Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead

It's the custom in Mexican culture to talk to the dead today on what is called "Dia de los Muertos" or "The Day of the Dead". This also coincides with All Souls Day or All Saints Day in the Catholic faith.

They also eat sugar skulls (see photo) and chocolate.

So, Happy Talking to Dead People Day! Who are you going to chat with?

I think I'll have a little convo with my dad, my nana, my aunties, my papa, my godfather and Jenny's mom, and I'll eat the leftover Halloween candy while I do it. That's how I'll honor this holiday. (Any excuse to eat candy is a good excuse for me.)

Noam and the Cliques - a repost

And the Cliques Keep on Cliquing

6/4/06

Noam Chomsky is on WBUR right now. This reminds me of Pierre Joris's blog entry about his poem about Chomsky. "http://pjoris.blogspot.com/2006/04/chomskyana-linguica.html"

I love Chomsky, but that's usually uncouth for the poetry people, isn't it? It's like in high school when the uberactivist hippie kids thought the drama geeks were too self-absorbed and the drama kids thought the activists were too fantatical about ephemeral issues.

In high school I was in both groups, so that allows me to do what I please. Actually, I do what I please because it's what pleases me. Like I'll go to a Pierre Joris reading at 6, a Howard Zinn documentary (featuring Noam Chomsky!) at 7 and a cocktail party for Pierre Joris at 9. This actually happened in April up in Orono.

What would have been truly uncouth would've been going to a College Republican's meeting after that or something. Then buying an Escalade and driving through a wetland reserve while listening to Bill O'Reilly on the radio.