http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:07:40 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:07:40 Between Dr Coss, NL, Mexico, and. Mier. A small waterfall I know, two hours drive from Reynosa, then two hours more by dirt road, and a final hour by motor boat, up river.

A place surrounded by ahuehuetes, the majestic trees called the old men of the river. There is a small waterfall. Pristine cl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/240 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:13:06 And discovering that she's now a taekwondo world champion.

http://mastaekwondo.com/2011/08/entrevista-a-patricia-carolina-martinez/
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/239 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:44:49 'Pretender' to the rôle of boyfriend.

She didn't say yes, but she didn't say no. :)

It's weird, I know. This is Hispanic culture; a throwback to the XIXth century.

We're both past 50, yet and I'm as giddy as a schoolboy.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/238 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:59:07 Aunt Raquel, the youngest, and one of the four redheads in the family.

Now my generation are the elders of the family.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/237 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:43:24 Patxi Andion wrote this Ode, Verde, as an homage to Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 - 1936).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVGolLGxSV4

Sleep walker's Romance - Federico Garcia Lorca

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/romance-son-aacute-mbulo

Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/236 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:20:22 With Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. I saw it for the first time last night.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2008_Elegy/2008_elegy_007.jpg

"Is the elegy for lost relationships, lost possibilities, beauty and time passing, or failure of nerve?"

What a beautifully sad story.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/235 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:21:29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEzNtG8J_dw... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/233 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:42:23 Go then.
Leave me alone.
I want my melancholy
to take flight.

I never asked who you were,
Or why you chose me.
I who until yesterday,
considered you a king.

To lose a love,
when dusk is falling,
when time draws nigh,
and silver strands
appear among the gold.

you risk madness
and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/232 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:56:41 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odXqBrb6ctI
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/234 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:39:16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq53wKjzVPA

For my anglophonic friends, unfamiliar with Facundo Cabral's work, here is my humble translation of one of his works:


I told you, I'm telling you, and I will say
that love is forever
I tell you, for example
that I love you now when it is hot,
an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/231 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:03:39 Source: [b]Washington Post[/b]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/blogpost/201107/Images/cabral.JPG?uuid=EYzzjqvKEeCagMRrnLElXw

Fans across Latin America are mourning the death of beloved Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral, who was shot dead by unidentifie... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/230 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:29:02 We were on a month long vacation.

Thieves got into the house.

Had everything of value bundled up and ready to go.

Then they broke into my dad's liquor cabinet.

The started to party, put on some music, the party got loud, the neighbors noticed, they called the cops...


When we got hom... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/229 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:45:44 And ordinary Mexican peasant's garment.

Except for the sentimental value.

This particular sarape was given to me by my father, in 1975, when I finished the requirements for my first degree (chemistry). Technically, I could have graduated then, but I stayed on and finished the requirements for ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/228 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:08:58 Screams, sounds of running, and then dead air over the cell phone.

My friend has a nine year old daughter involved in equestrian training.

Next thing I see is a text message; I'm driving to the hospital.

She has a nine year old daughter

Then nothing for the last four hours.

Calls are... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/227 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:50:17 Source: [b]The Guardian UK[/b]

A Mexican who saw the BBC's Top Gear programme on Sunday, in which her compatriots were described as "lazy, feckless, flatulent [and] overweight", has instructed lawyers to bring a test case against the show under a new equality law.

Lawyers for Iris de la Torre, a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/226 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:15:13 A love song from our cousins on the western edge of the Iberian peninsula.

Because amid the turmoil and tragedy of our shared experience, we often forget to celebrate the beauty that makes preserving our culture worth while.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAf9TEwqgvU

Translation for my An... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/225 Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:06:03 He was just sitting there on the wheel well of a pickup truck. I was sitting in the rear bed, with my back against the cab. Suddenly, I saw him rise in the air and float towards me as my back slammed against the cab and slid up against the rib of the bed. An instant later his head smashed into my no... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/224 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 20:35:33 Season 12, Episode 8, Dec 20, 1986?

Help would be much appreciated.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/223 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:50:21 De vez en cuando la vida~J.M. Serrat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIkGVAsqLE8


Every once in a while,
life kisses us full in the mouth
And opens up in color like an atlas,
and we feel ourselves in good hands.

She takes our proper measure,
and matches our stride
pulls a rabbit out of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/222 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:21:22 This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream: —
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s banner
Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.

A craven hung alo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/220 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:05:50 That's the MBTA for those outside the Boston area.

He was in full regalia and looked nervously around, surrounded by westerners.

We made eye contact, and I bowed as a courtesy.

He beamed me the biggest smile I've ever seen and bowed back.

That was the extent of our engagement, but I thin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/219 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:27:13 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QkfpYjLa6SI/SdvZevaMmvI/AAAAAAAAAdE/aapOCUbNG20/s1600/Glez7.jpg
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/218 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:16:16 (Cancion ultima)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pm-cQ9xQnE


Painted, not empty:
my house is painted
in the colors
of great passions and tragedies.

The empty dinner table,
and noisy bed will return
from the tears to which
they were taken.

Kisses will blossom on the pillows,
And s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/217 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:47:14 Do not surrender even when defeated,
and do not be a slave even in bondage,
trembling with fear advance bravely,
and attack with fury, though badly wounded.

Be as stubborn as a rusting nail,
that refuses to yield though old and ruined,
and do not envy the peacock's plumage,
that drops in fe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/216 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:58:44 I first encountered this word in a conversation with a cousin of mine as he related to me how he used to be his father's achichincle. This of course, was in the context of an armed standoff between himself and the chief of police, in a brothel somewhere in Veracruz Mexico, while his dad (my uncle) a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Xipe Totec/215 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:35:38