29 de abr. de 20211 mincafé societyI don’t think I know enough about the historic camps of Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots on Saint-Germain des Prés in Paris. Both were...
29 de abr. de 20212 minpricing is cultural?I flew home from Paris on the Norwegian airliner … the one that has the ‘smoke over’ windows. I requested an aisle seat, so I didn’t get...
29 de abr. de 20218 mingenocide and breakfastI can now piece together why I spoke of genocide in #24 — non sequitur — and within the last five minutes I am aware of a particular...
29 de abr. de 20213 minthe liminal space between summersI have never developed a rigid system of note taking. Sometimes I find old notebooks in which I’ve started from the ostensible front with...
28 de abr. de 20212 mini’m a poofThere are not any completely gay bars in York, a city of 200,000. I found the Yorkshire Arms listed as friendly and later that night my...
28 de abr. de 20215 minfilm festivals were a way inI didn’t officially study film until 2002 when I got back to NYC and enrolled in The New School, and over time took master classes with...
28 de abr. de 20211 minsembene ousmaneIt must have been 2005, the second time I went to FESPACO — the film festival that started in the late 1960s in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso...
18 de abr. de 20212 minOxygen is depleted in ManausThe Brasilian air force will arrive today and Venezuela has offered to help. Media noise blames Japanese visitors for bringing the new...
17 de abr. de 20215 minSnakesMy father is a horse trainer (among other things). A trained ‘spotted saddle’ horse can be urged up very steep inclines. He neck-reigns...