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Gourmet: Mech. Soft Menu (Part 3.)

Posted on August 21, 2011 by carto

The Critical Decision is ? Yesterday’s second episode of Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu left the story-teller in the Stanford ER waiting for a bed (parking spot for my gurrney) in the Critical Decision Unit, CDU. That was where treatment would … Continue reading →

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Gourmet: Mech. Soft Menu (Part 2.)

Posted on August 20, 2011 by carto

The path to the Critical Decision Unit Yesterday’s first episode of Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu left the story-teller in the Stanford ER waiting for a space-aged camera to arrive and look inside the sick story-teller’s pharynx—there is that word again. … Continue reading →

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Gourmet: Mechanical Soft Menu

Posted on August 20, 2011 by carto

Instead of describing a book from Carto’s library, the next few blog postings will be a story of my own concoction; history, the events are true, but may be poorly remembered or told. I will relate my unplanned entry into … Continue reading →

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Note to Congress: Beware the Jabberwock

Posted on June 30, 2011 by carto

From all sides, or at least from the right and left, comes advice to congress on how to solve the so-called national budget crisis. Amidst the advice are a smattering of dire warnings. Rather than add to or further agitate … Continue reading →

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Mexican Detective Cabrera Listens to Cumbia

Posted on June 24, 2011 by carto

In the fictional world created by Martin Solares: Detective Ramón Cabrera parked his car and walked into the Paracuán police headquarters. He went directly to the chief’s office and opened the door. As soon as he entered the office he … Continue reading →

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Gay Tales from San Francisco

Posted on June 20, 2011 by carto

It’s nice living near San Francisco, but sometimes the SF presence is overpowering. The city becomes so full of itself that it seems to pulse and glow in the northwest sky above my home in Palo Alto. The latest world … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Hemingway—Cuba leads the way

Posted on June 14, 2011 by carto

July 2, 2011 will mark 50 years since that day in 1961 when a self-inflicted shotgun blast ended the life of Ernest Hemingway. He died at his ranch outside the small town of Ketchum in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho. … Continue reading →

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Books to look at—no reading allowed

Posted on June 9, 2011 by carto

A historical photo of the B&M Copper Smelter in Great Falls, Montana forms the backdrop for the illustration DeadFall in the handcrafted book Nature Morte by Peter Koch. The book is now on display at the Cantor Center for the … Continue reading →

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Vive la France—Carla Bruni sings Emily Dickenson

Posted on June 7, 2011 by carto

If you have ever sat with friends in your living room and listened while guitars played and someone sang a soft melody then you know the feeling, hard to express, of shared warmth and compassion. Welcome to the album No … Continue reading →

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Noir Buenos Aires, A Homophobic Taxi Driver

Posted on June 3, 2011 by carto

“A shoemaker!” thinks Mareco. The thought is more that the homophobe can stand, “A shoemaker!” Mareco’s life is a disaster; he can’t sleep at night so he drives a cooperativa (taxi) until dawn—not the safest job for an inept and … Continue reading →

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