Archive for 'August,2011'
Woody Allen’s "Midnight in Paris" (Medianoche en París)
Living here in Chile I have grown weary of standard American Hollywood films. There are a few art film houses here but they show films in French or German or whatever with subtitles in Spanish and [...]
Student Protests in Chile
Photo Credit ©Aliosha Marquez Alvear Could The Chilean Winter become the Praque Spring?I have yet to see mention of the student protests here in Chile in an American or British newspaper or magazine with an article [...]
Borges Library of Babel
Chile has Neruda. Argentina has Borges. Borges was a poet who is most widely known for his short stories. He scoffed at the notion that one needed to write a full-length novel to make a point [...]
Why the USA Economy Will Not Recover Anytime Soon
For the past two weeks I have watched the debate of the USA debt unfold on television from the vantage point of Chile where I now live. The politicians and pundits there would do well to [...]
The Gringo and the Harvest
Fernando Botero’s paintings of torture at Abu Ghraib prison
Thought-provoking...
Give me a Grandparent
I am blessed with 7 grandchildren. I am making copies of this poem t
Give me a Grandparent
As I spend more and more time with more and more wonderfully different
George Orwell’s other Novels
In Latin America, kids don't read Orwell. I wish they did.
George Orwell’s other Novels
Animal Farm and 1984 are about any kind of dictatorship, not just comm