tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post1009312669118210057..comments2023-08-25T16:13:51.356+01:00Comments on Martin In The Margins: Miami musingsMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-51216213315793081752009-04-24T11:24:00.000+01:002009-04-24T11:24:00.000+01:00Well, I thought the first episode was pretty good,...Well, I thought the first episode was pretty good, anyway - who knows if they manage to sustain it across a whole series? Like The Wire, it's not easy viewing, but I found it quite compelling - will post a proper review when I've seen more.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-47808118884461227832009-04-24T11:18:00.000+01:002009-04-24T11:18:00.000+01:00I flew across the Atlantic recently, and also had ...I flew across the Atlantic recently, and also had Frost/Nixon as part of my "entertainment". Same response as you. I also watched the new Bond, which I thought was dreadful, and The Secret Life of Bees, which I have to confess made me cry (I am a sucker for sentimentality). <br /><br />Most of the Generation Kill reviews I've seen have been pretty negative. It seems if you do something that everyone likes (The Wire), it becomes de rigeur to say the next thing you do is shit.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-75845365443064748652009-04-20T15:30:00.000+01:002009-04-20T15:30:00.000+01:00Consider yourself tagged:
http://newcentrist.word...Consider yourself tagged:<br /><br />http://newcentrist.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/spring-tunes-v-2/<br /><br />"List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to."TNCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-5453483200419762452009-04-16T19:09:00.000+01:002009-04-16T19:09:00.000+01:00"recommendations for books on Cuba - ones that don..."recommendations for books on Cuba - ones that don't glorify either Castro or American Cold War policy - would be very welcome."<br /><br />Here are some:<br /><br />Joan Casanovas' "Bread or Bullets: Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba" focuses on the nineteenth century Cuban working-class.<br /><br />Kirwin Shaffer's "Anarchism and Countercultural Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba"<br /><br />Jean Stubbs "Tobacco on the Periphery" which is a social and economic history of Cuban tobacco. <br /><br />Louis Perez has written a lot. Here are a few selections:<br /><br />"Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution"<br /><br />"The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography "<br /><br />"Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos"<br /><br />"On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture"<br /><br />"Cuba Between Empires 1878-1902"<br /><br />"Cuba and the United States: Ties of Singular Intimacy"<br /><br />That's a start.TNCnoreply@blogger.com