What If Civil War

En Deluxe Celebrities el 2008.07.05

It’s not easy living with having been the muse and lover of any great artist, let alone someone with demigod status like Bob Dylan. But that’s the baggage that Suze Rotolo, who lived with Dylan in the 1960s and was a major influence in his early work, has been carrying for nearly half a century. Now she has broken her silence with a book, "A Freewheelin’ Time - A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties" published by Broadway Books, an imprint of Doubleday....

En Citius64 el 2008.06.16

¿El dolor se expresa igual en todas partes? Es decir...¿ es natural o es cultural? ¿O ambos? Esa es una pregunta que estudia la neuroantropología, una nueva derivación de la sociología médica. Y hay una revista dedicada a este estudio. MindHacks, ese gran blog, le dedica un espacio. Copio: Neuroanthropology has an excellent article on how culture influences the experience of trauma, particularly in light of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan...

En CarlosQC el 2008.06.09

Sometimes copy & paste is not as bad as some might think. Here is an example: I got this by email and I read the whole article. It is an extremely interesting bunch of comments about American politics, and it was published by the Workers Vanguard, a Marxist Trotskyist bi-weekly newspaper in the US. I don't say I agree with the statements made here, but they are an open invitation for anyone to think carefully about what is going on today in the US. The following article was issued by Workers...

En The Blog el 2008.06.05

I am a Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine Online reader. It is a must have magazine in the print edition and online. On June 3 they published an article that artist Ron English did a print of Barack Obama using Abraham Lincoln iconic photograph from 1863. This print is available at UpperPlayground for $200.00. It is gorgeous as a print. He did a great work combining Lincoln and make it look like Obama. It is a really great piece. They are all signed by Ron English and are 18"X24". Only available...

En Veenzuela News and Views el 2008.06.01

I have been so busy this week that it is Sunday night and I have not been able yet to write on the new fascist law published last week by the Chavez government. I need to read it in detail and make my report on the matter. Right now what strikes me the most is that it establishes tattling, denunciation by your neighbor as a mandatory activity. For example this blogger who has written repeatedly that the Venezuelan army was in no shape to face war with Colombia is betraying national interests and thus as of...

En The Mex Files el 2008.06.01

Hullabaloo on the death of one immigrant, and health care in the For-Profit Concentration Camps Detention Centers : Unlike federal and state prisons, immigrant detention centers, many of which are run by private contractors, are not legally mandated to abide by any healthcare standards when it comes to treating sick immigrants. Civil and immigrant rights groups have filed suit in New York to force federal officials to issue such rules, but the Department of Homeland Security, which has jurisdiction in the...

En HG Poetics el 2008.05.28

What I made (homemade) in a B & B in New Hampshire. Not realizing I was 2 blocks down the road from Robert Frost's house. 6 The last of the sunset, a pink slip of violet fire cradled in a vertex of these ancient feminine hills. Here laborious Farmer George buried his skill for burial. Terse kingdom of New England ire (think, Hesiod). Elliptical. Stubborn stub, stump. Great-Grandpa saw his opportunity and lit out West (pretty gals, plenty money) leaving behind old Yankee (post-Civil War) memoirs....

En LACONSULTAJURIDICA - SANTIAGO - CHILE LA CONSULTA PREVENTIVA UNA NECESIDAD URGENTE: el 2008.05.28

List du Jour: Law's Most Creative Moments Lawyers love lists. But here is a new tack on an old idea: the 100 most creative moments in American law. Intrigued by the role played by innovation in law, Robert Blomquist, a professor at Valparaiso University School of Law, decided to try to rank law's most creative moments. He surveyed American law professors for their suggestions. Based on their replies and his own opinions, he compiled his list, which BoleyBlogs! calls "delightful." His...

En MAESTRIA ICNI el 2008.05.18

SMITHFIELD, R.I. - George H.W. Bush delivered an optimistic commencement address at Bryant University yesterday, telling about 750 graduating seniors that "seeing you all of you . . . only reaffirms my optimism in my country's future." more stories like thisThe former president and father of the current commander in chief said he does not believe in the pessimistic talk because the United States is the greatest nation on the earth. He urged the graduates to contribute to the overall well-being of the...

En Sobre Comic el 2008.05.14

Hoy me ha dado por Spiderman, que hacía ya bastantes días que no le dedicaba nada. Y si esta mañana os hablaba del Ultimate Spiderman recién salido, ahora me toca hacerlo de Spiderman #19, que contiene el Amazing Spiderman 543 de USA, el Sensational Spiderman 40 y el Waht If…? Spiderman vs Wolverine. Con guión de John Michael Straczynski y dibujos de Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, en este número se da por finalizado el arco argumental "Back in Black" comenzado en el número 15. Recordemos que en...

En El Blogchorno el 2008.05.13

Spiderman Fairy Tales Spiderman Fairy Tales es una edición especial perteneciente a la serie Marvel Fairy Tales publicada por Marvel en la que historias clásicas de varias partes del mundo son adaptadas utilizando algunos de los héroes más famosos de Marvel. En Spiderman Fairy Tales tendremos cuatro comics contando historias distintas, en el primer capitulo podremos ver la historia deCaperucita Roja con la participación de todos los personajes de Spiderman. En esta serie creada con el estilo de Marvel,...

En MARVELEANDO el 2008.05.13

JOVENES TITANES Los Teen Titans, o Jóvenes Titanes, son un grupo de superhéroes de DC Comics. En un principio fue pensado como una suerte de versión juvenil de la Liga de la Justicia, ya que reunía a los compañeros adolescentes de los principales miembros de dicho grupo, tales como Robin, Kid-Flash, Wonder Girl o Aqualad (compañeros de Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman y Aquaman respectivamente). Justamente en esta historia de Wolfram, Kerschl y Lapoint nos muestran a los miembros originales cansados de ser solo...

En Save Our Souls el 2008.05.10

(CNN) -- A gunman in Kenya shot and killed the head of a World Food Program office that provides relief for neighboring southern Sudan, the WFP said on Friday. The incident occurred in the northwestern Kenyan town of Lokichoggio, a slaying that the U.N. agency calls "the first killing of a WFP aid worker in what has been a major relief hub for southern Sudan." The incident occurred late Wednesday when Silence Chirara -- a Zimbabwean national who is coordinator of WFP's logistics operation for southern...

En Cine el 2008.05.09

It appears Bioshock is the next video game set for film adaptation. We get the following news and game description from our friends over at moviesonline: Today it has been announced by Variety that Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski will be helming the movie adaptation of the hugely popular Bioshock game. Developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, BioShock is a ?genetically-enhanced? first person shooter set in Rapture, an underwater art deco-inspired utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught...

En boliviarising.blogspot.com el 2008.05.07

Fred Jones, April 30,2008 In Bolivia the social movements have organized to defend a new progressive constitution and social change which begins to deal justly with the native majority for the first time. Three years ago when Evo Morales, the first native president, was elected the right wing political parties were discredited. This meant that here were no significant forces available to defend the wealthy and prevent social change. The strategy of the right therefore was to delay any change while it...

En MOLESKINE el 2008.05.04

Carátula de la novela de Mo Yan. Fuente: arcade publishing Con absoluto placer, el adminitrador de "The Literary Saloon" comenta el hecho de que el suplemento de libros de New York Times le haya dedicado tanto espacio en su último número a las traducciones de autores chinos. Aparece una reseña a Serve the people! de Yan Lianke. También un texto sobre The song of everlasting sorrow de Wang Anyi. Otro libro reseñado es Wolf Totem de Jiang Rong, ganador del Man Asian Literary Prize. También hay un artículo...

En MABB el 2008.04.30

MABB © ® Yesterday, April 30th, the department of Santa Cruz cried out loud: Iyambae! Autonomia! The cry was, in Guarani and Spanish, a loud autonomy cry. As I started to write these lines, tens of thousands of Cruceños were gathered in the already customary place, the Cristo Redentor (Christ Redeemer) rotunda, to celebrate the end of the campaña por el sí (the yes campaign). On May 4, Santa Cruz will, against all odds, carry out a region-wide referendum to ask the people to accept or reject the autonomic...

En Marmelade is on a life quest el 2008.04.18

There's a little story for you. Since it's Freaky Friday, the voices in my head are whispering me a horror tale. Don't be afraid, it's not that scary, actually. Also, keep in mind the voices in my head are not speaking English. I had to have it translated for you, ok? It all started about ten days ago. I went to bed at midnight, as usual, read a boring book about the spanish civil war which has this strange effect of making me delightfully sleepy. Meanwhile she is taking her make-up off, combing her long...

En Dondequiera el 2008.03.30

Today, I'm going to try something a little bit different. Lately I've been feeling a presence. A spirit, loafing around my keyboard urging me to put my fingers on to the keys. It's making me go to read more and more news stories about the case against Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila. It's gotten to the point were I just can't resist anymore. But I think I know who it might be, so I'm going to go on a hunch here. I'm going to just let go and let it (him) take over. So here goes nothing.... ....Well I should be...

En El libro itinerante el 2008.03.27

Publicamos hoy la segunda parte de los comentarios de CubanInLondon, con su autorización, sobre la novela Native Son. (Leer la primera parte). Les recuerdo a todos que pueden enviarnos sus impresiones, críticas literarias, comentarios sobre libros que hayan leído, si lo desean, para hacerlas públicas en este club literario. Native Son by Richard Wright (2) (contains spoilers) Por CubanInLondon ?... If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we could call it...