Culture
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1825 in 360°
…just a short list of some of the individuals I have met or have done rooms for during five years on Clubhouse Marina Abramović William AndrejkoJulie Andrews Martha Argerich Johann Sebastian BachBethania Bacigalupe Josephine Baker Joan Ball Lucille Ball Daniel Barenboim Blixa BargeldCecilia Bartoli Ludwig van Beethoven Vincenzo Bellini Hector Berlioz A. M. Bhatt Björk…
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choclos
Having just a few days left in Quito (although returning soon) I plan to enjoy some of the things I have been discovering in this wonderful culture. With these choclos I will be making humitas for the second time.
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¡Permisito! ¡Buen Día!
For several weeks I have found myself imploring the listener in different parts of the world to trust an inner source in me with the claim that my visit is not a touristic one. Somehow it may also be self-implored. The immersion I perceive within and about me, does not allow me to wear the…
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1461 in 360°
…just a short list of some of the individuals I have met or have done rooms for during four years on Clubhouse Marina Abramović Julie Andrews Martha Argerich Johann Sebastian BachBethania Bacigalupe Josephine Baker Joan Ball Lucille Ball Daniel Barenboim Blixa BargeldCecilia Bartoli Ludwig van Beethoven Vincenzo Bellini Hector Berlioz A. M. Bhatt Björk Wayne…
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Pajama Party: Cultural Bites for the Clinomaniac and Dysaniac
Welcome to an intimate marathon, with all kinds of pleasures for the mind, the spirit, and the body. Whether you are a clinomaniac, and passionately desire to stay in bed, or a dysaniac with overwhelming difficulties leaving it, if you stay in bed with us for the next hours, all you will get is the…
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Pajama Party Preliminaries
This post pertains to the planning which is underway for a marathon — in pajamas, in bed — for the cultured clinomaniac and dysaniac. Wether you desire to stay in bed, or have difficulties getting out of bed, the stay will be filled with an array of joys. These days in pajamas put us as…
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Sabores Ancestrales de Mexico
¿QUÉ ES LA COMIDA MEXICANA? La cocina de México es el resultado de miles de años de historia, transmitida de generación en generación. Pasando desde la gastronomía mesoamericana, la prehispánica, la azteca… Hasta llegar a la cocina mexicana contemporánea se ha transformado, fusionado y evolucionado gracias a sus distintas influencias. En 2010, la gastronomía mexicana…
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A Handwriting Celebration
A Brief History of Penmanship on National Handwriting Day By JENNIE COHENUpdated AUG 22, 2018 / original: JAN 23, 2012 Borrowing aspects of the Etruscan alphabet, the ancient Romans were among the first to develop a written script for transactions and correspondence. By the fifth century A.D. it included early versions of lowercase letters and…
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Why do we eat? Why personification? Why Avocado?
Astonishment was my first love. Indeed, this is merely a claim but it may be easily substantiated, even beyond experience as a single individual. After all, is singularity even possible when a thought can not be exclusively that of a single human? A much more popular claim is that of music being the first love.…
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Twentieth Century Vienna Fruits
In the wake of such influential studies as Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin’s Wittgenstein’s Vienna (1973) and Carl Schorske’s Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (1979), scholars from diverse fields have come to recognize that in the years from about 1890 to 1918 the imperial city of Vienna comprised a unique historico-cultural nexus. The fact that…
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Behold. Question.
Within much of what I have been, and amongst plenty of what I have seen, beauty has soothed me. Again, and again, it has explained surface and essence of things, and of non-things, to the point of manifestations in mild but deep rooted lip movements which are much more than smiles. To the eye, beauty…
Sila Blume 