Sunday, March 30, 2008
So I just got through this week
Spent most of it in Madrid then returned on friday to zaragoza to play a show with my bitches,, Las Fulanas. It was a fun show, lots of booze ....
Friday, March 21, 2008
So I just got up
Good friday. Last night I went to bed at 12. That's pretty good considering the night before I closed the barI frequent and then partied a little more.
But it's march, and I'd been wondering whatever happened to that New Year's resolution of starting to work out again. I have been doing some exercise and I definetely have been walking a lot, for example last monday I walked around Madrid for more than 4 hours. I think that counts.
It's 7am, and I just wanted to start the day early, read, write, listen to music, clean up the house, etc. alas, do some chores. I want to be sleepy at 3pm and take a 1 hour siesta or whatever, instead of getting up at at 11 or 12.
It's holy week here in Zaragoza and the KKK looking processions have been going over all over the city, they actually pass below my window with their drums and incense and horns. Maybe today I'll finally go take some pictures.
But it's march, and I'd been wondering whatever happened to that New Year's resolution of starting to work out again. I have been doing some exercise and I definetely have been walking a lot, for example last monday I walked around Madrid for more than 4 hours. I think that counts.
It's 7am, and I just wanted to start the day early, read, write, listen to music, clean up the house, etc. alas, do some chores. I want to be sleepy at 3pm and take a 1 hour siesta or whatever, instead of getting up at at 11 or 12.
It's holy week here in Zaragoza and the KKK looking processions have been going over all over the city, they actually pass below my window with their drums and incense and horns. Maybe today I'll finally go take some pictures.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
So I just read Dick Cavett
on William F. Buckley, Jr. Great blog. If you click on the title of this post it should take you directly to the nytimes.com website.
This was great from the story, a dedication that Buckley once wrote to Cavett in a book:
To Richard, in deepest gratitude for “More in Seurat than in Ingres.” May I use it?
With affection,
Bill
Now, I was really confused as to WTF this means, it's in reference to french painters but what was the play on words on...
somebody posted this in a comment:
It always hurts to have to explain a bon mot, but here goes:
Hamlet: What, look’d he frowningly?
Horatio: A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
So there you go!
This was great from the story, a dedication that Buckley once wrote to Cavett in a book:
To Richard, in deepest gratitude for “More in Seurat than in Ingres.” May I use it?
With affection,
Bill
Now, I was really confused as to WTF this means, it's in reference to french painters but what was the play on words on...
somebody posted this in a comment:
It always hurts to have to explain a bon mot, but here goes:
Hamlet: What, look’d he frowningly?
Horatio: A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
So there you go!
So I just got chills
reading Bob Herbert at nytimes.com. His column focuses on NY Governor to be David Paterson. What gave me chills or goosebumps was what Eliot Spitzer told Paterson on the phone before he resigned.
Herbert writes:
The call from Mr. Spitzer himself came at 10 minutes after 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Paterson remembers it this way:
“He said, ‘I’m going to resign.’ And then, at that turbulent moment in his life, he gave me such a kind compliment. He said, ‘David, I told you that in the event I didn’t serve my full term that I wanted a person there who understood how Albany worked and could work well with colleagues. Right now, as bad as I feel about myself, I am so happy about convincing you to come with me.’ ”
Mr. Paterson said he was buoyed by the governor’s words and that they eased his own growing anxiety.
Good column.
Herbert writes:
The call from Mr. Spitzer himself came at 10 minutes after 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Mr. Paterson remembers it this way:
“He said, ‘I’m going to resign.’ And then, at that turbulent moment in his life, he gave me such a kind compliment. He said, ‘David, I told you that in the event I didn’t serve my full term that I wanted a person there who understood how Albany worked and could work well with colleagues. Right now, as bad as I feel about myself, I am so happy about convincing you to come with me.’ ”
Mr. Paterson said he was buoyed by the governor’s words and that they eased his own growing anxiety.
Good column.
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