Let's go to Cuba

[Cleopatra]

I was reviewing this thread and I realized why I didn't enjoy it that much.

I was waiting for Frank to post something really acerbic as a response to my opinion about Heminway, a post that would make my blood freeze but alas! Nada!

 

[Frank Newgent]

I was waiting for Frank to post something really acerbic as a response to my opinion about Heminway, a post that would make my blood freeze but alas! Nada!

Do you mean something along the lines of suggesting a quick lunch with Hemingway's shotgun?

 

[Cleopatra]

Do you mean something along the lines of suggesting a quick lunch with Hemingway's shotgun?

Hmmmm what does this mean? To go shoot myself?I have never heard of this expressions before.

In fact I was anticipating for a remark about the peasantry mediterranean jewry that dares to have an opinion on Hemingway, a remark that it would be refined enough to exclude any vulgar racist notion that it's improper for clever people....somethings like that!

 

[Frank Newgent]

[size=1/2]...In fact I was anticipating for a remark about the peasantry mediterranean jewry that
dares to have an opinion on Hemingway, a remark that it would be refined enough
to exclude any vulgar racist notion that it's improper for clever people....[/size]

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from
listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I have considered what the premolar in this corpus
delicti broadcasts from Radio Uganda. And will
make an exception.

 

[Cleopatra]

Ok. I will try harder to see the distinction between this macho American and that macho American.

Aesthetically and not politically speaking of course...

 

[Frank Newgent]

That's easy. Hemingway did not believe in modifying his nouns while Schwarzengger is nothing but that: an adjective.

Another hero of yours may be mentioned here

 

[Cleopatra]

You are not a very optimistic person Frank.

Have you ever thought that by mentioning Sharon in your poems you will provide immortality for him when you will become famous?

My hero is 3000 years old and he remains famous because he was distinghuished for his morality and the choices he has made and not for his habits( drinking, smoking cigars and attending bullfights).
I know many people that drink a lot, smoke cigars and they can feel with their five senses the sensuality that Nature radiates.

Closing the ears to the singing sirens and fooling the Cyclops and the Laestrygoneans... well, this is not for everybody

 

[Frank Newgent]

Closing the ears to the singing sirens and fooling the Cyclops and the Laestrygoneans... well, this is not for everybody

I say heed gastronomic idiosyncrasies. How's my Yiddish?

 

[subgenius]

Where was Highway 61?

 

[Frank Newgent]

Highway 61 hijack


Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."

Bob Dylan

http://www.angelsonthebackroads.com/tour.htm

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti...-Reviews-U_S_Highway_61-Winona_Minnesota.html

http://www.trails.com/explore/Tcatalog_trail.asp?TrailID=XFA118-018

 

[Cleopatra]

Ruben Gonzalez, the piano of Buena Vista Social Club, is dead.A man that belonged to another, noble era.

 

[Frank Newgent]

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/8228366p-9159251c.html

The State Department has denied U.S. visas to a group of Cuban musicians who sought to attend Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. One of them will win anyway -- all five nominees in the Latin tropical album category are Cubans -- but the Bush administration is determined to protect Americans at all costs.

[size=1/2]Looks like singer Ibrahim Ferrer, salsa pianist Guillermo Rubalcaba,
lute player Barbarito Torres or percussionist Amadito Valdes won't
be making it in time for any of the award presentations...[/size]

 

[subgenius]

I didn't see the show but I hope whoever accepted on his (Ibrahim Ferrer) behalf made some comment about the stupidity of barring him from the country.

 

[Frank Newgent]

Wouldn't you rather get there in a 1955 Chrysler New Yorker?

My (then) girlfriend and I took the pedicabs, too. One night we just went ahead and asked the driver/peddler to take us to a restaurant he'd recommend. Wheeled through the bowels of old Havana until we got to his neighborhood (of course) where we met his mother who told a hooker with a broken arm to get the speakeasy on the second floor across the street to toss down the key. Had a fine plate of rice and fish surrounded by folks who looked to be from Castro's inner circle. What, was I supposed to kill them?

Nice article about Cuba.

 

[RussDill]

I would agree that the human rights situation in Cuba is intolerable. Right now over 600 prisoners are being held indefintely without charges and without the right to trial. Amnesty international describes the totality of the conditions under which they're being held as amounting to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment."

Oops, they're being held by the United States government at its base at Guantanamo. My mistake.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511282003

When you arrest someone, you press charges. Detaining an enemy combantant is a different situation, sorry. I fail to see how detaining a car bomber in a war zone compares to arresting a reporter who writes stories you don't like.

 

[Cleopatra]

Interesting article indeed, Frank.

Thank you.

 

[originalgagster]

When you arrest someone, you press charges. Detaining an enemy combantant is a different situation, sorry. I fail to see how detaining a car bomber in a war zone compares to arresting a reporter who writes stories you don't like.

All 600 detainees are car bombers detained in a war zone? And your evidence for this is what precisely?

 

[RussDill]

All 600 detainees are car bombers detained in a war zone? And your evidence for this is what precisely?

I'm sorry, did I imply that they were all car bombers? No, they are detained for various offenses related to terror activities.

 

[originalgagster]

they are detained for various offenses related to terror activities.

Says who?

You can take the word of the US military establishment at face value if you like. I prefer evidence.

 

[Frank Newgent]

Just read this article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...before-the-tourism-revolution-takes-hold.html

Reminded me of this old thread