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Recent Posts

• Glad to see my Naples getting the attention and affection it deserves
• Good Russia news?
• From NYRB: India
• Hong Kong: had told you so,as back as 2015
• P.S. Yugoslavia money quote
• From NYer: Yugoslavia, “…the idea that political alternatives can exist, however briefly.”
• Why hasn’t Wong Kar-Wai said anything?
• Hong Kong: surprised at protestors’ ballsiness and persistence; and “Ten Years”
• “Sholay” — in New York? Dunno where…
• Ya Khoda already.
• From the Times: “Crocodiles Went Through a Vegetarian Phase, Too”
• Treaty of Versailles — from the Times
• Shvuyes (from 2012)
• Pentecost 2019 (2012 repost)
• Proud to be “a citizen of nowhere”
• Spain and Turkey — Elif Shak in the Guardian: “…one type of “benign” nationalism has dangerously inflamed another to stoke a vicious conflict.”
• Like I needed another reason to love Madrid
• From the Gita: “Freedom is union with the deathless”
• The Saturday of Lazarus
• From Apollo: Hagia Sophia
• I’m from Queens.
• Sweetest Italian waitress
• Excellent review of what seems like excellent book on Brexit: “Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain” – Fintan O’Toole
• NYTimes: “Novak Djokovic Defeats Rafael Nadal for His 7th Australian Open Title”
• surma
• So, I guess it was the least we could do…
• “Apna Time Aayega” — Anybody else waiting for the opening of this film with as bated a breath as mine?
• Wanna go ice-skating…
• Sorry…but is this something to be proud of?
• St. Nicholas repost from a while ago: “They’re human beings” — December 6th
• What a great guy….
• “Two Catalonias”
• “He walks away, the sun goes down…”
• Yes! Finally! Oum Kulthum film!
• Portugal Dared to Reject Austerity, and It Has Paid Off By — LIZ ALDERMAN
• “Aux armes, citoyenes…”
• Interesting — if a little unfair — video from the NYer: “How Millennials Became the Selfie Generation | Annals of Obsession”
• Cool: “Caring for Georgia’s Old Wooden Mosques”
• Caifanes: “Muchos años uno cree, que el caer es levanterse…”
• From the Onion: “Immigrant Children Terrified At Ghastly Visage Of La Llorona In Detention Center”
• Saint Jean’s Midsummer bonfires in Quebec: the bonfires of St.Jean
• Good Slate piece: “The Shunned Muslim Journalist Wajahat Ali wrote about Israeli settlers…”
• Photo: a late June summer night in Petersburg
• Madhubala, Madhuri Dixit, Mughal-e-Azam, and “…the current crop…”
• Rachel Maddow breaks down during report on ‘tender age’ shelters
• World Refugee Day 2018
• “It will cost your mother many tears to make a man out of you” — Shlof shoin main jankele…
• “He’s a Yeshiva Bochur”
• World Cup p.s. — Schadenfreude is, after all, a German word.
• Afghan refugees: Repost from 2016 and 2018 “addenda”