One day baby, we'll be old

Think of all the stories that we could have told.

Glorious Nororious

Now, let's try this again.

C:我们再一些的 次

"Instead of Mandela's New World, our politicians and their media flunkies busily and viciously strive to resurrect an Old Wold in which there will be no safety, no asylum, for anybody but themselves. These men, direct descendants of other men who came to America never asking anybody's permission to arrive or to invade or to conquer or to exterminate or to enslave or to betray or to exploit and discriminate against those who preceded them and those who, willingly or not, came after them- these men now contrive a so-called immigration crisis and thy invent and then promulgate pathological idiot terms like "illegal aliens." -June Jordan, "We Are All Refugees," 1994

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

Just got home from LCD Soundsystem/Hot Chip/ Sleigh Bells. It was my first time going to a dance show in such a big auditorium, but I really didn't have many complaints. I'll leave you with a song I've been playing on repeat for the last hour or so...

Buenos Aires, here we come!

Well, it looks like instead of my boyfriend moving to LA with me, we are moving to Argentina together. God, life is so exciting when you're being funded to do what you love (i.e. research).

compartmentalization

photo taken from http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/

I've been dividing my personality into two separate blogs. One is intellect based, with quotes, thoughts, and books. The other is this, which is cooking and craft related.

Today, we merge them with a quote about U.S. and Mexican transnational groups.

"Border groups have also been willing to take on the difficult challenge of recognizing and overcoming social differences. This commitment is crucial because- as the history of the border shows- proximity does not necessarily lead to mutual understanding."

Fox, Lessons from Civil Society Coalitions