theChangeHasCome...

cool...  no other word, really

to have the coolest Piedras Rodantes describe the first 100 days of Obama-in-Charge of a world and country gone amuck ... and hopefully, it seems, he may have "that crazy girl" under his thumb, or so we desire...

sálveseWHOcan

Illustration by Julian Sancton

from Vanity Fair... press title for details...

Which Sites Will Survive?

Species: The Velocireporter
Examples: Politico, Talking Points Memo

Species: Buzzceratops
Examples: The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast

Species: The Mediamphibian
Examples: CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Economist.com, TheAtlantic.com, VanityFair.com

Species: The Inky Mammoth
Examples: NYTimes.com, WashingtonPost.com, WSJ.com

take your protein pills...

oumou

- Oumou Sangare

supernatural

images taken with an Holga camera, the new sensation in photo technology for a generation wrapped in digital pampers... ah, for we miss the good old times of making pinhole cameras with a matchbox and black tape... or, do we?
click on title for more

verbalizzazione astratta di signora

Click on title to hear poem... performed by Luigi Pennone, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Sergio Cena/Recorded February 1976 in Torino from the LP Futura Poesia Sonora (Cramps Records, Milan)

From UBU...
In his "Verbalizzazioni Astratte" ("Abstract verbalizations"), Fortunato Depero developed the onomatopoeic invention to the point of paroxysm and, in a certain sense, left it behind. For Depero the poet, onomatopoeia is a problem of language, the language of natural forces developed to the maximum of sonic intensity. Depero does not describe the object or the sensation or the state of mind, he makes them act sonically... sex whimpers its timidity stammeringly in "Verbtilizzazione astratta di signora" ("Abstract verbalization of a lady")...

tacosDEojoYoído pa´l domingo

serpientesur: Madelín Espinosa congueando en you tube...en la batería Maylin Johoy ...

prickkORpuff

click on images to feel and fright

platícameCONseXto

un seXto sentido me dice que estas cubanitas van a dejar el tacón enterrado por algún hueco europeo... pronto... they just look too good on the other side...

asSalto

caricaturas de trino... pinchar arriba

les dejo unas caricaturas para el fin de semana, payasadas de todo tipo... que abundan

SocioBama

...Americans were asked their one-word impression of Barack Obama as he nears his 100th day in office. Above are the top ten words respondents cited. The size of a word is based on how often it was said....

from The Real Clear Politics blog... press title above for full article

brainStorm

caricatura deMontt... pinchar arriba

tormenta de cerebros o cerebros atormentados

anarchy

Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman

...About this and this, he cried; about order and anarchy. There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself—there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold...

...Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face—that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. That old gentleman with the wild, white beard and the wild, white hat—that venerable humbug was not really a philosopher; but at least he was the cause of philosophy in others. That scientific gentleman with the bald, egg-like head and the bare, bird-like neck had no real right to the airs of science that he assumed. He had not discovered anything new in biology; but what biological creature could he have discovered more singular than himself?

The man who was Thursday; a nightmare... by G. K. Chesterton, the "prince of paradox" press title for complete story

cazueguamazo

se le fundió el metal al cacicacerolo de la aldea guamaÑoña en esta cazuelada con rumba de batería de cocina bien enchilada... al gusto de todos....

cazuelas y banderas

robert therrien - pots and pans

Toque de sartén el 1ero de mayo a las 20:30 pm, pide Yoani, y es lo menos que le debemos... a quien nos devolvió la esperanza

Convocatoria: Cacerolada en La Habana por el derecho de todos los cubanos a viajar libremente transmite PD y lo divulgamos

porque es un derecho que todo ser humano debe tener y que ojalá todos los cubanos puedan gozar ... pronto

banderas simbólicas piden los blogueros cubanos de todas partes y banderas idealistas damos...

por la unión, el respeto, la tolerancia, la pluralidad y la sabiduría aprendida que todos deseamos en una cuba futura, libre y nuestra

porque me parece un idealismo chévere, que ojalá se haga realidad... pronto

porque si se pierde la esperanza y el idealismo dejamos de ser humanos... y nos convertimos en lo que detestamos

OURstoryOURS

The new documentary The Lost Son of Havana tells the story of baseball legend Luis Tiant and his return to Cuba after 46 years.

vía NPR - PD... press title for complete article

...The moment illustrates the central tension of the story: by leaving Cuba and his/MY family, Tiant/I found huge success. His/MY family did not.

"He's/ I HAVE been running from it his/MY whole life," Hock/I says.

Returning to Cuba brings Tiant/ME a measure of peace. "I feel better," he/I says in the film. "My heart is better; my head is better. I guess I can close my book now. If I die, I die happy."

...y como él, un millón y pico largooo...

con la culpabilidad a cuestas, en algunos casos

o con la rabia mal puesta, en otros...

pero todos, en algún rincón

con la cabrona nostalgia impuesta...

pssst, mira papi, tiant regresó...

vallejoBlues

hoy como siempre, tú mi suela hasta el tacón... y que murmuren... viejo, que murmuren...

culos

fotos: 1, Lucien Clergue, 2 y 3 isabel muñoz

sobre la tierra...

Violet-Green-and-Red-1951-Rothko

Sobre la tierra amarga,
caminos tiene el sueño
laberínticos, sendas tortuosas,
parques en flor y en sombra y en silencio;

criptas hondas, escalas sobre estrellas;
retablos de esperanzas y recuerdos.
Figurillas que pasan y sonríen
—juguetes melancólicos de viejo—;

imágenes amigas,
a la vuelta florida del sendero,
y quimeras rosadas
que hacen camino... lejos...

de Poesías completas de Antonio Machado
Colección Austral
Editorial ESPASA CALPE

in the LAND of fantasy...