links to fun stuff, also a poem
i'm learning random scheduling stuff at work. this is slightly more exciting than it sounds. i mean, new responsibilities are always good, and anything that gives me something to do is a plus.
in honor of its nineteenth birthday, google has the obligatory googledoodle and a bunch of cute google games. go waste some time. i did the earth day quiz and am apparently a giant squid.
*waves tentacles*
short trip - a very cool and very pretty slightly interactive animation.
why was american food during the 50s so appalling? prohibition and ww2, basically. share in the jello horrors. (i am so glad i missed this particular food decade, altho i know i'd enjoy a nice canned-fruit salad encased in a jello ring.)
street views of 80s new york. like googlemaps street view, except from before googlemaps (or google) existed. where was this when i was writing my punk au bigbang?
have a poem.
I learned
Spanish
from my grandma
mijito
don’t cry
she’d tell me
on the mornings
my parents
would leave
to work
at the fish
canneries
my grandma
would chat
with chairs
sing them
old
songs
dance
waltzes with them
in the kitchen
when she’d say
niño barrigón
she’d laugh
with my grandma
I learned
to count clouds
to recognize
mint leaves
in flowerpots
my grandma
wore moons
on her dress
Mexico’s mountains
deserts
ocean
in her eyes
I’d see them
in her braids
I’d touch them
in her voice
smell them
one day
I was told:
she went far away
but still
I feel her
with me
whispering
in my ear:
mijito
--"In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles", Francisco X. Alarcón (translated by Francisco Aragón)
(i'm watching the covenant and seriously, there is so much wrong with this movie, but it's got taylor kitsch in the tiniest swim trunks known to man and a babyface sebastian stan chewing scenery and i'm weak.)
in honor of its nineteenth birthday, google has the obligatory googledoodle and a bunch of cute google games. go waste some time. i did the earth day quiz and am apparently a giant squid.
*waves tentacles*
short trip - a very cool and very pretty slightly interactive animation.
why was american food during the 50s so appalling? prohibition and ww2, basically. share in the jello horrors. (i am so glad i missed this particular food decade, altho i know i'd enjoy a nice canned-fruit salad encased in a jello ring.)
street views of 80s new york. like googlemaps street view, except from before googlemaps (or google) existed. where was this when i was writing my punk au bigbang?
have a poem.
I learned
Spanish
from my grandma
mijito
don’t cry
she’d tell me
on the mornings
my parents
would leave
to work
at the fish
canneries
my grandma
would chat
with chairs
sing them
old
songs
dance
waltzes with them
in the kitchen
when she’d say
niño barrigón
she’d laugh
with my grandma
I learned
to count clouds
to recognize
mint leaves
in flowerpots
my grandma
wore moons
on her dress
Mexico’s mountains
deserts
ocean
in her eyes
I’d see them
in her braids
I’d touch them
in her voice
smell them
one day
I was told:
she went far away
but still
I feel her
with me
whispering
in my ear:
mijito
--"In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles", Francisco X. Alarcón (translated by Francisco Aragón)
(i'm watching the covenant and seriously, there is so much wrong with this movie, but it's got taylor kitsch in the tiniest swim trunks known to man and a babyface sebastian stan chewing scenery and i'm weak.)