Posted in Granada, Gypsies, Poetry, Spain on September 30, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I would love to put together an anthology of poets who were born or lived in Granada, Spain. I could include Shmuel Ha Nagid, Pedro Soto de Rojas, Solomon ben Judah ibn Gabirol, Judah Ben Shmuel Ha Levi, Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Guillén and many others. Granada has had a remarkable ability over the centuries [...]
Posted in History, Spain, Writers on September 21, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I finished reading L.P. Harvey’s book, Muslims in Spain: 1500-1614, a book which addresses in depth the survival of Muslims in Spain after the Peninsula was completely in the hands of Christian rulers. This is a story with a surprising amount of nuance. Once the conquest of Granada was complete in 1492, the story of [...]
Posted in History, Human rights on September 21, 2005 | 1 Comment »
This machine kills fascists
Simon Wiesenthal 1908-2005
Nie wieder
Simon_Wiesenthal, fascism, nazi, genocide
Posted in Publications on September 20, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I have the honor of being the first writer in English to appear on the Italian citizen journalism site, Gheminga. Mine was a Q&A with Dr. Susan Rice of the Brookings Institution on the concept of failed and super-failed states. Thanks to Marco for the invitation.
citizen_journalism, Gheminga
Posted in Poetry, Superintelligent sea cucumbers on September 14, 2005 | 5 Comments »
Her ask do nun commander
A fly of cowling ocelot
As change no pierce entrepreneur
Be draw do morpheme
Of lose to rulebook
My shady past Oxford Aaron
In use be outlook
At worry the correct peculiarity
Is tell he cudgel
I travel at dedication
And with this poem, I hereby call the experiment finished. I have successfully exhausted the poetic possibilities of the metatags [...]
Posted in Journalism on September 10, 2005 | No Comments »
I heard a story on Marketplace radio today. Well, not a story. They don’t do stories anymore. It was a “piece” and in this “piece” one reporter was interviewing another. The second reporter kept talking, in almost tearful tones, about how all the people displaced by the hurricane from New Orleans were grateful for everyone’s [...]
Posted in History, Spain on September 7, 2005 | No Comments »
Maria Rosa Menocal is a professor of Spanish history at Yale and the author of the beautiful book on Arabic Spain, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Wanting to learn more about what happened to the Muslims in Spain after the Reconquest, I [...]
Posted in Poetry, Superintelligent sea cucumbers on September 6, 2005 | No Comments »
Whirligig, Do you know.. I love you
You borrow no polygamist authoritarian
To cut it chamber childhood
Her cough or inconspicuous barometer
Are hurt be influence
Too many to count dote kidnapping
Are hurt on petroleum
So lose or rate inquest
For drink so chapter
As break or roadway glorify
Is worry in singlet burthen
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Curt Hopkins
Posted in America, Travel on September 2, 2005 | No Comments »
“There are only three cities in the United States: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. All the rest is Cincinnati.”
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