Paternalysses

INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, yes great grandfather was a hod carrier. No one in this family too educated too removed. Pat is a bricklayer but how many more Irishmen? Not many, Mexican now. Pat has the domestic troubles of an immigrant, the sadness of the arrived. Do away with familial entrapments. Left with what. Freedom for what. Clara is only 3/8th, far removed, fully vested American. Not a hud carrier. Could he have looked like that? Would have been hard to marry again as he did age 60 to a girl of 34. Had to have something to get that. Must have had charm, runs in the family. Stability, could be stability. I think she had some kids already. It was hard in those times. Timmy says to look at the feet and you know what they say, yes big socks. Come a long way since that. Do the Mexicans arrive that fast? I don't know the stats on that one.

INTERNATIONAL GROUP BLOG ANNOUNCES CONTRIBUTOR STATISTICAL TWIST, MINORITY NOW MAJORITY AND VICE VERSA: PARENTAL, UNMARRIED. IT TAKES EIGHT CONTRIBUTORS WITH FIVE PARTNERS (AVG AGE 38) TO PRODUCE FIVE CHILDREN: CURRENT U.S. BABYBOOM NOT ORIGINATING FROM THE LIKES OF THIS LOT (FULLY VESTED AMERICANS).


YES BECAUSE HE DIED last week and poppa liked him is him that Buckley guy I'd admired him once Wanted his maneurisms what was I thinking? Don't have that vocabulary but god I can be an ass so there you go Whatever poppa liked to remind you he was no WASP whatever to his Roman Catholicism He was rotten with oil money made down in Mexico. Hated governments Mexicans gave him a bad taste left his family a little less enormously rich Worked for the CIA down there What a country Not that one this one Ha Viva Mexico Vote for Bill Wanted to do away with the vote for the uneducated Working class Republican MY ASS What's his legacy anyway Bill O'Reilly He didn't take himself that seriously And what was he One of nine I think and he had a few Dead at 82 and only two grandchildren What legacy and I should be so lucky with grandkids They'll die out with the oil economy perhaps How can you make Sweeney sound more Mexican They don't really do the swee do they No double u's Yes Seenamos Yes Seené Sí Sí.

Chicago
o r n e r . . .	Sunday evening we went for a stroll, the first of the year, and ended up at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School a few blocks from our house where the Civic Orchestra of Chicago along with the Allegre Strings were putting on a community concert.
	The COoC is a farm team for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In that respect it's the only orchestra of its kind. The Allegre Strings is an ensemble made up of "economically challenged" neighborhood kids from the communities that our block connects, Pilsen and Little Village.
	These are predominately Mexican communities so it was no surprise that the pieces selected were largely Spanish or Mexican of origin. They even did the Mexican Lindo with all of the little people of the Allegre Strings lining the front of the stage, very cute and not nearly as off pitch as I expected. The Future Mariachi Bands of Chicago farm team is ready.
	After the Allegre Strings left the stage, the COoC went through a number of pieces from Iberia by the early Modern composer, Debussy. Well done I'd say and an interesting choice both Sunday night and for Debussy. Debussy, a French composer, only spent one afternoon in Spain to see a bull fight. He was back home in France in time for bed. Yet he felt compelled to write an entire symphony in Spain's honor, one that even Spanish critics find organically reflects their native peat.
	A Day in the life of Cardinal George.