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Libertarianism

2012-02-01T20:04:00.003-03:00

The central idea of libertarianism is that people should be permitted to run their own lives as they wish. We totally reject the idea that people must be forcibly protected from themselves. A libertarian society would have no laws against drugs, gambling, pornography —and no compulsory seat belts in cars. We also reject the idea that people have an enforceable claim on others, for anything more than being left alone. A libertarian society would have no welfare, no Social Security system. People who wished to aid others would do so voluntarily through private charity, instead of using money collected by force from the taxpayers. People who wished to provide for their old age would do so through private insurance.

David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom

Jakarta dusk

2012-01-08T11:44:00.002-03:00

His faith had been faith in mankind, and he'd lost it, ending up in the darkness, a badly injured, shipwrecked man on a shore of bones at the end of the world.

(We, the Drowned, Carsten Jensen)

No 4

2012-01-03T11:33:00.002-03:00

No 4, 14, 24.
(No 13)

A propósito de Hormuz

2011-12-30T09:56:00.002-03:00

"By any measure –physical volume, monetary value, orstrategic importance- petroleum is the most critical product carried, occupyingat any given moment almost half of the planet’s commercial tonnage. The worldcurrently pumps and ships about eighty million barrels per day, of which theUnited States uses one-fourth: twenty million barrels. About three-fifths ofthis, or twelve million barrels per day, must be imported. Petroleum not onlypowers the world but also lubricates it, fertilizes it, and supplies the majoringredient of the modern world’s most ubiquitous manufacturing material,plastic. Were oil supply lines seriously interrupted, much of the planet’sactivity would quite literally grind to a halt, and hundreds of millions ofpeople would starve.
The volume of American oil imports roughly corresponds tothe amount of crude passing daily through the Persian Gulf entrance at theStrait of Hormuz. A smaller, but still strategically important amount alsopasses through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus…, Bab el Mandeb, the Suez Canal,the Sumed pipeline (which parallels the Suez Canal), and the Panama Canal.Finally, most petroleum that exits through these Middle Eastern Straits boundfor East Asia must also pass by Malacca. The sudden closure of any of these passageswould throw the world economy into turmoil.
Within the next few decades, such an event is not merepossible or probable, but nearly certain.
…
Hormuz is even more problematic. In his 1980 State of theUnion Address, President Carter enunciated what came to be known as the CarterDoctrine:

An attempt by an outside force to gain control of thePersian gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests ofthe United states of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any meansnecessary, including military force."

(A Splendid Exchange - How TradeShaped the World, William J. Bernstein, 2008)

Brutal

2011-12-29T10:40:00.000-03:00

Over the following decades, the Portuguese cursed the northern Moluccas with a series of increasingly brutal governors... Without provocation, Menese had the man's hands cut off, his arm tied behind his back, then set upon with dogs. The victim somehow managed to escape into the water, where he grasped the canines one by one with his teeth and drowned them before slipping below the waves himself.

(A Splendid Exchange - How Trade Shaped the World, William J. Bernstein)

Lucky ride

2011-12-27T23:26:00.003-03:00

Bali

2011-12-26T23:01:00.001-03:00

Montevideo

2011-12-10T12:40:00.001-03:00

Lion tamer

2011-12-02T09:10:00.001-03:00

No lion-tamer would ever remind the lion that the lion is stronger than he

El Perro de Rocroi

2011-11-28T20:38:00.001-03:00

Y pese a todo, arrogantes hasta el final, fieles a su reputación, temibles hasta en la derrota. Peligrosos y homicidas como la madre que nos parió.

Amsterdam

2011-11-25T08:32:00.001-03:00

Fotitos

2011-11-15T08:45:00.001-03:00

Fleurs

2011-10-10T20:08:00.002-03:00

Jobs, Steve

2011-10-06T18:26:00.000-03:00

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

“Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. [Wired, February 1996]

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”

“I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.” [Triumph of the Nerds, 1996]

***

“I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” [On Bill Gates, The New York Times, Jan. 12, 1997]

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.” [Wired, February 1996]

Steve Job's Best Quotes, del WSJ

Texts from last night

2011-09-22T07:48:00.001-03:00

Texts from last night

Bar

2011-09-21T10:45:00.000-03:00

Fotobotella

2011-09-08T13:26:00.000-03:00

Stand by me

2011-08-28T16:06:00.000-03:00

2011-08-19T11:20:00.002-03:00

Hay, es indudable, en él una tendencia sana: la protesta contra las ideas socialistas, de origen hegeliano, de absorber el individuo por el Estado. ¡Por Júpiter!¿No les parece a ustedes que se ha abusado al imponernos una religión, una patria, un Estado, un servicio militar; al llenarnos la vida de trabas y al obligarnos, además, a que las amemos? Que venga la tiranía, el despotismo, cualquier cosa; pero que no se meta el Estado a obligarle a aprender al que quiera ser salvaje, a vacunarse al que quiera tener viruelas, a vivir al que quiera morirse porque está aburrido, y a fijarle las horas de las comidas al que no tiene qué comer.

(Pío Baroja, La obra de Pello Yarza y algunas otras cosas)

La clave del éxito

2011-08-18T12:41:00.004-03:00

La clave del éxito
Es mantenernos dormidos,
Comiendo basura en paquetes,
Deshojando margaritas,
Llorando con la novelita.

La clave del éxito
Para que estén tranquilos,
Todos juntitos jugando al gran bonete,
Desde el sillón mirando la pantalla,
Nunca te quejes y nunca digas basta,
Es... la clave del éxito,
La clave del éxito

(Las Pelotas)

másssssssspalabrasssssss

2011-08-14T21:09:00.003-03:00

villorrio, poquitero, gandul, esquivo, cantamañanas, cojudo, runfla, riguroso, deplorable, pomposo, pituto, chirimbolo, mollera, bollo, cachibache, sigilo.

underdog, downtrodden, dettached, compelling, galoot, personable, lure, protean.

Empty playgrounds

2011-08-09T12:44:00.004-03:00

Empty playgrounds. Dead children. No future.

BA: Any given Thursday

2011-07-28T19:36:00.002-03:00

Josha. Nuevo-nuevo

2011-07-25T15:41:00.000-03:00

Dangerous Dragon

2011-07-22T16:27:00.003-03:00

Arabian Sands

2011-07-21T16:20:00.001-03:00

As I listened I thought once again how precarious was the existence of the Bedu. Their way of life naturally made them fatalists; so much was beyond their control. It was impossible for them to provide for a morrow when everything depended on a chance fall of rain or when raiders, sickness, or any one of a hundred chance happenings might at any time leave them destitute, or end their lives. They did what they could, and no people were more self-reliant, but if things went wrong they accepted their fate without bitterness, and with dignity as the will of God.

(Arabian Sands, Wilfred Thesiger)

Hacia la muerte

2011-07-08T17:31:00.002-03:00

The old woman walks towards death, repentance and, possibly, nothingness. Doomed for not having fulfilled her destiny.

Monkey and the engineer

2011-04-28T11:38:00.001-03:00

Gloom82

2011-04-24T22:26:00.002-03:00

http://gloom82.deviantart.com/

AMIA - entrevista de El Cronista al fiscal

2011-04-01T11:22:00.001-03:00

l ¿Por qué cree que Irán decidió perpetrar el atentado contra la AMIA?

- Estoy convencido, y lo tenemos por escrito, que acá la decisión de cometer el atentado fue contra la República Argentina. El atentado no fue contra los judíos o un centro judío, fue contra la República Argentina, fue un atentado de país a país. El motivo, lo establecimos ya en 2006. Y es que la Argentina en el año 1980 integraba el Movimiento de No Alineados y le proveía de material nuclear a Irán. Tan estrecho era el vínculo que muchos técnicos iraníes de la actualidad estudiaron en el instituto Balseiro en Bariloche. Cuando en el 90 cambia el gobierno se decide suspender el contrato de energía nuclear, a mi juicio con muy buen tino. Es el alineamiento con los Estados Unidos. Después viene el atentado a la embajada de Israel y entonces la Argentina directamente decide cancelar los contratos.

Vascos en NY

2011-03-20T17:59:00.002-03:00

... los vascos eran "sencillos, valientes, independientes", nunca habían sido invadidos, preferían afrontar todo tipo de penurias "antes que perder la libertad en los Pirineos", eran "más orgullosos incluso que los españoles" y el simple hecho de nacer en su territorio ya les confería una "nobleza universal".

Nota completa: Y los vascos atascaron Nueva York.

I can't think

2011-03-13T17:54:00.002-03:00

It isn’t only the quantity of information that knocks the brain for a loop; it’s the rate. The ceaseless influx trains us to respond instantly, sacrificing accuracy and thoughtfulness to the false god of immediacy. “We’re being trained to prefer an immediate decision even if it’s bad to a later decision that’s better,” says psychologist Clifford Nass of Stanford University. “In business, we’re seeing a preference for the quick over the right, in large part because so many decisions have to be made. The notion that the quick decision is better is becoming normative.”

Héroes II

2011-03-03T06:08:00.002-03:00

Justicia: que vuelva Charlie.

Cuidado, tiranos

2011-02-22T09:49:00.002-03:00

“But if thou wilt not have it as we say, then shall we go against thee and slay thee, and endure no more unrest and lawlessness of thee. Thus have our forefathers done before. At the Mula thing, they pitched down into a well five kings who had been too haughty as thou art now to us. Say now at once what choice thou wilt make.”

(Heimskringla, Snorre Sturlason)

Crónica

2011-02-12T10:52:00.002-03:00

Esa es la actitud

2011-01-31T10:34:00.001-03:00

Hell Yeah!

2011-01-09T11:09:00.001-03:00

...
With a lot of people starin'
With my feet on shaky ground
And my head up in the sky
But it’s where I wanna be
It’s a life that’s made for carin'
Got a song to pass the day
And a girl to share the night
So if they ask you when I'm gone
Was it everything he wanted?
When he had to travel on
Did he know he'd be missed?
You can tell them this
Hell yeah he did
He saw it all
He walked the line
Never had to crawl
He cried a bit
But not for long
Hell yeah he found the life that he was after
Filled it up with love and laughter
Finally got it right and made it fit
Hell yeah he did
Hell yeah he did

(Hell Yeah, Neil Diamond)

El fantástico velador-pelícano

2010-12-17T19:54:00.001-03:00

Pocho y George

2010-12-16T14:59:00.002-03:00

La gente, en general, prefiere desconocerlo, especialmente los pro imperialistas; pero George Clooney y Pocho La Pantera son igualitos.

Dersu Uzala

2010-12-08T13:18:00.002-03:00

Me dijo que tenía cincuenta y tres años y que jamás había tenido domicilio. Viviendo siempre al aire libre; únicamente en el invierno se acondicionaba una yurta provisional, construida de raíces o de corteza de abedul. Sus recuerdos de infancia más antiguos eran el río, una choza, una hoguera, sus padres y su hermanita.
-Hace mucho tiempo que se han muerto todos- dijo para concluir su relato, y tomó un aire soñador. Tras un corto silencio, añadió todavía-: En otro tiempo, tuve también una mujer, un chico y una chica. Todos sucumbieron a la viruela, y me he quedado solo.

(Dersu Uzala, de Vladimir Arseniev)

SoA (SAMCRO)

2010-11-17T23:07:00.000-03:00

Porque hay vida después de Jack Bauer.

El raga de la noche

2010-11-12T07:59:00.001-03:00

El raga de la noche

En los dos últimos siglos ha habido en la India varios grandes maestros de música que han dejado tras ello algunas anécdotas legendarias.

En la música india está establecida la distinción de las armonías, los ragas, de la noche y de la mañana, del verano y del invierno, de los diferentes sentimientos y algunas otras.

Un rey caprichoso llamó una mañana a un gran maestro del sitar y le pidió que tocase un raga de la noche.

- Me resulta imposible – dijo el músico. Es la mañana, no puedo tocar un raga de la noche.

- Tócalo de todas formas.

- No puedo, te lo aseguro.

- Si te niegas, mandaré que te corten la cabeza.

El intéprete de sitar trató de resistirse más pero terminó por ceder ante las amenazas. Comenzó a tocar el raga de la noche como mejor sabía.

Y el sol se puso.

(JC Carriére, El Círculo de los Mentirosos, vol. II)

Tolengo, el Majestuoso

2010-10-28T13:42:00.002-03:00

Recoleta

2010-10-10T21:42:00.000-03:00

Juanita II

2010-10-02T00:00:00.002-03:00

Presenciando el incendio de una favela (Sao Paulo)

2010-09-25T23:07:00.002-03:00

(video mio)

Um incêndio provocou destruição em São Paulo, perto da marginal do Rio Pinheiros. O fogo se alastrou rapidamente e atingiu 320 casas da favela Real Parque, na Zona Sul da cidade.

Mil e trezentas pessoas ficaram desabrigadas. Algumas conseguiram salvar móveis e eletrodomésticos. Só este ano, foram registrados 58 incêndios em favelas de São Paulo.

(extracto de nota del Jornal Nacional)

Video del Jornal Nacional:

Una Voz en la Noche

2010-09-12T08:40:00.002-03:00

Un breve poema persa nos dice:
Anoche una voz me murmuró al oído:"Una voz que por la noche te murmura al oído no existe".

(Jean- Claude Carrière, El círculo de los Mentirosos)

In Memoriam - Gilda

2010-09-07T22:22:00.002-03:00

Gilda, la cantante que nació como Miriam Alejandra Bianchi, falleció el 7 de septiembre de 1996, hace hoy 14 años, en el kilómetro 129 de la ruta 12, camino a Chajarí, Entre Ríos, cuando un camión embistió al micro en el que viajaba, y murieron también la madre, su hija Mariel y tres de sus músicos.

Héroes

2010-08-24T08:14:00.003-03:00

Death

2010-08-17T10:18:00.002-03:00

The structure of our life changes noticeably at every moment. The pressure of past grows heavier, and the possibilities of the future more narrow. Man feels himself less and less free, less and less capable of transforming the meaning of his life by shaping his future. As he grows old, he loses not only the sense of freedom but, to a certain degree, freedom itself. Here no doubt, is a terrible truth. But is not death, to human experience, something other than the concept of the final limit of individual evolution?

(Paul-Louis Landsberg, The experience of death)

Missing Missy

2010-07-13T20:43:00.002-03:00

El sarcasmo de David Thorne. Sin palabras: Missing Missy

Mr. Nice

2010-07-05T17:11:00.002-03:00

One square mile of this small Spanish island was well out of control. A Philippine-brothel-owning member of the House of Lords was staying at the house of a Spanish Chief Inspector of Police. The Lord was being watched by an American CIA operative who was staying at the house of an English convicted sex offender. The CIA operative was sharing accommodation with an IRA terrorist. The IRA terrorist was discussing a Moroccan hashish deal with a Georgian pilot of Colombia’s Medellin Cartel. Organizing these scenarios was an ex-MI6 agent, currently supervising the sale of thirty tons of Thai weed in Canada and at whose house could be found Pakistan’s major supplier of hashish. Attempting to understand the scenarios was a solitary DEA agent. The stage was set for something.

Mr. Nice, Howard Marks

Juanita

2010-07-01T22:09:00.002-03:00

Otra vez

2010-06-17T07:49:00.002-03:00

Sometimes at night. When I hear the wind. I wish I was crazy again.

Johnny Cash

Con mucho respeto

2010-06-15T21:22:00.003-03:00

Ayer, Leo García, músico muy cercano a Gustavo, contó que respondió a estímulos en su presencia. "Acabo de estar con Gustavo (...) poniéndole música. Yo le canté tocando y acariciando sus sagrados dedos, bailamos y al terminar la canción Gus movió sus labios y su cabeza", publicó ayer García en su sitio de Facebook.

Qué cagada estar en la últimas y que venga y te toquetee y te rompa las bolas Leo García.

D

2010-06-09T10:21:00.003-03:00

Desánimo. Desaliento. Derrota. Desesperanza. Desesperación. Desaire. Desolación.

We come in peace

2010-06-08T10:07:00.002-03:00

Esperando el repuesto

2010-06-06T22:55:00.004-03:00

La mayoría de la gente supone que vivir bien es esa cosa un poco vulgar y cotidiana de comer abundantemente, de tener una casa cómoda, una familia respetable, sin ocurrírseles pensar que un intrigante, metido en un convento o en un presidio, pueda experimentar más emociones y hasta más satisfacciones que el buen hombre en su casa confortable, y que muchas veces el ciudadano rico y tranquilo que tiene motivos para ser feliz, no lo es, porque no bastan los motivos para que una cosa se realice.

El amor, el dandismo y la intriga (Memorias de un hombre de acción), Pío Baroja.

(y 200km de bici en una semana. No hay falta de moto que por bici no venga)

Mendoza

2010-06-03T08:34:00.002-03:00

Kerouac y Junín de los Andes

2010-05-28T08:40:00.003-03:00

... because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

Kerouac, On the Road, 1957

Chubut: Huella de los Rifleros y Piedra Parada

2010-05-25T10:27:00.002-03:00

2010-05-21T13:26:00.002-03:00

Dios que te impuso el Corán, te devolverá al lugar de retorno.

(versículo XXVIII, 85 del Corán, citado en Viajes por Marruecos, Alí Bey)

Lawrence

2010-05-12T10:41:00.000-03:00

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

Winston Churchill sobre T.E. Lawrence.

Dual

2010-04-14T09:40:00.001-03:00

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Cash

Extraño Ser

2010-04-09T10:38:00.002-03:00

The timeless ride

2010-04-07T22:00:00.002-03:00

The timeless ride, de Hubert Kriegel. Diez años en sidecar.

Pascuas 2010

2010-04-05T19:21:00.002-03:00

Lugones

2010-03-31T10:56:00.001-03:00

Es oficial. Ya no te dejan andar por Lugones en bici. Hoy me trataron de sacar. Todo mal.

I don't know

2010-03-29T22:11:00.000-03:00

La hermana teratológica

2010-03-23T11:16:00.003-03:00

Tenía, por el contrario, la frente convexa y abollada, los ojos muy chicos, con tendencia al estrabismo cuando algo la preocupaba, la nariz chata, porcina, la boca errática, ladeada, los dientes irregulares, prominentes y amarillos. De su cuerpo ni que hablar tiene: siempre se había resentido de un parto, el que la trajo al mundo, precipitado y chapucero, acaecido en la trastienda de la ferretería donde mi madre trataba desesperadamente de abortarla, y de resultas del cual le había salido el cuerpo trapezoidal, desmedido en relación con las patas, cortas y arqueadas, lo que le daba un cierto aire de enano crecido, como bien la definió, con insensibilidad de artista, el fotógrafo que se negó a retratarla el día de su primera comunión so pretexto de que desacreditaría su lente-. Estás más joven y guapa que nunca.
-Me cago en tus huesos- fue su saludo-, ¡te has escapado del manicomio!

(Eduardo Mendoza, El misterio de la cripta embrujada)

Ruinas San Ignacio 2

2010-03-22T08:57:00.001-03:00

There's guns across the river aimin' at ya

Lawman on your trail, he'd like to catch ya

Bounty hunters, too, they'd like to get ya

Billy, they don't like you to be so free.

Ruinas San Ignacio y Loreto

2010-03-21T23:31:00.002-03:00

Ida y vuelta en 3 días. 2000km. la vuelta de 1000km todo de un tirón, hoy domingo. 600km a 32 grados y casi 400km de tormenta y viento, mucho camión, 0 visibilidad y rutas en reparación. Interesante la vuelta.

Está ya más que comprobado que no da usar una remera 4 días seguidos en verano, y que la fijación de viajar liviano tampoco da para tanto, no es que uno pedalee en la moto.

quotes

2010-03-17T10:29:00.002-03:00

Honesty can be tested, and loyalty. But there is no test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die. (Shantaram)

'I told him', she said, 'that a good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be'. (Shantaram)

The sheer force of his fully realised life. (Shantaram)

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. (Shantaram)

Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor. (Shantaram)

It was the exhilaration of men who were risking everything, risking life and death, on one throw of the dice. Some time on the next day we would be free, or we would be dead. (Shantaram)

Liable to fits of excessive and irrational enthusiasm. (Agent Zigzag)

I walk the Line

2010-03-11T18:08:00.001-03:00

moto trip

2010-03-10T23:20:00.005-03:00

Hoy en el templo

2010-02-25T10:52:00.003-03:00

Para toda la monada que dice que la moto reemplazó a la bici. Por favor. Si la tele no mató a la radio. Hoy, en el templo, 44km (por encima de los clásicos 35km).

Todos

2010-02-24T21:22:00.003-03:00

Silence

2010-02-23T15:32:00.003-03:00

Silence does not seem to be a loss or lack of language; it does not even seem to be the opposite of language. I have found it to be a whole world in and of itself, alongside of, woven within language and culture, but independent of it. It comes from a different place altogether.
Silence apparently happens in a different part of the human brain from speaking or hearing or even thinking in a rational and orderly manner; a part of the brain separate from where language happens. Neurologically this has in fact been demonstrated, through a fascinating series of experiments scanning individuals while they are practising meditation, or other forms of self-consciously chosen silence. It isn't that the brain blanks out or closes down if a person is silent, but that the electrical activity takes place elsewhere - somewhere different.

Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence.

Keep with me forward...

2010-02-17T21:27:00.002-03:00

Y, sí, a riesgo de un amariconamiento sin vacuna, pero bueno. La mina no puede caerte mal.

Balance

2010-02-16T22:43:00.004-03:00

bien de moleskines

flojo de ricolas
flojo de cena

Noe 2 thynges

2010-02-16T10:03:00.001-03:00

19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".

Dado vuelta estás vos!

2010-02-15T21:35:00.002-03:00

¡soʌ sɐʇsǝ ɐʇlǝnʌ opɐp ¡oɥɔǝɹǝp lɐ ʎoʇsǝ oʎ

Sumo (El Cieguito Volador)

O lo sutil de la literalidad

Una tipa rapaz

2010-02-13T11:31:00.002-03:00

Her name was Elisabeth Carlén... She was about 30. Sjösten’s description of her was quite apt. Sjösten had said she was attractive because she looked at the world with a cold, disparaging expression. To Wallander it seemed as if she had decided to challenge any man who came near her. He’d never seen eyes like hers before. They blazed contempt and interest at the same time. He went over Sjösten’s account of her as she lit a cigarette.

“Elisabeth Carlén is a whore”, he had said. “I doubt she’s been anything else since she was 20”.

(Sidetracked, H. Mankell)

Taaaaaaan buena

2010-02-11T19:35:00.000-03:00

En Areco, hoy.

Todos Gronchos

2010-02-10T15:34:00.000-03:00

Porque no hay nada mejor que Todos Gronchos.

I am a river to my people

2010-02-10T12:48:00.000-03:00

Auda abu Tayi: I am Auda abu Tayi! Does Auda serve?
Howeitat tribesmen: NO!
Auda abu Tayi: Does Auda abu Tayi serve?
Howeitat tribesmen: NO!
Auda abu Tayi: [to Lawrence] I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!

(De Lawrence of Arabia)

Tarde de perros

2010-02-09T10:18:00.001-03:00

El fin del Ruiseñor Bandolero

2010-02-07T12:26:00.006-03:00

Barruntó el Ruiseñor Bandolero algo aciago que le presagiaba la muerte y, cuando Ilyá Múromets se encontraba todavía a veinte verstas de allí, lanzó su silbido estridente. Pero el corazón del bogatir no se estremeció. Entonces, cuando Ilyá Múromets se hallaba aún a diez verstas, silbó el Ruiseñor Bandolero con más fuerzas que la primera vez y su silbido hizo pegar un traspiés al caballo que montaba el bogatir.

Llegó Ilyá Múromets hasta debajo del nido, construido sobre las copas de los doce robles. Y al divisar el Ruiseñor Bandolero, desde aquel nido suyo, al bogatir de la santa Rus, lanzó el silbido más atronador con la intención de dejarle muerto allí mismo.

Ilyá Múromets se quitó el tirante arco, colocó en el una flecha templada y la disparó contra el nido, atinándole al Ruiseñor Bandolero en el ojo derecho, que le saltó. El Ruiseñor Bandolero cayó del nido como una gavilla. Ilyá Múromets le agarró entonces, le ató bien atado a su estribo damasquinado y siguió hacia la invicta ciudad de Kíev.

(Cuentos populares rusos, vol. III, recopilación de Afanásiev. Acá hay un art.)

Porque a todos los chicos les deberían regalar alguna lectura de cuentos populares rusos.

Un tiempo fuera de casa

2010-02-06T00:49:00.006-03:00

Extensiones

2010-02-04T15:36:00.003-03:00

Peluquería en Catriel, RN. Que lo parió.

Padres e hijos

2010-02-03T18:54:00.002-03:00

Bugsy

2010-01-27T22:13:00.001-03:00

You give a little love
And it all comes back to you
......
You know you're gonna be remembered
For the things you say and do

Baradero en la "beeme"

2010-01-24T23:57:00.002-03:00

¿Debería ser ahora Menos Autos, Más Bicis (y Más Motos)?

Hurt

2010-01-14T16:12:00.001-03:00

Beneath the stains of time,
The feelings disappear,
You are someone else,
I am still right here.

El video.

Oportunidad Oportuna

2010-01-07T23:34:00.001-03:00

Primer envío de dos temas. De esos que con su falta de muchas cosas sacuden muchísimas más.

Shantaram II

2010-01-04T23:55:00.002-03:00

What characterizes the human race more, Karla once asked me, cruelty or the capacity to feel shame for it? I thought the question acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I’m lonelier and wiser now, and I know it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterizes the human race. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would’ve annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

(Shantaram, G. D. Roberts)

Razón y fuerza

2009-12-28T14:34:00.001-03:00

La Historia demuestra que la razón es de quien tiene el coraje de sostenerla.

Shantaram

2009-12-13T13:34:00.003-03:00

In my case, it’s a long story, and a crowded one. I was a revolutionist who lost his ideals in heroin, a philosopher who lost his integrity in crime, and a poet who lost his soul in a maximum security prison. When I escaped from that prison, over the front wall, between two gun-towers, I became my country’s most wanted man. Luck ran with me across the world to India, where I joined the Bombay mafia. I worked as a gunrunner, a smuggler, and a counterfeiter. I was chained on three continents, beaten, stabbed and starved. I went to war. I ran into enemy guns. And I survived, while other men around me died.

(Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts)

Si tu vidrierista fuma...

2009-10-07T16:59:00.002-03:00

Y que no digan que la gente de Once no tiene onda.

Cada loco con su tema

2009-10-05T13:24:00.002-03:00

Menos autos, más bicis

Libertarianism

Jakarta dusk

No 4

A propósito de Hormuz

Brutal

Lucky ride

Bali

Montevideo

Lion tamer

El Perro de Rocroi

Amsterdam

Fotitos

Fleurs

Jobs, Steve

Texts from last night

(215):

(519):

(617):

(978):

Bar

Fotobotella

Stand by me

La clave del éxito

másssssssspalabrasssssss

Empty playgrounds

BA: Any given Thursday

Josha. Nuevo-nuevo

Dangerous Dragon

Arabian Sands

Hacia la muerte

Monkey and the engineer

Gloom82

AMIA - entrevista de El Cronista al fiscal

Vascos en NY

I can't think

Héroes II

Cuidado, tiranos

Crónica

Esa es la actitud

Hell Yeah!

El fantástico velador-pelícano

Pocho y George

Dersu Uzala

SoA (SAMCRO)

El raga de la noche

Tolengo, el Majestuoso

Recoleta

Juanita II

Presenciando el incendio de una favela (Sao Paulo)

Una Voz en la Noche

In Memoriam - Gilda

Héroes

Death

Missing Missy

Mr. Nice

Juanita

Otra vez

Con mucho respeto

D

We come in peace

Esperando el repuesto

Mendoza

Kerouac y Junín de los Andes

Chubut: Huella de los Rifleros y Piedra Parada

Lawrence

Dual

Extraño Ser

The timeless ride

Pascuas 2010

Lugones

I don't know

La hermana teratológica

Ruinas San Ignacio 2

Ruinas San Ignacio y Loreto

quotes

I walk the Line

moto trip

Hoy en el templo

Todos