Archive for May, 2005

Mexico City, UNAM, Hunger, Butterflies

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Some tidbits:
Just saw the movie The Butterfly Effect, and I quite liked it. I’ve seen a few other movies where they use “innovative” (maybe it once was) techniques of jumping to and from in times (Memento comes to mind as a very good example), others were characters struggle with loss of memory, alternate dimensions, thinking […]

The Hungry Tide

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is an amazing book, and highly recommended. I picked it up on the airport, since I knew Ghosh from his In an Antique Land, which we read in anthropology. I liked that book, although I was somewhat sceptical to it’s value as an ethnography (which was why we read […]

Photos and Mexico

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Just to those who don´t know, I am currently in Mexico in a little pueblo near Mazatlan, volunteering for HealthWrights (whose books are highly recommended, especially Questioning the Solution) at Projimo (Proyecto de Rehabilitacion Organizado por Jovenes Incapacitados de Mexico Occidental, think I got that more or less correct). Part of my work will be […]

Color revolutions

Friday, May 13th, 2005

I have been very fascinated by the spread of peaceful revolutions around the world during the last two years - starting with the velvet revolution in Georgia a bit over two years ago, the Orange revolution in Ukraine about half a year ago, the Cedar revolution in Lebanon some months ago and the Pink revolution […]