- by Amelia G in Headline, Images, Oddities, Trappings
As a holiday, St Patrick’s Day has dubious origins but fabulous iconography. Although the holiday tends to serve as both an expression of Irish pride and an excuse to get thoroughly blotto (Hi Funkatron), the origins of Saint Paddy’s are neither in drunkenness nor Ireland. Although observation of the holiday in the Americas was recorded […]
March 17, 2008 /
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- by Amelia G in Blue Blood
I attended the Fictional Bloggers panel at SXSW. The panel featured Liz Henry and Odin Soli. They are both active in Latin American political writing, which is an area I admit I don’t follow. I spent some time in Brazil when my mother was stationed there and got some creepy awful illness which caused blood […]
March 23, 2007 |
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