I found this chart just hilarious. Cafe Press, the internet custom T-Shirt store, have decided to keep track on how their political items are selling, and well, the results are just fascinating... the only problem is that they have no way of telling apart the "for" and the "against" buttons and t-shirts, so one cannot now if what's selling is this...
or this... Nevertheless, it's certainly the kind of thing the anthropologically curious can enjoy...
Ps. Oh that Sarah Palin... she sure is media-friendly...
I was there, at Loquillo's concert, last Sunday. The song is a version of a poem that has always been a favorite of mine, especially as you can see a fragment of it at the Universidad Complutense subway station. True enough, it's probably not the best thing to read at birthdays, but still great in a depressing kind of way...
NO VOLVERÉ A SER JOVEN
Que la vida iba en serio uno lo empieza a comprender más tarde -como todos los jóvenes, yo vine a llevarme la vida por delante.
Dejar huella quería y marcharme entre aplausos -envejecer, morir, eran tan sólo las dimensiones del teatro.
Pero ha pasado el tiempo y la verdad desagradable asoma: envejecer, morir, es el único argumento de la obra.
-- Jaime Gil de Biedma.
(and here, a chance to use my translating wheels)
WON’T BE YOUNG ANYMORE
Life was in earnest – one realizes that only later. As with all the youngsters, I came to take life by storm.
I wanted to leave my mark and leave with an ovation – to age, to die, were only the dimensions of the theatre.
But time has gone by and the ugly truth begins to show: to age, to die, is the only plot of the play.
Nevertheless, it's certainly the kind of thing the anthropologically curious can enjoy...
