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Saturday 31 December 2016

Jorge Luis Borges: Sábados / Saturdays

 

#December light in #LA is great. Time flies as the #sun goes down on 2016. #NewYear is here.: image via luis sinco @luissinco, 27 December 2016
Jorge Luis Borges: Sábados

A C.G.

Afuera hay un ocaso, alhaja oscura
engastada en el tiempo,
y una honda ciudad ciega
de hombres que no te vieron.
La tarde calla o canta.
Alguien descrucifica los anhelos
clavados en el piano.
Siempre, la multitud de tu hermosura.

***

A despecho de tu desamor
tu hermosura
prodiga su milagro por el tiempo.
Está en ti la ventura
como la primavera en la hoja nueva.
Ya casi no soy nadie,
soy tan sólo ese anhelo
que se pierde en la tarde.
En ti está la delicia
como está la crueldad en las espadas.

***

Agravando la reja está la noche.
En la sala severa
se buscan como ciegos nuestras dos soledades.
Sobrevive a la tarde
la blancura gloriosa de tu carne.
En nuestro amor hay una pena
que se parece al alma.

***


que ayer sólo eras toda la hermosura
eres también todo el amor, ahora.


Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986): Sábados, from Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923)




 Sun slips between the clouds to illuminate downtown #losangeles as seen from the #BaldwinHillsScenicOverlook Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. #DTLA: image via Genaro Molina @GenaroMolina47, 29 December 2016 

Saturdays

Outside, a sunset, a dark jewel mounted in time, and there is a city out there, a low blind city of men who never saw you. Evening hushes or sings out. Someone is lifting down from the cross the longings driven into the piano. And always, the multitude of your beauty.

Despite your coldness your beauty scatters its wonders across the years. In you lies fortune, as in the new leaf, spring. Now I am almost no one, I am barely that longing that fades away in the dusk. Pleasure lies in you as cruelty lies in swords.

Night weighs hard on the window grille. In the austere parlor our two blind solitudes grope for each other. The milky whiteness of your flesh outlives the setting sun. There is, in our love, a suffering that comes to resemble the soul.

You who were merely all beauty yesterday today are all love as well.


Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986): Sábados / Saturdays, translated by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes



An Indian fisherman rows a boat on the river Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India, Dec. 30, 2016. #APPhoto: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 30 December 2016


ROMANIA - A child wearing bear skins takes a rest during a parade to drive away evil spirits of the past year. By @bubulator2 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 30 December 2016

Thonburi | by ADMurr

Thonburi: photo by Andrew Murr, 25 December 2016

Hey ese | by michaelj1998

Hey ese. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 15 November 2016

Hey ese | by michaelj1998

Hey ese. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 15 November 2016

Hey ese | by michaelj1998

Hey ese. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 15 November 2016

Looking at a car | by michaelj1998

 Looking at a car. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 22 December 2016

Looking at a car | by michaelj1998

Looking at a car. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 22 December 2016

Looking at a car | by michaelj1998

Looking at a car. Los Angeles, Ca.: photo by michaelj1998, 22 December 2016

Friday 30 December 2016

Moribund Empire Business (The special relationship sleeps with the fishes) / Who ate Harambe? / Austin Granger: In a Cemetery, Portland

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Trump

President-elect Donald Trump, center, eats dinner with Mitt Romney, right, and Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at Jean-Georges restaurant, Tuesday, in New York:  photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 29 November 2016 

Trump 

President-elect Donald Trump, center, eats dinner with Mitt Romney, right, and Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at Jean-Georges restaurant, Tuesday, in New York:  photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 29 November 2016 

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump votes at PS 59 in New York, New York, U.S. November 8,  2016.   REUTERS/Carlo Allegri     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump votes at PS 59 in New York: photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters, 8 November 2016

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump votes at PS 59 in New York, New York, U.S. November 8,  2016.   REUTERS/Carlo Allegri     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump votes at PS 59 in New York: photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters, 8 November 2016

Brexit

 Britain's new Conservative Party leader Theresa May, who will lead Britain into Brexit, speaks to members of the media at The St Stephen's entrance to the Palace of Westminster in London. Theresa May will become the prime minister who leads Britain's into Brexit talks on 13 July 2016: photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas, 11 July 2016

Theresa May
  
\Prime Minister-in-waiting, Theresa May, reacts to photographers after walking to the wrong car after attending a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street on 12 July 2016 in London: photo by Carl Court, 12 July 2016


THE NATIONAL: The devil is in the detail #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers: image via Neil Henderson @hendopolis, 13 July 2016
  

Who ate Harambe? Did he have to die for our children's sins?



Great afternoon in Ohio and a great evening in Pennsylvania - departing now. See you tomorrow Virginia!: image via Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump, 1 August 2016


Son is eating inferior fake chicken with a fork and knife: image via Kenny @PhillyCustoms, 1 August 2016



holy shit
: image via dan mentos @DanMentos, 1 August 2016


holy shit: image via dan mentos @DanMentos, 1 August 2016


holy shit: image via dan mentos @DanMentos, 1 August 2016


holy shit: image via dan mentos @DanMentos, 1 August 2016


oh my god he ate Harambe: image via Brian Altano @agentbizzle, 1 August 2016

CNN/ORC poll in a four-way race: Hillary #Clinton — 45% Donald #Trump — 37% Gary Johnson — 9% Jill Stein — 5% Harambe — 4%: tweet via Wu_Tang_Financial @Wu_Tang_Finance, 1 August 2016


In presidential polls, how's #Harambe doing?: image via WCPO Verified account @WCPO, 31 July 2016



My love for the lord and savior Harambe will never burn out #Harambe
: image via Andrés @Andres301, 28 July 2016
 
Britain US Politics

Former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in London, Tuesday. Farage addressed the media on how he met US President-elect Donald Trump last week.: photo by Frank Augstein/AP, 29 November 2016

Britain US Politics

Former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in London, Tuesday. Farage addressed the media on how he met US President-elect Donald Trump last week.: photo by Frank Augstein/AP, 29 November 2016


Nigel Farage, center, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, at Trump Tower in New York
: photo by 
Yana Paskova, 12 November 2016



Nigel Farage, center, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, at Trump Tower in New York
: photo by 
Yana Paskova, 12 November 2016


 Brexit

 Ukip leader Nigel Farage reacts at the Leave.EU referendum party at Millbank Tower in London, as results indicate that it looks likely the UK will leave the European Union on 24 June 2016: photo by Geoff Caddick/AFP, 24 June 2016

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17:  UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg MP speak ahead of the Bruges Group press conference on May 17, 2016 in London, England. The event focused on the issues surrounding the European Arrest Warrant and how Britain would be, in the opinion of the speakers, better placed outside of the European Union.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
 
UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg MP speak ahead of the Bruges Group press conference in London, England. The event focused on the issues surrounding the European Arrest Warrant and how Britain would be, in the opinion of the speakers, better placed outside of the European Union.: photo by Dan Kitwood, 17 May 2016

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17:  UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg MP speak ahead of the Bruges Group press conference on May 17, 2016 in London, England. The event focused on the issues surrounding the European Arrest Warrant and how Britain would be, in the opinion of the speakers, better placed outside of the European Union.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) 

UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg MP speak ahead of the Bruges Group press conference in London, England. The event focused on the issues surrounding the European Arrest Warrant and how Britain would be, in the opinion of the speakers, better placed outside of the European Union.: photo by Dan Kitwood, 17 May 2016
 
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain June 24, 2016.      REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland Britain: photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters, 24 June 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain June 24, 2016.      REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland Britain: photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters, 24 June 2016
 
Austin Granger: In a Cemetery

In a Cemetery, Portland | by austin granger
 

In a Cemetery, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 26 December 2016

Dead Tree with Rain Clouds, Oregon | by austin granger

Dead Tree with Rain Clouds, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 26 December 2016

In a Cemetery, Portland | by austin granger

In a Cemetery, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 26 December 2016

Dune Grass, Oregon Coast | by austin granger

Dune Grass, Oregon Coast
: photo by Austin Granger, 26 December 2016


Dead End, Pacific Beach, Washington | by austin granger

Dead End, Pacific Beach, Washington
: photo by Austin Granger, 15 December 2016

 
 Moribund Empire Business


UK -The silhouetted shapes of passengers are seen in the windows on the upper deck of London bus on Blackheath at sunrise. By @JustinTallis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 December 2016

That's Theresa May hiding away there by the back window.
She's riding the city buses in streetlady drag.
Here she's just hoicked up a great smacking wet loogie
and smeared it all over the window
to conceal her presence among The People.
She's been hoping Precedent Drumpf will invite her to the Gold House.
She's pretty sure he'll have appreciated
her scolding of Kerry for taking on Bibi the Bad.
That should help sink
a little more cement
into the special relationship.
Just so long as the great Orange Ronnie
to her simpering Maggie
never susses to this strange catting around of hers
on the buses.
Not good!  Not good!
Dying empires ought to stick together!



UK - The sun sets behind the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye in London. By @DSorabji #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 29 December 2016

Golden


Theresa May, at a regatta in Henley, England, on Friday, is the favorite of five candidates seeking to be prime minister
: photo by Jonathan Brady/Press Association, via Associated Press, 2 July 2016

 

Theresa May, at a regatta in Henley, England, on Friday, is the favorite of five candidates seeking to be prime minister: photo by Jonathan Brady/Press Association, via Associated Press, 2 July 2016

Theresa May has distanced the UK from Washington over John Kerry’s condemnation of Israel, in comments that appear to be designed to build bridges with the incoming Trump administration.
 
Kerry, the outgoing secretary of state, delivered a robust speech this week that criticised Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as the “most rightwing coalition in Israeli history” and warned that the rapid expansion of settlements in the occupied territories meant that “the status quo is leading toward one state and perpetual occupation”.
 
The prime minister’s spokesman said May thought it was not appropriate to make such strongly worded attacks on the makeup of a government or to focus solely on the issue of Israeli settlements.
 
“We do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the democratically elected government of an ally,” he said. “The government believes that negotiations will only succeed when they are conducted between the two parties, supported by the international community.”

Trump, who made stridently pro-Israel comments during the election campaign, responded angrily to the resolution, claiming: “The big loss for Israel in the United Nations will make it much harder to negotiate peace. Too bad, but we will get it done anyway!” Israel reacted furiously to Kerry’s comments, with Netanyahu calling them “skewed”.

May is known to be keen to kindle a close relationship with the Trump White House. The UK’s ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, has even said he hopes it will emulate the rapport between Margaret Thatcher and her US counterpart Ronald Reagan.

Heather Stewart, The Guardian, Thursday 29 December 2016

British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses sailors on board HMS Ocean during her trip to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Bahrain, on December 6, 2016 in Manama, Bahrain. Prime Minister May is the first British leader and the first woman to attend the annual two-day Gulf Cooperation Council and will attend a dinner with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman on Tuesday, and will also discuss the situation in Yemen and Syria.  (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) 
British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses sailors on board HMS Ocean during her trip to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Manama, Bahrain: photo by Carl Court, 6 December 2016

British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses sailors on board HMS Ocean during her trip to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Bahrain, on December 6, 2016 in Manama, Bahrain. Prime Minister May is the first British leader and the first woman to attend the annual two-day Gulf Cooperation Council and will attend a dinner with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman on Tuesday, and will also discuss the situation in Yemen and Syria.  (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses sailors on board HMS Ocean during her trip to attend the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Manama, Bahrain: photo by Carl Court, 6 December 2016

Israelis take pictures of a golden statue  depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, 06 December 2016. The statue was installed overnight by Israeli artist Itay Zalait, as a political statement against PM Netanyahu.  EPA/ABIR SULTAN

Israelis take pictures of a golden statue depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. The statue was installed overnight by Israeli artist Itay Zalait, as a political statement against PM Netanyahu.: photo by Abir Sultan/EPA, 6 December 2016

Israelis take pictures of a golden statue  depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, 06 December 2016. The statue was installed overnight by Israeli artist Itay Zalait, as a political statement against PM Netanyahu.  EPA/ABIR SULTAN

Israelis take pictures of a golden statue depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. The statue was installed overnight by Israeli artist Itay Zalait, as a political statement against PM Netanyahu.: photo by Abir Sultan/EPA, 6 December 2016

British Prime Minister Theresa May is welcomed to the Sri Someshwara Temple on November 8, 2016 in Bangalore, India. Mrs May is in India on a two day trade mission to reconnect the UK with the Commonwealth during her first trip since taking office. Yesterday the Prime Minister met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

British Prime Minister Theresa May is welcomed to the Sri Someshwara Temple in Bangalore, India
: photo by Dan Kitwood, 8 November 2016


British Prime Minister Theresa May is welcomed to the Sri Someshwara Temple on November 8, 2016 in Bangalore, India. Mrs May is in India on a two day trade mission to reconnect the UK with the Commonwealth during her first trip since taking office. Yesterday the Prime Minister met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

British Prime Minister Theresa May is welcomed to the Sri Someshwara Temple in Bangalore, India: photo by Dan Kitwood, 8 November 2016

brushed hand against #DonaldTrump caterpillar's hair, lost all sensation in left arm for 24hrs #fieldworkfail
: image via Joe Parker @Pselaphinae, 1 August 2015