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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Chile – Valparaíso – La Lucha Libre

Monday, September 6, 2010

After the boxing matches the lucha libre starts, in the basement of a gym at the corner of Buenos Aires and Independencia, down two flights of thincarpeted steps, in a ring lit by floodlamps. La Lucha Libre – Valparaíso – Chile from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. The skinny kid dressed like a neglected Mortal Kombat sketch [...]

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Or Like a Rat in the Curtains

Monday, September 6, 2010

LORD POLONIUS: My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently. HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? LORD POLONIUS: By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel. LORD POLONIUS: It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET: Or like a [...]

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Provided it is Distant

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Falling asleep, with a vague impression of anti-aircraft guns firing, found myself mentally back in the Spanish war, on one of those nights when you had a good straw to sleep on, dry feet, several hours rest ahead of you, and the sound of distant gunfire, which acts as a soporific provided it is distant. [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-09-05

Sunday, September 5, 2010

if @plasticbrentley and @tofermoran were police officers. http://bit.ly/clJr5F # today's new music: the books – the way out. http://bit.ly/cyXZVX # new music: royksopp – senior. http://bit.ly/bpzYty (via & thanks to @jephjacques) # @vyemoran good to know my subliminal crib speakers are still working. finn's say "i will be a nobel prize winning playwright." in reply [...]

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A Few Tenets of Writing Via Vonnegut

Saturday, September 4, 2010

1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers. —Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in Science Fictionisms Things to keep in mind until you no longer need to keep [...]

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Chile – the Andes

Friday, September 3, 2010

Pass – southwest of Laguna del Inca, Chile from paulboccaccio on Vimeo.

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Argentina – Buenos Aires – Borges walk

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Since I was in Buenos Aires on Jorge Luis Borges’s birthday, I thought there would be some hubbub or revel, but there was none. I found a tour of the houses in which he lived, and other sites important to him, and walked the route. Some of them, like the first, where he grew up, [...]

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Argentina – Buenos Aires – Not Exactly Melodic

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I don’t think he really knows how to play that well, but I gave him some money anyway. Bagpipe busker – Buenos Aires, Argentina from paulboccaccio on Vimeo.

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