Whenever You're Away From Me

Gene Kelly in a scene from Xanadu. Pretty cool methinks.
Whenever You're Away From Me ~ Gene Kelly&Olivia... por Cehcw

A.R. - The Ammons Dude.

So I Said I Am Ezra by A. R. Ammons

So I said I am Ezra
and the wind whipped my throat
gaming for the sounds of my voice
I listened to the wind
go over my head and up into the night
Turning to the sea I said
I am Ezra
but there were no echoes from the waves
The words were swallowed up
in the voice of the surf
or leaping over the swells
lost themselves oceanward
Over the bleached and broken fields
I moved my feet and turning from the wind
that ripped sheets of sand
from the beach and threw them
like seamists across the dunes
swayed as if the wind were taking me away
and said
I am Ezra
As a word too much repeated
falls out of being
so I Ezra went out into the night
like a drift of sand
and splashed among the windy oats
that clutch the dunes
of unremembered seas

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

So can the Portuguese correspondent of Buffalo - Búfalo - also be used on its own to form a sentence? The answer is no; but almost since in Portuguese Búfalo refers to the animal, and that same animal's hide. So (então) you can say (você pode dizer) ♠ Eu comprei búfalo de búfalo (I purchased a buffalo's buffalo hide). Ok, this sounds stupid: I suppose one could just say Comprei couro de búfalo and this would make the meaning clear without having to use the word búfalo twice. The thing is that the question posed in the post is not what is the most feasible way of communicating that you purchased buffalo hide - in Portuguese - it is can you use the word búfalo twice, each with a distict meaning, to create a sentence? Ok, that isn't really the question as what I actually asked was if you can use these words, on their own, to create a sentence. And the answer continues to be no; but had I focused on that then a transition would not have been possible and the post would have died.  And I just couldn't  kill a post that I know you would grow to love, not regretting for a moment having read to completion.  

A Song Rehearsal in Angolan Portuguese and English

Plus what seems to be a native Angolan tongue, and just a bit of French.

All this performed by an Angolan artist I stumbled upon on YouTube. I think she sings like an angel, and recorded it in a way that these languages blend together quite well. You can find the channel featuring her other songs here.



I just can't figure out her name as it shifts from the English Tiger Wilson to the Lusophonized Taiguer Wilson. I wonder why she didn't go ahead and convert Wilson to Uilson as well. Whatever. Anyway she sure knows how to sing.

Thin Lizzy

Time for a classic, so . . .

Eddie Izzard is The Best Vader Ever

Tom Sowell

Against judicial activism, and for civil rights.