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(English translation to come later below!… I did this for a German class I just dropped in on, and thought I’d post it… )
Wenn Du ein Film sehen möchtest, dass gar keine spannende Handlung vorlegt, und sehr wenige interessante Persönlichkeiten entwickelt, jedoch eine abgelöste Perspektive fördert, und eine beharrliche Gefühl der Melancholie bei […]

(Ok, so I made up bloguista; but doesn’t it sound better than ‘blogger’ in Spanish?) I haven’t really had much of a chance to read it very thoroughly, but Antonio Ungar is blogging now about daily life in Israel as a Muslim convert. He’s a Colombian journalist, and Semana.com just launched his blog, Diaro de […]

I hate horror movies with a passion. I don’t understand their allure, if you do, I can (almost) respect that. Disgusting movies like Seven, that leave me with thoughts of pathological killers with no remorse and no sensitivity are scary, yes, but worse they’re toxic to our mental health. It’s not cathartic. It ends […]

I’ve been playing with Stumbleupon and came back again to the postsecret weblog that takes postcards sent in anonymously and posts them. They are frequently sad, occaisonally funny, and very frequently incredibly powerful.
Upon seeing this card, I felt tears coming on and had to put my head down for a few moments. In […]

I just got home from giving my friend his birthday present. I brought him to the Story Corps sound booth in Grand Central Station and interviewed him. His stories and my questions are now part of the Library of Congress. I have been planning this for about two weeks, and I got super nervous right […]

I went to see the Kehinde Wiley exhibit yesterday at the Brooklyn Museum during the blizzard. It was amazing, really. In “Passing/Posing” the artist paints these gorgeous vibrant portraits of young black men. They dress in their own clothes, basketball jerseys and jeans, gold chains and cellphones. They choose poses from art books, from older […]