<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238</id><updated>2012-02-07T06:53:45.917Z</updated><title type='text'>WHERE IS NATHAN'S?</title><subtitle type='html'>You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>114</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5911345651661066761</id><published>2012-01-06T09:21:00.013Z</published><updated>2012-01-07T12:20:18.604Z</updated><title type='text'>SERPICO (pronunciado Sérpico)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;Tiene 74 años y vive en un pequeño pueblo a dos horas al norte de Nueva York. Todavía conserva&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;el mismo aspecto&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;hippie de cuando vivía en el Village, se hacía llamar “Paco” y &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;patrullaba por las junglas&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;de Brooklyn, Queens o el Bronx. A pesar de que&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;abandonó el cuerpo hace casi cuarenta años es el más famoso policía del NYPD . En una época en la que sus miembros se jugaban el pellejo cada día por un sueldo de miseria, lo cual les hacía pensar que tenían derecho a buscarse un sobresueldo con sobornos y &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;extorsiones, &lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Frank Serpico&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;cometió un error (no dejarse sobornar), seguido de una locura (tirar de la manta). En 1971, durante una intervención, que en realidad fue una encerrona planeada sus compañeros,  recibió un tiro en la cara. Se lo disparó un camello de &lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Williamsburg&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;ante la impasibilidad del resto de policías, que no le cubrieron durante&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;el tiroteo y huyeron al instante. &lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Serpico&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;quedó tendido en el suelo desangrándose y sobrevivió al atentado porque un vecino&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;llamó a la ambulancia y se quedó junto a él, cogiéndole la mano y hablándole, no dejándole morir.&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Su testimonio fue la base de la llamada &lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;comisión Knapp&lt;/i&gt; a comienzos de los años setenta, pero no fue suficiente para acabar con la corrupción y la brutalidad del mayor cuerpo policial de Estados Unidos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvw8aIKbdsg/Twa_rfErEcI/AAAAAAAAAww/kf_I9gZehPo/s1600/articleLarge.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvw8aIKbdsg/Twa_rfErEcI/AAAAAAAAAww/kf_I9gZehPo/s400/articleLarge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5694449532652949954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Así acabó su carrera de policía. Sordo de un oído y con dolores crónicos a causa del tiro. C&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;on la vida resuelta antes de cumplir 30 años. Le jubilaron con tanto odio que la Medalla al Honor se la tiraron por encima del mostrador de la comisaría: &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"&gt;“hala, coge tu chapa y vete, cabrón”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt;. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white"&gt;Tras su retiro vivió diez años &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;en Europa, &lt;/span&gt;aterrorizado por la posible venganza de sus antiguos compañeros&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD" lang="ES-TRAD"&gt; y durante diez años más vagó &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;por Estados Unidos hasta establecerse en el pueblo donde vive. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;mso-bidi-font-style: italiccolor:black;"&gt;Su biografia, escrita&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt; por&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Maas" title="Peter Maas"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"&gt;Peter Maas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt;, vendió más de 3 millones de copias. Posteriormente fue llevada al cine &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;en la producción de 1973 titulada &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="background:white"&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpico" title="Serpico"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"&gt;Serpico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="background:white"&gt;,&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt; dirigida por&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"&gt;Sidney Lumet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt;y protagonizada por&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Pacino" title="Al Pacino"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline: nonecolor:windowtext;"&gt;Al Pacino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white"&gt;. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Ahora está escribiendo sus memorias.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; text-align:justify"&gt;Símbolo de integridad para muchos y “&lt;i&gt;rata” &lt;/i&gt; para otros tantos, &lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;Serpico nunca ha dejado de ejercer. Su casa es una especie de santuario a la que acuden numerosos policías jóvenes e inadaptados &lt;span style="mso-spacerun:yes"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;con dudas parecidas a las que él tuvo. Incluso asesoró a Mike McAlary, reportero del New York Daily News, en el seguimiento del caso de tortura policial del ciudadano haitiano &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Louima" title="Abner Louima"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;text-decoration: none;text-underline:nonecolor:windowtext;"&gt;Abner Louima&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="apple-converted-space"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="orphans: 2;text-align:-webkit-auto;widows: 2;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;float:none;word-spacing:0px"&gt; ocurrido en &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;color:black;"&gt;Brooklyn en 1997 y que fue galardonado con el premio Pulitzer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD"&gt; &lt;span lang="ES-TRAD"&gt;Por suerte todavía quedan tipos así , capaces de afirmar que &lt;i&gt;"hace falta crear una atmósfera en la cual el policía corrupto tema al honesto, y no al revés."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5911345651661066761?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5911345651661066761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5911345651661066761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5911345651661066761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5911345651661066761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2012/01/serpico.html' title='SERPICO (pronunciado Sérpico)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uvw8aIKbdsg/Twa_rfErEcI/AAAAAAAAAww/kf_I9gZehPo/s72-c/articleLarge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7564291243607565141</id><published>2011-12-13T12:19:00.005Z</published><updated>2011-12-13T12:38:17.259Z</updated><title type='text'>Don't use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.  (We all have to grow up sometime)</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F5JIpT4GkyM" allowfullscreen="" width="420" frameborder="0" height="315"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Nah, this stuff isn't getting to me, the shootings, the knifings, the  beatings, old ladies being bashed in the head for their social security  checks... Nah, that doesn't bother me. But you know what does bother me?  You know what makes me really sick to my stomach? It's watching you  stuff your face with those hotdogs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Nobody, I mean nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(Dirty Harry's famous speech about never putting ketchup on a hot dog)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7564291243607565141?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7564291243607565141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7564291243607565141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7564291243607565141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7564291243607565141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2011/12/dont-use-ketchup-on-your-hot-dog-after.html' title='Don&apos;t use ketchup on your hot dog after the age of 18.  (We all have to grow up sometime)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/F5JIpT4GkyM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6168034149769235968</id><published>2011-11-29T10:28:00.017Z</published><updated>2011-11-29T18:11:19.109Z</updated><title type='text'>NOT JUST A HOT DOG</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No, Nathan's no es sólo un local cualquiera de Surf Avenue donde se venden salchichas. Es Historia de América.  En sus primeros años era habitual ver sentados alrededor de su barra a  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Al Capone, Eddie Cantor, Jimy Durante y Cary Grant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;No o&lt;/span&gt;btuvo el merecido reconocimiento internacional hasta 1939, cuando el  Presidente &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Franklin Delano Roosevelt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;ofreció en la Casa Blanca  "Nathan’s Famous hot dogs" al rey y a la reina de Inglaterra. Posteriormente, el mismo Roosevelt hizo que se los enviaran a la cumbre de Yalta, donde se reunió con &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Winston Churchill y Joseph Stalin&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; Años después, &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nelson Rockefeller&lt;/span&gt;, Gobernador de New York, proclamó que &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;“No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan’s Famous"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YeTFYI0iImI/TtS5pwYcxsI/AAAAAAAAAwg/ZJThjVqrHwA/s1600/07_Oceanside_96-ppi.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YeTFYI0iImI/TtS5pwYcxsI/AAAAAAAAAwg/ZJThjVqrHwA/s400/07_Oceanside_96-ppi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680369157034264258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Políticos y  personalidades del show-busines y del deporte han sido vistos en numerosas ocasiones degustando "Nathan’s dogs"  y loando sus excelencias. Por ejemplo, &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Barbra Streisand&lt;/span&gt; encargó recientemente un importante pedido  para una fiesta privada en Londres, y un episodio de la exitosa &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sit-com&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Seinfeld" &lt;/span&gt;se ambientó íntegramente en su establecimiento de Coney Island. Siendo  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jacqueline Kennedy&lt;/span&gt;  primera dama,  en la despensa de la Casa Blanca nunca faltó la famosa salchicha. Hace un par de años,  el ex-alcalde de  New York City &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rudy Giuliani&lt;/span&gt; manifestó que Nathan’s era el mejor hot dog del mundo. (Ya lo sabíamos).   La última voluntad del actor &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Walter Mathau&lt;/span&gt; fue que  en su funeral se sirvieran "Nathan's dogs". Suma y sigue... Su fundador,  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nathan Handwerker,&lt;/span&gt;  ha sido incluído en la lista de los 100 personajes mas influyentes de la historia de la ciudad, uniéndose así entre otros a  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Joe Namath, Irving Berlin, Andrew Carnegie y Joe DiMaggio&lt;/span&gt;. Casi nada. Así que no me digan que es un sólo un perrito caliente. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6168034149769235968?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6168034149769235968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6168034149769235968' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6168034149769235968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6168034149769235968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2011/11/not-just-hot-dog.html' title='NOT JUST A HOT DOG'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YeTFYI0iImI/TtS5pwYcxsI/AAAAAAAAAwg/ZJThjVqrHwA/s72-c/07_Oceanside_96-ppi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1400102011116688488</id><published>2010-09-10T23:00:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T23:11:43.058+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WHE SHALL NEVER FORGET THEM</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194015.html#ixzz0zAOsVaqJ"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/TIqqc3rTtgI/AAAAAAAAAtk/sG-S1LWtr_A/s1600/IMGP0184.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/TIqqc3rTtgI/AAAAAAAAAtk/sG-S1LWtr_A/s400/IMGP0184.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515408106627249666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned" Flanders. Ground Zero. Manhattan. NYC.  September  11 th 2008.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1400102011116688488?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1400102011116688488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1400102011116688488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1400102011116688488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1400102011116688488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2010/09/whe-sall-never-forget-them.html' title='WHE SHALL NEVER FORGET THEM'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/TIqqc3rTtgI/AAAAAAAAAtk/sG-S1LWtr_A/s72-c/IMGP0184.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6902912039948403361</id><published>2010-08-25T21:04:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T17:22:53.125+01:00</updated><title type='text'>ISAAC FR</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/THWLqa-kbvI/AAAAAAAAAtU/YI2qUm2RrZQ/s1600/IMGP0611.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/THWLqa-kbvI/AAAAAAAAAtU/YI2qUm2RrZQ/s400/IMGP0611.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509463280070192882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Isaac FR&lt;/span&gt; (Wisconsin Rapids, 01/08/2010)  será un gran beisbolista   e inmejorable bateador ambidiestro de gran poder  que  se  convertirá en uno de los más populares jugadores de la historia de las grandes ligas. Jugará toda su carrera profesional en  los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;New York Yankees.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Isaac &lt;/span&gt;será la estrella de los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Bombarderos del Bronx, &lt;/span&gt; a pesar de que su cuerpo probablemente distará  de ser el  de un atleta, pues será de   piernas delgadas. Tanta  será su popularidad que el campo de juego que actualmente utilizan los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Yankees&lt;/span&gt;, inaugurado en 2008, se quedará pequeño. Construirán uno nuevo y mucho más grande: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"The Newest&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Yankee Stadium"&lt;/span&gt;  que se inaugurará  en  2041 y  será  conocido para la posteridad como &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"The House that Isaac Built"&lt;/span&gt;. Los periodistas deportivos bautizarán a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;saac FR&lt;/span&gt; con cualquiera de estos nombres: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; Iron Horse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joltin' Isaac&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The New Yankee Clipper,&lt;/span&gt;  o &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Luckiest Man  on The Face of the Earth&lt;/span&gt;.  Al final de su carrera, habrá batido  el récords de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cuadrangulares&lt;/span&gt; de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Barry Bonds&lt;/span&gt;, el de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Grand Slams &lt;/span&gt;de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Lou Gehrig&lt;/span&gt; y, lo más asombroso: los  56 juegos consecutivos de &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;hit&lt;/span&gt;  de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Joe DiMaggio&lt;/span&gt;. Seguro que entonces, algún periodista  del &lt;i style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; escribirá  acerca de él: "&lt;i&gt;No es  por los récords   que lo recordaremos, sino por su persona. Isaac FR permanecerá como símbolo de excelencia,  poder y caballerosidad&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned" Flanders. August 25th 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6902912039948403361?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6902912039948403361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6902912039948403361' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6902912039948403361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6902912039948403361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2010/08/isaac-fr.html' title='ISAAC FR'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/THWLqa-kbvI/AAAAAAAAAtU/YI2qUm2RrZQ/s72-c/IMGP0611.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2540111887529920234</id><published>2010-01-22T11:56:00.017Z</published><updated>2010-01-22T13:48:09.400Z</updated><title type='text'>NO, WE CAN'T...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/S1meDMhp-kI/AAAAAAAAAsE/JiJ_XMX5y_I/s1600-h/calcet%C3%ADn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/S1meDMhp-kI/AAAAAAAAAsE/JiJ_XMX5y_I/s400/calcet%C3%ADn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429544603511028290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Curt Schilling&lt;/span&gt; está considerado uno de los mejores lanzadores de la historia del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;baseball. &lt;/span&gt;  En las Series Mundiales de 2004, y sin haberse recuperado de una reciente operación de tobillo lanzó para los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; Boston Red Sox  &lt;/span&gt; el segundo juego del último partido. A causa del esfuerzo, se le abrieron los puntos y su tobillo empezó  a sangrar    dejando su calcetín hecho un auténtico asco. Actualmente dicho calcetín se encuentra  expuesto en una vitrina del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Salón de la Fama del Béisbol.&lt;/span&gt; Pero más allá de su calcetín ensangrentado y de sus  logros deportivos -entre ellos cuatro &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Series Mundiales,&lt;/span&gt; dos de ellas para los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Red Sox &lt;/span&gt;de Boston, donde es considerado una especie de Dios -  el nombre de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Schilling &lt;/span&gt;ha contribuído en sobremanera a la pérdida de la mayoría demócrata en el Senado norteamericano. En las recientes elecciones celebradas en el estado de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt; para cubrir la vacante dejada  por &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Edward Kennedy&lt;/span&gt;,  la  candidata demócrata &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Martha Coakley &lt;/span&gt;demostró un desconocimiento supino de lo que los &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Red Sox&lt;/span&gt; significan para &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/span&gt;  al manifestar que  su adorado &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Schilling &lt;/span&gt;era un jugador de los odiados... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Yankees &lt;/span&gt;de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;. Como era de suponer, el  electorado -eminentemente demócrata desde 1962- no perdonó semejante ignorancia y otorgó la victoria al candidato republicano, un  guaperas ex-modelo  de medio pelo de nombre  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Scott Brown&lt;/span&gt;.  Consecuencia de todo ello  es que a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Hussein Obama&lt;/span&gt; ya no le salen las cuentas para aprobar la reforma sanitaria esa. &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;No, we can't... &lt;/span&gt;Por cierto, a parte del calcetín, también podrían ingresar en el &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Hall of Fame &lt;/span&gt;al propio  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Schilling&lt;/span&gt;. Y puestos a pedir, que entre también la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Coakley&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2540111887529920234?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2540111887529920234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2540111887529920234' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2540111887529920234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2540111887529920234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-we-cant.html' title='NO, WE CAN&apos;T...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/S1meDMhp-kI/AAAAAAAAAsE/JiJ_XMX5y_I/s72-c/calcet%C3%ADn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8873220335204755624</id><published>2009-12-22T22:04:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-12-22T22:05:06.761Z</updated><title type='text'>FE DE ERRATAS II</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU_Uh-IsLmI/AAAAAAAAAk8/PQS0lXU1YYg/s1600-h/virginia%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282674568009100898" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 242px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU_Uh-IsLmI/AAAAAAAAAk8/PQS0lXU1YYg/s400/virginia%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8873220335204755624?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8873220335204755624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8873220335204755624' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8873220335204755624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8873220335204755624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/12/fe-de-erratas-ii.html' title='FE DE ERRATAS II'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU_Uh-IsLmI/AAAAAAAAAk8/PQS0lXU1YYg/s72-c/virginia%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-833096368946205215</id><published>2009-12-17T21:14:00.009Z</published><updated>2009-12-18T17:34:24.050Z</updated><title type='text'>DOWNTOWN SKY LINE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Después de leer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;La Hoguera de las Vanidades&lt;/span&gt; decidí que tenía que ir allí. Corría el año 1999. Sin nadie a quien engañar para acompañarme, decidí ir by my self. Quería saber que era eso de &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Park Avenue, Harlem,  The Bronx, El Museo de Historia Natural y Central Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; Quería ver a los  &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sherman McCoy&lt;/span&gt; desfilando por &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wall Street&lt;/span&gt; y a   &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Peter Fallow &lt;/span&gt;emborrachándose en cualquier lugar de &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Greenwich Village. &lt;/span&gt;Esa novela es la culpable. Creo que es el mejor libro que jamás he leído, aunque acepto que no es, ni de lejos, el mejor libro que se haya escrito.  Relata como ninguna otra novela los esplendores y las miserias de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;New York.&lt;/span&gt;Es el libro que me hubiera gustado escribir, y con eso queda todo dicho&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Syu6TP_noqI/AAAAAAAAArg/sbVfCzLf-8k/s1600-h/F1020021.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 132px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Syu6TP_noqI/AAAAAAAAArg/sbVfCzLf-8k/s400/F1020021.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416627816716804770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"...Y en ese momento  Sherman llevó a cabo un horrible descubrimiento, el mismo que todos los hombres, tarde o temprano, hacen en relación con su respectivo padre. Por primera vez comprendió que el anciano que tenía junto a él no era un padre envejecido, sino un muchacho, un muchacho muy parecido al que había sido él mismo, un muchacho que creció, tuvo un hijo y, lo mejor que pudo, obedeciendo a su sentido del deber y también quizás, por amor, adoptó un papel consistente en Ser Padre, a fin de que su hijo tuviera una figura mítica e infinitamente importante a su lado: la figura del Protector encargado de impedir que se destapara la caja que contenía todas las posibilidades de caos y desastre que la vida podía traer consigo. Y, ahora, ese muchacho, ese buen actor, se había hecho frágil, se había convertido en un ser cansado, mucho más cansado que nunca ante la perspectiva de tener que ponerse otra vez su armadura de Protector, cuando sus hombros ya no tenían fuerza para cargar con ella&lt;/span&gt;...".&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Tom Wolfe.  The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1987&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned Flanders". Brooklyn Bridge Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;Brooklyn. NYC.August  of 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-833096368946205215?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/833096368946205215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=833096368946205215' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/833096368946205215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/833096368946205215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/12/downtown-sky-line.html' title='DOWNTOWN SKY LINE'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Syu6TP_noqI/AAAAAAAAArg/sbVfCzLf-8k/s72-c/F1020021.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4732302045221729319</id><published>2009-12-05T00:40:00.009Z</published><updated>2009-12-05T01:03:58.309Z</updated><title type='text'>TWO YEARS OF LOVE</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SxmvmWg2ICI/AAAAAAAAArU/jgvPK-3J1GY/s1600-h/F1020023.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 466px; height: 312px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SxmvmWg2ICI/AAAAAAAAArU/jgvPK-3J1GY/s400/F1020023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411549500675596322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mucho ha llovido desde la última publicación. Y mucho ha sido lo que ha acontecido digno de ser mentado. A saber: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Los Bombarderos del Bronx&lt;/span&gt; han ganado sin despeinarse las Series Mundiales -y ya van 27-, a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Obama &lt;/span&gt;se le han colado en una fiesta y ya se ha encendido el alumbrado del árbol de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rockefeller Plaza.&lt;/span&gt; Pero por encima de todo, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Where is Nathan's? &lt;/span&gt;cumple dos años. Congrats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned Flanders". somewhere in 9th Avenue between 50th and 46th St. Manhattan. NYC. November of 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4732302045221729319?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4732302045221729319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4732302045221729319' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4732302045221729319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4732302045221729319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-years-of-love.html' title='TWO YEARS OF LOVE'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SxmvmWg2ICI/AAAAAAAAArU/jgvPK-3J1GY/s72-c/F1020023.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1303648889295863773</id><published>2009-10-23T09:01:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T17:23:00.004+01:00</updated><title type='text'>ILF AND PETROV</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;...On the fifth day of a journey across the Atlantic Ocean, we saw the gigantic buildings of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;. Before us was &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America.&lt;/span&gt; But when we had been in &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt; for a week and, as it seemed to us, we began to understand America, we were quite unexpectedly told that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt; is not at all &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America.&lt;/span&gt; They told us that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York &lt;/span&gt;is a bridge between &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Europe&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America&lt;/span&gt;, and that we were still situated on the bridge. Then we went to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Washington&lt;/span&gt;, being steadfastly convinced that the capital of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;United States &lt;/span&gt;is indisputably &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America.&lt;/span&gt; We spent a day there, and by evening we managed to fall in love with this purely American city. However, on that very same evening we were told that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Washington &lt;/span&gt;was under no circumstances &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America.&lt;/span&gt; They told us that this was a town of governmental bureaucrats and that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America &lt;/span&gt;was something quite different. ..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SuFl-lUudHI/AAAAAAAAAq8/ynpgQ1lHpa0/s1600-h/amerPhoto5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SuFl-lUudHI/AAAAAAAAAq8/ynpgQ1lHpa0/s400/amerPhoto5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395705954411902066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Perplexed, we traveled to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Hartford, &lt;/span&gt;a city in the state of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Connecticut&lt;/span&gt;, where the great American writer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mark Twain&lt;/span&gt; spent his mature years. Much to our horror, the local residents told us in unison that Hartford was also not genuine America. They said that the genuine America was the southern states, while others affirmed that it was the western ones. Several didn't say anything but vaguely pointed a finger into space. We then decided to work according to a plan: to drive around the entire country in an automobile, to traverse it from the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Atlantic Ocean&lt;/span&gt; to the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Pacific &lt;/span&gt;and to return along a different route, along the G&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ulf of Mexico&lt;/span&gt;, calculating that indeed somewhere we would be sure to find &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America.&lt;/span&gt; We returned to &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;, purchased a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ford&lt;/span&gt; (transportation in one's own automobile is the least expensive means of travel in the United States), insured it and ourselves, and on a chilly November morning we left&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; New York&lt;/span&gt; for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;America.&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Ilya&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ilf&lt;/span&gt; Arnoldovich Faynzilberg and Yevgeniy &lt;span&gt;Petrov&lt;/span&gt;ich Kataev , &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Little Golden America&lt;/span&gt;, 1937&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1303648889295863773?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1303648889295863773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1303648889295863773' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1303648889295863773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1303648889295863773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/10/ilf-and-petrov.html' title='ILF AND PETROV'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SuFl-lUudHI/AAAAAAAAAq8/ynpgQ1lHpa0/s72-c/amerPhoto5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2082312598827177096</id><published>2009-10-06T12:26:00.016+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T09:06:26.056+01:00</updated><title type='text'>JERKS ARE EVERYWHERE (II)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Hussein Obama&lt;/span&gt; no han parado de crecerle los enanos desde que es Presidente de los USA. Probablemente defraudará todas las expectativas que había creado en sus votantes, y el  tiempo  situará su listón en un lugar cercano al de  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Jimmy Carter &lt;/span&gt;o&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt; Grover Cleveland.&lt;/span&gt; A saber: Irán y Corea del Norte se lo toman a cachondeo, es el único presidente al que se han atrevido a interrumpir en pleno discurso en una sesión conjunta del Congreso, la reforma sanitaria ....ni mentarla,  y para colmo, su presencia en &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Copenhague &lt;/span&gt;respaldando la candidatura de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt;  para albergar los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016 surgió el efecto contrario.  Hasta aquí todo podría explicarse con un "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;es que no da para más". &lt;/span&gt;Cierto&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;Lo que no es de recibo es el cambio  experimentado en ciertos sectores republicanos ante la sonora eliminación de &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Chicago&lt;/span&gt; en la primera ronda de las votaciones.  Apenas hace  un año, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;George W. Bush &lt;/span&gt;se reunió con los representantes de la candidatura y manifestó que &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"I can't think of a better city to represent the United States than Chicago.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SsuvtKAJ_MI/AAAAAAAAAq0/fF-miVHLJOw/s1600-h/bush.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SsuvtKAJ_MI/AAAAAAAAAq0/fF-miVHLJOw/s400/bush.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389594569392913602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pesar de ello, el pasado viernes, tras conocerse la noticia, el ultra conservador &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Erick Erickson&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; publicó en su web el siguiente titular:&lt;b&gt; "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;World rejects Barack Obama. No  Chicago Olympics. Hahahaha!!!!".&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Y&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; mientras millones de Americanos se lamentaban de no poder albergar el acontecimiento, los pseudoperiodistas &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck y Lou Dobbs&lt;/span&gt; empezaban sus respectivos programas de radio y televisión  con sonoras carcajadas y comentarios del estilo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;"The ego was landed"  "Game over on Obamalympics. Next up, Obamacare"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;.. &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;¡¡¡¡Imbéciles... América ha perdido!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:78%;" &gt;&lt;strong&gt;IN THEIR DEMENTIAL, CONFUSED MINDS THEY PROBABLY DO NOT CONSIDER CHICAGO PART OF THE UNITED STATES&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2082312598827177096?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2082312598827177096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2082312598827177096' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2082312598827177096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2082312598827177096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/10/jerks-are-everywhere-ii.html' title='JERKS ARE EVERYWHERE (II)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SsuvtKAJ_MI/AAAAAAAAAq0/fF-miVHLJOw/s72-c/bush.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4046052815652877970</id><published>2009-10-01T12:43:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T16:12:58.995+01:00</updated><title type='text'>IT IS THE SOLDIER</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is the soldier, not the reporter,&lt;br /&gt;Who has given us freedom of the press.&lt;br /&gt;It is the soldier, not the poet,&lt;br /&gt;Who has given us freedom of speech.&lt;br /&gt;It is the soldier, not the campus  organizer,&lt;br /&gt;Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.&lt;br /&gt;It is the soldier, who salutes the flag,&lt;br /&gt;Who serves beneath the flag,...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And whose coffin is draped by the flag,&lt;br /&gt;Who allows the protester to burn the flag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;-- Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SsSb3vb-ICI/AAAAAAAAAqk/6cV5_ssGEeE/s1600-h/thanks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SsSb3vb-ICI/AAAAAAAAAqk/6cV5_ssGEeE/s400/thanks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387602436170850338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4046052815652877970?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4046052815652877970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4046052815652877970' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4046052815652877970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4046052815652877970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/10/misiones-de-paz.html' title='IT IS THE SOLDIER'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SsSb3vb-ICI/AAAAAAAAAqk/6cV5_ssGEeE/s72-c/thanks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8852991485004505864</id><published>2009-09-10T22:56:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T23:28:13.366+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WE SHALL NEVER FORGET THEM</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...Los resultados del último análisis de sangre vinieron poco&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; después de medianoche. Era demasiado tarde para que me dieran el alta del hospital, así que me quedé hasta la mañana siguiente... Luego me dejaron marchar. Salí a la calle y al sentir el aire fresco de la mañana me alegré tanto de estar vivo que me dieron ganas de gritar. En lo más alto, el cielo era del más puro e intenso azul. Si caminaba deprisa, podría llegar a la calle &lt;strong&gt;Carroll&lt;/strong&gt; antes de que &lt;strong&gt;Joyce&lt;/strong&gt; se fuera a trabajar. Nos sentaríamos en la cocina a tomar una taza de café, viendo a los niños corretear como ardillas a nuestro alrededor...Luego acompañaría a &lt;strong&gt;Joyce&lt;/strong&gt; al metro, y me despediría de ella con un beso y un abrazo...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sql4pxHrDKI/AAAAAAAAAqc/iXkloIza2fQ/s1600-h/IMGP0187.JPG"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 209px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379963888826256546" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sql4pxHrDKI/AAAAAAAAAqc/iXkloIza2fQ/s400/IMGP0187.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;...Eran las ocho de la mañana cuando puse el pie en la calle, las ocho de la mañana del 11 de septiembre de 2001; justo cuarenta y seis minutos antes de que el primer avión se estrellara contra la &lt;strong&gt;torre norte&lt;/strong&gt; del &lt;strong&gt;World Trade Center&lt;/strong&gt;. Sólo dos horas después, la humareda de tres mil cuerpos carbonizados se desplazaría hacia &lt;strong&gt;Brooklyn,&lt;/strong&gt; precipitándose sobre nosotros en nube blanca de cenizas y muerte. Pero de momento todavía eran las ocho de la mañana, y mientras caminaba por la avenida bajo aquel radiante cielo azul era feliz, amigos míos, el hombre más feliz que jamás haya existido sobre la tierra. "&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Paul Auster. &lt;em&gt;Brooklyn Follies&lt;/em&gt;. 2006&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned" Flanders. 11/09/2008. Vesey Street. Lower Manhattan. NYC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8852991485004505864?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8852991485004505864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8852991485004505864' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8852991485004505864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8852991485004505864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/09/los-resultados-del-ultimo-analisis-de.html' title='WE SHALL NEVER FORGET THEM'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sql4pxHrDKI/AAAAAAAAAqc/iXkloIza2fQ/s72-c/IMGP0187.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3352298016240198810</id><published>2009-09-05T07:03:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T07:26:31.964+01:00</updated><title type='text'>SUBWAY</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SqIDbJ1ZfqI/AAAAAAAAAqU/xdPFIPq3NGU/s1600-h/City_hall_station%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 206px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377864670065032866" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SqIDbJ1ZfqI/AAAAAAAAAqU/xdPFIPq3NGU/s400/City_hall_station%5B1%5D.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SqICuQy0iBI/AAAAAAAAAqM/U2XMR9Wqjh4/s1600-h/City_hall_station%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;...Fallow no tenía miedo físico de ir en el metro de Nueva York. Se imaginaba a sí mismo como un tipo curtido, y, por otro lado, jamás le había ocurrido nada desagradable yendo en metro. No, lo que temía -y lo suyo era auténtico pánico- era la suciedad, la miseria. Bajar las escaleras del metro de City Hall en compañía de toda esa gente oscura y mugrienta era como descender, voluntariamente, a una mazmorra sucísima y ruidosísima. Por todas partes había muros de enguarrado cemento y barrotes de hierro negro, celda tras celda, nivel tras nivel: en todas direcciones, un delirio encerrado entre barrotes. Fallow no comprendía que este país de vacas gordas, con sus obscenas montañas de riqueza y su todavía más obscena obsesión por la comodidad, hubiese sido incapaz de crear un metro tan tranquilo, ordenado, presentable y -en fin- decente como el de Londres. Pero tenía una respuesta: porque era un país infantil. Todo lo que estuviera bajo tierra, lejos de la vista, carecía de importancia...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;Tom Wolfe. La hoguera de las vanidades. 1987&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3352298016240198810?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3352298016240198810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3352298016240198810' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3352298016240198810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3352298016240198810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/09/fallow-no-tenia-miedo-fisico-de-ir-en.html' title='SUBWAY'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SqIDbJ1ZfqI/AAAAAAAAAqU/xdPFIPq3NGU/s72-c/City_hall_station%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1579807209006421087</id><published>2009-09-02T10:46:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-03T11:52:28.599+01:00</updated><title type='text'>DOCTORA HORRORIS CAUSA</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sp5CpvYexBI/AAAAAAAAAqE/ogmAC3A3Eos/s1600-h/p37bonafinipronta%5B1%5D.png"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376808289988166674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 285px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sp5CpvYexBI/AAAAAAAAAqE/ogmAC3A3Eos/s400/p37bonafinipronta%5B1%5D.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"...Por eso cuando pasó lo del atentado y yo estaba en Cuba visitando a mi hija, &lt;strong&gt;sentí alegría&lt;/strong&gt;. No voy a ser hipócrita, &lt;strong&gt;no me dolió para nada&lt;/strong&gt;. No me dolió para nada, porque siempre digo en mis discursos, decimos las madres, que nuestros hijos serán vengados el día que el pueblo, algún pueblo sea feliz. Y creo que en el momento del atentado, un atentado sin ninguna declaración de guerra, alguien que declaró la guerra sin portaaviones, sin aviones, sin misiles, sino con el cuerpo, y no es muy fácil declarar la guerra con el cuerpo, por eso fue inesperado, porque tanta tecnología no le sirvió a EE.UU. &lt;strong&gt;Yo sentí que había muchos pueblos en ese momento que eran felices y sentí que la sangre de tantos en ese momento era vengada....&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Y &lt;strong&gt;me puse contenta&lt;/strong&gt;, por qué no. A algunos les parecerá mal. Cada uno evaluará y pensará. Yo no voy a ser falsa. &lt;strong&gt;Brindé &lt;/strong&gt;por mis hijos, &lt;strong&gt;brindé por tantos muertos,&lt;/strong&gt; por todo lo que se me venía a la cabeza..."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;(Hebe de Bonafini - fundadora de la Asociación Madres de la Plaza de Mayo y distinguida por la prestigiosa Universidad de Bologna con un "laurea honoris causa"- hablando sobre los atentados del 11 de septiembre) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1579807209006421087?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1579807209006421087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1579807209006421087' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1579807209006421087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1579807209006421087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/09/doctora-horroris-causa.html' title='DOCTORA HORRORIS CAUSA'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sp5CpvYexBI/AAAAAAAAAqE/ogmAC3A3Eos/s72-c/p37bonafinipronta%5B1%5D.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5223336384255081786</id><published>2009-08-18T09:00:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-18T09:08:10.807+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Y Steinbeck... ¿Qué opina de esto?</title><content type='html'>Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks&lt;br /&gt;Goin' someplace there's no goin' back&lt;br /&gt;Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge&lt;br /&gt;Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge&lt;br /&gt;Shelter line stretchin' round the corner&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to the new world order&lt;br /&gt;Families sleepin' in their cars in the southwest&lt;br /&gt;No home no job no peace no rest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The highway is alive tonight&lt;br /&gt;But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes&lt;br /&gt;I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light&lt;br /&gt;Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sp-oDAxx8So&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sp-oDAxx8So&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag&lt;br /&gt;Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag&lt;br /&gt;Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last&lt;br /&gt;In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass&lt;br /&gt;Got a one-way ticket to the promised land&lt;br /&gt;You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand&lt;br /&gt;Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock&lt;br /&gt;Bathin' in the city aqueduct&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy&lt;br /&gt;Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries&lt;br /&gt;Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air&lt;br /&gt;Look for me Mom I'll be there&lt;br /&gt;Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand&lt;br /&gt;Or decent job or a helpin' hand&lt;br /&gt;Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free&lt;br /&gt;Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5223336384255081786?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5223336384255081786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5223336384255081786' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5223336384255081786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5223336384255081786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/08/y-steinbeck-que-opina-de-esto.html' title='Y Steinbeck... ¿Qué opina de esto?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7691335735483503630</id><published>2009-08-12T08:27:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-12T08:37:36.344+01:00</updated><title type='text'>MRS CLINTON : YOU'RE NOT JACK KENNEDY!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/piZpcRccx8Y&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/piZpcRccx8Y&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tarde o temprano tenía que pasar. Es la demostración palpable del principio de Peter. Si hombre, aquello de que &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;A la señora le preguntan por la opinión del ex presidente Clinton en un tema concreto -no de su marido- y pasa lo que pasa... ¿Y ésta quería ser Presidenta?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7691335735483503630?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7691335735483503630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7691335735483503630' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7691335735483503630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7691335735483503630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/08/mrs-clinton-youre-not-jack-kennedy.html' title='MRS CLINTON : YOU&apos;RE NOT JACK KENNEDY!!!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5936210543349112815</id><published>2009-08-04T10:02:00.012+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T22:19:18.524+01:00</updated><title type='text'>REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG... You shone like the sun...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Viendo el papelón de &lt;strong&gt;Lance Armstrong&lt;/strong&gt; en el último &lt;strong&gt;Tour de France&lt;/strong&gt; viene a mi memoria un viejo conocido de este b.log. Alguien que, al igual que el tejano, alcanzó las cotas más altas de popularidad en su especialidad, pero que impulsado por no se qué extraño motivo, se resiste a aceptar que su tiempo ha pasado. El año que viene, &lt;strong&gt;Armstrong &lt;/strong&gt;volverá a correr &lt;strong&gt;Le Tour&lt;/strong&gt;. Y quedará segundo. Por su parte, &lt;strong&gt;Takeru Kobayashi&lt;/strong&gt; volverá al &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; dónde será batido, castigado y humillado sin piedad por &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joey Chestnut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, como este año, y el año pasado, y el otro...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DV0FQAwl3m4&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DV0FQAwl3m4&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Este cuatro de julio, &lt;strong&gt;Joey Chestnut&lt;/strong&gt; hizo saltar la banca al conseguir un nuevo récord mundial. 68 &lt;strong&gt;hot dogs&lt;/strong&gt; en diez minutos, nueve más que en 2008, convirtiéndose en la segunda persona que gana tres títulos consecutivos. &lt;strong&gt;Kobayashi &lt;/strong&gt;deglutió 64.5 &lt;strong&gt;hot dogs&lt;/strong&gt;, su mejor marca de siempre, pero nada pudo hacer ante el que está llamado a conservar durante muchos años el &lt;strong&gt;Yellow Mustard Belt&lt;/strong&gt;. Queda por resolver lo más terrible. Si la confluencia de &lt;strong&gt;Surf Av.&lt;/strong&gt; y &lt;strong&gt;Stillwell Av.&lt;/strong&gt; podrá acoger el concurso del año que viene. Todo apunta a que &lt;strong&gt;Coney Island&lt;/strong&gt;, y con ella el &lt;strong&gt;Astroland,&lt;/strong&gt; el &lt;strong&gt;Cyclone -&lt;/strong&gt;donde creció &lt;strong&gt;Alvy Singer-&lt;/strong&gt; , y &lt;strong&gt;Nathan's, &lt;/strong&gt;tienen los días contados. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Where have you gone, Feltman?? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SnikYmD6fgI/AAAAAAAAAp8/aT1yU_1gV2U/s1600-h/IMGP0213.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366219698452725250" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SnikYmD6fgI/AAAAAAAAAp8/aT1yU_1gV2U/s400/IMGP0213.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5936210543349112815?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5936210543349112815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5936210543349112815' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5936210543349112815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5936210543349112815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/08/remember-when-you-were-young-you-shone.html' title='REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG... You shone like the sun...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SnikYmD6fgI/AAAAAAAAAp8/aT1yU_1gV2U/s72-c/IMGP0213.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3724701965543888983</id><published>2009-07-04T02:22:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T02:41:06.525+01:00</updated><title type='text'>CUMPLEAÑOS FELIZ</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="381"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x22ffk_simon-garfunkel-america_music&amp;amp;related=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x22ffk_simon-garfunkel-america_music&amp;related=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="381" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike&lt;br /&gt;They've all gone to look for America ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Flanders is back to town&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3724701965543888983?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3724701965543888983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3724701965543888983' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3724701965543888983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3724701965543888983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/07/cumpleanos-feliz.html' title='CUMPLEAÑOS FELIZ'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6100065401806390133</id><published>2009-05-10T16:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T12:10:27.165+01:00</updated><title type='text'>K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-KOUFAX!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Mal que nos pese a algunos, mucho antes de que los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yankees&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; dieran señales de vida, los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brooklyn Dodgers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; eran el equipo con más solera de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;New York City&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Por eso, cuando en 1957 su propietario decidió trasladar el equipo a &lt;strong&gt;L.A&lt;/strong&gt;. para convertirse en &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Los Ángeles Dodgers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; una parte de la historia de la ciudad desapareció para siempre. Adiós a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ebbets Field&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, donde &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jackie Robinson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, años atrás, se convirtió en el primer jugador negro en debutar en las &lt;strong&gt;Grandes Ligas&lt;/strong&gt;. Adiós a los irrepetibles duelos contra los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Giants&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y adiós a uno de los mejores lanzadores zurdos de todos los tiempos, &lt;strong&gt;Sanford &lt;em&gt;"Sandy"&lt;/em&gt; Koufax&lt;/strong&gt; (30/12/1935, Brooklyn, NY). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sgb9XHTxTkI/AAAAAAAAAp0/zY1Q0cn7GiQ/s1600-h/Koufax-734194%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334229382207721026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 314px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sgb9XHTxTkI/AAAAAAAAAp0/zY1Q0cn7GiQ/s400/Koufax-734194%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Con él &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dodgers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ganaron 3 &lt;strong&gt;S&lt;em&gt;eries Mundiales&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y vivieron su mejor época. Pero si por algo será recordado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Koufax,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de origen judío, es por negarse a lanzar en el primer partido de las &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Series Mundiales de 1965 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;porque ese día coincidía con el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yom Kipur.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Aquello le convirtió en un icono para la comunidad judía de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Los Ángeles&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, aunque también le acarreó más de algún comentario poco halagador e incluso desagradable de la prensa de la época. Al día siguiente perdió todos los juegos en que intervino, y su equipo fue derrotado, pero su intervención en los siguientes partidos de la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Serie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; hizo que los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dodgers &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;se alzaran con el título, siendo nombrado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Most Valuable Player&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. La misma prensa que lo vilipendió, llegó a decir que intentar batear cuando él lanzaba era tan difícil como beberse un café con un tenedor. Modesto y tímido, nunca tuvo miedo de ser diferente, retirándose muy joven -31 años- cuando vió que su brazo izquierdo ya no daba para más y arrebatando a &lt;strong&gt;Lou Gehrig&lt;/strong&gt; el honor de ser el jugador más joven en ingresar en el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baseball Hall Of Fame.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Para escribir su biografía, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jeane Levy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; habló con 469 personas, y ni una sola de ellas pudo decir una mala palabra sobre él. Lo que se perdió &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;New York...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;"Pitching is the art of instilling fear. Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser." &lt;strong&gt;Sandy Koufax.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;K-K-K-Katy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fue una canción que se hizo popular durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. En baseball, la letra &lt;strong&gt;K &lt;/strong&gt;significa "&lt;strong&gt;strikeout".&lt;/strong&gt; En las Series Mundiales de 1963 &lt;strong&gt;Koufax &lt;/strong&gt;consiguió un increíble record de 15 &lt;strong&gt;"strikeouts",&lt;/strong&gt; lo que motivó que un periódico deportivo de la época encabezara la crónica del partido con el titular &lt;strong&gt;'K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-KOUFAX!'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6100065401806390133?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6100065401806390133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6100065401806390133' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6100065401806390133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6100065401806390133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/05/k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-koufax.html' title='K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-KOUFAX!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sgb9XHTxTkI/AAAAAAAAAp0/zY1Q0cn7GiQ/s72-c/Koufax-734194%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-736486160499358340</id><published>2009-05-03T23:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T23:44:56.993+01:00</updated><title type='text'>DOES ANYBODY HERE REMEMBER JEFFERSON???  Memorable quotes III</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sf4bBAIyKyI/AAAAAAAAAps/YjnF7yH1IEE/s1600-h/SymbolsJeffersonMemorial1%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331728712883907362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 251px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sf4bBAIyKyI/AAAAAAAAAps/YjnF7yH1IEE/s400/SymbolsJeffersonMemorial1%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lisa Simpson&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Mr. Jefferson, my name is Lisa Simpson, and I have a problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Jefferson&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; I know your problem. The &lt;strong&gt;Lincoln Memorial&lt;/strong&gt; was too crowded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Lisa Simpson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: Sorry, sir. It's just...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Jefferson&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; No one ever comes to see me. I don't blame them. I never did anything important. Just the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the dumbwaiter...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lisa Simpson&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Uh, maybe I should be going. I've caught you at a bad time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jefferson&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; Wait! Please don't go. I get so lonely...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;From &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington",&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the second episode of The Simpson's third season which aired on September 26, 1991. Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of independence (1776), and one of the most influential founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-736486160499358340?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/736486160499358340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=736486160499358340' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/736486160499358340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/736486160499358340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/05/does-anyboy-here-remember-jefferson.html' title='DOES ANYBODY HERE REMEMBER JEFFERSON???  Memorable quotes III'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sf4bBAIyKyI/AAAAAAAAAps/YjnF7yH1IEE/s72-c/SymbolsJeffersonMemorial1%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5529231622783861793</id><published>2009-04-25T00:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T13:05:07.788+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A TALE OF TWO NATIONS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Es indiscutible la existencia de dos comunidades claramente diferenciadas en New York. Siempre ha sido así y nada indica que vaya a cambiar. La ciudad retratada en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Midnight Cowboy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fort Apache the Bronx&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; o &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Escape from New York&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; nada tiene que ver con la &lt;em&gt;openning scene&lt;/em&gt; de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Manhattan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y su &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rhapsody in Blue&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de fondo. Basta con leer &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Bonfire of the Vanities&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; para ver la diferencia entre el mundo de los sueños ilimitados del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Park Avenue&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sherman McCoy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y el de la degradación y conflicto social de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Harlem&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bronx.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SfJfjr6J4SI/AAAAAAAAApk/ZsoLZBP1kvM/s1600-h/bronx%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328426375819419938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 340px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 307px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SfJfjr6J4SI/AAAAAAAAApk/ZsoLZBP1kvM/s400/bronx%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; El censo de 2005 indica que en el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Upper East Side&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, entre las calles 59 y 96 , existen 132.000 personas de entre una población de 217.000 que poseen titulación universitaria. A pocos minutos de allí, en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hunts Point, Bronx&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, sólamente 1.405 personas de entre 46.800 ostentan titulación en educación superior. Los datos de mortalidad infantil por cada 100 nacimientos ofrecen un dato revelador: 1'5 en el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Upper East Side&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y 6'2 en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hunts Point...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Ricos y pobres, separados unos de otros como si &lt;strong&gt;Robert Moses&lt;/strong&gt; hubiera ordenado levantar su particular e invisible muro de Berlín de piedra cemento y alambre de espino a lo largo de la calle 96. It's been a long long time since my last post. Sorry, I was feeding the cat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5529231622783861793?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5529231622783861793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5529231622783861793' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5529231622783861793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5529231622783861793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/04/tale-of-two-nations.html' title='A TALE OF TWO NATIONS'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SfJfjr6J4SI/AAAAAAAAApk/ZsoLZBP1kvM/s72-c/bronx%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6549692586642575019</id><published>2009-04-05T21:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T11:47:43.312+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Just three weeks...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Sólamente quedan tres semanas. En 21 días, more or less, con permiso de la autoridad y si el tiempo no lo impide, there will be el primero de una larga lista de another cool, cool, afternoons at The Hill, by the lake, in Central Park, NYC. &lt;strong&gt;I'am one of the many New Yorkers&lt;/strong&gt; who have enjoyed sitting on a hillside in Central Park on a Saturday in the summer listening to David Ippolito, &lt;strong&gt;"That Guitar Man''&lt;/strong&gt;. I have brought my friends who visit the city to listen to him because &lt;strong&gt;he represents more than anything else what this great city has to offer&lt;/strong&gt;, and he dispels the myth that everything costs too much in the city. .. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Long distance, long time, long past due. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Through the years I've wondered if I'd ever hear from you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;But, the phone rings and here you are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;I haven't felt like this in fifteen years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;How are you? Where are you calling from tonight?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;When this moment came somehow I always knew I'd be alright.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;And 'though I'm trembling, I'm relieved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Still, I can't believe that it's been fifteen years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;It's hard to know what I'm feeling as I'm listening to your voice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Harder, still, knowing what to say.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;'Cause it's hard to admit that ever since you made your choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;I've been seeing you in daydreams every single day.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fVL-cIyiygQ&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fVL-cIyiygQ&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;How many? Four children? Mother and a wife.&lt;br /&gt;Me? No, I've stayed single through a rollercoaster life.&lt;br /&gt;So far, there's only been one woman that I'd ask&lt;br /&gt;In fifteen years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure, I've known a few dark hours since the day you had to go&lt;br /&gt;It took time for me to understand&lt;br /&gt;That a love like ours is something so few ever get to know,&lt;br /&gt;And in learning how to let it be maybe I'm a better man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't hang up yet. It's too soon. You have to go.&lt;br /&gt;But, before you do there's one more thing I think you need to know.&lt;br /&gt;The best part of me is in love with you.&lt;br /&gt;It's nothing that we'd ever have to fear.&lt;br /&gt;'Cause, long ago it seemed I'd never have you near.&lt;br /&gt;So, &lt;strong&gt;smile for me, and please don't disappear&lt;br /&gt;For another fifteen years&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6549692586642575019?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6549692586642575019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6549692586642575019' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6549692586642575019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6549692586642575019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/04/just-three-weeks.html' title='Just three weeks...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1358007829447321891</id><published>2009-03-11T08:43:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-11T11:12:46.157Z</updated><title type='text'>MEMORABLE QUOTES (II)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"And since I'd achieved all my goals as President in one term...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sbd7h4tmKeI/AAAAAAAAApU/g-FaBMVprBA/s1600-h/GHWBushSign%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311850107596319202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sbd7h4tmKeI/AAAAAAAAApU/g-FaBMVprBA/s400/GHWBushSign%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;There was no need for a second. The End."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;George H.W. Bush Unofficial Memories&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-From the 13th episode of The Simpson's seventh season "Two Bad Neighbors".-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) served as the 41st President of the United States of America from 1989 to 1993.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1358007829447321891?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1358007829447321891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1358007829447321891' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1358007829447321891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1358007829447321891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/03/memorable-quotes-ii.html' title='MEMORABLE QUOTES (II)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/Sbd7h4tmKeI/AAAAAAAAApU/g-FaBMVprBA/s72-c/GHWBushSign%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5726271675256332948</id><published>2009-03-05T11:59:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-03-11T11:22:39.091Z</updated><title type='text'>SEÑOR WENCES WAY. S'Okay? S'Awright!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Recientemente, el alcalde &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bloomberg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ha decidido que durante un mes, un tramo de la calle 53 Oeste lleve el nombre del grupo irlandés &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;U2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Eso no es nada. A pocos metros de allí, y desde hace años, la esquina de la Calle 54 con &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broadway &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;lleva el nombre de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Señor Wences Way&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Señor Wences&lt;/em&gt; (1896-1999)&lt;/strong&gt; a parte de estar considerado el más brillante ventríluoco de todos los tiempos es uno de los cómicos más queridos en Estados Unidos. Creó a dos personajes inolvidables. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Johnny&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; -que en realidad era su propia mano a la que había pintado unos labios y pegado unos ojos- y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pedro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, una cabeza malhumorada que vivía dentro de una caja de madera y madre de la expresión &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"s'awright!!".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Fueron incontables sus apariciones en el programa más famoso de la historia de la televisión americana, el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Ed Sullivan Show&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" de la CBS, actuó para varios Presidentes, trabajó para &lt;strong&gt;Walt Disney&lt;/strong&gt; y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jim Henson &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;y compartió cartel con &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frank Sinatra, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dean Martin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jerry Lewis.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJiYZ6QIAtY&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AJiYZ6QIAtY&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Su legado de gags es de tal dimensión que pueden encontrarse referencias a ellos en varios episodios de los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Simpson, Family Guy, South Park , Scooby Doo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y en películas como &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aladdin&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;y&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;American Sweethearts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Y ahora viene lo bueno. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wenceslao Moreno Centeno&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;nació en Peñaranda de Bracamonte (Salamanca) y de muy joven emigró a América, donde en 1999 murió a los 103 años en su casa de Nueva York. Aquel año, en la ceremonia de los Oscar, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Billy Cristal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pronunció su célebre "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S'Okay? S'Awright!"&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; Ningún otro &lt;em&gt;spaniard&lt;/em&gt; ha vuelto a alcanzar su popularidad en Estados Unidos. Ni la Pe, ni Almodóvar, ni la familia Bardem al completo incluída la madre, ni todos ellos juntos. Ni nadie. Antes de morir, la ciudad de Salamanca le dedicó un cutre homenaje ante la mirada de los vecinos que no dejaban de murmurar: "&lt;strong&gt;Pero ése, ¿quién es?" . &lt;/strong&gt;Apaga y vámonos. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;S'awright!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SbBay3HwzFI/AAAAAAAAApE/WjQpPiiFia0/s1600-h/2130145832_7f8cccc1aa%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309843790506282066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SbBay3HwzFI/AAAAAAAAApE/WjQpPiiFia0/s400/2130145832_7f8cccc1aa%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5726271675256332948?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5726271675256332948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5726271675256332948' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5726271675256332948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5726271675256332948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/03/recientemente-el-alcalde-bloomberg-ha.html' title='SEÑOR WENCES WAY. S&apos;Okay? S&apos;Awright!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SbBay3HwzFI/AAAAAAAAApE/WjQpPiiFia0/s72-c/2130145832_7f8cccc1aa%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7084994847338779535</id><published>2009-02-28T17:33:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-28T17:47:03.249Z</updated><title type='text'>EL ESLABON PERDIDO</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neil Young&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; es uno de los pocos artistas íntegros y honestos que conozco. Pero de los de verdad. Empezó siendo un cantante folk, y con eso hubiera tenido más que suficiente para ganarse un lugar en la historia. Más tarde, la guitarra eléctrica y la apisonadora &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crazy Horse&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; le llevaron hasta donde nadie jamás llegará. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Young&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; no es guapo, viste como un leñador, carece de glamour y sólamente un par de sus temas ha llegado al número uno de las listas. Es multimillonario y vive alejado de cualquier tipo de lujo. Podría decirse que &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Neil Young&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; es a la música moderna americana lo que &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marlon Brando&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; al cine. A pesar de sus escasos registros musicales, sus melodías simples y sus limitados movimientos en el escenario -seguramente la &lt;em&gt;polio&lt;/em&gt; que sufrió de pequeño tiene mucho que ver en ello- está un escalón por encima del resto de sus contemporáneos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Es imposible destacar un solo tema de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Young&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, así que casi al azar, he escogido &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Powderfinger (1979) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;una historia del Lejano Oeste en la que un hombre joven, solo, e inexperto, debe enfrentarse a unos tipos que vienen por él. A lo largo de la canción , &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Young &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;desliza detalles e imágenes que hacen trabajar a marchas forzadas la imaginación del que la escucha. Suena a praderas, a cabañas, a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;rednecks, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dakota del Norte&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, o a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wyoming,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; yo qué se...Termina con el protagonista hablando sobre él mismo después de muerto. En el fondo no es más que una alegoría sobre aquellos jóvenes que se fueron de este mundo antes de tiempo. Una canción conmovedora que se puede tocar con cuatro acordes. Y ahí -in &lt;em&gt;my opinion-&lt;/em&gt; radica su grandeza. La del artista más respetado por un servidor, la del que nunca ha recogido ninguno de los premios que le han concedido, la del que nunca se ha fotografiado junto a un político, y que ha hecho más por los indios de Norteamérica que cualquier administración en los últimos 20 años.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Look out, Mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;With a big red beacon, and a flag, and a man on the rail &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;I think you'd better call John,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;'Cause it don't look like they're here to deliver the mail &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;And it's less than a mile away I hope they didn't come to stay &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;It's got numbers on the side and a gun And it's makin' big waves. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy-Lou &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;So the powers that be left me here to do the thinkin' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;And I just turned twenty-two I was wonderin' what to do &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;And the closer they got, The more those feelings grew&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;object height="295" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e5Yviw0MkCI&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e5Yviw0MkCI&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Daddy's rifle in my hand felt reassurin' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;He told me, Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Raised my rifle to my eye Never stopped to wonder why. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Then I saw black, And my face splashed in the sky. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Shelter me from the powder and the finger &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Think of me as one you'd never figured &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Was gonna fade away so young With so much left undone &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Remember me to my love, I know I'll miss her&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img 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PERDIDO'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-132720216256352285</id><published>2009-02-27T12:38:00.009Z</published><updated>2010-09-10T23:04:07.222+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/TIqqc3rTtgI/AAAAAAAAAtk/sG-S1LWtr_A/s1600/IMGP0184.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 226px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/TIqqc3rTtgI/AAAAAAAAAtk/sG-S1LWtr_A/s400/IMGP0184.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515408106627249666" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-132720216256352285?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/132720216256352285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=132720216256352285' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/132720216256352285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/132720216256352285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/TIqqc3rTtgI/AAAAAAAAAtk/sG-S1LWtr_A/s72-c/IMGP0184.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5771956495716473471</id><published>2009-02-21T16:58:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-02-21T17:09:30.440Z</updated><title type='text'>MEMORABLE QUOTES (I)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A depression is when you lose yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SaAzVUC8acI/AAAAAAAAAos/QwxFzyKqQFY/s1600-h/News2_3%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305296802293770690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 253px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SaAzVUC8acI/AAAAAAAAAos/QwxFzyKqQFY/s400/News2_3%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt; (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5771956495716473471?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5771956495716473471/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5771956495716473471' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5771956495716473471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5771956495716473471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/02/memorable-quotes-i.html' title='MEMORABLE QUOTES (I)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SaAzVUC8acI/AAAAAAAAAos/QwxFzyKqQFY/s72-c/News2_3%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5886200083181517509</id><published>2009-02-11T23:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-12T00:21:38.761Z</updated><title type='text'>FACEBOOK</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;When you explain to the world what you're doing every single hour of your life you became a world hero, coz that's very &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;useful and necessary&lt;/strong&gt; for the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;humanity&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;So... go on please, and tell me...I think your private life is fascinating, and I won't feel complete 'til I know what you did last night!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Flanders: Tomorrow's going to be another working day, and I'm trying to get some rest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5886200083181517509?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5886200083181517509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5886200083181517509' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5886200083181517509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5886200083181517509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/02/facebook.html' title='FACEBOOK'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7266385886531354237</id><published>2009-02-03T09:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-06T00:11:42.953Z</updated><title type='text'>Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And the three men I admire most, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost&lt;br /&gt;They caught their last train for the coast &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The day the music died...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SYgTyDfvpwI/AAAAAAAAAoE/_GbQMznbr3U/s1600-h/WDP%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298506712254228226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 301px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SYgTyDfvpwI/AAAAAAAAAoE/_GbQMznbr3U/s400/WDP%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bye-bye, miss american pie.&lt;br /&gt;Drove my chevy to the levee,&lt;br /&gt;But the levee was dry.&lt;br /&gt;Them good old boys were drinkin whiskey and rye&lt;br /&gt;Singin, this´ll be the day that I die.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;On February 3, 1959, a small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, United States, killed three popular American rock and roll musicians: &lt;strong&gt;Buddy Holly&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Ritchie Valens&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;The Big Booper&lt;/strong&gt; as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson. The day was later called &lt;strong&gt;The Day the Music Died&lt;/strong&gt; by Don McLean in his 1971 tribute song about the crash, &lt;strong&gt;“American Pie&lt;/strong&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;Nota de Flanders: Don McLean no volvió a hacer una canción como "American Pie" en su puñetera vida.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7266385886531354237?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7266385886531354237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7266385886531354237' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7266385886531354237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7266385886531354237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/02/fifty-years-ago.html' title='Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SYgTyDfvpwI/AAAAAAAAAoE/_GbQMznbr3U/s72-c/WDP%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2906700351805878244</id><published>2009-01-29T23:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-01T01:18:20.579Z</updated><title type='text'>OLD FRIENDS</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Y seguimos hacia aquel triste y repugnante concierto al que no me apetecía nada ir y todo el tiempo estuve pensando en &lt;strong&gt;Dean&lt;/strong&gt; y en cómo se subiría al tren y recorrería una vez más cinco mil kilómetros sobre este terrible país y nunca llegué a saber por qué se habría presentado en &lt;strong&gt;New York&lt;/strong&gt;, excepto para verme...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SYTuXWBkRJI/AAAAAAAAAn8/Sub9k8zp9Ro/s1600-h/BoesOnTheRoad%5B1%5D.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297621146511099026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 303px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SYTuXWBkRJI/AAAAAAAAAn8/Sub9k8zp9Ro/s400/BoesOnTheRoad%5B1%5D.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Así, en esta &lt;strong&gt;América,&lt;/strong&gt; cuando se pone el sol y me siento en el viejo y destrozado malecón contemplando los vastos, vastísimos cielos de &lt;strong&gt;New Jersey&lt;/strong&gt; y se mete en mi interior toda esa tierra descarnada que se recoge en una enorme ola precipitándose sobre la &lt;strong&gt;Costa Oeste&lt;/strong&gt; y sé que en &lt;strong&gt;Iowa &lt;/strong&gt;deben estar llorando los niños en la tierra donde no se les deja llorar, y la estrella de la tarde dedica sus mejores destellos a la pradera justo antes de que sea totalmente de noche, y nadie sabe lo que le va a pasar a nadie excepto que todos seguirán desamparados y haciéndose viejos, pienso en &lt;strong&gt;Dean Moriarty&lt;/strong&gt;,...si, pienso en &lt;strong&gt;Dean Moriarty&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;-Jack Kerouack, &lt;em&gt;On The Road&lt;/em&gt;-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2906700351805878244?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2906700351805878244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2906700351805878244' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2906700351805878244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2906700351805878244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/01/old-friends.html' title='OLD FRIENDS'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SYTuXWBkRJI/AAAAAAAAAn8/Sub9k8zp9Ro/s72-c/BoesOnTheRoad%5B1%5D.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1269315535571805737</id><published>2009-01-22T09:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-01-24T22:05:04.252Z</updated><title type='text'>Say it ain't so, Joe please!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="353" height="132"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.goear.com/files/external.swf?file=534a2b3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" quality="high" width="353" height="132"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Y ahora que todo va a irnos muchísimo mejor, let me talk you about "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shoeless Joe" Jackson, (1888-1951) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;uno de los mejores bateadores que jamás hayan existido. Lo tenía todo para haberse hecho un lugar en la gloria junto a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Babe Ruth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;DiMaggio&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Aún hoy, su promedio de &lt;em&gt;hits&lt;/em&gt; es el tercero más alto de la historia y los 408 obtenidos en 1911 son la sexta mejor marca del siglo XX. En 1999 fue escogido en el número 35 de entre los 100 mejores jugadores de todos los tiempos y...sin embargo será recordado por ostentar el dudoso título de haber sido declarado inelegible a perpetuidad, junto a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pete Rose&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, para ingresar en el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Baseball Hall Of Fame&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SXjmvSN8_SI/AAAAAAAAAmo/jG_QdYL03tM/s1600-h/jacksonjosephbio%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294235061992619298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 296px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 283px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SXjmvSN8_SI/AAAAAAAAAmo/jG_QdYL03tM/s400/jacksonjosephbio%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Y todo porque en las &lt;strong&gt;Series Mundiales&lt;/strong&gt; de 1919, junto a siete jugadores de los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chicago White Sox, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;se vió implicado en uno de los mayores escándalos deportivos que se recuerdan, al ser acusado de cooperar en la derrota de su equipo frente a los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cincinnati Reds&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; "Shoeless Joe"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fue absuelto de los cargos criminales que pesaban sobre él, y a pesar de que siempre se declaró inocente del amaño fue expulsado de por vida del deporte profesional. Sus últimas palabras antes de morir fueron : "&lt;em&gt;Estoy a punto de enfrentarme al más grande de los árbitros, y Él sabe que soy inocente"&lt;/em&gt;. En noviembre de 1999, y conscientes de la injusticia que se había cometido, la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos aprobó una simbólica moción a favor de su ingreso en el Salón de la Fama. Fue entonces cuando el máximo responsable de las Ligas Mayores de Baseball anunció que su caso sería revisado, pero a fecha de hoy no consta que se haya hecho nada al respecto. &lt;strong&gt;Jackson&lt;/strong&gt; es además el protagonista de una de las frases más célebres de la cultura deportiva americana -que entre muchas otras cosas inspiró una desgarradora canción de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Murray Head&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;-. Cuentan que mientras estaba declarando, un niño sentado en la primera fila del juzgado se echó a llorar diciendo “&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t so&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!”.&lt;/span&gt; Como no podía ser de otra manera, un atento periodista recogió el momento y toda la nación se conmovió con tan entrañable historia. La de un chaval decepcionado por su héroe. Dicen que en un lugar de la vieja y decadente Europa las palabras &lt;strong&gt;"¡¡Rafa,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;n&lt;em&gt;o me jodas!!",&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pronunciadas por un tal &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mejuto González&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; provocaron un efecto similar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1269315535571805737?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1269315535571805737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1269315535571805737' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1269315535571805737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1269315535571805737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/01/say-it-aint-so-joe.html' title='Say it ain&apos;t so, Joe please!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SXjmvSN8_SI/AAAAAAAAAmo/jG_QdYL03tM/s72-c/jacksonjosephbio%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3809459401800044050</id><published>2009-01-20T13:11:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-01-23T10:01:12.251Z</updated><title type='text'>WELCOME BARACK HUSSEIN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;No entiendo -dada la auténtica obsesión antiamericana que se vive en ciertas partes del planeta- la ilusión que ha desatado la proclamación de nuestro 44 presidente en países como por ejemplo... &lt;em&gt;Spain.&lt;/em&gt; ¿Será porque es negro? ¿Será porque acabará con su crisis? O, ¿tal vez porque invitará a desayunar café con leche y &lt;em&gt;croissants&lt;/em&gt; a su presidente?. No lo entiendo. ¿Este es el &lt;em&gt;bueno&lt;/em&gt; y el otro era el &lt;em&gt;malo&lt;/em&gt;? ¿Acaso antes eran todos tan feos? Parece que para algunos no pasa el tiempo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5X7srWjn-z4&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Americanos, vienen a España gordos y sanos,&lt;br /&gt;viva el tronío de ese gran pueblo con poderío,&lt;br /&gt;olé Virginia, y Michigán, y viva Texas, que no está mal.&lt;br /&gt;Os recibimos americanos con alegría,&lt;br /&gt;Olé mi madre, olé mi suegra y olé mi tía.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3809459401800044050?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3809459401800044050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3809459401800044050' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3809459401800044050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3809459401800044050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2009/01/welcome-barack-hussein.html' title='WELCOME BARACK HUSSEIN'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4487381043115489994</id><published>2008-12-31T21:07:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-01-01T22:49:24.173Z</updated><title type='text'>Just a thought for the new year</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SV1HL6eZsLI/AAAAAAAAAl0/BVeyCI_d8UU/s1600-h/F1030014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286459807603732658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SV1HL6eZsLI/AAAAAAAAAl0/BVeyCI_d8UU/s400/F1030014.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo:Nedward "Ned" Flanders. November 2007.Strawberry Fields at Central Park. Manhattan. NYC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="246" width="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/H7_6Vzj7Rng&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/H7_6Vzj7Rng&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="246"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4487381043115489994?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4487381043115489994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4487381043115489994' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4487381043115489994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4487381043115489994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/just-thought-for-new-year.html' title='Just a thought for the new year'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SV1HL6eZsLI/AAAAAAAAAl0/BVeyCI_d8UU/s72-c/F1030014.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-9191039357925554397</id><published>2008-12-31T09:17:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-12-31T22:55:57.939Z</updated><title type='text'>JERKS ARE EVERYWHERE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Como -salvo raras excepciones- no me creo absolutamente nada de lo que publica la prensa en según qué asuntos, déjenme que les cuente algo que recuerda bastante a lo que está pasando estos días.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SVtPihSvmOI/AAAAAAAAAls/XWqMbsIBYho/s1600-h/IMGP0186.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285906042120542434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 372px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SVtPihSvmOI/AAAAAAAAAls/XWqMbsIBYho/s400/IMGP0186.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned Flanders". Jerks at Vesey Street. 9/11 2008. Manhattan. NYC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;El pasado 11 de septiembre, Flanders se hallaba en el apartamento 4C del número 250 Oeste de la Calle 47. Al encender la TV cayó en la cuenta de que aquél era un día especial en &lt;strong&gt;Gotham&lt;/strong&gt;. Así que después de desayunar cogió la línea C del metro en la Calle 50 y se bajó en la parada de &lt;strong&gt;Chambers Street&lt;/strong&gt;, a pocos metros de lo que queda del &lt;strong&gt;World Trade Center. &lt;/strong&gt;En &lt;strong&gt;Vesey Street&lt;/strong&gt; a un lado de la acera, medio centenar de gilipollas -estudiantes de la &lt;strong&gt;NYU&lt;/strong&gt; y algún que otro profesor cincuentón ex-hippie-, todos ellos miembros de una cosa llamada &lt;strong&gt;9/11 Truth,&lt;/strong&gt; exhibían pancartas y camisetas en contra de su gobierno, al que culpaban de los atentados. A su vez, por el medio de la calzada desfilaban en silencio y con sus mejores galas miembros del &lt;strong&gt;FDNY&lt;/strong&gt;, del &lt;strong&gt;NYPD&lt;/strong&gt; y familiares de los fallecidos, que regresaban del homenaje en &lt;strong&gt;Ground Zero&lt;/strong&gt; y se dirigían a &lt;strong&gt;Trinity Church&lt;/strong&gt;. Unos cincuenta policías se habían colocado enfrente de los imbéciles, que seguían exigiendo desenmascarar a los verdaderos culpables . El bueno de Flanders no llegó a ver la mirada de los agentes , pero está convencido de  que más de uno sintió ganas de llorar al ver en qué se había convertido aquel día de luto. ¿Por qué no les dan dos ostias ?-pensó- . Pues ni media. Ya se sabe: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Courtesy, Professionalism and  Respect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Sirva lo anterior para poner de relieve que en todas partes hay buena y mala gente. Y idiotas desinformados con muy mala leche. Hasta en la democracia más antigua y consolidada del mundo. God Bless You&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-9191039357925554397?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/9191039357925554397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=9191039357925554397' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/9191039357925554397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/9191039357925554397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/jerks-are-everywhere.html' title='JERKS ARE EVERYWHERE'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SVtPihSvmOI/AAAAAAAAAls/XWqMbsIBYho/s72-c/IMGP0186.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4274458871511731467</id><published>2008-12-23T21:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-12-24T12:18:20.568Z</updated><title type='text'>Do they know it's Christmas?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fvNRHrKyaX4&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fvNRHrKyaX4&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4274458871511731467?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4274458871511731467/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4274458871511731467' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4274458871511731467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4274458871511731467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/do-they-know-its-christmas.html' title='Do they know it&apos;s Christmas?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1207095580163571868</id><published>2008-12-22T17:55:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-12-22T17:57:31.714Z</updated><title type='text'>FE DE ERRATAS</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU_Uh-IsLmI/AAAAAAAAAk8/PQS0lXU1YYg/s1600-h/virginia%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282674568009100898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 242px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU_Uh-IsLmI/AAAAAAAAAk8/PQS0lXU1YYg/s400/virginia%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1207095580163571868?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1207095580163571868/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1207095580163571868' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1207095580163571868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1207095580163571868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html' title='FE DE ERRATAS'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU_Uh-IsLmI/AAAAAAAAAk8/PQS0lXU1YYg/s72-c/virginia%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3720394941628532903</id><published>2008-12-20T22:52:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-12-22T00:25:46.085Z</updated><title type='text'>HERE'S TO YOU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;No sé que hago aquí. En unas horas estaría en &lt;em&gt;Rockefeller Plaza&lt;/em&gt;, haciendo cola ante el &lt;em&gt;Studio One&lt;/em&gt; de la &lt;em&gt;NBC &lt;/em&gt;para ver el show de &lt;em&gt;Matt Lauder &lt;/em&gt;y&lt;em&gt; Meredith Vieira.&lt;/em&gt; La semana pasada podría haber estado en el &lt;em&gt;Merkin Concert&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Hall.&lt;/em&gt; "&lt;em&gt;I'll be there, I promise"&lt;/em&gt;, le dije en septiembre a David. Mi nombre estaba en la lista de invitados ... Next year. Sure. Leo que hace frío, mucho frío... Like a scene from all those movies...But you're real enough to me. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU1887iRlAI/AAAAAAAAAk0/a8G_B8f5F5E/s1600-h/IMGP0106.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282015324190905346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 399px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU1887iRlAI/AAAAAAAAAk0/a8G_B8f5F5E/s400/IMGP0106.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned Flanders". September of 2008. A rainy afternoon in Times Square. ;Manahatta. NYC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3720394941628532903?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3720394941628532903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3720394941628532903' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3720394941628532903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3720394941628532903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/heres-to-you.html' title='HERE&apos;S TO YOU'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SU1887iRlAI/AAAAAAAAAk0/a8G_B8f5F5E/s72-c/IMGP0106.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7213229619214821030</id><published>2008-12-12T09:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-12-12T23:50:14.766Z</updated><title type='text'>I'll be back tomorrow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SULtrNwx5FI/AAAAAAAAAks/teNp3z7seSY/s1600-h/F1010015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279043039916057682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SULtrNwx5FI/AAAAAAAAAks/teNp3z7seSY/s400/F1010015.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many's the time I've been mistaken&lt;br /&gt;And many times confused&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, and I've often felt forsaken&lt;br /&gt;And certainly misused&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I'm all right, I'm all right&lt;br /&gt;I'm just weary to my bones&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, you don't expect to be&lt;br /&gt;Bright and bon vivant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far away from home&lt;br /&gt;So far away from home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo: Nedward "Ned" Flanders. November of 2007. Brooklyn Bridge Park. NYC &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7213229619214821030?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7213229619214821030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7213229619214821030' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7213229619214821030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7213229619214821030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-all-right-folks.html' title='I&apos;ll be back tomorrow'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SULtrNwx5FI/AAAAAAAAAks/teNp3z7seSY/s72-c/F1010015.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3211066218338692865</id><published>2008-12-05T23:44:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-12-06T00:09:40.374Z</updated><title type='text'>CONEY ISLAND. -Oh, please, stand by me-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;When the night has come&lt;br /&gt;And the land is dark&lt;br /&gt;And the moon is the only light we see&lt;br /&gt;No I won't be afraid&lt;br /&gt;No I won't be afraid&lt;br /&gt;Just as long as you stand, &lt;strong&gt;stand by me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So  darling, darling stand by me&lt;br /&gt;Oh, now, now, stand by me&lt;br /&gt;Stand by me, stand by me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/STm-2eR3RUI/AAAAAAAAAc4/9Gee9ZhQ9Tc/s1600-h/F1040012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276458281491449154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 140px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/STm-2eR3RUI/AAAAAAAAAc4/9Gee9ZhQ9Tc/s400/F1040012.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the sky that we look upon&lt;br /&gt;Should tumble and fall&lt;br /&gt;And the mountain should crumble to the sea&lt;br /&gt;I won't cry, I won't cry&lt;br /&gt;No I won't shed a tear&lt;br /&gt;Just as long as you stand, stand by me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And darling, darling stand by me&lt;br /&gt;Oh, stand by me&lt;br /&gt;Stand by me, stand by me, &lt;strong&gt;stand by me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo:Nedward "Ned" Flanders. April of 2007. Coney Island Boardwalk. Brooklyn. NYC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3211066218338692865?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3211066218338692865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3211066218338692865' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3211066218338692865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3211066218338692865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/coney-island.html' title='CONEY ISLAND. -Oh, please, stand by me-'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/STm-2eR3RUI/AAAAAAAAAc4/9Gee9ZhQ9Tc/s72-c/F1040012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4641029630212860906</id><published>2008-12-02T11:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-12-02T14:47:43.904Z</updated><title type='text'>UNA VERDAD MUY INCÓMODA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/STUjR0QhN-I/AAAAAAAAAco/dOSNBy1X0aY/s1600-h/Complete_Idiots_GlobalWarmi%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275161327527081954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 373px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/STUjR0QhN-I/AAAAAAAAAco/dOSNBy1X0aY/s400/Complete_Idiots_GlobalWarmi%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ayer tuve ocasión de ver un programa de televisión que se emite desde &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spain.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; En él, se sometía a destacadas personalidades políticas españolas a una sencilla cuestión: &lt;strong&gt;¿Qué es el CO2?. &lt;/strong&gt;Doce entrevistados respondieron a la encuesta, de los cuales once "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;no saben no contestan&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". Entre los once: un Ministro, el portavoz en la Cámara de Representantes del partido gobernante y antiguo Ministro , el Coordinador de Presidencia y responsable de Relaciones Internacionales del principal partido de la oposición, la Secretaria Primera de la Cámara y el Vicesecretario de Comunicación del segundo partido de ese país. El más valiente, -no recuerdo nombre ni cargo- dijo señalando al cielo que el &lt;strong&gt;CO2&lt;/strong&gt; era "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;una cosa muy mala que está por allí arriba&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;No lo entiendo... El propio &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;George W. Bush -&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;al que muchos de los entrevistados califican de &lt;strong&gt;bobo-&lt;/strong&gt; tras admitir su existencia, definó el &lt;strong&gt;CO2 &lt;/strong&gt;como &lt;em&gt;"a molecule which contains one atom of carbon bonded with two atoms of oxygen, is a naturally occurring colorless gas exhaled by humans and metabolized, in turn, by plants"&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bush_acknowledges_existence_of"&gt;http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bush_acknowledges_existence_of&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Acaso no han oído hablar de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Al Gore?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/cache/2007/10/17/50_gobierno_gasta_dinero_comprar_euros_siete_corte_ingles.html"&gt;http://www.elconfidencial.com/cache/2007/10/17/50_gobierno_gasta_dinero_comprar_euros_siete_corte_ingles.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Seguramente el periodista formuló intencionadamente mal la pregunta. Sí, estoy seguro de que fue eso. Ya se sabe...los periodistas....O una broma, claro. Si no, no lo entiendo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PD: No vendré a cenar. Me quedo en Wisconsin.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4641029630212860906?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4641029630212860906/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4641029630212860906' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4641029630212860906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4641029630212860906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/12/vente-paspaa-gore.html' title='UNA VERDAD MUY INCÓMODA'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/STUjR0QhN-I/AAAAAAAAAco/dOSNBy1X0aY/s72-c/Complete_Idiots_GlobalWarmi%5B1%5D.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4715257929458244630</id><published>2008-11-29T15:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-11-30T14:24:05.670Z</updated><title type='text'>SING US A SONG, -you're the Piano Man-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Son las nueve en punto de un sábado y ha llegado el público de siempre. A mi lado hay un hombre mayor haciendo el amor con un Gin &amp;amp; Tonic que me dice: "&lt;em&gt;Hijo, ¿puedes tocarme una vieja canción?No estoy realmente seguro de cómo va, pero es triste y dulce, y me la sabía cuando era joven". &lt;/em&gt; John, el de la barra, es mi amigo y me da la bebida gratis. Es rápido con las bromas y siempre está atento para dar fuego, pero creo que preferiría estar en otro sitio. Mientras la sonrisa desaparece de su rostro comenta: “&lt;em&gt;Bill, creo que esto me está matando. Estoy seguro de que si saliera de aquí sería una estrella de cine"&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F-CQk2U0LAE&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F-CQk2U0LAE&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paul es un agente inmobiliario que nunca ha pensado en casarse y habla con Davy, que todavía está en la Marina, donde probablemente seguirá de por vida. La camarera habla con el político mientras el hombre de negocios se emborracha lentamente. Comparten una bebida que se llama soledad. Es mejor que beber a solas...&lt;br /&gt;Buen público para un sábado. El dueño me sonríe. Sabe que es a mí a quien a quien han venido a ver para olvidarse de la vida por un momento. El piano suena a carnaval y el micrófono huele a cerveza. La gente se sienta en la barra, echan monedas en mi bote y dicen : ¿&lt;em&gt;Hombre, qué tal? Cántanos una canción, pianista. Tenemos ganas de escuchar tus melodías. Nos haces sentir tan bien... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4715257929458244630?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4715257929458244630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4715257929458244630' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4715257929458244630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4715257929458244630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/sing-us-song-youre-piano-man.html' title='SING US A SONG, -you&apos;re the Piano Man-'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1677285889721657544</id><published>2008-11-26T23:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-11-28T12:48:24.239Z</updated><title type='text'>HAPPY BIRTHDAY -and happy thanksgiving day-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SS3fdTmyjjI/AAAAAAAAAcY/eJFhycgLtWU/s1600-h/IMGP0207.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273116433292889650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 197px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SS3fdTmyjjI/AAAAAAAAAcY/eJFhycgLtWU/s400/IMGP0207.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo:Nedward "Ned" Flanders&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;September 2008. Nathan's Famous, Coney Island. Brooklyn. NYC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHERE IS NATHAN'S: 11/27/2007 - 11/27/2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Santayana, Ippolito &lt;em&gt;-sing us a song, you're thatguitarman-&lt;/em&gt; , Sinatra, Kitty, Travis, Jimmy Conway, Alvy Singer and Annie Hall, Feltman and Handwerker &lt;em&gt;-bringing the menu-&lt;/em&gt; , Paul and Art, Brooklyn Bridge and Bleecker Street, Virginia -&lt;em&gt;of course there is a Santa Claus!!!-,&lt;/em&gt;Crosby, Stills &lt;em&gt;-and Nash too-&lt;/em&gt; , NBC, Street Lamps of Central Park, Hearnshead -&lt;em&gt;the place where I belong&lt;/em&gt;-, Old Yankee Stadium and DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Ruth,... &lt;strong&gt;Gehrig&lt;/strong&gt;, Hell's Kitchen, Nelson, Obama -&lt;em&gt;you're not Jack Kennedy-&lt;/em&gt; and McCain -&lt;em&gt;never give up!!!-&lt;/em&gt; , Ellis Island, and Emma Lazarus with the Statue of Liberty -&lt;em&gt;lift your lamp, please&lt;/em&gt;-, Holden Cauldfield -&lt;em&gt;what about the ducks this winter?-&lt;/em&gt; , Takeru &lt;em&gt;-take off your hands from the dogs!!- &lt;/em&gt;, Great State of Wisconsin.... &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;What a party!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Thanks for coming.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Ara ja no hi falta ningú,...o potser sí, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Ja me n'adono, que tan sols hi faltes tu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(From J. Sisa, galactic songwriter and folksinger) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1677285889721657544?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1677285889721657544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1677285889721657544' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1677285889721657544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1677285889721657544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-birthday-and-happy-thanksgiving.html' title='HAPPY BIRTHDAY -and happy thanksgiving day-'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SS3fdTmyjjI/AAAAAAAAAcY/eJFhycgLtWU/s72-c/IMGP0207.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6346368132081668296</id><published>2008-11-23T08:54:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-11-23T10:36:35.711Z</updated><title type='text'>A TIMELESS SONG</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;You who are on the road, Must have a code that you can live by&lt;br /&gt;So become yourself, Because the past is just a good bye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teach your children well,Their father's hell did slowly go by,&lt;br /&gt;Feed them on your dreams, The one they picked, the one you'll know by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't you ever ask them why, If they told you, you would cry,&lt;br /&gt;So just look at them and sigh, And know they love you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You, of tender years, Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,&lt;br /&gt;So please help them with your youth, They seek the truth before they can die.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Teach your parents well, Their children's hell will slowly go by,&lt;br /&gt;Feed them on your dreams, The one they picked, the one you'll know by.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,&lt;br /&gt;So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p6pphVs8bF0&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p6pphVs8bF0&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Tú  ya estás en el camino y debes seguir un código de vida&lt;br /&gt;Así que se tú mismo, porque el pasado es sólo un adiós.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enseña bien a tus hijos, el infierno del padre debe alejarse lentamente&lt;br /&gt;Aliméntales con tus sueños, aquél que ellos elijan, lo reconocerás&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca les preguntes por qué, llorarías si te lo dijeran.&lt;br /&gt;Sólo mírales y suspira, - ellos te aman ...-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y Tú, joven de tierna edad,&lt;br /&gt;que desconoces los miedos con los que crecieron tus padres,&lt;br /&gt;Ayúdales desde tu juventud, Ellos buscan la verdad antes de morir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enseña bien a tus padres, el infierno de sus hijos pasará rápidamente,&lt;br /&gt;y aliméntales con tus sueños, aquél que ellos elijan, lo reconocerás&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nunca les preguntes por qué, si te lo dijeran llorarías,&lt;br /&gt;así que simplemente míralos, y suspira, -ellos te aman...-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6346368132081668296?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6346368132081668296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6346368132081668296' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6346368132081668296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6346368132081668296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/timeless-song.html' title='A TIMELESS SONG'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2585866503713594286</id><published>2008-11-20T20:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-11-21T14:16:47.801Z</updated><title type='text'>RICHMOND</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SSZZLdiN23I/AAAAAAAAAcI/BtUBN1MOQcE/s1600-h/Staten_island_ferry_2%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270998467325320050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 130px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SSZZLdiN23I/AAAAAAAAAcI/BtUBN1MOQcE/s400/Staten_island_ferry_2%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brooklyn &lt;/strong&gt;tiene un puente, acogió durante años a los Dodgers de Jackie Robinson y es el hogar de Nathan's y del plasta de Paul Auster. En un restaurante del &lt;strong&gt;Bronx,&lt;/strong&gt; cerca del zoo y el Yankee Stadium, Michael Corleone se cargó de dos tiros a Virgil Sollozo y al capitán McCluskey. &lt;strong&gt;Queens&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;tiene dos aeropuertos, Flushing Meadows, Goodfellas y la mayor variedad étnica del planeta. Y &lt;strong&gt;Manhattan&lt;/strong&gt; es la leche.... Si son 5 barrios, falta uno. Si, &lt;strong&gt;Staten Island.&lt;/strong&gt; Lo que ocurre es que en Staten Island no hay nada. Bueno, si. Un ferry gratuito de color butano que une ese islote -también llamado &lt;strong&gt;Richmond-&lt;/strong&gt; con el sur de Manhattan y que millones de turistas cogen cada año para ahorrarse los 30 dolares que cuesta el barco que lleva hasta la Estatua de la Libertad. A Staten Island le va remar contra corriente. Durante la Guerra de la Independencia se mantuvo fiel a Inglaterra y en la Guerra de Secesión se pronunció a favor de las tropas sudistas. Es un reducto republicano en una ciudad eminentemente demócrata y, en 1993, en una consulta popular oficiosa, sus habitantes se manifestaron a favor de independizarse de Nueva York. Hasta la construcción del &lt;strong&gt;Verrazano-Narrows Bridge&lt;/strong&gt;, hará unos 40 años, el citado ferry era la única forma de llegar hasta allí. Un reciente estudio ha revelado que en Staten Island hay más tiendas de artículos para la pesca que parkings... Con estos mimbres es difícil hacer un gran cesto, y de ahí que haya quedado totalmente al margen del frenético crecimiento de Nueva York.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hace un tiempo leí "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angela's Ashes"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, escrito por &lt;strong&gt;Frank McCourt&lt;/strong&gt; en 1996&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Dado que desconozco cualquier dato más digno de mención del quinto barrio, y que a &lt;strong&gt;McCourt&lt;/strong&gt; le dieron el &lt;strong&gt;Pullitzer&lt;/strong&gt; por esa obra, me he permitido traducir unas líneas, dejando que él acabe este post por mí :&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Las secciones de educación del &lt;strong&gt;New York World-Telegram &lt;/strong&gt;y del &lt;strong&gt;Sun&lt;/strong&gt; solían contener ofertas de empleo. En marzo de 1958 se ofrecía una vacante de profesor de inglés en el &lt;strong&gt;McKee Vocational and Technical High School&lt;/strong&gt;, situado entre &lt;strong&gt;St, Mark’s Place &lt;/strong&gt;y&lt;strong&gt; Wall Street&lt;/strong&gt;. Llamé al número que aparecía y la mujer que me atendió dijo : “Venga inmediatamente”. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;En aquella época yo vivía en &lt;strong&gt;Borough Hall, Brooklyn&lt;/strong&gt;, y me seducía la idea de no tener que realizar un largo trayecto desde mi casa hasta el que iba a ser mi primer trabajo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;No se cuánto tiempo pasé recorriendo &lt;strong&gt;Wall Street&lt;/strong&gt; en busca de una escuela de la que nadie nunca había oido hablar. Acabé preguntándole a un policía , que contestó mientras negaba con la cabeza: “No hay escuelas en &lt;strong&gt;Wall Street&lt;/strong&gt;”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“¿Y en &lt;strong&gt;St. Mark’s Place&lt;/strong&gt;?” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“¿&lt;strong&gt;St. Mark’s Place&lt;/strong&gt; ? No debe estar por aquí”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Oiga, lo pone bien claro en este periódico."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Me importa un bledo su periódico. Conozco este barrio”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Volví a llamar y cuando dije que en &lt;strong&gt;Wall Street&lt;/strong&gt; no había ninguna escuela, la mujer, con un suspiro, dijo: "Siempre ocurre lo mismo. Coja el ferry, baje en &lt;strong&gt;St. George&lt;/strong&gt; y suba la colina. No tiene pérdida. Ya verá a los niños…."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"¿Oiga…dónde está &lt;strong&gt;St. George&lt;/strong&gt;?" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Volvió a suspirar y contestó: ¡&lt;strong&gt; Staten Island! ¡Staten Island&lt;/strong&gt;!" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El viaje en ferry costaba 25 centavos y se tardaba media hora en cruzar una bahía atestada de navíos, transatlánticos, cargueros, petroleros, barcazas, remolcadores y otros transbordadores que se dirigían a &lt;strong&gt;Governors Island&lt;/strong&gt;, la &lt;strong&gt;Estatua de la Libertad&lt;/strong&gt; y &lt;strong&gt;Nueva Jersey&lt;/strong&gt;. El horizonte de &lt;strong&gt;Manhattan&lt;/strong&gt; era seductor, aunque por aquel entonces no existía ni el &lt;strong&gt;World Trade Center&lt;/strong&gt; ni muchos de los rascacielos que más tarde aparecieron por toda la isla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;La vista a través de &lt;strong&gt;Narrows &lt;/strong&gt;era diáfana -el puente de &lt;strong&gt;Verrazano&lt;/strong&gt; aún no había sido construido- y la imagen de &lt;strong&gt;Ellis Island &lt;/strong&gt;desoladora. Recuerdo que me entristeció ver como un barco abandonado lentamente se hundía en el agua.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Al llegar a &lt;strong&gt;St.George &lt;/strong&gt;subí la colina que lleva al &lt;strong&gt;McKee Vocational and Technical High School&lt;/strong&gt; . Aquella mujer estaba en lo cierto: había cientos de chavales alrededor de la escuela. Era la típica escena de película de cuadrillas de adolescentes gamberros de finales de los años 50. Todavía estaba a tiempo de huir. Después de todo, mis amigos ya me lo habían advertido "No vayas a institutos de formación profesional. Los alumnos te devorarán "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No.&lt;/strong&gt; Lo iba a intentar ¿Cómo renunciar a aquel viaje diario, a aquel horizonte, a la &lt;strong&gt;Estatua de la Libertad&lt;/strong&gt; y a &lt;strong&gt;Ellis Island&lt;/strong&gt; y al recuerdo de los millones de personas que por allí habían pasado&lt;/em&gt;?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo: Google. Flanders no tiene fotos de Staten Island. Es más, duda de que existan.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2585866503713594286?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2585866503713594286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2585866503713594286' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2585866503713594286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2585866503713594286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/richmond.html' title='RICHMOND'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SSZZLdiN23I/AAAAAAAAAcI/BtUBN1MOQcE/s72-c/Staten_island_ferry_2%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5319082176125601143</id><published>2008-11-17T18:13:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-11-17T19:17:23.128Z</updated><title type='text'>ONE YEAR OF LOVE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Próximamente &lt;strong&gt;Nathan's&lt;/strong&gt; cumplirá un año. Lo que nació como una especie de pasatiempo, ha adquirido fama mundial y se ha convertido en uno de los blogs menos visitados de la red. Con motivo de tan magno evento se esperan unas celebraciones únicamente comparables a los fuegos artificiales del 4 de julio en el East River. A fecha de hoy nuestra redacción ya se halla desbordada por la infinidad de correos electrónicos y telegramas que se están recibiendo. A todos: muchas gracias. Aunque debéis comprender que nos llevaría semanas contestaros uno por uno. Sirva pues la presente para agradecer enormemente el entusiasmo mostrado por la decena de seguidores habituales de este espacio que desde Wisconsin ha hecho posible... bueno, de hecho nada. . .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Por cierto, algún premio tendrían que darnos, ¿no?... Voilà: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SSG6WpUFNHI/AAAAAAAAAbo/i3UcTKYb-Io/s1600-h/781px-HistoricPlacesNationalRegisterPlaque%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269697937210160242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 307px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SSG6WpUFNHI/AAAAAAAAAbo/i3UcTKYb-Io/s400/781px-HistoricPlacesNationalRegisterPlaque%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flanders Never Quit, Flanders Never Surrender, Flanders Never Hide From History, &lt;strong&gt;Flanders Make History&lt;/strong&gt;. Thanks, and God Bless You. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Sincerely Yours: Nedward "Ned" Flanders. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5319082176125601143?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5319082176125601143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5319082176125601143' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5319082176125601143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5319082176125601143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/prximamente-nathans-cumplir-un-ao.html' title='ONE YEAR OF LOVE'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SSG6WpUFNHI/AAAAAAAAAbo/i3UcTKYb-Io/s72-c/781px-HistoricPlacesNationalRegisterPlaque%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5675089265903234223</id><published>2008-11-07T07:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-11-10T18:49:00.266Z</updated><title type='text'>HUDSON RIVER</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"On this river there is great traffick in the skins of beavers, otters, foxes, bears, minks, wild cats, and the like. The land is excellent and agreeable, full of noble forest trees and grape wines, and nothing is wanting but the labor and industry of man to render it one of the finest and most fruitful lands in that part of the world." -&lt;strong&gt;Johan de Laet, &lt;em&gt;New World&lt;/em&gt;. 1625-&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SRiA1HFPEJI/AAAAAAAAAbg/W7oGXZdoe9Q/s1600-h/hudson+river+at+Pier+45+and+Jersey+City.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267101414132224146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 142px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SRiA1HFPEJI/AAAAAAAAAbg/W7oGXZdoe9Q/s400/hudson+river+at+Pier+45+and+Jersey+City.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;"A lo largo del río hay un gran tráfico de pieles de castores, nutrias, zorros, osos, visones, pumas y otros animales por el estilo. El territorio es excelente y agradable, lleno de bosques de maderas nobles y de vides, y sólo requiere del trabajo del hombre y de la industria para convertirlo en una de las mejores y más fructuosas tierras a este lado del mundo". &lt;strong&gt;-Johan de Laet. &lt;em&gt;New World&lt;/em&gt;, 1625-&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Ned Flanders. August of 2006. Pier 45 at Hudson River Park. Manhattan. NYC. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5675089265903234223?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5675089265903234223/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5675089265903234223' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5675089265903234223'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5675089265903234223'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/hudson-river.html' title='HUDSON RIVER'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SRiA1HFPEJI/AAAAAAAAAbg/W7oGXZdoe9Q/s72-c/hudson+river+at+Pier+45+and+Jersey+City.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2699003692751003116</id><published>2008-11-05T20:39:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-11-06T06:27:34.803Z</updated><title type='text'>TU QUOQUE, WISCONSIN?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SRIIHg8Vr0I/AAAAAAAAAac/d-ls6DlVv4k/s1600-h/barack%2520wins%2520wisconsin%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265279839544651586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SRIIHg8Vr0I/AAAAAAAAAac/d-ls6DlVv4k/s400/barack%2520wins%2520wisconsin%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Today is obviously one of the most difficult days in the history of Wisconsin. The tragedy that we're all undergoing right now is something that we've had nightmares about. My heart goes out to all of the innocent people of this State". &lt;strong&gt;(Joseph Fitzpatrick Fitzgerald Fitzhenry "Joe" Quimby , Mayor of Springfield) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2699003692751003116?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2699003692751003116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2699003692751003116' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2699003692751003116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2699003692751003116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/tu-quoque-wisconsin.html' title='TU QUOQUE, WISCONSIN?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SRIIHg8Vr0I/AAAAAAAAAac/d-ls6DlVv4k/s72-c/barack%2520wins%2520wisconsin%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1765730702792394775</id><published>2008-11-02T11:34:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-11-07T13:25:43.761Z</updated><title type='text'>EAST RIVER</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!&lt;br /&gt;Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg’d waves!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gorgeous clouds of the sun-set! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="113"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers!&lt;br /&gt;Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta!—stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SQ2RiaejsiI/AAAAAAAAAaM/mllBg_OZvmc/s1600-h/IMGP0164.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264023559875047970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SQ2RiaejsiI/AAAAAAAAAaM/mllBg_OZvmc/s400/IMGP0164.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Sigue fluyendo, río! ¡Avanza con la pleamar y retrocede con la bajamar!&lt;br /&gt;¡Retozad, olas festoneadas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nubes suntuosas del ocaso, ¡rociadme con vuestro esplendor,&lt;br /&gt;rociad a los hombres y mujeres de generaciones venideras!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¡Cruzad de una a otra orilla, incontables pasajeros!&lt;br /&gt;¡En pie, altos mástiles de Mannahatta!- ¡En pie, bellas colinas de Brooklyn!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Walt Whitman. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Ned Flanders. September 2008. Williamsburg Bridge from East River Park. NYC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1765730702792394775?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1765730702792394775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1765730702792394775' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1765730702792394775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1765730702792394775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/11/east-river.html' title='EAST RIVER'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SQ2RiaejsiI/AAAAAAAAAaM/mllBg_OZvmc/s72-c/IMGP0164.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2204228662043780802</id><published>2008-10-22T10:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T00:59:12.953+01:00</updated><title type='text'>How you dare?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Real America?... Pro-America areas?...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SP7xZdkL_vI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cXtonYvNOjk/s1600-h/palin-disgrace%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259906834550750962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SP7xZdkL_vI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cXtonYvNOjk/s400/palin-disgrace%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What's that you say, Mrs Palin? What the fucking hell are you talkin'?...Are you suggesting that &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Osama Bin Laden attacked the non-real-America?...&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Your stupidity sucks!!!...Anyway... don't worry Mrs Palin. Jesus Loves You More than You will know.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2204228662043780802?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2204228662043780802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2204228662043780802' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2204228662043780802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2204228662043780802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-you-dare.html' title='How you dare?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SP7xZdkL_vI/AAAAAAAAAaE/cXtonYvNOjk/s72-c/palin-disgrace%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-9191110461083321875</id><published>2008-10-12T18:15:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-12T21:30:38.131+01:00</updated><title type='text'>An amazing trip. Maybe next year...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Riding on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The City of New Orleans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;Illinois Central Monday morning rail&lt;br /&gt;Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,&lt;br /&gt;Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.&lt;br /&gt;All along the southbound odyssey&lt;br /&gt;The train pulls out at Kankakee&lt;br /&gt;Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.&lt;br /&gt;Passin' trains that have no names,&lt;br /&gt;Freight yards full of old black men&lt;br /&gt;And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good morning America how are you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Don't you know me I'm your native son,&lt;br /&gt;I'm the train they call &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The City of New Orleans&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;object height="287" width="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OfxoM6trtZE&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OfxoM6trtZE&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="287"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.&lt;br /&gt;Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.&lt;br /&gt;Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle&lt;br /&gt;Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.&lt;br /&gt;And the sons of pullman porters&lt;br /&gt;And the sons of engineers&lt;br /&gt;Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.&lt;br /&gt;Mothers with their babes asleep,&lt;br /&gt;Are rockin' to the gentle beat&lt;br /&gt;And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Nighttime on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The City of New Orleans,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.&lt;br /&gt;Half way home, we'll be there by morning&lt;br /&gt;Through the Mississippi darkness&lt;br /&gt;Rolling down to the sea.&lt;br /&gt;And all the towns and people seem&lt;br /&gt;To fade into a bad dream&lt;br /&gt;And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.&lt;br /&gt;The conductor sings his song again,&lt;br /&gt;The passengers will please refrain&lt;br /&gt;This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Good night, America, how are you?&lt;br /&gt;Don't you know me I'm your native son,&lt;br /&gt;I'm the train they call &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The City of New Orleans,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-9191110461083321875?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/9191110461083321875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=9191110461083321875' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/9191110461083321875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/9191110461083321875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/10/dont-you-know-me-im-your-native-son.html' title='An amazing trip. Maybe next year...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1983030515919344663</id><published>2008-10-09T23:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-10T13:28:07.560+01:00</updated><title type='text'>SO LONG NELSON</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SO6V5gAKmuI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/rS2PYZ_iAbQ/s1600-h/Tony%20Bennett[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255302630263659234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SO6V5gAKmuI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/rS2PYZ_iAbQ/s400/Tony%2520Bennett%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;En el no sé cuántos de la &lt;strong&gt;46th St.&lt;/strong&gt; entre la octava y la novena, lado mar , se encuentra &lt;strong&gt;O' Flaherty's Ale House&lt;/strong&gt;. Ochenta años de tradición irlandesa in the middle of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hell's Kitchen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. En &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;O' Flaherty's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; puedes jugar a dardos, a billar, cenar puding de Yorkshire, ponerte ciego de cerveza o hablar con &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nelson,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; el camarero más veterano del local&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Well. &lt;strong&gt;Nelson &lt;/strong&gt;es la persona &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;wiser that i've ever meet in the USA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nelson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; nació en Irlanda, sesentaypico years ago, y ha llevado su sabiduría como camarero &lt;strong&gt;all over the world.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Nelson&lt;/strong&gt;, como &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daniel,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; cree que Spain&lt;em&gt; "&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;is the best place he's ever seen"&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; Iluso. Nelson vive en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Long Island&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, sin más señas.&lt;strong&gt; Nelson&lt;/strong&gt; es un newyorker de pura cepa y con eso ya basta. Conocí a &lt;strong&gt;Nelson&lt;/strong&gt; hace 7 años. Y, ¿por qué hablo de él? Pues porque fue la primera persona -a parte del taxista y del recepcionista del &lt;strong&gt;YMCA&lt;/strong&gt;- con la que hablé en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gotham City.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Nelson&lt;/strong&gt; sabe de todo. Football, Scoccer, metereología, Fórmula 1, macroeconomía...Desde entonces lo he visitado cada año , la última vez hará unas cuatro semanas. Me dijo que en unos meses se jubilaba , y que se iba a vivir a no sé qué aburrido e imbécil estado del norte. &lt;strong&gt;Nelson &lt;/strong&gt;es un fan de los &lt;strong&gt;Mets, &lt;/strong&gt;pero a pesar de ello, todo lo que se de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;baseball &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;se lo debo a él. &lt;strong&gt;Nelson&lt;/strong&gt; prepara el mejor &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;gin and tonic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de Manhattan. &lt;strong&gt;Nelson&lt;/strong&gt; is a Goodfellas. A true pal. El tío de la foto es &lt;strong&gt;Tony Bennett,&lt;/strong&gt; but , My God!!...he looks like &lt;strong&gt;Nelson!!!.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1983030515919344663?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1983030515919344663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1983030515919344663' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1983030515919344663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1983030515919344663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/10/en-el-no-s-cuantos-de-la-46th-st.html' title='SO LONG NELSON'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SO6V5gAKmuI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/rS2PYZ_iAbQ/s72-c/Tony%2520Bennett%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2477025874337612552</id><published>2008-10-02T22:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-02T23:19:57.629+01:00</updated><title type='text'>QUICKLY, I WANT MY OWN BAILOUT</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SOVA76XUQTI/AAAAAAAAAZk/1kCJlXaSLGY/s1600-h/dollar-omg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252675938421063986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SOVA76XUQTI/AAAAAAAAAZk/1kCJlXaSLGY/s400/dollar-omg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Where is the honesty?&lt;br /&gt;Where's the integrity?&lt;br /&gt;Where's the love...&lt;br /&gt;And, where's that money going?&lt;br /&gt;Where is our &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;common sense&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;Lord, I miss intelligence!!!&lt;br /&gt;We kinda made a mockery&lt;br /&gt;of the word'democracy'!&lt;br /&gt;Where's the love...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And, where's that money going???&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lyrics: That Guitarman from Central Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2477025874337612552?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2477025874337612552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2477025874337612552' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2477025874337612552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2477025874337612552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/10/bail-out-me-please.html' title='QUICKLY, I WANT MY OWN BAILOUT'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SOVA76XUQTI/AAAAAAAAAZk/1kCJlXaSLGY/s72-c/dollar-omg.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5099057300904352834</id><published>2008-09-27T09:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T09:30:15.298+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SN3vCwZ9pvI/AAAAAAAAAZY/om-BNdOtuEw/s1600-h/Obama_MenCeasetobelieveinGo%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250615571216443122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SN3vCwZ9pvI/AAAAAAAAAZY/om-BNdOtuEw/s400/Obama_MenCeasetobelieveinGo%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5099057300904352834?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5099057300904352834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5099057300904352834' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5099057300904352834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5099057300904352834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SN3vCwZ9pvI/AAAAAAAAAZY/om-BNdOtuEw/s72-c/Obama_MenCeasetobelieveinGo%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4060918601810356849</id><published>2008-09-25T21:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-27T08:59:47.944+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Some things are improving...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNv4d44wn8I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/d-YtakI0CLk/s1600-h/IMGP0095.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250062983000793026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNv4d44wn8I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/d-YtakI0CLk/s400/IMGP0095.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Now, from the supermarket, up to your refrigerator. Good and wholesome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Ned Flanders. 250W 47th Street, Fourth floor, Apartment C. &lt;em&gt;Hell's Kitchen, &lt;/em&gt;Manhattan. NYC. September of 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4060918601810356849?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4060918601810356849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4060918601810356849' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4060918601810356849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4060918601810356849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/09/somethings-are-improving.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNv4d44wn8I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/d-YtakI0CLk/s72-c/IMGP0095.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7952108967115669712</id><published>2008-09-24T10:30:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-25T12:38:12.307+01:00</updated><title type='text'>YOU WILL BE MISSED</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNoxtmcLaHI/AAAAAAAAAZI/9wi0rTQKkD0/s1600-h/21yankees3_600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249562975136344178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNoxtmcLaHI/AAAAAAAAAZI/9wi0rTQKkD0/s400/21yankees3_600.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Cinco únicas líneas no hacían justicia al adiós al escenario deportivo más importante de todos los tiempos . El &lt;strong&gt;Yankee Stadium&lt;/strong&gt;. Construido en 1923 a medida del mejor jugador de baseball de la historia, el gordinflón &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Babe Ruth&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;cerró definitivamente sus puertas el pasado domingo en un mediocre partido ante los Orioles de Baltimore, precedido de un emotivo homenaje en el que no faltaron los guiños a la nostalgia. Sobre su hierba se han disputado 30 campeonatos mundiales de boxeo, incluído el combate que supuso la destrucción del orgullo del Tercer Reich, &lt;strong&gt;Max Schmeling , &lt;/strong&gt;a manos de &lt;strong&gt;Joe Louis&lt;/strong&gt; en un solo asalto. Durante un año fue el hogar de los Cosmos de &lt;strong&gt;Pelé&lt;/strong&gt;. Ha acogido misas de tres Papas y un mítin de &lt;strong&gt;Nelson Mandela&lt;/strong&gt;, y han actuado, entre muchos otros , &lt;strong&gt;Pink Floyd, U2, Billie Joel y The Rolling Stones.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Pero por encima de todo, ha sido y será para siempre la casa de los &lt;strong&gt;Yankees &lt;/strong&gt;de Nueva York, &lt;em&gt;los Bombarderos del Bronx.&lt;/em&gt; Un equipo de leyenda. Fue allí donde el día de su inauguración, &lt;strong&gt;Babe Ruth&lt;/strong&gt; lo estrenó a lo grande, marcándose un &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;home run&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de tres carreras. Años después, un 4 de julio, &lt;strong&gt;Lou Gehrig&lt;/strong&gt; se proclamó el hombre más afortunado de la Tierra y mucho más tarde se vivió la inolvidable noche de los tres &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;home run&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; de &lt;strong&gt;Jackson&lt;/strong&gt; en el sexto juego de las Series de 1977 . Y ha sido el lugar donde miles de niños han soñado con ser &lt;strong&gt;Yogi Berra&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Mickey Mantle &lt;/strong&gt;o&lt;strong&gt; Derek Jeter... &lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Cuentan que cuando los jugadores de los &lt;strong&gt;Yankees&lt;/strong&gt; salen de los vestuarios del estadio pasan junto a los retratos de sus 16 predecesores cuyos números han sido retirados, y que al enfilar el túnel hacia el campo, puede verse un cartel con una cita de &lt;strong&gt;Joe DiMaggio&lt;/strong&gt;: “&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doy gracias a Dios por ser un Yankee”.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Territorio Sagrado&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; El nuevo estadio, un palacio de 1.300 millones de dólares construido al otro lado de la calle &lt;strong&gt;161&lt;/strong&gt;, a pesar de su lujos y comodidades no podrá reemplazarlo. Ni de coña. Pero aunque ochenta y cinco años dan para mucho, los millones de pequeñas y particulares historias anónimas que guarda para sí el &lt;em&gt;Old&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Yankee Stadium&lt;/strong&gt; , queramos o no, desaparecerán con el tiempo -&lt;em&gt;like tears in the rain-.&lt;/em&gt; Por eso, la próxima vez que vea una estrella fugaz voy a pedir que no lo derriben.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7952108967115669712?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7952108967115669712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7952108967115669712' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7952108967115669712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7952108967115669712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-will-be-missed.html' title='YOU WILL BE MISSED'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNoxtmcLaHI/AAAAAAAAAZI/9wi0rTQKkD0/s72-c/21yankees3_600.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7864887275166774081</id><published>2008-09-22T00:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T00:20:58.349+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;Luckely, some things never changes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbWrXbHWGI/AAAAAAAAAY4/TLrxhner_qU/s1600-h/IMGP0243.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbWrXbHWGI/AAAAAAAAAY4/TLrxhner_qU/s400/IMGP0243.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248618456257353826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7864887275166774081?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7864887275166774081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7864887275166774081' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7864887275166774081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7864887275166774081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/09/luckely-some-things-never-changes.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbWrXbHWGI/AAAAAAAAAY4/TLrxhner_qU/s72-c/IMGP0243.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5227685189053670750</id><published>2008-09-14T22:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-25T12:26:58.080+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;Does everythin' still remains the same ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SM18FXn3YEI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/bgMZIYmJIu4/s1600-h/IMGP0226.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245985572638908482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SM18FXn3YEI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/bgMZIYmJIu4/s400/IMGP0226.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;A) Not at all. Coming soon: The end of Coney Island. Ask &lt;em&gt;Thor Equities&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Michael Bloomberg&lt;/em&gt; why. Don't be lazy. Everything's on Google. Everything. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo. Ned Flanders. Stielwell Avenue. Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC. September of 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbBitCUqsI/AAAAAAAAAYY/O2fDclWqRKM/s1600-h/yankees-teardown1[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248595217695943362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbBitCUqsI/AAAAAAAAAYY/O2fDclWqRKM/s400/yankees-teardown1%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbRaJ0jw3I/AAAAAAAAAYo/iEE8ywMfNb8/s1600-h/IMGP0198.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248612662990062450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SNbRaJ0jw3I/AAAAAAAAAYo/iEE8ywMfNb8/s400/IMGP0198.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B) Absolutely not at all. This season it's gonna be the end of old &lt;em&gt;Yankee Stadium&lt;/em&gt;. "&lt;em&gt;The House that Ruth Build".&lt;/em&gt; We're just talkin' about concrete and steel, but nothing's gonna be the same.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo : Ned Flanders. Subway Station 161 St. Bronx. NYC. September of 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5227685189053670750?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5227685189053670750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5227685189053670750' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5227685189053670750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5227685189053670750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/09/everything-still-remains-same-not-at.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SM18FXn3YEI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/bgMZIYmJIu4/s72-c/IMGP0226.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4505236873577838817</id><published>2008-09-04T21:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T21:19:55.513+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;Gotham........ I'm coming!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4505236873577838817?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4505236873577838817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4505236873577838817' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4505236873577838817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4505236873577838817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/09/gotham.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1480142017269379238</id><published>2008-08-24T02:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T22:58:59.819+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sorry, it's summer time&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href="&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237892920412728578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SLC73Ay77QI/AAAAAAAAAXc/hFKBTM47k3Q/s400/F1030018.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; But in the mean while you can do lots of things: Olympic Games, wash your car, read this book, love that girl, buy a gun, quit smoking, write your long long memories , waste your summer praying in vain...&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;running away?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Ned Flanders. Summer of 2006. Somewhere in NYC Subway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1480142017269379238?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1480142017269379238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1480142017269379238' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1480142017269379238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1480142017269379238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/08/sorry-its-summer-time-href.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SLC73Ay77QI/AAAAAAAAAXc/hFKBTM47k3Q/s72-c/F1030018.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4616164715027182371</id><published>2008-08-05T10:09:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T02:44:13.082+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Still crazy after all these years&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SJjpgand2qI/AAAAAAAAAXE/5zqotAOeJOQ/s1600-h/F1000007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231187710300773026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SJjpgand2qI/AAAAAAAAAXE/5zqotAOeJOQ/s400/F1000007.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SJh56FbRiEI/AAAAAAAAAW8/ze26_GEf11s/s1600-h/F1010005.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;At last. Vuelvo a Nathan's Land. A pesar de que he perdido la cuenta de las veces que he visitado Gotham City -lo cual es rigurosamente falso- , nunca antes había sentido las &lt;em&gt;ganas -&lt;/em&gt;con mayúsculas- como hasta ahora. Parafraseando a &lt;strong&gt;Morgan Freeman&lt;/strong&gt; en &lt;em&gt;Cadena Perpetua&lt;/em&gt; hago mío aquello de "&lt;em&gt;I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain".&lt;/em&gt; Pero lo curioso del caso es que no espero gran cosa. O tal vez sí... Espero que sus calles huelan a café y a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;pretzel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;todas las mañanas, y que en &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sylvia's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; sigan sirviendo el &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Black Eyed Pea&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; Espero que no llueva el domingo en &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Central Park&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; -you know why- y perderme una mañana entera -o dos- en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;McNally Robinson&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Books&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt; Espero perder muchas partidas al ajedrez en el &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Village Chess Shop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, de &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thompson Street&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;y después, sentarme en un taburete del &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red Lion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; en &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bleecker St&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;saboreando un gin tonic y no levantarme hasta que el último músico diga aquello de "&lt;em&gt;Thank You&lt;/em&gt; , &lt;em&gt;Good night, now it's time to go home".&lt;/em&gt; Y así cada noche. Quiero cortarme el pelo, pasear por &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;La&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Marqueta &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;y &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chelsea Market&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; sin comprar nada y cenar pescado frito en el más exclusivo cuchitril de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Roosevelt Avenue&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;, Queens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Espero hacer lo que me venga en gana a cada momento. Y espero que de una vez por todas los &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yankees &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;jueguen en casa un partido oficial, me lo deben. I Hope. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo: Ned Flanders. Summer of 2006. Columbus Circle. NYC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4616164715027182371?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4616164715027182371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4616164715027182371' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4616164715027182371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4616164715027182371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/08/still-crazy-after-all-these-years-lo.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SJjpgand2qI/AAAAAAAAAXE/5zqotAOeJOQ/s72-c/F1000007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1916467049902798341</id><published>2008-07-25T01:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-26T10:55:48.142+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;My favorite girls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="350" height="287"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8ONH3hIjO3c&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8ONH3hIjO3c&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="287"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've always thought that's the best song ever -&lt;em&gt;In fact, and just like many other songs, it depends on the day- .&lt;/em&gt; Ladies and gentlemen, from the Motown Factory -Detroit- ....&lt;strong&gt;The Ronettes&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1916467049902798341?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1916467049902798341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1916467049902798341' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1916467049902798341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1916467049902798341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-fauvorites-girls.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6408701240379802727</id><published>2008-07-16T21:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T19:09:55.650+01:00</updated><title type='text'>REALLY?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SH9a1HC1mlI/AAAAAAAAAWc/JY4VbNJjTRg/s1600-h/lazo-negro%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223993961243581010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SH9a1HC1mlI/AAAAAAAAAWc/JY4VbNJjTRg/s400/lazo-negro%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's to you, Ehud and Eldad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see trees of green, red roses too&lt;br /&gt;I see them bloom, for me and you&lt;br /&gt;And I think to myself&lt;br /&gt;What a wonderful world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see skies of blue, and clouds of white&lt;br /&gt;The bright blessed day, dark sacred night&lt;br /&gt;And I think to myself&lt;br /&gt;What a wonderful world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky&lt;br /&gt;Are also on the faces, of people going by&lt;br /&gt;I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"&lt;br /&gt;They're really sayin', "I love you"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow&lt;br /&gt;They'll learn much more, than I'll ever know&lt;br /&gt;And I think to myself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What a wonderful world ???&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6408701240379802727?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6408701240379802727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6408701240379802727' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6408701240379802727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6408701240379802727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/07/really.html' title='REALLY?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SH9a1HC1mlI/AAAAAAAAAWc/JY4VbNJjTRg/s72-c/lazo-negro%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7191233442376828259</id><published>2008-07-10T08:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-14T09:40:30.951+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rise and fall of Takeru Kobayashi &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nothing lasts forever. Durante seis años consecutivos, los que van de 2001 a 2006, el nombre de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Takeru Kobayashi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; apareció en lo más alto del &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nathan's Eating Contest Wall of Fame&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Nadie le hacía sombra hasta que un 4 de julio de 2007 llegó &lt;strong&gt;Joey Chesnut&lt;/strong&gt;, un desconocido californiano, y &lt;em&gt;mandó a callar, &lt;/em&gt;cargándose de un plumazo uno de los récords más asombrosos de los registrados por la &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;International Federation Eating, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;al comerse 66 &lt;em&gt;hot dogs &lt;/em&gt;en 10 minutos, hazaña únicamente comparable al récord de hits de &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DiMaggio&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;en 1941. El pasado 4 de julio, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Takeru&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;tuvo la oportunidad de redimirse&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; pero tras un disputado combate que acabó en empate a 59 hot dogs, fue batido nuevamente por &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chesnut&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;en una prórroga consistente en devorar 5 perritos en el menor tiempo posible. Y ahí, &lt;strong&gt;Joey,&lt;/strong&gt; cinco años más joven y treinta kilos más pesado que su rival&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; no dió opcion a la vieja gloria. Renovó su título y con ello enterró a uno de los pocos mitos vivientes de la decadente &lt;strong&gt;Coney Island&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_V-2NKUlzns&amp;amp;hl=" fs="1" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A pesar de la derrota y de su origen japonés, &lt;strong&gt;Takeru&lt;/strong&gt; forma parte por derecho propio de la memoria colectiva americana. Solo los elegidos son capaces de comerse &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;8.03 kg de cerebros de vaca&lt;/span&gt; en 15 minutos, &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;100 bollos de pan chino&lt;/span&gt; en 10 minutos, batirse en duelo gastronómico con un oso de Kodiak, y establecer un estratosférico record mundial al zamparse &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;97 hamburgurguesas&lt;/span&gt; en quince minutos. Pero como ya hemos tenido oportunidad de ver, la vida es dura e ingrata, y todo lo que empieza tiene un final. Todos los analistas coinciden en que el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yellow Mustard Belt,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; el trofeo más preciado por cualquier &lt;strong&gt;competitive eater&lt;/strong&gt; tiene dueño para años. Su nombre es &lt;strong&gt;Joey&lt;/strong&gt;. Nothing lasts forever&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Not even you, Takeru. &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;Good Luck...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7191233442376828259?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7191233442376828259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7191233442376828259' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7191233442376828259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7191233442376828259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/07/bringing-mustard-yellow-belt-back-home.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5913658977604926274</id><published>2008-07-06T17:39:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T23:05:21.757+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;A sunny Sunday afternoon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SHD1Eq1iEbI/AAAAAAAAAUc/xtqsjTSlACk/s1600-h/F1000009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219941428689506738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SHD1Eq1iEbI/AAAAAAAAAUc/xtqsjTSlACk/s400/F1000009.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;But there is one thing about it -once you have lived in New York, and it has become your home, no place else is good enough".&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Steinbeck, New York Magazine, Feb, 1, 1953&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders, May 2007.Slow traffic at Central Park West, NYC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5913658977604926274?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5913658977604926274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5913658977604926274' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5913658977604926274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5913658977604926274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-york-is-ugly-city-dirty-city.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SHD1Eq1iEbI/AAAAAAAAAUc/xtqsjTSlACk/s72-c/F1000009.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8895394897632028497</id><published>2008-07-04T09:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T00:06:08.801+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;We hold these truths to be self-evident&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;, that all men are created equal,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; that they are endowed by their Creator&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; with certain unalienable Rights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;, that among these are &lt;strong&gt;Life, Liberty&lt;/strong&gt; and the pursuit oh &lt;strong&gt;Happiness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/s/pOvub6qJwz_h_YUgETSW3f4PexVZ6Rpg?referrer=hlnk" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Pon fotos sin limite en slide.com GRATIS!!!" alt="Pon fotos sin limite en slide.com GRATIS!!!" src="http://widget.slide.com/rdr/1/1/1/W/2300000000bd0740/1/0/QDBFVQxBjz_UL1M0fZMd_uiDuBYBGQoP.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, &lt;strong&gt;That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States..&lt;/strong&gt;. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;July 4, 1776&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;To my country and its people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders. August of 2006. Statue of Liberty . Liberty Island. Upper New York Bay. NYC.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8895394897632028497?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8895394897632028497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8895394897632028497' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8895394897632028497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8895394897632028497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/07/for-my-country-for-its-people-ha-ppy.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-762595867223295911</id><published>2008-07-03T12:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-03T15:40:24.054+01:00</updated><title type='text'>IN THE EVE...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AE3kKUEY5WU&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AE3kKUEY5WU&amp;hl=es&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;And I dreamed I was dying&lt;br /&gt;I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly&lt;br /&gt;And looking back down at me&lt;br /&gt;Smiled reassuringly&lt;br /&gt;And I dreamed I was flying&lt;br /&gt;And high up above my eyes could clearly see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Statue of Liberty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sailing away to sea&lt;br /&gt;And I dreamed I was flying&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We come on the ship they call the &lt;strong&gt;Mayflower &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We come on the ship that sailed the moon&lt;br /&gt;We come in the age's most uncertain hours&lt;br /&gt;and sing an &lt;strong&gt;American tune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Oh, and it's alright, it's all right, it's all right&lt;br /&gt;You can't be forever blessed&lt;br /&gt;Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day&lt;br /&gt;And I'm trying to get some rest&lt;br /&gt;That's all I'm trying to get, some rest &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;American Tune. Paul Simon 1973.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Complet Lyrics: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/american+tune_20124677.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/simon+and+garfunkel/american+tune_20124677.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-762595867223295911?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/762595867223295911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=762595867223295911' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/762595867223295911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/762595867223295911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-eve.html' title='IN THE EVE...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3698424237105468129</id><published>2008-06-23T17:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-13T17:22:57.685+01:00</updated><title type='text'>summer in the city</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SHorAUdZLQI/AAAAAAAAAVM/rOfCZrh04qU/s1600-h/F1000020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222534002381499650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SHorAUdZLQI/AAAAAAAAAVM/rOfCZrh04qU/s400/F1000020.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slide.com/s/ynrEIQoo5j9XX4dnubNkX7S9KimrzCny?referrer=hlnk" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And the summer came, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;New York&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; summer, which is like no summer anywhere. The heat and the noise began their destruction of nerves and sanity and private lives and love affairs. The air was full of baseballs scores and bad news and treacly songs; and the streets and the bars were full of hostile people, made more hostile by the heat...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;James Baldwin, &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Another country&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders. Angel of the Waters Fountain at Bethesda Terrace. Central Park, NYC. Summer of 2007.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3698424237105468129?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3698424237105468129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3698424237105468129' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3698424237105468129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3698424237105468129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-summer-came-new-york-summer-which.html' title='summer in the city'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SHorAUdZLQI/AAAAAAAAAVM/rOfCZrh04qU/s72-c/F1000020.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2262576947186121019</id><published>2008-06-12T22:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T21:51:50.749+01:00</updated><title type='text'>EAST SIDE STORY</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SFUK5l6CsCI/AAAAAAAAATs/9JH8xPNZ7-E/s1600-h/USArussia[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212084128295596066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SFUK5l6CsCI/AAAAAAAAATs/9JH8xPNZ7-E/s400/USArussia%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Between 1880 and 1920 most of the two million Jews from Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans who arrived in the United States settled in New York and made their homes on the Lower East Side. They lived in the thousands of tenements thrown up cheaply and quickly by small builders. They were usually five stories tall, with four tiny apartments on each floor. Large families and their borders were squeezzed into the ill-lit and crowded rooms. With little fresh air and minimal plumbing, sanitation was inadequate and health inevitably suffered. High infant mortality rates and widespread tuberculosis testified to the shocking conditions. Nonetheless, Jewis culture and religion flourished. Hundreds of synagogues and religious schools were established, ritual baths built, and religious goods manufactured. There were Yiddish theather companies and literary societies, Yiddish and Hebrew publishers, and Yiddish newspapers: the most famous was &lt;em&gt;The Jewish Daily Forward. &lt;/em&gt;Jews who had emigrated from the same village or town or city in europe set up &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;landsmenschaften,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; social and mutual aid groups which provided insurance, burial benefits and even cemeteries. New arrivals in the Lower East Side settled into their new lives with the assistance of &lt;strong&gt;Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Jewish immigrants earned their living in a variety of ways. They sold goods from pushcarts, operated restaurants, and small retail shops and a great number worked in the garment industry. Children and adults often labored from dawn to dark in their small apartments doing piecework, paid by the number of items they had completed... They also worked in sweatshops-workshops that were squeezed into tenement apartments or loft buildings- and were crowded, poorly-lit, stifling in summer and cold in winter. Wages were low and hours long. ..Real progress was not made until the tragedy of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Triangle Shirtwaist Company&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; factory fire on March 25, 1911, when 146 immigrants, many of them Jews, died. Their deaths eventually led to many reforms in both buildings and fire-code safety regulations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Nevertheless, Jewish immigrants were eager to be assimilated into American life. Some of them too quickly. If you can, read &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yekl. A Tale of the New York Ghetto&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;written in 1896 by &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Abraham Cahan's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; , Russian-American novelist emigrated to the United States to escape the mass roundups of revolutionaries following the assasinations of Russia's tsar Alexander II. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yekl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the story of a callow young immigrant who sloughs off many of his Old World values while adopting superficial aspects of the new American life, ending with an uneasy feeling about his future...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Source: The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History, The Encyclopedia of New York City, Wikipedia and Ned Flanders.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2262576947186121019?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2262576947186121019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2262576947186121019' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2262576947186121019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2262576947186121019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/06/coming-soon-hester-street.html' title='EAST SIDE STORY'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SFUK5l6CsCI/AAAAAAAAATs/9JH8xPNZ7-E/s72-c/USArussia%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2313752065040196934</id><published>2008-06-10T18:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T18:34:45.595+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE66-A11W8I/AAAAAAAAATY/JhmsGRYIqVg/s1600-h/images%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210307393454693314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE66-A11W8I/AAAAAAAAATY/JhmsGRYIqVg/s400/images%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE66f2hdN0I/AAAAAAAAATQ/Z0R0_f-w1_0/s1600-h/images%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2313752065040196934?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2313752065040196934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2313752065040196934' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2313752065040196934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2313752065040196934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/06/baseball-is-ninety-percent-mental.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE66-A11W8I/AAAAAAAAATY/JhmsGRYIqVg/s72-c/images%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4884988402953704142</id><published>2008-06-07T18:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T15:27:23.579+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE09ffhDu-I/AAAAAAAAATI/icMhPm7FuWo/s1600-h/Children_Playing_at_Softball_Field-Alley_Pond_Park-Queens-September_1-1940-Rodney_McCay_Morgan-New_York_City_Parks_Photo_Archive%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209887955182926818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE09ffhDu-I/AAAAAAAAATI/icMhPm7FuWo/s400/Children_Playing_at_Softball_Field-Alley_Pond_Park-Queens-September_1-1940-Rodney_McCay_Morgan-New_York_City_Parks_Photo_Archive%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;It was all sort of easy, it had all come and gone, the snowstorms, the street lamps telling us there was no school at midnight, the couch, the heater with all of us rolled up beside it in the thick blankets, the dogs, it was lovely,... studying the cub scout handbook, playing Ping-Pong, reading National Geographic. &lt;strong&gt;Mickey Mantle&lt;/strong&gt; was my hero and &lt;strong&gt;Joan Marfe&lt;/strong&gt; was the girl i liked best. It all ended with a &lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;bang... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;There was a song called &lt;strong&gt;"Runaway&lt;/strong&gt;" by a guy named &lt;strong&gt;Del Shannon&lt;/strong&gt; playing one Saturday at the Baseball field. I remember it was a beautiful spring day and we were young back then and really alive and the air smelled fresh...This song was playing and I really got into it and was hitting baseballs and feeling like I could live forever&lt;/em&gt;. (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4884988402953704142?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4884988402953704142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4884988402953704142' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4884988402953704142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4884988402953704142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/06/it-was-all-sort-of-easy-it-had-all-come.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SE09ffhDu-I/AAAAAAAAATI/icMhPm7FuWo/s72-c/Children_Playing_at_Softball_Field-Alley_Pond_Park-Queens-September_1-1940-Rodney_McCay_Morgan-New_York_City_Parks_Photo_Archive%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3244120249153185994</id><published>2008-06-07T00:45:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T00:45:47.683+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Let your innocence fly -part 2-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/ojjv6wA11Go' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/ojjv6wA11Go'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A dragon lives forever but not so little boys...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3244120249153185994?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3244120249153185994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3244120249153185994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3244120249153185994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3244120249153185994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/06/let-your-innocence-fly-part-2.html' title='Let your innocence fly -part 2-'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6852635486002155649</id><published>2008-06-04T09:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T21:47:28.914+01:00</updated><title type='text'>that's gonna be the end ... of everything</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SEZVFZp1oQI/AAAAAAAAASE/b12Jn2muy6w/s1600-h/candidates-boxing-w[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207943570374631682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SEZVFZp1oQI/AAAAAAAAASE/b12Jn2muy6w/s400/candidates-boxing-w%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;God bless my underwear, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My only pair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stand beside them, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And guide them,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Through the rips, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Through the holes, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Through the tears.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From the washer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To the dryer, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to the clothesline in the air.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;God bless my underwear, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My only pair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6852635486002155649?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6852635486002155649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6852635486002155649' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6852635486002155649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6852635486002155649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/06/god-bless-my-underwear-my-only-pair.html' title='that&apos;s gonna be the end ... of everything'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SEZVFZp1oQI/AAAAAAAAASE/b12Jn2muy6w/s72-c/candidates-boxing-w%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6038562017316872656</id><published>2008-05-29T00:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T22:50:54.776+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I’ll be sittin' when the evenin' comes...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SD3k3DrstfI/AAAAAAAAAR0/dNzEXRarGBA/s1600-h/F1030024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205568378842691058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SD3k3DrstfI/AAAAAAAAAR0/dNzEXRarGBA/s400/F1030024.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look like nothing's gonna change&lt;br /&gt;Everything still remains the same&lt;br /&gt;I can't do what ten people tell me to do&lt;br /&gt;So I guess I'll remain the same, yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sittin' here resting my bones&lt;br /&gt;And this loneliness won't leave me alone&lt;br /&gt;It's two thousand miles I roamed&lt;br /&gt;Just to make this dock my home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay&lt;br /&gt;Watching the tide roll away&lt;br /&gt;Sittin' on the dock of the bay&lt;br /&gt;Wastin' time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders. Coney Island Boardwalk. August  2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6038562017316872656?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6038562017316872656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6038562017316872656' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6038562017316872656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6038562017316872656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/sittin-here-resting-my-bones-and-this.html' title='I’ll be sittin&apos; when the evenin&apos; comes...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SD3k3DrstfI/AAAAAAAAAR0/dNzEXRarGBA/s72-c/F1030024.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7805358219161436687</id><published>2008-05-26T16:34:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T16:34:38.421+01:00</updated><title type='text'>From California to the New York Island</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/_W-PxBd-MtI' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/_W-PxBd-MtI'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I was walking a ribbon of highway&lt;br /&gt;I saw above me an endless skyway&lt;br /&gt;I saw below me a golden valley&lt;br /&gt;This land was made for you and me&lt;br /&gt;This land is your land, this land is my land&lt;br /&gt;From California, to the New York Island&lt;br /&gt;From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters&lt;br /&gt;This land was made for you and me&lt;br /&gt;I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps&lt;br /&gt;To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts&lt;br /&gt;And all around me a voice was sounding&lt;br /&gt;This land was made for you and me&lt;br /&gt;As I was walkin'  -  I saw a sign there&lt;br /&gt;And that sign said - no tress passin'&lt;br /&gt;But on the other side  .... it didn't say nothin!&lt;br /&gt;Now that side was made for you and me!&lt;br /&gt;In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple&lt;br /&gt;Near the relief office - I see my people&lt;br /&gt;And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'&lt;br /&gt;If this land's still made for you and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7805358219161436687?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7805358219161436687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7805358219161436687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7805358219161436687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7805358219161436687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/from-california-to-new-york-island.html' title='From California to the New York Island'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3578860954530966066</id><published>2008-05-24T11:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T08:54:42.986+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SDguBDrstdI/AAAAAAAAARk/dXgAn1eJl9Y/s1600-h/1211624465_extras_albumes_0[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203959965129946578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SDguBDrstdI/AAAAAAAAARk/dXgAn1eJl9Y/s400/1211624465_extras_albumes_0%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SDf3UDrstcI/AAAAAAAAARc/bFNVBDjKGyU/s1600-h/silbermann-henri-brooklyn-bridge-4800186[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;La ciudad de Nueva York tiene 2098 puentes, pero sólo uno, el que une &lt;strong&gt;City Hall Park&lt;/strong&gt; en Lower Manhattan con &lt;strong&gt;Brooklyn Heights,&lt;/strong&gt; es el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Great Bridge".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Ninguna otra estructura en el mundo ha sido tantas veces fotografiada, pintada o litografiada ni ha aparecido en tantas películas como el &lt;strong&gt;Brooklyn Bridge&lt;/strong&gt;. Hasta 1903 fue el puente suspendido más largo del mundo, y - junto con el &lt;strong&gt;Golden Gate &lt;/strong&gt;de&lt;strong&gt; San Francisco&lt;/strong&gt;-, escenifica como ninguno el matrimonio entre funcionalidad y belleza. Esta semana ha cumplido &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;125 años. ¿Quieren visitarlo? ....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Cojan las líneas A, C, o E del metro en una tarde de verano. Su parada se llama &lt;strong&gt;High Street Station&lt;/strong&gt;. Ya están en &lt;strong&gt;Brooklyn.&lt;/strong&gt; Desciendan 200 metros por &lt;strong&gt;Old Fulton ,&lt;/strong&gt; giren en &lt;strong&gt;Water &lt;/strong&gt;, y al final de &lt;strong&gt;New Dock Street&lt;/strong&gt;, junto al río, tomen asiento y relájense. Enciendan un cigarro, aunque no fumen. No intenten comparar lo que tienen ante sus ojos con nada que hayan visto antes, -les llevaría horas- ni quieran beberse de un trago el espectáculo que ofrecen el &lt;strong&gt;puente&lt;/strong&gt;, el &lt;strong&gt;East River,&lt;/strong&gt; y al fondo, &lt;strong&gt;Lower Manhattan&lt;/strong&gt;. Take it easy...No hagan fotos para enseñar a sus amistades. No tendrán nada que ver con la realidad. No dejen que caiga la noche ya que entonces no querrán marcharse . Si están de humor y les sobran algunos dólares, tomen algo en el &lt;strong&gt;River Café&lt;/strong&gt;, el restaurante flotante con las vistas más exclusivas del mundo&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Cuando de vuelta enfilen la empinada &lt;strong&gt;Old Fulton&lt;/strong&gt;, no podrán evitar volver la vista atrás cada dos segundos, porque intentarán que su memoria no borre ni un ápice de lo que acaban de presenciar. El mejor skyline de la galaxia. La obra de millones de invisibles y silenciosos héroes urbanos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3578860954530966066?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3578860954530966066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3578860954530966066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3578860954530966066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3578860954530966066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/la-ciudad-de-nueva-york-tiene-2098.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SDguBDrstdI/AAAAAAAAARk/dXgAn1eJl9Y/s72-c/1211624465_extras_albumes_0%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6811940177962259076</id><published>2008-05-17T14:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-18T05:22:33.802+01:00</updated><title type='text'>E PLURIBUS HOT DOG</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SC7undg-taI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/SahArTjcGwA/s1600-h/coneyisland01-lg%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201356981364766114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SC7undg-taI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/SahArTjcGwA/s320/coneyisland01-lg%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ironías de la vida. En un paraíso gastronómico como &lt;strong&gt;Nueva York&lt;/strong&gt;, la comida clásica entre las clásicas es un humilde &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;hot dog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; cocinado en un carro callejero. Introducido en un bollo de pan tierno, y aderezado con mostaza, cebolla y col fermentada, el &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;hot dog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; exuda la esencia de la ciudad como ningún otro alimento puede hacerlo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Al igual que ocurre con otros prodigiosos inventos de la humanidad, los orígenes del &lt;strong&gt;hot dog&lt;/strong&gt; están rodeados de un halo de misterio. No hay consenso ni sobre quien lo inventó ni sobre el por qué de su nombre. La discusión podría llevarnos semanas, dado que el último congreso de expertos celebrado en una pequeña localidad del condado de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Walworth, Wisconsin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, no arrojó luz alguna al respecto. De lo que no existe duda alguna es del lugar en que alcanzó la fama: el paseo marítimo entablado de &lt;strong&gt;Coney Island, Brooklyn&lt;/strong&gt;. Allí, a finales de la década de 1860, y en una fecha exacta sin determinar, un inmigrante alemán llamado &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles Feltman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, trabajador intachable, esposo y padre ejemplar, añadió un hornillo a su carro de venta ambulante de empanadas de carne y comenzó la venta de salchichas calientes mientras recorría la playa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Animado por las ventas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, Feltman&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;invirtió todos sus ahorros en adquirir un restaurante situado en la &lt;strong&gt;Calle 10 Oeste&lt;/strong&gt;, en el que instaló siete parrillas que a diario cocinaban miles de perros calientes que vendía a &lt;strong&gt;10 centavos&lt;/strong&gt; la unidad. Todo iba a las mil maravillas hasta que uno de sus más antiguos y leales trabajadores, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nathan Handwerker,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; viendo que el futuro estaba en la salchicha, y consumando el que es considerado primer acto de espionaje industrial de la historia moderna, decidió independizarse . En 1906, &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nathan &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;compró &lt;/span&gt;un local en &lt;strong&gt;Surf Avenue&lt;/strong&gt; desde donde empezó a vender sus propios perros calientes. Dos fueron las clave de su éxito: el precio -&lt;em&gt;cobraba únicamente &lt;strong&gt;cinco centavos, la mitad que el bueno de Feltman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;- y el hecho de que la salida de la línea de metro recién construida desembocara justo enfrente de su establecimiento. Al poco tiempo, el local de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feltman,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;acuciado por la feroz desleal competencia de &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Handwerker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;cerró sus puertas. Fue así como de una traición, nació la leyenda de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;Nathan's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se estima que hasta los años 50 &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nathan's &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;ll&lt;/span&gt;egó&lt;/span&gt; a vender más de 100 millones de perros calientes cada verano. Incluso ahora, cuando &lt;strong&gt;Coney Island&lt;/strong&gt; ya no es ni la sombra de lo que fue, el establecimiento de &lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nathan's&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; en &lt;strong&gt;Surf Avenue&lt;/strong&gt; vende más de dos millones de hot dogs al año. A nivel de la ciudad, y a pesar de las incursiones del &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;falafel, el kebab y el gyro&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, los carros de venta de &lt;strong&gt;hot dog &lt;/strong&gt;suponen más de un 70 % de los 4.000 autorizados por el Departamento de Salud Pública. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ninguno de los que hoy empujan esos carritos se acuerda de &lt;span style="color:#660000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Feltman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Ni falta que les hace. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Yeah, ... today is one of these days that I don't really know what to write ... I'm sorry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6811940177962259076?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6811940177962259076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6811940177962259076' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6811940177962259076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6811940177962259076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-pluribus-hot-dog.html' title='E PLURIBUS HOT DOG'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SC7undg-taI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/SahArTjcGwA/s72-c/coneyisland01-lg%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6153385435051431841</id><published>2008-05-17T12:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-17T12:07:30.745+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SC68Y9g-tYI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ok1aTwZSIWc/s1600-h/US_Airways_500%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201301756675274114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SC68Y9g-tYI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ok1aTwZSIWc/s400/US_Airways_500%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6153385435051431841?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6153385435051431841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6153385435051431841' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6153385435051431841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6153385435051431841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SC68Y9g-tYI/AAAAAAAAAQs/ok1aTwZSIWc/s72-c/US_Airways_500%5B1%5D.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1062452927379967122</id><published>2008-05-04T10:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-17T12:09:22.673+01:00</updated><title type='text'>THE EMPEROR OF THE CITY</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SCcr19g-tXI/AAAAAAAAAQk/s3-BDEM_yxU/s1600-h/giulian_rudy_time_magazine%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199172500868478322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SCcr19g-tXI/AAAAAAAAAQk/s3-BDEM_yxU/s400/giulian_rudy_time_magazine%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Cuando &lt;em&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;The Village Voice"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; , revista pseudointelectualoide que se caracteriza por contener la mayor oferta de anuncios sexuales de Estados Unidos te dedica una portada y bajo tu foto aparece el titular "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;heartless bastard",&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; that's something&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Cuando una ciudad de voto eminentemente demócrata elige como alcalde a un republicano por una abrumadora mayoría durante dos mandatos, that's something. Rudolph Giuliani - Rudy to New Yorkers- es un tipo enérgico, una persona que supo lo que era correcto, y que no dudaría en mandarte a tomar por saco si eso es lo que piensa. No ha habido un político más agresivo en la historia de la ciudad ni con tanta fama de llamar a las cosas por su nombre. Siempre estuvo del lado de la policia, y se preocupó de que las diferentes comunidades de la ciudad lo tuvieran bien claro. Demostró ser terriblemente efectivo eliminando todo aquello en lo que Nueva York se había convertido en las últimas tres décadas antes de ser elegido alcalde en 1994. En aquella época los signos de declive social eran más que evidentes. La disminución de la población, la delincuencia, la prostitución, el tráfico de drogas, el lamentable estado de las finanzas municipales y las todavía no resueltas tensiones raciales y étnicas, habían convertido a Nueva York en sinónimo de ingobernabilidad. La ciudad se había convertido en una carga demasiado pesada para los políticos, pero -debió pensar Rudy- a pesar de ser díscola y sórdida, era Nueva York, y tenía un skyline para morirse.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Con anterioridad, Giuliani se había forjado una gran reputación como fiscal persiguiendo a las cinco familias de la Mafia y a los corruptos de Wall Street, como Michael Milken, creador de los bonos basura, y lo primero que hizo al llegar a la alcaldía fue preocuparse de enviar a la cárcel a los políticos corruptos de la época de su antecesor, Ed Koch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;La manera en que reaccionó Giuliani el 11 de septiembre de 2001, cómo mantuvo unida a la ciudad a pesar del desastre, mostró una cara del Alcalde totalmente desconocida para la gente. Un periodista que estaba con Rudy aquella mañana, y que junto a él tuvo que salir corriendo al derrumbarse la torre norte, relató que le impresionó la calma que mostró en todo momento. Aquel día, los neoyorkinos vieron en él un seguro de vida en medio de tanta confusión.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Un cáncer de próstata diagnosticado en 2002 le impidió presentar su candidatura al Senado, dejando a Hillary Rodman Clinton vía libre...Desde entonces, su papel en la política de la ciudad y del estado se ha diluído. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1062452927379967122?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1062452927379967122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1062452927379967122' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1062452927379967122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1062452927379967122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/emperor-of-city.html' title='THE EMPEROR OF THE CITY'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SCcr19g-tXI/AAAAAAAAAQk/s3-BDEM_yxU/s72-c/giulian_rudy_time_magazine%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7838169375635567449</id><published>2008-05-03T16:25:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-03T16:25:56.182+01:00</updated><title type='text'>YOU KNOW WHY...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/0o6QKpNK9Cc' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/0o6QKpNK9Cc'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion - er, no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. - Yes. - To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. - Er, tsch, no, missed out something. - Chapter One. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. - No, no, corny, too corny for a man of my taste. Can we ... can we try and make it more profound? - Chapter One. He adored New York City. To him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in ... - no, that's a little bit too preachy. I mean, you know, let's face it, I want to sell some books here. - Chapter One. He adored New York City, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage ... - Too angry. I don't want to be angry. - Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. - I love this. - New York was his town, and it always would be ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7838169375635567449?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7838169375635567449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7838169375635567449' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7838169375635567449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7838169375635567449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/05/you-know-why.html' title='YOU KNOW WHY...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4614435662065509047</id><published>2008-04-28T00:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T21:31:02.065+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SBUPtMryOQI/AAAAAAAAAQc/yQFtVhnI4UQ/s1600-h/F1020024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194075014415137026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SBUPtMryOQI/AAAAAAAAAQc/yQFtVhnI4UQ/s400/F1020024.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Once I lived the life of a millionaire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Spent all my money, I just did not care.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Took all my friends out for a good time,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bought bootleg whisky, champagne and wine. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then I began to fall so low,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lost all my good friends, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I did not have nowhere to go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I get my hands on a dollar again,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm gonna hang on to it till that eagle grins. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Cause no, no, nobody knows you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When you're down and out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In your pocket, not one penny,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And as for friends, you don't have any. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When you finally get back up on your feet again,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everybody wants to be your old long-lost friend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Said it's mighty strange, without a doubt,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nobody knows you when you're down and out. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When you finally get back upon your feet again,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everybody wants to be your good old long-lost friend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Said it's mighty strange,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nobody knows you, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nobody knows you when you're down and out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders: Somewhere in Harlem, NYC. Summer of 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4614435662065509047?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4614435662065509047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4614435662065509047' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4614435662065509047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4614435662065509047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/04/once-i-lived-life-of-millionairespent.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SBUPtMryOQI/AAAAAAAAAQc/yQFtVhnI4UQ/s72-c/F1020024.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5199652792062364401</id><published>2008-04-24T12:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-25T09:18:02.393+01:00</updated><title type='text'>THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE ON THE EARTH</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SBCpEMryOPI/AAAAAAAAAQU/vZcqDo4jsek/s1600-h/gehrig.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192836259947624690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SBCpEMryOPI/AAAAAAAAAQU/vZcqDo4jsek/s400/gehrig.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;Lou Gehrig&lt;/strong&gt; no se le recordará por haber sido el mejor primera base de la historia del baseball, ni el por el récord de 2.130 juegos consecutivos disputados -que se mantuvo por 56 años- ni por el récord de Grand Slams vigente a fecha de hoy. Tampoco por haber sido el primer jugador al que un equipo le retira el dorsal, ni por supuesto, por haber entrado en el &lt;strong&gt;National Baseball Hall Of Fame&lt;/strong&gt; con tan solo 36 años (el más joven en lograrlo). Hasta la llegada de &lt;strong&gt;Joe DiMaggio&lt;/strong&gt; en 1936, &lt;strong&gt;Gehrig&lt;/strong&gt; –&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AKA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Iron Horse, AKA The Pride of the Yankees&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;- fue la estrella indiscutible de los &lt;strong&gt;Yankees&lt;/strong&gt; de &lt;strong&gt;Nueva York&lt;/strong&gt;. Pero un mal día de 1938 su cuerpo dijo basta. Le acababa de visitar una mala amiga, la esclerosis lateral amórfica, conocida hoy como enfermedad de Gehrig. Le dieron  tres años de vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El 21 de junio de 1939 los &lt;strong&gt;Yankees &lt;/strong&gt;anunciaron oficialmente su retirada. Conscientes del cariño que el público neoyorquino sentía hacia &lt;strong&gt;Gehrig,&lt;/strong&gt; se decidió prepararle la mejor de las despedidas posibles. La fecha elegida fue el &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 de julio de 1939&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; y el lugar, el &lt;strong&gt;Yankee Stadium&lt;/strong&gt;. Allí se le realizó un homenaje al que acudieron más de 60.000 personas. Tras recibir numerosos regalos, que a duras penas podía ya sostener en sus debilitados brazos y de ser retirado definitivamente su uniforme con el número 4 , &lt;strong&gt;Lou&lt;/strong&gt; tomó el micrófono y, con el tono y las palabras de quien siente la proximidad de la muerte pronunció entre sollozos uno de esos discursos improvisados que erizan el vello y que es considerado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;el momento más emotivo en la historia del deporte de los Estados Unidos: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Queridos fans: Durante las dos últimas semanas habréis estado leyendo sobre lo que me pasa. A pesar de ello, hoy me considero el hombre más afortunado sobre la faz de la tierra. Después de diecisiete años sobre los campos de baseball, no he recibido de vosotros más que comprensión y apoyo... Hasta los &lt;strong&gt;New York Giants&lt;/strong&gt;, a los que siempre he deseado romperles el brazo –y viceversa- me han entregado una placa ..., y eso significa algo. Todos los trabajadores del estadio y los cuidadores del césped me han entregado un trofeo,... y eso es algo grande. Tengo una suegra maravillosa que se pone de mi parte incluso cuando discuto con su propia hija, y eso significa mucho, y un padre y una madre que se han esforzado toda su vida para darme una educación,... eso es una bendición. ...Y tengo una esposa fuerte como una torre y que muestra más corage del que jamás soñé que existía ...y eso es lo mejor que me ha pasado..... Así que me despido... tal vez me hayan dado un duro golpe, pero todavía me quedan un montón de cosas por vivir. Gracias" .&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Cuentan que ni uno solo de los asistentes al acto pudo contener las lágrimas y que hasta su enemigo irreconciliable, el gran &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Babe Ruth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, con el que no se hablaba desde hacía diez años, le abrazó y le dijo: &lt;strong&gt;"&lt;em&gt;I Love You, Truly". &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;El 2 de junio de 1941, dieciséis años después de reemplazar a &lt;strong&gt;Wally Pip&lt;/strong&gt; como primera base, &lt;strong&gt;Henry Louis Gehrig&lt;/strong&gt; murió en su casa del &lt;strong&gt;Bronx&lt;/strong&gt;. Tenía 37 años. El entonces Alcalde , &lt;strong&gt;Fiorello LaGuardia, &lt;/strong&gt;ordenó que todas las banderas de la ciudad de &lt;strong&gt;Nueva York&lt;/strong&gt; ondearan a media asta. That's the &lt;strong&gt;Lou Gehrig's &lt;/strong&gt;History. No hablaré más de los &lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yankees&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; I promise. Well, in fact, I'll just try...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7vya1NrHyXE"&gt;http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7vya1NrHyXE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lougehrig.com/about/speech.htm"&gt;http://www.lougehrig.com/about/speech.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5199652792062364401?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5199652792062364401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5199652792062364401' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5199652792062364401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5199652792062364401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/04/pride-of-yankees.html' title='THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE ON THE EARTH'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SBCpEMryOPI/AAAAAAAAAQU/vZcqDo4jsek/s72-c/gehrig.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4634376325103370888</id><published>2008-04-18T12:15:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T11:48:17.654+01:00</updated><title type='text'>BRINGING HOME THE BACON</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAi6lgaQTXI/AAAAAAAAAO4/JdpOe6bpBxY/s1600-h/06.04.05.LottofPork-X%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190603724062477682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAi6lgaQTXI/AAAAAAAAAO4/JdpOe6bpBxY/s320/06.04.05.LottofPork-X%5B1%5D.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAi6TgaQTWI/AAAAAAAAAOw/wzsnOYOBjQg/s1600-h/06.04.05.LottofPork-X%5B1%5D.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Acaba de hacerse público que el Gobierno Federal Americano, a iniciativa de diferentes parlamentarios, se ha gastado tres millones de dólares en un interesante estudio sobre el ADN del &lt;strong&gt;oso grizzly&lt;/strong&gt; de &lt;strong&gt;Montana&lt;/strong&gt;, un millón de dólares en proyectar un museo dedicado a conmemorar el festival de &lt;strong&gt;Woodstock&lt;/strong&gt; de 1969 y no se sabe cuánto en el llamado &lt;strong&gt;"&lt;em&gt;bridge to nowhere&lt;/em&gt;",&lt;/strong&gt; que une un islote deshabitado de &lt;strong&gt;Alaska&lt;/strong&gt; con tierra firme. Tres claros ejemplos de lo que se conoce como &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;pork barrel politics&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;o lo que es lo mismo, la aprobación deprisa y corriendo de proyectos que comportan unos gastos injustificables desde la óptica de la razón con el único fin de premiar a un determinado grupo de personas o empresas que durante la campaña han mostrado su claro apoyo al político en cuestión. El término &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;pork barrel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; proviene del siglo dieciocho, cuando en las plantaciones sureñas era común premiar al esclavo más trabajador con un barril de cerdo en sal, lo que provocaba auténticas competiciones entre ellos. Y de ahí a nuestros días, ejemplos a miles. Lo curioso, o no, es que históricamente la palma en la práctica del &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;pork barrel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; se la llevan de calle los miembros del partido demócrata. Por todo ello no es de extrañar que el senador &lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;McCain&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;haya aconsejado a &lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"&lt;em&gt;los hippies que quieran revivir Woodstock"&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;que se compren el disco, &lt;/span&gt;y que desde la tribuna de oradores del Senado haya recreado un diálogo entre un biólogo de &lt;strong&gt;Montana&lt;/strong&gt; y un &lt;strong&gt;oso grizzly&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;"Please, Mr. bear: That bear cub over there claims you are his father, and we need to take your DNA."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;O tiene mucho sentido común o es un cachondo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4634376325103370888?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4634376325103370888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4634376325103370888' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4634376325103370888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4634376325103370888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/04/bringing-home-bacon.html' title='BRINGING HOME THE BACON'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAi6lgaQTXI/AAAAAAAAAO4/JdpOe6bpBxY/s72-c/06.04.05.LottofPork-X%5B1%5D.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6589735966114750919</id><published>2008-04-08T23:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T21:32:44.332+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S A LAW FIRM!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_vtksZqZdI/AAAAAAAAANs/S_6xa2VGoE8/s1600-h/F1020010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187000610497127890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_vtksZqZdI/AAAAAAAAANs/S_6xa2VGoE8/s320/F1020010.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Lawyer, Shoe repairer, Realtor, and Baby-sitter.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders. August 2006&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Somewhere in Harlem, NYC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6589735966114750919?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6589735966114750919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6589735966114750919' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6589735966114750919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6589735966114750919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_08.html' title='I CAN&apos;T BELIEVE IT&apos;S A LAW FIRM!!!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_vtksZqZdI/AAAAAAAAANs/S_6xa2VGoE8/s72-c/F1020010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8273412267853524609</id><published>2008-04-06T11:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-20T16:28:44.429+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAnAp73SFBI/AAAAAAAAAPg/BhsDc6dY6BQ/s1600-h/decision%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190891872197940242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAnAp73SFBI/AAAAAAAAAPg/BhsDc6dY6BQ/s200/decision%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAnATb3SFAI/AAAAAAAAAPY/o0jao8X5qBE/s1600-h/decision%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Mister Clinton, América no se fía de nuestro sistema de seguridad social, América no fiaría a usted nuestras hijas de 21 años y, Dios lo sabe, tampoco confiamos en usted para entregarle nuestras armas". &lt;em&gt;Charlton Heston &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_ioDMZqZTI/AAAAAAAAAMY/aTkOfjqupo4/s1600-h/nra_freedom2[1].gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Cualquier manifestación de violencia ocurrida en Estados Unidos adquiere una dimensión superior a si se hubiera producido en otro rincón del mundo. Supongo que el hecho de tratarse de la nación más poderosa del planeta y cuyo estilo de vida, por suerte y mal que pese a algunos, impregna a casi todos los países occidentales tendrá algo que ver. Let's be honest. La violencia está presente a diario en múltiples guerras que ni siquiera aparecen en los periódicos, en la vida cotidiana de muchos países, en la normal actividad de la mayoría de gobiernos islamistas, y por supuesto, en España. &lt;/div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Inmediatamente se buscan responsables, y siempre resultan serlo la Segunda Enmienda y la Asociación Nacional del Rifle (NRA) . Por supuesto, el que dispara nunca es culpable. Angelito.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Vayamos por partes. Ni James Madison ni Alexander Hamilton eran dos ganapanes cuando en 1791 redactaron aquello de que se reconocía el "right to keep and bear arms". - &lt;em&gt;El verbo "bear", polisémico, equivale también a "&lt;strong&gt;tener la responsabilidad de algo o alguien",&lt;/strong&gt; es decir, no se trata de la mera posesión del arma, sino de usarla con sensatez. - &lt;/em&gt;No hace falta más que ver un par de películas del Far West . Un hombre, un arma. ¿Algún ingenuo cree que se podría haber sobrevivido en aquellas tierras de otra manera? . Aún hoy, en un territorio de gigantescas proporciones, con una intervención estatal limitada, la idea de autodefensa es una necesidad ineludible. ¿Qué pasaría en cualquier país europeo si la comisaría más cercana estuviera a 200 kilómetros?...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;La Asociación Nacional del Rifle no nació anteayer. Fue fundada en 1871 por dos militares veteranos de la Unión en la Guerra de Secesión. Desde 1903 sus prácticas figuran en numerosos Colegios, Universidades y Academias Militares. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial trabajó activamente en colaboración con el Gobierno, y realizó acciones privadas como el envío a Gran Bretaña de armas de fuego para la defensa de la población civil, amenazada de invasión. En la actualidad, la Asociación cuenta con varios millones de socios, miles de voluntarios activos, 50.000 monitores para la enseñanza, 14.000 clubes repartidos por toda América y un presupuesto anual de más de cien millones de dólares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Debates y tópicos a parte, lo que parece claro es que ni la Segunda Enmienda ni la actividad que realiza la NRA desde el siglo pasado son los responsables de que un asesino emplee armas de fuego. Los que quieren matar emplean armas en cualquier zona del mundo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8273412267853524609?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8273412267853524609/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8273412267853524609' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8273412267853524609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8273412267853524609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_06.html' title=''/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/SAnAp73SFBI/AAAAAAAAAPg/BhsDc6dY6BQ/s72-c/decision%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-3859126531139395518</id><published>2008-04-03T22:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T21:44:25.744+01:00</updated><title type='text'>UUUHHMMMM...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_VHqMZqZFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/7ugAxjPVa24/s1600-h/F1020012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185129336195933266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_VHqMZqZFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/7ugAxjPVa24/s400/F1020012.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;Yeah, I really don't know what to write today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo: Flanders. Strawberry Fields. Central Park, NYC. Winter of 2007&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-3859126531139395518?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/3859126531139395518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=3859126531139395518' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3859126531139395518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/3859126531139395518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post.html' title='UUUHHMMMM...'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_VHqMZqZFI/AAAAAAAAAKM/7ugAxjPVa24/s72-c/F1020012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7273106934632962888</id><published>2008-03-29T16:21:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-03-29T16:21:29.854Z</updated><title type='text'>SHOW A LITTLE FAITH!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/WaLsE-HufG8' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/WaLsE-HufG8'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Incluso aquellos a los que no les gusta Springsteen reconocen que Thunder Road es una obra maestra. Yo soy uno de esos. Bruce siempre me ha parecido un macarrilla. Pero me cuesta encontrar a lo largo de la historia del rock un tema en su conjunto mejor que Thunder Road. Desde la introducción con la armónica y el piano, hasta la explosión final de toda la banda se suceden momentos de auténtica gloria. Al igual que en muchas de sus canciones de principios de los 80, la libertad -Oh come take my hand, riding out tonight to case the promised land-, el Carpe Diem, -What else can we do now, except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair- la invitación a escaparse y no mirar atrás -My car's out back, If you're ready to take that long walk from your front porch to my front seat- y los últimos coletazos del sueño americano -These two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real…Heaven's waiting on down the tracks- son los ingredientes de esta agridulce composición que, a fuerza de escucharla he memorizado y que no puedo evitar cantar cada vez que la oigo –siempre que no haya nadie alrededor- ...You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright,and that's alright with me... ¿Existe alguna manera mejor de declarar el amor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.songfacts.com/lyrics.php?findsong=976&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7273106934632962888?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7273106934632962888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7273106934632962888' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7273106934632962888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7273106934632962888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/03/show-little-faith_29.html' title='SHOW A LITTLE FAITH!!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7238987343046554753</id><published>2008-03-27T06:44:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-03-27T06:44:00.682Z</updated><title type='text'>WOULD YOU LIKE TO SWING ON A STAR? Or would you rather be a mule?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/T4x3Eoz_OkE' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/T4x3Eoz_OkE'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Swinging on a Star  fue grabada  en 1944 por el cantante Bing Crosby. Su compositor Jimmy Van Heusen, estaba cenando con Crosby y hablando  sobre las canciones a incluir en la película  Going My Way. Durante la cena, el hijo de Crosby no paraba de quejarse y de repetir que no quería ir a la escuela. El cantante se dio la vuelta, y dirigiéndose al pequeño  dijo:  " Si no vas al colegio, te convertirás en una mula. ¿Es eso lo que quieres?”  Van Heusen pensó que de este reproche inteligente podía surgir una buena canción para  la película. Imaginó a Bing interpretando a un sacerdote dirigiéndose a un grupo de niños que actuaban  igual que su propio hijo aquella noche…Simple, isn’t it? Only it's not that simple…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7238987343046554753?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7238987343046554753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7238987343046554753' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7238987343046554753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7238987343046554753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/03/would-you-like-to-swing-on-star-or.html' title='WOULD YOU LIKE TO SWING ON A STAR? Or would you rather be a mule?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-7374230142833481672</id><published>2008-03-22T22:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-06-23T22:55:24.001+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WHY IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? (It's a very good question)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R-WW5sZqZEI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/oIEpRuCWhHk/s1600-h/F1020017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180712864275129410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R-WW5sZqZEI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/oIEpRuCWhHk/s400/F1020017.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R-WVxcZqZDI/AAAAAAAAAJw/QlLAl9RS6GM/s1600-h/F1020017.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Gray's Papaya. Like a Rolling Stone. Midnight Cowboy. The Red Lion. Mickey Mantle. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Homer Simpson. Walt Whitman. The Cape Fear. Joe's Shanghai. Bleecker Street. Sugar Domino Factory. Shakespeare in the Park. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Thunder Road. The Charlie Byrd Trio. Rhapsody in Blue. The Grapes of Wrath. The Cyclone. Babe Ruth. Route 66. Campbell's Tomato Soup. Positively 4th Street. J.D. Salinger. Nathan's Famous Frankfurters. Strawberry Fields. The Concert in Central Park. Annie Hall. The Bonfire of Vanities...Hearnshead ...Okely dokely doo!...&lt;strong&gt;uh... Tracy's face... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders.Manhattan Bridge as seen from Brooklyn, NYC. Summer of 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-7374230142833481672?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/7374230142833481672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=7374230142833481672' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7374230142833481672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/7374230142833481672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-is-life-worth-living-its-very-good.html' title='WHY IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? (It&apos;s a very good question)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R-WW5sZqZEI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/oIEpRuCWhHk/s72-c/F1020017.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6095055408553210298</id><published>2008-03-16T02:29:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-06-23T21:48:26.541+01:00</updated><title type='text'>MY OWN PRIVATE WISCONSIN</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R9yHeEWvnQI/AAAAAAAAAJo/mY_sFJTanf8/s1600-h/F1010013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178162622204189954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R9yHeEWvnQI/AAAAAAAAAJo/mY_sFJTanf8/s400/F1010013.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Show me a place where I don't have to worry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And that's where I belong&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Show me a place where I don't have to hurry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And that's where I belong&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Give me the time, so I can change my mind&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Where it don't matter if I'm wrong...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Photo: Flanders. Hearnshead , Central Park, NYC. A place to rest.Summer of 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6095055408553210298?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6095055408553210298/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6095055408553210298' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6095055408553210298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6095055408553210298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/03/show-me-place-where-i-dont-have-to.html' title='MY OWN PRIVATE WISCONSIN'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R9yHeEWvnQI/AAAAAAAAAJo/mY_sFJTanf8/s72-c/F1010013.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2097591143157848282</id><published>2008-03-13T01:08:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-03-13T01:08:13.720Z</updated><title type='text'>LET YOUR INNOCENCE FLY!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/cXXm696UbKY' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/cXXm696UbKY'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;May God bless and keep you always,&lt;br /&gt;May your wishes all come true,&lt;br /&gt;May you always do for others&lt;br /&gt;And let others do for you.&lt;br /&gt;May you build a ladder to the stars&lt;br /&gt;And climb on every rung,&lt;br /&gt;May you stay forever young&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2097591143157848282?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2097591143157848282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2097591143157848282' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2097591143157848282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2097591143157848282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/03/let-your-innocence-fly.html' title='LET YOUR INNOCENCE FLY!!!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-1098209224493127477</id><published>2008-03-02T12:51:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-03-06T09:56:50.942Z</updated><title type='text'>I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R81NEPQKrZI/AAAAAAAAAJU/14dpKK2glao/s1600-h/immigrants[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173876282127723922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R81NEPQKrZI/AAAAAAAAAJU/14dpKK2glao/s320/immigrants%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hace tres años un servidor desconocía quien era &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emma Lazarus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, y por supuesto no sabía nada de "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;El Nuevo Coloso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;". Hasta entonces, había visitado en dos ocasiones la Estatua de la Libertad sin prestar la más mínima atención al hermoso poema que allí puede leerse. Y un buen día, casi de casualidad, una persona a la que tengo la suerte de conocer me lo descubrió. Los versos de Emma Lazarus "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dadme a los pobres, a los cansados. Vengan a mí las masas ansiosas de respirar libres. Dadme a los miserables desechos de costas populosas. Enviadme a esos, a los desahuciados, arrojadlos a mí. ¡Que junto a la dorada puerta yo alzo mi luz!’"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; forman ya parte de la memoria colectiva americana, pero no alcanzaron la inmortalidad de la noche a la mañana. A la muerte de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lazarus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; una mecenas de las artes de Nueva York, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Georgina Schuyler&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, rescató el soneto de entre un montón de poemas escritos en 1883 por diferentes autores con el fin de recaudar fondos para la construcción del pedestal de la Estatua de la Libertad. Al poco tiempo, parte del poema fue inscrito al pie de la Estatua. Veinte años después ya era estudiado en las escuelas y alcanzó tal fama que &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Irving Berlin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; lo incluyó en el libreto del musical de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broadway "Miss Liberty".&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Desde 1945 el texto íntegro del soneto aparece grabado en la entrada principal de la Estatua.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Emma Lazarus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1849-1887), joven aristócrata neoyorquina, que se había destacado por sus escritos sobre las feroces persecuciones sufridas por los judíos durante los pogroms de la rusia zarista imaginó un refugio para el mundo en el que que no importaran ni las banderas ni el origen del ser humano y lo plasmó en unos versos que dieron un nuevo y mejor significado a la Estatua diseñada por &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bartholdi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;El Nuevo Coloso"&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;no habla de la libertad ganada por los colonos frente a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gran Bretaña&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Trata de la &lt;strong&gt;Libertad&lt;/strong&gt; para crear una nueva vida lejos de la miseria, de la opresión y de persecuciones religiosas y étnicas. Esa &lt;strong&gt;Libertad &lt;/strong&gt;está allí.  A la entrada del puerto de Nueva York.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;a href="http://jwa.org/exhibits/jsp/general.jsp?&amp;amp;imgfile=exhibits%2Fimages%2Fexhban1.gif&amp;amp;media_id=aelcoloss"&gt;http://jwa.org/exhibits/jsp/general.jsp?&amp;amp;imgfile=exhibits%2Fimages%2Fexhban1.gif&amp;amp;media_id=aelcoloss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-1098209224493127477?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/1098209224493127477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=1098209224493127477' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1098209224493127477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/1098209224493127477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-lift-my-lamp-beside-golden-door.html' title='I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R81NEPQKrZI/AAAAAAAAAJU/14dpKK2glao/s72-c/immigrants%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-2094928369567601109</id><published>2008-02-27T22:27:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-02-27T22:27:13.988Z</updated><title type='text'>THAT'S WHAT THE FRIENDS ARE FOR...(Please don't laugh. This is a funeral)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/SpGW27zzLq0' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/SpGW27zzLq0'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Donny was a good bowler, and a good man. He was...he was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors, and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of southern California from La Holla to Leo Carillo, and up to Pismo. He died.. he died as so many young men of his generation before his time, and in your wisdom, Lord, you took him. Just as you took so many bright, flowering young men at Khe San, and Lan Doc, and Hill 364. These young men gave their lives, and so did Donny. Donny who loved bowling. And so, Theodore Donald Karabotsos.. in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been....we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Goodnight, sweet prince.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-2094928369567601109?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/2094928369567601109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=2094928369567601109' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2094928369567601109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/2094928369567601109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/that-what-friends-are-forplease-don.html' title='THAT&amp;#39;S WHAT THE FRIENDS ARE FOR...(Please don&amp;#39;t laugh. This is a funeral)'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4568939891368892776</id><published>2008-02-25T18:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-26T12:43:00.072Z</updated><title type='text'>THIRTY-EIGHT WITNESSES</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R8MOOCl9HdI/AAAAAAAAAH0/MMkEXCk-1VQ/s1600-h/kitty_genovese-bar2[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170992431528484306" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R8MOOCl9HdI/AAAAAAAAAH0/MMkEXCk-1VQ/s200/kitty_genovese-bar2%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Look outside the window,&lt;br /&gt;there's a woman being grabbed&lt;br /&gt;They've dragged her to the bushes&lt;br /&gt;and now she's being stabbed.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe we should call the cops&lt;br /&gt;and try to stop the pain.&lt;br /&gt;But Monopoly is so much fun,&lt;br /&gt;I'd hate to blow the game&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody&lt;br /&gt;Outside of a small circle of friends. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;El 13 de marzo de 1964 tuvo lugar uno de los crímenes más infames de la historia de &lt;strong&gt;Nueva York&lt;/strong&gt;. A eso de las tres de la madrugada, una mujer de 28 años, &lt;strong&gt;Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, &lt;/strong&gt;fue violada y brutalmente asesinada mientras se dirigía a la puerta de un edificio de apartamentos en &lt;strong&gt;Kew Gardens, Queens&lt;/strong&gt;. El ataque duró mas de media hora, durante la cual, y a pesar de que al menos 38 vecinos oyeron o vieron "&lt;em&gt;algo",&lt;/em&gt; nadie hizo nada para evitarlo. Uno de ellos, encendió la radio para no oir los gritos. Otro decidió no llamar a la policía &lt;em&gt;"para no verse implicado".&lt;/em&gt; Dos semanas después, el &lt;strong&gt;New York Times&lt;/strong&gt; publicó un editorial titulado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; que provocó un auténtico debate en la sociedad norteamericana. El caso &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Genovese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; ha inspirado canciones, películas, musicales, dramas televisivos y está incluído en los planes de estudio de las facultades americanas de psicología. Aún hoy permanece como sinónimo de apatía ante los problemas de los demás y dice muy poco de la condición humana. Todo el mundo asume que siempre habrá alguien que intervendrá por él y, en consecuencia, todos se abstienen de intervenir. Y tan felices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/scraig/gansberg.html"&gt;http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/scraig/gansberg.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The New York Times)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deezer.com/track/143829"&gt;http://www.deezer.com/track/143829&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;In the quiet of the morning, Joan Baez)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4568939891368892776?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4568939891368892776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4568939891368892776' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4568939891368892776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4568939891368892776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/thirty-eight-witnesses.html' title='THIRTY-EIGHT WITNESSES'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R8MOOCl9HdI/AAAAAAAAAH0/MMkEXCk-1VQ/s72-c/kitty_genovese-bar2%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-4718076171480494125</id><published>2008-02-22T17:53:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-02-22T17:53:17.247Z</updated><title type='text'>BEST PSYCHOLOGIST IN TOWN</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/G0tyDqPPaSM' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/G0tyDqPPaSM'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-4718076171480494125?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/4718076171480494125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=4718076171480494125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4718076171480494125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/4718076171480494125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-psychologist-in-town.html' title='BEST PSYCHOLOGIST IN TOWN'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8194385393326579563</id><published>2008-02-19T09:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-19T10:18:38.791Z</updated><title type='text'>WILL IT BE TRUTH?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7qhzyl9HcI/AAAAAAAAAHs/TPJWhcNP6i8/s1600-h/IMBECIL.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168621433487433154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7qhzyl9HcI/AAAAAAAAAHs/TPJWhcNP6i8/s200/IMBECIL.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;En cualquier empresa, entidad u organización algunas  personas son promocionadas a puestos de mayor responsabilidad una y otra vez, hasta que alcanzan su nivel de incompetencia. En ocasiones demasiado pronto. &lt;br /&gt;Este principio, formulado por &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lawrence J. Peter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; en su libro "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Peter Principle"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, de 1969 ha sido comprobado infinidad de veces. Consecuencia de lo que el principio manifiesta, muchos puestos de alta responsabilidad son ocupados por personas que no tienen la suficiente cualificación para ello  y,  después, pasa lo que pasa. Vienen a mi mente muchos ejemplos. Sin ir más lejos...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8194385393326579563?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8194385393326579563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8194385393326579563' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8194385393326579563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8194385393326579563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/will-it-be-truth.html' title='WILL IT BE TRUTH?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7qhzyl9HcI/AAAAAAAAAHs/TPJWhcNP6i8/s72-c/IMBECIL.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-5672098732276862030</id><published>2008-02-13T06:14:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-02-14T13:04:11.232Z</updated><title type='text'>SHINE ON YOU, MARTIN</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7MklCl9HbI/AAAAAAAAAHk/3nphOtHvsLw/s1600-h/Taxi_Driver_(o)_large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166513416293916082" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7MklCl9HbI/AAAAAAAAAHk/3nphOtHvsLw/s200/Taxi_Driver_(o)_large.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7KwFCl9HaI/AAAAAAAAAHc/i1Q_hQjesh0/s1600-h/taxi_driver[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well. I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?" (Travis Bickle  -Taxi Driver-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;El último trabajo de &lt;strong&gt;Scorsese&lt;/strong&gt; (spot de &lt;em&gt;champán&lt;/em&gt; aparte) consiste en un video musical de una actuación de los &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rolling Stones&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; llamado &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Shine a Light"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; presentado a bombo y platillo en el festival de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Berlín&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Demasiado cobarde para alguien que desde que enseñara sus cartas en "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Malas Calles"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(1973)&lt;/strong&gt; hasta "&lt;strong&gt;Casino" (1995) &lt;/strong&gt;había&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;ganado todas las partidas con &lt;em&gt;escalera real de color&lt;/em&gt;. Viene a mi mente "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Raging Bull"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ; la edad dorada del boxeo, el &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Madison Square Garden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rocky Marciano, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sugar Ray Robinson&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;... Y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Goodfellas"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y su mafia de medio pelo, donde no hay un solo personaje bueno y todo sucede con naturalidad. Si alguien muere, se le entierra. Si falta dinero se trama un plan y si hay un bocazas, se le mata. Y &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Taxi Driver", &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;donde &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;De Niro&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; es un &lt;em&gt;psicópata-hermano-paria&lt;/em&gt; de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Holden Cauldfield&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, que bien podría haber salido de un libro de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bukowski.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Y &lt;strong&gt;"&lt;em&gt;Casino";&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; la época mítica de &lt;strong&gt;Las Vegas&lt;/strong&gt; , cuando aún no se había convertido en una extensión de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disneyland&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Y después..., esto...ehhh, ...después vino la plúmbea "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gangs of New York" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, la infumable e interminable "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;El Aviador",&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; una cosa llamada&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;"Infiltrados" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;y &lt;em&gt;...&lt;/em&gt; ya no quiero acordarme de más. Vamos, &lt;strong&gt;Martin&lt;/strong&gt;, déjate de vídeo clips y de anuncios navideños. Olvídate de &lt;strong&gt;Di Caprio&lt;/strong&gt; y del &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Freixenet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Llama a &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Travis,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;a&lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Jacke LaMotta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; , a su hermano &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; , a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jimmy Conway&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Henry Hill&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paul Cicero&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a todo el lumpen de &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Queens...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Enróllate y haznos una peli guapa, como las de antes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-5672098732276862030?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/5672098732276862030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=5672098732276862030' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5672098732276862030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/5672098732276862030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/shine-on-you-martin.html' title='SHINE ON YOU, MARTIN'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R7MklCl9HbI/AAAAAAAAAHk/3nphOtHvsLw/s72-c/Taxi_Driver_(o)_large.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8431449685713409463</id><published>2008-02-07T15:10:00.001Z</published><updated>2008-02-07T15:10:05.023Z</updated><title type='text'>THIS IS NOT AN ELVIS SONG</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object height='350' width='425'&gt;&lt;param value='http://youtube.com/v/LWfEah6eNoY' name='movie'/&gt;&lt;embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/LWfEah6eNoY'/&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trailer for sale or rent&lt;br /&gt;Rooms to let...fifty cents.&lt;br /&gt;No phone, no pool, no pets&lt;br /&gt;I ain't got no cigarettes&lt;br /&gt;Ah, but..two hours of pushin' broom&lt;br /&gt;Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room&lt;br /&gt;I'm a man of means by no means&lt;br /&gt;King of the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third boxcar, midnight train&lt;br /&gt;Destination...Bangor, Maine.&lt;br /&gt;Old worn out clothes and shoes,&lt;br /&gt;I don't pay no union dues,&lt;br /&gt;I smoke old stogies I have found&lt;br /&gt;Short, but not too big around&lt;br /&gt;I'm a man of means by no means&lt;br /&gt;King of the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know every engineer on every train&lt;br /&gt;All of their children, and all of their names&lt;br /&gt;And every handout in every town&lt;br /&gt;And every lock that ain't locked&lt;br /&gt;When no one's around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8431449685713409463?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8431449685713409463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8431449685713409463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8431449685713409463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8431449685713409463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-is-not-elvis-song.html' title='THIS IS NOT AN ELVIS SONG'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-6476481416195702753</id><published>2008-02-03T03:25:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-02-03T17:40:40.639Z</updated><title type='text'>UBI SUNT?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R6U7jA5c7mI/AAAAAAAAAHE/ePNAkQskVWs/s1600-h/ducks%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162598020572573282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R6U7jA5c7mI/AAAAAAAAAHE/ePNAkQskVWs/s320/ducks%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R6U5pA5c7lI/AAAAAAAAAG8/w-ZINH9zUrc/s1600-h/ducks%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Don't ever tell anybody anything.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you do, you start missing everybody (J.D. Salinger)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R6U4Rg5c7jI/AAAAAAAAAGs/JGeVVTUGBoE/s1600-h/ducks%5B1%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Hey, Horwitz,' I said. 'You ever pass by the lagoon in Central Park? Down by Central Park South?' &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;'The what?'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The lagoon. That little lake, like, there. Where the ducks are. You know.' &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Yeah, what about it?'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Well, you know the ducks that swim around in it? In the springtime and all? Do you happen to know where they go in the winter-time, by any chance?' &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;'Where who goes?' &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'The ducks. Do you know, by any chance? I mean, does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves - go south or something?&lt;/strong&gt;'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;__________________________________________________&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Estuve en Central Park en invierno. Fui al lago. Los patos no se habían marchado. Estaban  juntos en un pequeño espacio de agua en mitad del lago congelado. ¿Por qué nadie se lo dice a Holden Caulfield? Estoy hecho un auténtico lio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-6476481416195702753?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/6476481416195702753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=6476481416195702753' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6476481416195702753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/6476481416195702753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/02/hey-horwitz-i-said.html' title='UBI SUNT?'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R6U7jA5c7mI/AAAAAAAAAHE/ePNAkQskVWs/s72-c/ducks%5B1%5D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057661685558963238.post-8710356246845170803</id><published>2008-01-22T21:17:00.000Z</published><updated>2008-01-29T12:44:55.531Z</updated><title type='text'>THOREAU RULES</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R5ogMw5c7hI/AAAAAAAAAGc/tJINgP-z2Zk/s1600-h/Thoreau.large"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159471726762716690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R5ogMw5c7hI/AAAAAAAAAGc/tJINgP-z2Zk/s200/Thoreau.large" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R5kYCw5c7gI/AAAAAAAAAGU/tllimmI9kkE/s1600-h/M55~Go-Confidently-Henry-David-Thoreau-Posters[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"&lt;em&gt;Sepan todos por la presente, que yo, Henry Thoreau, no deseo ser considerado miembro de ninguna sociedad legalmente constituida a la cual yo mismo no me haya unido".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R5ZgZUcoZdI/AAAAAAAAAGM/z4wCDkuYw4k/s1600-h/M55~Go-Confidently-Henry-David-Thoreau-Posters[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hay dos Thoreaus. El asceta que pasó años aislado en el bosque donde se inspiró para escribir la obra &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Walden"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; y el revolucionario que prefirió ir a la cárcel antes que pagar unos impuestos que consideraba injustos. En "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Walden&lt;/em&gt;", &lt;/strong&gt;y sin quererlo, inventó el minimalismo: "&lt;em&gt;Nuestra vida se esfuma en los detalles... Un hombre honrado pocas veces necesita contar más que sus diez dedos, o, en casos extremos, puede añadir los otros diez de los pies . ¡Sencillez, sencillez! Que tus asuntos sean dos o tres y no cien o mil. En medio de este mar picado de la vida civilizada, un hombre tiene que vivir haciendo cálculos si no quiere naufragar e ir al fondo y sin duda ha de ser un gran calculador el que triunfe. ¡Simplifica, simplifica! En lugar de tres comidas por día, no comas más que una si es preciso; cinco platos en lugar de cien; y reduce todas las demás cosas en esa proporción..." &lt;/em&gt;Su etapa revolucionaria es, sin embargo, mucho más interesante. &lt;strong&gt;Thoreau &lt;/strong&gt;partía de la base de que la autoridad del gobierno era impura, y que no podía tener derecho absoluto sobre su persona y propiedad sino en cuanto él se lo concediera. De aquí que afirmara que el mejor gobierno es el que no tiene que gobernar en absoluto, y que bajo un gobierno que encarcela injustamente, el verdadero lugar para un hombre justo está en la cárcel. Cuando fue encarcelado por no pagar impuestos, lejos de enojarse, sintió pena al comprobar que la mayor utilidad que de él podía obtener el Estado era encerrarlo, en lugar de beneficiarse de alguna manera con sus servicios. Al igual que &lt;strong&gt;Thoreau&lt;/strong&gt;, yo también desearía retirarme de todas las sociedades a las que nunca me he inscrito, pero tampoco se dónde encontrar la lista completa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R5ZenUcoZcI/AAAAAAAAAGE/ilbeKmmeHXY/s1600-h/486px-henry_david_thoreau[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1057661685558963238-8710356246845170803?l=onthecommonground.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/feeds/8710356246845170803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1057661685558963238&amp;postID=8710356246845170803' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8710356246845170803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1057661685558963238/posts/default/8710356246845170803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://onthecommonground.blogspot.com/2008/01/srvanse-enterarse-de-que-yo-henry.html' title='THOREAU RULES'/><author><name>FLANDERS</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07613172180963183085</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R_eOQMZqZPI/AAAAAAAAAL4/9klxPoOGyRI/S220/Ned%2520Flanders-2%5B1%5D.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_GWIoZlMG2eo/R5ogMw5c7hI/AAAAAAAAAGc/tJINgP-z2Zk/s72-c/Thoreau.large' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
