On Food & Culture
Last night I saw “The Yes Men” documentary on the Sundance channel. It is hilarious. These guys actually succeed in impersonating World Trade Organization Personnel at trade conferences. They arrive at the selected conferences and after being greeted formally, obsequiously by the conference organizers, they …
This breath of refreshing news comes from Barry Creech. Canadian musicians have organized have organized to make their voice heard about copyright and file sharing of music, and they are not in sync with the recording industries. They say that “Artists do not want to …
A few weeks ago I was going back and forth with a friend about the pleasures of wine tasting. He subsequently sent me an e-mail that helped me make the link between physical enjoyment and what we used to call one of the fruits of …
I am totally swamped with administrative work. Last week I had dinner with a friend whose son-in-law is a US soldier in Iraq. It was depressing to learn that there are long periods of blackouts in communication with him. When a US soldier dies in …
I experienced a 20 minute blackout yesterday afternoon, from 4:30 until 4:50 PM. The record-breaking heat caused problems with our grid. Houston is likely to live with blackouts throughout the summer. Privatization of electricity and gas has neither lowered costs nor improved service. When Texans …
Tim Giago (Nanwica Kcui), unexpectedly helped me prepare to march in favor of protecting the rights of immigrants. He takes a look at the larger historical, geopolitical picture, saying “Ironically, most of the illegal immigrans are Indians, or Indios as they are known in Mexico, …
Yesterday during a NARA-WACC luncheon meeting hosted by Sharon Black, Librarian of the Annenberg School for Communication, I learned that doctoral students are delving into media and religion questions that will surely pique the interest of institutional churches. One research interest is the international activities …
This post is about US soldiers and does not discount our Iraqi brothers and sisters who have died. As of Yesterday, at least 2,344 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated …
I plan to be here in Houston on April 10, marching. What I find awesome about the massive demonstrations is the spontaneity, the diffused organization. Although local long-time activists are helping to organize the march, there is no predicting the life of this barrio natural …