Stories on Myself

Posada, una fuente inagotable de inspiración, señala monero Rocha

Posada, una fuente inagotable de inspiración, señala monero Rocha

Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central

 We had a great time with Chris and Aline during their  visit

At the Bowers Museum w/ Chris and Something Else

Chris explaining 

Nasrin enjoying a margarita

Chris and Aline at Laguna Beach 

Chris heading out to swim

Collage of Chris and me reading

The paella

Final selfie at San Juan’s  L’Hirondelle

Barney Kessel Green Dolphin Street

Jazz Crusaders Turkish Black 

Sonny R

Art Pepper

Hampton Hawes Sweet Sue

DeeDee  Bridgewater All of Me

Pernambuco

Rice fritters 

The Mannheim Rocket

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Hypotheses rather than theory 

 Aikido

The Canadian poet Albert Lozeau, who died a century ago on this date lived a life too short and painful to have rivaled the great Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), who has been often likened to Arthur Rimbaud and who bore sufferings of his own. I was delighted in 1987 when the Sherbrooke-based poetry review asked me to translate two of his poems. The first, above, was renewing itself in my mind as I flew back to Ottawa for the first time in almost five years, in the autumn of 2014. 

It was late afternoon and the sun had slipped behind a veil of cirrus off to the west. As the little Embraer cut a slow arc east, there was a splendid view of the confluence of the Rideau River and, on the opposite shore in Québec, the Gatineau, both emptying into the Ottawa itself. It was a week too early for most leaves to turn, but a few trees below were touched with scarlet. For me, these sere tokens of memory were enough to evoke realms of blazing experience left behind, though the autumn’s full radiance was yet to come.

The French is available if you Duckduck “Erable rouge” + Lozeau. 

Bonne St-Jean à toutes et tous.  

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Mezcal

PALOMO CON MOLE MEZCAL 700ML NOM O724X
100% MAGUEY/ESPADIN AGAVE

Produced in Santiago Matatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, this Palomo mezcal is made from ripe agaves, baked underground for five days, milled by horse-drawn tahona, fermented with natural yeast in wooden tinas and double-distilled. For the third distillation, a four-week maceration with 30 mole ingredients takes place. Citrus in the nose with hints of chili spice, nuts, cacao. The palate reiterates the nose with spice, chocolate, nuts, vegetal mint, light smoke

Distilled by Victor, this is the first batch of tobalá made from plants cultivated beside the family’s ranch. Despite some popular myths, tobalá take to cultivation, and the plants reached maturity after just six years, as opposed to 12 years when harvested in the wild from the nearby mountains. Both nose and palate are clean and uplifting, with hints of fine smoke, minerality, leather, baked pear and mown grass. Very sippable.

Handcrafted in small batches by fourth-generation mezcaleros, Ilegal’s Joven, Reposado, and Anejo mezcals are all made with 100% Espadín agave, double distilled in the Santiago Matatlan Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Nose: caramelized pear, orange zest, light smoke, toasted agave.
Palate: Butterscotch, agave, brown spices, cinnamon, brown sugar. 

What I like about the Chinese is how perfunctory and businesslike, almost professional, they are about transactions. 

Seamlessness of its irrefutabilty makes it ideological

What-aboutism is rampant 

I recently changed my Twitter bio adding “pacifist”.  Let me explain.

Approximate generalization

Quasimodo

Venus de Milo was
noted for her charms
But strictly between us
You’re cuter than Venus
And what’s more you’ve got arms.  

 Frankfurt beasley. Return to Forever
Art Tatum, night and Day.
Lambert kendrixks and Ross

(Self attributed) attributed  Pacifist is the most tenuous. Not constrained by the part  like most qualifiers or ranks or titles, being a pacifist is at the same time the most demanding of follow  through commitment 

 

The history of dopamine and levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease