August 2011
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America's east coast hunkers down for Irene →
Seriously, the headlines just get better and better.
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Hurricane Irene heads for US →
Erm.
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Lorca was a poet of no school. He’s usually included among the Spanish poets...
– No One Is Untouchable: Not Federico Garcia Lorca, Not Ai Weiwei < PopMatters
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Para qué sirven los versos si no es para esa noche
en que un puñal amargo nos...
– Oda a Federico García Lorca - Poemas de Pablo Neruda
“What are the verses for, if not for this night in which a bitter dagger finds us out, for this day, for this twilight, for this broken corner where the beaten heart of man prepares to die?
Over everything at night, at night there...
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Today I visited the place where Federico Garcia Lorca was assassinated. I am a whole bundle of feelings I can’t even compute.
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Today's Famous Birthdays
solidair:
1503 - Christian III, king of Denmark and Norway 1566 - Isabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain and Portugal, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands in the Low Countries 1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese Shogun 1626 - Giovanni Legrenzi, composer 1644 - Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer 1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, composer and violinist 1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German...
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Happy Birthday Byronic! In honor of the occasion, a little bit about the moon:
La Luna Asoma
Cuando sale la luna
se pierden las campanas
y aparecen las sendas
impenetrables.
Cuando sale la luna,
el mar cubre la tierra
y el corazón se siente
isla en el infinito.
Nadie come naranjas
bajo la luna llena.
Es preciso comer
fruta verde y helada.
Cuando sale...
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Glorious Twelfth →
The Glorious Twelfth is usually used to refer to 12 August, the start of the shooting season for Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) and to a lesser extent the Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in the United Kingdom.
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There is, though, an important difference between 1981 and 2011. Thirty years...
– Urban riots: Thirty years after Brixton | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
Thank you to everybody who sent messages/asked - we’re ok, fortunately our part of London wasn’t affected by the riots and we mostly watched the events from afar. We slept about three hours. This...
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Things I believe about the London riots | UK news... →
Useful read. Frankly, nobody knows what’s actually going on. How very British.
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Peter Lorre would play me in the film of my life.
Or maybe the young Emma Thompson. I don’t know.
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Poised at the base of the Sierra Nevadas 300 miles south of Madrid, Granada is...
– Leslie Stainton, The Granada of Federico García Lorca (May 4, 1986, New York Times)
Leaving for Granada tomorrow.
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