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No hay b[l]anda.

I just had the unusual experience of hearing an arrangement "Cuando Caliente el Sol" (when the sun gets hot, a/k/a "Love Me With All Your Heart") that sounds just like the Skeeter Davis hit "End of the World" in translation. Performed by a MacDougal Street band of which little trace survives.

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DRONA IS ONE of two great teachers in the Mahabharata. A dirt-poor brahmin retained by the court of Dhritarashtra to civilize the young lizard princes and their equally rambunctious royal cousins, he was almost impeccable, which is good because his first task was to beat his students into submission (the master whose butt you can kick is not your ( Read more... )

I am getting a bagel and the counter guy wants to make small talk, asks me how I am so I say the weather seems to have decisively changed (which it has), and he nods happily and replies with something that sounds like "stay in the light." Presumably a rabid Talking Heads fan, lost somewhere in translation.


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Datta: what have we given ( Read more... )

Depending on the situation, people find it either hilarious or profoundly inconvenient that I won't get a crackberry, cell phone or other mobile communications device, much less open up a simple automatic messenger window from time to time. Thanks to the vast but not infinite benevolence of the Internet (praise the Internet!), the unquiet shade of ( Read more... )