Archive for the 'Moleskinned' Category



Lovers and Cities


h1 Posted 4 weeks ago in the late afternoon by oso

“San Francisco is like the lover of my dreams,” begins my sister, about to stick an oversized, oozing portion of panqueque con dulce de leche into her mouth, “but the relationship, for whatever reason, just doesn’t work out … you know what I mean?”
Her you-know-what-I-means always end with a slight wink of the right eye. [...]

Forgetting


h1 Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago around lunchtime by oso

History is a thin thread of yarn stretched over a vast ocean of the forgotten.
As soon as I saw it I loved it. Lo que tú quieras oír - “What You Want to Hear” - is a short (and free-to-download) film by Spanish director Guillermo Zapata. It follows the story of Sofía who comes home [...]

No More Miracles


h1 Posted 3 months ago mid-afternoon by oso

At the City Council meeting when I stood up in front of all who had gathered and pleaded my case to not allow some jackass corporate developer tear down Miracles Cafe and put up a two-story business complex in its place, said jackass corporate developer assured everyone that the development would still be a community [...]