso a una corriente de un amperio cuando entre sus extremos existe una diferencia de potencial de un voltio. Su símbolo es O.
Gente eléctrica: Y viene de este iluminado electrificado... Ohm
Ohm's Law describes the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance....
Gente eléctrica: Y viene de este iluminado electrificado... Ohm
Ohm's Law describes the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance....
theNewCenturyDictionary
Brian Dettmer: The Book Surgeon
"My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception.
...
"The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. The book’s intended function has decreased and the form remains linear in a non-linear world. By altering physical forms of information and shifting preconceived functions, new and unexpected roles emerge."
3.04.2011
negroZumbón
irresistible este clip... empieza con una monja... le sigue un número cabaretero y termina con uh trago... perfect mix
3.03.2011
3.02.2011
NOWdrillYOURpockets...
Stocks Slide as Oil Prices Rise WSJ
Widening tensions in the Mideast drove oil prices sharply higher, inflaming worries about inflation and sending the stock market to its lowest close in a month.
Stocks Held Back By Oil Gains
U.S. stocks struggled for direction as crude oil crept over $100 a barrel, raising worries about the economy despite a stronger-than-expected report on private-sector hiring.
il. dieselpower by LAUZÁN
stairPorn
stairs, and nothing but...
otra de mis manías --las escaleras-- ascender descender deslizarse por el pasamanos pasar la mano por el desliz de la proyectura entre peldaño a escalón de un eslabón resbalar subir o bajar a la arquiporno cuidando la grafía lenta y pura y recorrer el ámbito descansar en el rellano relleno de espacio y en caracol me arrimo a un muro curvo y todo desemboca en nalgas de metal madera y mármol... sublime por derecho de elevación
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