Today is World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Day and the official website invites everyone - whether you have been diagnosed or not - to make a wish related to MS.You can also take the opportunity to learn more about the disease and maybe demystify some preconceived notions - as well as understanding the real effects it has on all those who … Continue reading Make a wiSh
projectos
A organizar outro blog no WordPress totalmente dedicado aos textos do meu pai - artigos antigos em papel, textos publicados em blogs e sites alheios, excertos dos livros que publicou.Brevemente, numa blogosfera perto de si.
connection
Detachment Movie Poster ©Lafar88 How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, … Continue reading connection
revamp galore
I think this blog must be feeling like Sleeping Beauty's dress.
Story #2: true story
This is harder than I thought.
oh, canada!
Canadian music: feeding my soul since 2005.Individual praises here, here and here.It may be the cold, or the boreal forest, or the openheartedness - but I'm more in tune with their words and notes than any other on this side of the Ocean.
Story #1
Easily inebriated, he fell into her.
Obediência
Ver filmes sobre os quais só se sabe o título tem as suas vantagens. A história começa com o início de um dia de trabalho num franchise de fast food. Conhecemos a gerente, o empregado calão, a loirinha mais interessada em mudar as capas do telemóvel do que em atender clientes, e tudo filmado em … Continue reading Obediência
“Adrian Mole, c’est moi”
Sue Townsend (2 April 1946 – 10 April 2014) Adrian Mole (1982 - 2009)
helping hand
WordPress: looking out for you & your well-being since 2003:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Culture
Domingo foi dia de ir ver paisagens nórdicas. The Prado collection of Flemish and Dutch landscapes. Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / National Museum of Ancient Art
“I’ve been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else”
Always the late bloomer, foi preciso chegar aos trintas-e para ouvir de forma obsessiva álbuns com 20 anos (1994 já foi há 20 anos...?), que gritam angústias existenciais, revolta contra políticos e psicopatas, e me fazem cantarolar na rua there ain't no black in the union jack. O belíssimo Journal, com o melhor dos dois … Continue reading “I’ve been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else”
ver a doença invisível
Numa época em que toda a gente fotografa tudo para todo o mundo ver, sabe muito bem encontrar projectos um bocadinho mais relevantes do que a actividade gastronómica do alheio - como fugir um pouco aos nossos umbigos e tentar ver uma realidade que não conhecemos. A esclerose múltipla é uma doença autoimune e degenerativa … Continue reading ver a doença invisível
‘Lady of the Sea’ – Pardel’s Tale (I)
Everyone went quiet for Pardel to start. Loud as they were, all pirates enjoyed a good story. He held a silent pause for dramatic purposes before beginning: 'There was once a young couple who lived near the shore. They were happily in love but the girl was as barren as the deep desert. She grew … Continue reading ‘Lady of the Sea’ – Pardel’s Tale (I)
Chemical Emotions Compendium: D
D Dream distillation. image: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1771
Chemical Emotions Compendium: C
C Calcified Pain Image: Luc Beaufort, CEREGE (Univ. Aix-Marseille/CNRS)
‘Lady of the Sea’ – the illustrator returns
©Daniel Lopes
‘Lady of the Sea’ – Peafowl
Lord Peafowl hadn’t really meant to kill his father. Granted, he had waited impatiently for his father to die, even secretly prayed for it on occasion during mass, but he didn’t intend for the old man to die by his hands. If only he hadn’t said those things to him, shouting that he was useless, … Continue reading ‘Lady of the Sea’ – Peafowl
destinos
- Uma vez leram-me a sina, há muitos anos atrás - conta-me ela à luz do pequeno candeeiro que já lhe fere a vista. Abre a palma da mão em frente à cara: - "Você devia ter casado nova. Agora já não casa." Devia ter sido o João. Era tão apaixonado por mim... Eu fui … Continue reading destinos
Isidora & the goblins & Ian Beck
It's the goblins! It's always the goblins. They broke my MacMini last December, constricting my online existence to: a) my not-so-smart-phone b) my no-social-networking-in-the-workplace access at work. Fair enough, little goblins: it means less distractions and I've been writing more & drawing more and even ventured into paints and canvases. But when I receive an … Continue reading Isidora & the goblins & Ian Beck
‘Lady of the Sea’ – Hiatus
Eu: Daniel, já escrevi a próxima parte da história. Sempre fizeste o desenho este fim de semana? Daniel: No hablo portugués.
The San∂man
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot. Dream, in Sandman #19: "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Neil Gaiman
metrónomos
Sempre entendi muito bem o Peter Pan. Cada vez mais entendo a fobia do Gancho. (Quem foge do tique-taque ainda tem salvação?) ilustração: Oliver Herford. The Peter Pan Alphabet, 1907
alucinações
A ler o que o Oliver Sacks me explica sobre a síndrome de Charles Bonnet e a lembrar-me inevitalmente do Borges e da sua enorme visão.
Kobo-quote
"Read like a butterfly, write like a bee" - Philip Pullman
