How long have we been waddling in this God-forsaken swamp? An hour? Two? Didn’t bring my watch. I don’t normally wear my watch when I jump from airplanes. I did wear a parachute. And a helmet… * The day had started well that Sunday morning. Meeting at 7:30AM. Clear African skies over the Gabonese Air…
A Time Patrol movie Previously on San Francisco: San Francisco > San Diego > Yosemite > Disneyland. We finally drove back to San Francisco on the last leg of our California roadtrip in 1966. The streets of San Francisco in 1966. Shades of Michael Douglas and Karl Malden. The cars weren’t that different six years…
Many an explorer risked or lost his life looking for the source of the Orinoco, a mysterious, inaccesible river in South America, a distant cousin of the Amazon. Remedios Varo (1908-1963) found the source in her paintings. She used an infinity of transportation means: a Caravan. (Roulotte, 1955) Remedios making plans for the expedition. (Mimetismo,…
An African Childhood* The ventilators moved the hot air sluggishly. At ten in the morning, the heat in West Africa was still bearable. My father’s office was in the centre of Conakry, former, newly independent, French Guinea. I remember the large plaza in front of the office. There was an immense “Fromager” tree. A kapok…
Private chapel. Mexico city. About a couple blocks from the house. Olivier Rameau and Colombe Tiredaile, Brussels. Street art based on a comics series by Dany (drawing and colours) and Greg (Script). A charming and poetic work of the 60’s and 70’s. Apsaras, divine dancers, Angkor temples, Cambodia. “Wolves in the snow blanket”, by Linda…
A Time Patrol Movie: Pakistan in the ’50’s Hop on Equinoxio’s Time-Space shuttle to Pakistan in the early 50’s. See the visit of India’s Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru to Pakistan. His first visit was in 1953. After Independence in 1947 and the Partition of Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan, 15 million people were displaced, and…
Take the yellow car. School’s closed. Don’t even stop. Pass the blue house. That used to be a door. Can’t go in. Forget about the orange house. (Wot? Not orange? Don’t care. I’m colour-blind, hehe.) Cross yourself on the way. Can’t hurt. Don’t you feel blue? A simple house along the way. Don’t get distracted.…
Previously on The Senator and The Machine: The narrator is a foreign student in a Southern University. He was elected Student Senator in a deal with a mysterious campus organization called The Machine. All went well until… There I was, a Senator. Watching those young men and women practicing their future “trade”, earnestly preparing motions…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. * I was a Senator once. ‘Seems like a lifetime…
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