August 2011
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Aug 30th
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Listen Benedict Cumberbatch reads “Ode To A...
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America's east coast hunkers down for Irene  →
Seriously, the headlines just get better and better.
Aug 26th
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Hurricane Irene heads for US  →
Erm.
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Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
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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
Aug 18th
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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...
Aug 18th
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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...
Aug 12th
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tragos: 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...
Aug 12th
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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.
Aug 12th
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ListenThe city smells of jasmine, lavender, rosemary and...
Aug 11th
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Aug 9th
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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...
Aug 9th
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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.
Aug 8th
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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.
Aug 8th
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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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