Archive for June, 2005

Jun 29th 2005 Finding the formula

Living in a foreign language offers ample opportunity to reflect on language in general, and the last two weeks here have been a fabulous demonstration of how reliant we are on speech formulas to dispense with small talk and other necessary business.

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Jun 28th 2005 San Luis Potosí…¡tiene lo que te gusta!

A slightly biased, probably unfair, and definitely late review of my time San Luis Potosí.

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Jun 27th 2005 Artists and artisans

Maybe I am wrong, but I always felt the distinction between art and artisanship was fairly clear or, at least, much more well-defined than the always difficult art vs. not-art. While I concede that art can serve functions other than expression, I also insist that one of it’s functions must be expression.

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Jun 23rd 2005 Linkspam for 23 June 2005

A long overdue and shamefully incomplete linkspam from, like, a while ago. A corporation that does stuff, how to destroy the earth, and the official launch of cmorgandesign.com. Hire him. He deserves it.

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Jun 20th 2005 Querétaro es mejor

A three-hour bus trip through mostly arid Mexican countryside brings one to Querétaro, a curious mixture of modernity and colonialism and which, signs are quick to assert, is “better.”

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