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Tuesday, January 17, 2006  |
María Bonita
Agustín Lara
Acuérdate de Acapulco, de aquellas noches,
María bonita, María del alma;
acuérdate que en la playa con tus manitas
las estrellitas las enjuagabas.
Tu cuerpo del mar juguete, nave al garete,
venían las olas, lo columpiaban,
y cuando yo te miraba, lo digo con sentimiento,
mi pensamiento me traicionaba.
Te dije muchas palabras, de esas bonitas
con que se arrullan los corazones;
pidiendo que me quisieras,
que convirtieras en realidades mis ilusiones.
La luna que nos miraba ya hacía un ratito
se hizo un poquito desentendida
y cuando la vi escondida me arrodillé pa´besarte
y así entregarte toda mi vida.
Amores, habrás tenido muchos amores,
María bonita, María del alma;
pero ninguno tan bueno ni tan honrado
como el que hiciste que en mí brotara.
Lo traigo lleno de flores,
como una ofrenda para dejarlo
bajo tus plantas, recíbelo emocionada
y júrame que no mientes
porque te sientes idolatrada.
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Saturday, May 08, 2004 |
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding
hey - di - hey - di - hoh
digge ding ding ding digge digge ding ding
hey - di - hey - di - hoh
there's a place I know where we should go - heydiheydihoh
won' t you take me there your lady fair - heydiheydihoh
there's a brook near-by the grass grows high - heydiheydihoh
where we both can hide side by side - heydiheydihoh
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday
there's a country fair not far from there - heydiheydihoh
on a carousel the dingdong bell - heydiheydihoh
on the loop di loop we swing and swoop - heydiheydihoh
and what else we'll do is up to you - heydiheydihoh
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday
Well, I'm game
fun is the thing I'm after
now let's a'live it up today
get set for love and laughter
Well, let's go
time isn't here for wasting
life is so full of sweet sweet things
I'd like to do some tasting
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday
in the country side we take a ride - heydiheydihoh
where the stars will shine lots of time - heydiheydihoh
back of your old car we might get far - heydiheydihoh
in the summerbreeze we feel at ease - heydiheydihoh
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
what a world of fun for everyone, holi-holiday
Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
sing a summer song, skip along, holi-holiday
it's a holi-holiday, it's a holi-holiday
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Smoking
No Smoking
Films by Alain Resnais
Resnais playfully meditates on free will and chance by offering alternate versions of events, spurred by the smallest shifts in action ... such as the difference between smoking and not smoking.
"The seemingly irrelevant question that serves as the starting point for this highly unusual filmic experiment is whether or not a woman will light up a cigarette. The fate of nine characters (all played by Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi) depends on whether Celia Teasdale does or does not yield to temptation. Set in the English provincial backwater of Hutton Buscel, the films' main characters are the headmaster of the local school, his wife, her daily help, a couple whose marriage is on the rocks, a gardener, a poet, a mother-in-law, and another headmistress. Smoking and No Smoking are based on six linked theatrical pieces written by Alan Ayckbourn in 1982. For all its unpredictability and thematic richness, Resnais repeatedly manages to bring the strands of this highly original plot together. Altogether the two films have twelve different endings." (Berlin Film Festival)
Presented in association with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S.
Smoking / No Smoking
Films by Alain Resnais
Director
Alain Resnais
Scenario
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui, based on the play Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn
Photography
Renato Berta
Cast
Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi.
France, 1993
135 mins (Smoking), 142 mins (No Smoking), Color
In French with English subtitles
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11:33 PM
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Monday, February 09, 2004 |
However as recently as 1951, in Pont-St. Esprit, a small town in France, there was an outbreak of the disease. First a bit of background-- in Europe it is the custom to buy fresh bread nearly every day. Much more civilized than our American custom of buying bread with preservatives in it that allow it to last several weeks. In this small town there was only one bakery and everyone bought bread from it. Strange things started happening. People developed a burning sensation in their limbs, began to hallucinate that they could fly, did strange things to their dogs with forks and in general acted weirdly. This outbreak is chronicled in a marvelous (but out of print) book called "The day of St Anthony's Fire" by John Grant Fuller. St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost causes (incidentally I went to St. Anthony's church until I was about 18). When all of the other saints have failed, St. Anthony is the one you are supposed to pray to. And St. Anthony's fire was rampant in the town that day. Similar outbreaks probably occurred throughout the world wherever the conditions were right for the growth of Claviceps purpurea. The chemical responsible for the hallucinations is actually LSD! lysergic acid. There was even an outbreak of egotism on the television show "Quincy" starring Jack Klugman, who played a coroner. He was aboard a cruise ship and people were acting very strangely. Quincy finally traced the behavior to contamination of the flour tortillas that had been served aboard ship. I haven't seen this episode for 15 years, but I still remember it because I figured it out before Quincy did!
After I published this page I got an email from Barbara Shew of North Carolina State University, who wrote:
"The X-Files also had an episode featuring ergot, although it had a surreal twist (of course). In that episode, Scully got a tattoo that caused her to hallucinate (she thought the tattoo was talking to her). Turns out the tattoo artist was an ex-con who learned his art in prison. He collected plants in the prison yard and extracted dyes from them for his tattoos. One of the grasses he used was infected with ergot, hence the hallucinations. A really big stretch, but fun anyway!"
Thanks Barbara! It just goes to show you that fungi are everywhere!
Another ergot derivative may cause spontaneous abortions in animals-- in small doses this same drug is used to aid in childbirth. Another of the ergot derivatives is used to cure migraine headaches. For a time there was even a rock band called "The ergot derivative" from Australia, which apparently disbanded in 1998.
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So what does this all have to do with the Salem Witch Trials, which took place near Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600's? There have been various attempts to explain those witch trials. None of them are more logical and interesting than the hypothesis of ergot poisoning, caused by Claviceps purpurea. The behavior was not identified as witchcraft until 1691, and this was just the beginning of the problem. Many people were sent to trial and often convicted and imprisoned. By September 1692 twenty men and women had been put to death for their crimes. All of the accused had similar symptoms: manic melancholia, psychosis, delirium, crawling sensations of the skin, vertigo, headaches, vomiting and diarrhea. All of these are symptoms of ergot poisoning, and it is likely that at list the initial hysteria was started by Claviceps purpurea infecting the grains of rye. This was chronicled in an article (Science 192:21-26, 1976) by Linnda R. Caporael called "Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?" She provides compelling, although circumstantial, evidence that the Salem witch trials coincided with a weather period that would have produced large quantities of ergot on rye, which was grown in the lowlands in that area. Here are some other links to learn more about the Salem Witch trials:
Welcome to Salem
Overview of the Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials Page
Salem @ nationalgeographic.com
You should also get yourself a copy of George Hudler's book "Magical mushrooms, mischievous molds" from Princeton University Press (ISBN 0-691-02873-7). Dr. Hudler, of Cornell University, has described more details about the Salem Witch Trials, as well as the impact of many other fungi and fungal diseases on history. It's a must-have for anyone interested in mycology and plant pathology. I recommend this book very highly. GET TO A BOOKSTORE AND GET THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!
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There's many interesting stories about the impact of fungi on history, and this is just one of them. Who would have thought a little disease on grain could wreak such havoc with the population?
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If you have anything to add, or if you have corrections or comments, please write to me at volk.thom@uwlax.edu
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11:46 PM
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Monday, February 02, 2004 |
So what does this all have to do with the Salem Witch Trials, which took place near Salem Massachusetts in the late 1600's? There have been various attempts to explain those witch trials. None of them are more logical and interesting than the hypothesis of ergot poisoning, caused by Claviceps purpurea. The behavior was not identified as witchcraft until 1691, and this was just the beginning of the problem. Many people were sent to trial and often convicted and imprisoned. By September 1692 twenty men and women had been put to death for their crimes. All of the accused had similar symptoms: manic melancholia, psychosis, delirium, crawling sensations of the skin, vertigo, headaches, vomiting and diarrhea. All of these are symptoms of ergot poisoning, and it is likely that at list the initial hysteria was started by Claviceps purpurea infecting the grains of rye. This was chronicled in an article (Science 192:21-26, 1976) by Linnda R. Caporael called "Ergotism: The Satan Loosed in Salem?" She provides compelling, although circumstantial, evidence that the Salem witch trials coincided with a weather period that would have produced large quantities of ergot on rye, which was grown in the lowlands in that area. Here are some other links to learn more about the Salem Witch trials
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10:02 PM
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Thursday, January 29, 2004 |
Novos Rumos ( Rochinha e Orlando Porto)
Vou imprimir novos rumos
ao barco agitado que foi minha vida
Fiz minhas velas ao mar
Disse adeus sem chorar
E estou de partida.
Todos os anos vividos são portos perdidos
Que eu deixo prá trás
Quero viver diferente
Que a sorte da gente
É a gente que faz
Quando a vida nos cansa
E se perde a esperança
O melhor é partir
Ir procurar outros mares
Onde outros olhares
Nos façam sorrir.
Levo no meu coração
Uma grande lição
Que contigo aprendi
Tu me ensinaste em verdade
Que a felicidade está longe de ti.
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11:14 PM
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
Pasó con su madre...
Pasó con su madre. ¡Qué rara belleza!
¡Qué rubios cabellos de trigo garzul!
¡Qué ritmo en el paso! ¡Qué innata realeza
de porte! ¡Qué formas bajo el fino tul…!
Pasó con su madre. Volvió la cabeza;
¡me clavó muy hondo su mirada azul!
Quedé como en éxtasis …Con febril premura,
"¡Pasó con su madre...
Pasó con su madre. ¡Qué rara belleza!
¡Qué rubios cabellos de trigo garzul!
¡Qué ritmo en el paso! ¡Qué innata realeza
de porte! ¡Qué formas bajo el fino tul…!
Pasó con su madre. Volvió la cabeza;
¡me clavó muy hondo su mirada azul!
Quedé como en éxtasis …Con febril premura,
"¡Síguela!", gritaron cuerpo y alma al par.
Pero tuve miedo de amar con locura,
de abrir mis heridas, que suelen sangrar,
¡y no obstante toda mi sed de ternura,
cerrando los ojos, la dejé pasar!
_Amado Nervo
Síguela!", gritaron cuerpo y alma al par.
Pero tuve miedo de amar con locura,
de abrir mis heridas, que suelen sangrar,
¡y no obstante toda mi sed de ternura,
cerrando los ojos, la dejé pasar!
_Amado Nervo
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8:37 PM
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
NO ME MUEVE MI DIOS.
No me mueve, mi Dios, para quererte
el cielo que me tienes prometido
ni me mueve el infierno tan tenido
para dejar por eso de ofenderte.
Tú me mueves, Señor, muéveme el verte
clavado en una cruz y escarnecido,
muéveme el ver tu cuerpo tan herido,
muévenme tus afrentas y tu muerte.
Muéveme al fin tu Amor y en tal manera
que, aunque no hubiera cielo, yo te amara
y aunque no hubiera infierno te temiera
y aunque no hubiera infierno te temiera.
No me tienes que dar porque te quiera,
pues aunque lo que espero no esperara
lo mismo que te quiero te quisiera,
lo mismo que te quiero te quisiera.
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