Read this (Doug's piece below mine) first, from @dougwendt.bsky.social . And then read this to find out what happens when the piss fills up: danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/m...
Paris-based dispatches from longtime contributor to NY Times, Reuters, co-founder of int'l arts journal Dance Insider & Arts Voyager, https://danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/ and director of the Maison de Traduction, https://danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/.
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Read this (Doug's piece below mine) first, from @dougwendt.bsky.social . And then read this to find out what happens when the piss fills up: danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/m...
Mark Zukerberg is now CENSORING Robert Reich's essays which criticize Trump (when one tries to share them). He has put Facebook in this incipient dictator's pocket. How's that for "community standards"? Maybe he means the community of oligarchs who don't care about Democracy but only care 4 profits.
Reading The Bostonians. On the 1 hand, James's narrator completely mocks the early suffragettes. On the other, his heroine bucks his mockery. Compare this to Zola, whose heroines exist on their own,not just in relation to men but have less freedom than James’s to escape their creator’s plan for them
Given that they've also attacked leading Trump opponents (Padilla, Lander, Congresspeople...) you might also add private army, or at least publlic army being used as such....
Worse: If the Great Desctructor T***p can be referred to as being in construction....
Also, Central Park 5 guilty; I was innocent; all those ladies were lying; 2020 election was stolen; the planet is a climate-free zone; DEI is Woke; Krazy Kamala does not need police protection & PS She isn't BLACK; so-called "Honest" Abe, worse president ever; those Jews at Columbia are antiSemitic.
I refer to this as KQT; Kitty Quality Time.
Classic Narcisism: Confusion of "our country" with himself.
Just unearthed! This report from the NY Times's London correspondent circa late 19th century: "Offficials are still hoping to interview the Man about Town jocularly referred to as "'Jack the Ripper.'"
More of ths. With the Dems anemic opposition, the judges -- the Law -- are all that can save us.
Agree but if you have any tips on how to cut them; when I try they end up looking like the Thanksgiving Day Massacree. I'll add that I'd heard about Gide's journal in Antoine Lilti's College de France course on the Hist. of les Lumieres so it was on my radar; imagine my delight when I stumbled on it
After it touches down, I've got a bridge to sell you for $1.
I know the feeling. In a 2 Euro bin at a Philo bookstore near the Sorbonne recently, I scored, for 2 Euros, a 1927 no. of the NRF review w/Gide's "Voyage au Congo" (pages uncut) which I'd been looking for for my Typewriter in the Attic project, Proust serialization; Artaud's "Letter from a Mummy"...
THIS is what the Internet was supposed to be for. Thank you @annetteyreed.bsky.social .
In France the policy is the opposite: Find homes for them.
Pass out bottles of water at homeless encampments instead of expulsing them.
Add Trump's suppression of current meager gun laws, RFKJR's attack on the CDC, cutbacks to FEMA, Medicaid, & Medicaire & you get: For those of us it can't kidnap, detain, & deport, Rebubs are doing all they can to make those it is sworn to protect unprotected. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/28/mi...
@dougwendt.bsky.social, besides the stomp-worthy sound, there's the visual cornucopia. I don't know which I like more: The impeccable ties, the nerdy-looking guitarist, the bee-hived drummer, or the same's pink blouse setting off the boys' black and grey suits. Thanks for taking us 'dere!
Lost in translation. (To say nothing of fur.) Maybe next time she should replace "bird" with a non-species referential term? ;) . If not, Mimi will gladly take care of the birds for her.
This, 'clearing California's homeless encampments,' isn't Newsom's strtong point. In fact, since his days as a supervisor in SF, it's his Achilles Heel. Because it's not about helping the homeless. To him it's about getting rid of an eyesore. Suggest change last part to 'to find the unhoused homes.'
This is SO dilletente! The problem is that those air drops are killing people, literally.
This -- "clearing California's homeless 'encampments'" -- is not Newsom's strtong point. In fact, since his days as a a supervisor in San Francisco, it's his Achilles Heel. Because it's not about helping the homeless. To him it's about getting rid of a sore eye.
This -- "clearing California's homeless 'encampments'" -- is not Newsom's strtong point. In fact, since his days as a a supervisor in San Francisco, it's his Achilles Heel. Because it's not about helping the homeless. To him it's about getting rid of a sore eye.
Joseph Goebels: Dr. Mengele, one of the world's foremost experts on public health, is.... committed to the scientific method.
'What's that, Rudy? Timmy's lost?' ... Tx JCO. The same applies to those of us blessed to have lived with cats. I lost my first 3 in rapid succession over 3 years & each loss was heartbreaking. But I also had 17, 15, & 20 amazing years w/Mesha, Hopey, & Sonia. Here's my current feline roommate Mimi.
Coincidenetally, this blatant move at disenfranchisement is implemented right after Fort Worth's Democratic state representative is the only one to refuse to sign a note agreeing to be surveilled by state troopers.
You forgot one: The Israel lobby buys off Congress. No action to stop sending arms to Israel to fuel its genocide of Palestinians.
Thanks for this. Not sure if 'plus ca change' applies here, but maybe you just meant to the organization in quesiton. Here in France the self-appointed Counsel of Representative "Israelite," a die-hard supporter of Netanyahu, claims to represent all Jews....
I'm sorry, even if this guy weren't already bizarre, this is so friggin' Bizarro universe reversal. This f-ing administration has put a bulls-eye on trans people's heads, and now they're tryhing to *blame* mass shootings on trans people?? C'est vraiment n'importe quoi.
Wait. @amyqin.bsky.social and @katmabu.bsky.social , even my little podunk village in BF France systematically got rid of the lead piping ten years ago. And your telling me a great city like Chicago can't get it together to stop poisining its residents?
And death benefits.
Armed men in BLACK MASKS ripping children from their parent? This is unAmerican. Note the irony that they committed these kidnappings in the Jacob Javitz Federal Building, named for a senator who was Republican when some Republicans still had a conscience.
(2/2)it would take another 25 yrs before Chirac declared in his famous 'vel d'hiv' speech "France must accept its share of responsibility in the Deportation" & 25 before signs started going up in schools like the one across the st. from where I'm writing acknowledging the children deported by France
(1 of 2) So, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social ,for those of your followers who understand French: www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/.... Delon produced too. It touched on a taboo subject: The 'rafle' of the Vel d'hiver in which 11,000 Jews were rounded up for deportation. The film was a *public* failure.
(2 of 2) It would take 19 years before Chirac gave his "vel d'hiv'" speech declaring "France must accept its share of responsibility in the Deportation" & 25 before signs started going up on schools like the one across the street from where I'm writing acknowledging the childlren deported by France.
(1 of 2) So, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social for those of your followers who understand French: www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/.... Delon produced too. It touched on a taboo subject: The 'rafle' of the Vel d'hiver in which 11,000 Jews were rounded up for deportation. The film was a *public* failure.
Any comment I could add to this would be superfluous. This is just morally wrong and bass ackwards on so many levels.
Blame the trans. Blame the drugs. Anything but the proliferation of guns in the United States. But the most astonishing part is that these theories are being enabled if not promoted by a man who lost his father and his uncle to political assassinations.
Have you noticed the difference in tone between the New Dems like Mamdani & @katmabu.bsky.social & Trump & his Repubs?While they don't shirk from criticizing the latter,their tone is almost always *optimistic* & *JOYFUL," where the latter's is HATEFUL. I also rejoice @ their very AMERICAN last names
I sense a short story here, JCO.
"One way Chi & all research universities actualize these ideals is by placing undergraduate students in the classroom with faculty who perform research." I had the privilege of studying Tragedy with Bob Fagles. He demonstrated precepts of translating by referring to work he was then doing on Homer.
"One way Chi & all research universities actualize these ideals is by placing undergraduate students in the classroom with faculty who perform research." I had the privilege of studying Tragedy with Bob Fagles. He demonstrated precepts of translating by referring to work he was then doing on Homer.
This is cataclysmic, including for the trickle-down effect it will have on other institutions. I remember salivating over the art history and literature courses at Chi -- a whole course in Henry James!
@annetteyreed.bsky.social, thanks for this. I agree this is cataclsymic, not just for Chi but for the 'trickle-down-effect' it will have on other institutions. As a literary tarnslator, I would respectfully question the author's suggestion that comp. literature is a "largely jobless field."
That's about the crux of it. In a way he's like Trump. The narcissism.
"Roosevelt? Bad president. Worse president in the history of the United States. Another Socialist. Really stupid."
Kamala called it. www.facebook.com/reel/1314908...
Rien a voir avec le fait que Bayrou l'a soutenu pendant le presidential de 2012.... Pour votrre question, je serai curieuse de savoir votre avis! Pour mezigue ca dependre sur le president et le pays. Obama devrais s'exprime plus en ce temps car le pays est en train de basculer vers un dictatorship.
Un dialogue avec Bayrou... Qui consort avec le droit extreme... chose que Hollande aurais condemne autrefois....(Aside: Merci bc pour votre programme!!)
Oui mais, apres...? Qu'est qu'ils represente encore, le PS?
About time PEN!
Israel killed 6 more journalists today: First they bombed a hospital & when the journalists and rescue workers arrived, they launched a second bomb, killing a total 21. REPORTERS RISK THEIR LIVES TO DOCUMENT THE GENOCIDE. REPORTERS LIKE ABU AMIR: danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/d...
Wake up yourself. Next time you ose comment on one of my posts you might actually read it.
Please take a moment to read this eyewitness report from Gaza City by a journalist working for the French Jewish Union for Peace who no doubt risked his life to send it. My English translation includes link to original French. Lien au V.O. Francaise. danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/d...
Et pour quoi pas, s'elle fait quelque chose de bon?
And where he convoques the military, it's also illegal. Where is Congress on all these impeachable offenses?
What is a candidate for public office doing posing for a photograph under a cross?
If you’re in Chicago, pissed off at the thought of a military takeover of our city, and want an outlet, come to my campaign’s punk show this Thursday at Gman Tavern. God knows I need it: katforillinois.com/concert
"Reportedly"? This isn't journalism; it's fear-mongering. Sources, please.
"Reportedly"? This isn't journalism; it's fear-mongering. Sources, please.
Et voila on y est. La France qui suivre pas seulement le model americaine, mais le model Trump version 2025. Comme on dit en bon francais, "Who'd a thunk it?"
Remember: This is an arch-Right wing conservative's assessment.
Thanks for this. Hadn't seen it.
Il n'a pas torte sur la Russie. Le question n'est pas la Russie la question c'est Putin.
One slight correction: Trump doesn't hate Chicago for being 'diverse'. He hates it because it is a Black city and *like all the cities he has threatened to occupy -- governed by a Black or other minority mayor.*
One slight correction: Trump doesn't hate Chicago for being 'diverse'. He hates it because it is a Black city and *like all the cities he has threatened to occupy -- governed by a Black or other minority mayor.*
(Apropro to @joycecaroloates.bsky.social's repost from Gabe Ortiz) Here's some hope to begin your Sunday with: (Make sure to listen through to the end.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR_H... (The 13-minute techno version is even better.)
Thanks for the repost, Joyce! ("William James's brother" was, of course a 'clin d'oeil' refernce to your vaunting WJ in class. That's how it is when a teacher makes her mark; everything registers -- and rests.)
Um, looks like the person who wrote what you copied could have stood to learn some grammar as well. (Reason 'that' not 'why' and when possessive it's 'its'... Cheers, PB-I
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social, have you seen Wyler's film The Heiress, based on "Washington Square" by William James's brother? I'm including it in my "Antigone" category for my new project The Typewriter in the Attic (says no to male authority, chooses to make her own tomb) and would love your take.
Ca ne m'etonne pas du tout.Je partage leurs politiques, mais quand j'ai reagi a un poste de LFI disant "99% des militants ont vote pour le nouvelle program" "Comme dans les bons vieux temps sovietiques," on m'a dit de 'degage" en me traitant comme "troll" avec bocals d'aerosol pointu vers moi.
Here's my recently published story on the implications: danceinsiderblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/w...
And of course, s/he sees it the other way around. "Oh good, my human has finally finished sitting on my chair hitting that strip of plastic with her fingers; I can finally get my chair back."
"But slavery is better than being killed." -- "Christopher Columbus" in Prager "U" cartoon requested by 6,000 teachers in ten states.
Scoop! I just dug up the NY Times report on Kristallnacht from November 9, 1938. Here's the headline: "Search of Jewish homes shows Uneasy Mix of Retribution and Law Enforcement."
Scoop! I just dug up the NY Times report on Kristallnacht from November 9, 1938. Here's the headline: "Search of Jewish homes shows Uneasy Mix of Retribution and Law Enforcement."
Why be modest, Don? They're probably also screaming "Slavery was better than this."
Sorry to hear this, Doug; I know how much you love that place. Continental divide between what MT Repugnicant senators say and how they vote....
Continental divide between what MT's Repugnicant senators say & how they vote, notably for the Big Ugly Bill which took $276m from NPS. "Our policymakers are grandstanding in a national park where behind the scenes they’ve gutted staff & gutted funding,” rally org. Suzanne Hindler told Guardian.
@rbreich.bsky.social brilliant! So essentially Right-wing Christian Fundamentalists have paid Trump to replace Sesame Street's ecunemicalism with this (in which Columbus defends slavery and praises his "lord and savior Jesus Christ".) www.prageru.com/videos/leo-a...
@rbreich.bsky.social just posted this, www.levernews.com/prageru-is-m..., so it's worse than I thought posting this www.prageru.com/videos/leo-a... (in which Columbus vaunts slavery & his 'lord and savior" JC) Right-wing Christ. fundamentalists paying Trump to replace Sesame Street's ecunemicalism.
Denied entry to Gaza by Israel which continues to target civilians,Dr. Syed asks why her own congresswoman Strickland (D) has refused to meet w/her. Because her conscience has been silenced by Israel,whose lobby has given her $292,000,more than any but 1 WA rep. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/21/dr...
I attended what was at the time the most diverse high school in the US, Mission. The only Ivy League university to send a representative (Chinese-American) to our school to recruit was Harvard. It pains me that 46 years later, Harvard is going backwards & buckling to a racist tyrant. Et tu, Harvard?
Thanks for this. Small businesses are what makes a city neighborly and gives neighborhoods character.
Small businesses are what makes a big city neighborly.
The one on your arm looks so familiar but his name escapes me. The man on your far right bears a resemblance to CW program director James Richardson, but I can't remember if he was also an English teacher. And the other woman, I'm guessing by her facial expression, is the French prof? (This is fun!)
Thanks for the repost, Joyce!
Oh good, I'm glad to hear I was in good company. Thanks Jeff. I fell into so many of these reading about 9/11 and subsequent events in French newspapers before I actually spoke too much French that I got into a lot of bad prononciation habits like this.
N'empeche que / nonetheless, have you noticed that Bondi has dictated that gun-toters be the exception to her order to arrest everyone in sight in DC? No doubt because Trump doesn't like DC's no-guns laws..."Carry a gun, get-out-jail free " card.....
Tx for "Somebody to Love" & "If you're going...," @dougwendt.bsky.social . I'm partial (got it on record!) to the Great Society version of the former from Conspicuous by its Absence, Live @ the Matrix(incredible guitar) (also a trancey White Rabbit) & the Monterey festival version of the latter.
I was there! Glad to learn I'm not the only one subject to Princeton early 1980s nostalgia! I remember you reading out loud from one of my stories, with relish, the phrase "'The mysterious phlegm'" and thinking "So that's how it's pronounced!"
It was just a suggestion, Joyce, by way of trying to be helpful in taking into account & adressing where the film fell short for you w/the intent to remove those blocks (your comment that the film was 'awkward'.) in the hope you might better appreciate it. Godard swore by Fuller. No need to exclaim.
"Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?" This is a Christian right-wing propaganda video from "Prager U" publishing on Columbus which is being promulgated in school systems -- has been accepted - in 10 states. Heard about it on Democracy Now. www.prageru.com/videos/leo-a...
Next time you comment on my post you might actually read it, as well as the post on which I was commenting.
Compare Abbot's tactics to Newsom's. Abbot is locking up Black female Dem. legislators so he can help Trump cheat on the 2026 elections & exclude Texans of color from fair representation. Newsome is asking voter approval for a new Congr. map so Cali can right the scales tipped by Trump lackey Abbot.