OTRA DIA / OTRO FOTO: Mundo Caliente

photo caption: "Stiff Upper Lip"  -- drawing by Lillian Mulero, pen on paper, 2011

-- I JUST READ IN THE PAPER THAT BY MIDCENTURY LARGE AREAS OF THE WORLD COULD FACE UNPRECEDENTED HEAT, SAYS LILLIAN


-- REALLY?


-- THEY SAY THAT THE COOLEST SUMMERS THEN WILL BE HOTTER THAN THE HOTTEST OF THE 1900s.


-- PHEW.


-- THEY SUGGEST THAT THIS PERMANENT SHIFT TO EXTREME HEAT COULD FIRST OCCUR IN THE TROPICS, THEN REACH SOUTH AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA AND EURASIA BY 2060.


-- I'LL BE BACK IN A FEW MINUTES.


-- WHERE ARE YOU GOING? ASKS LILLIAN.


-- I'M GOING TO RESTOCK OUR BEER SUPPLY.

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
perdido en paraiso


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OTRA DIA / OTRO FOTO: What? Me worry? [Yo preocupar nunca]


photo caption: The News - Behind the News

New York Times Book Review
by Ron Carlson

"My New American Life"
by Francine Prose
306 pp. HarperCollins Publishers

[excerpt]

The great grinning tradition of American satire has always been healthy because this confounding country provides an abundance of jaw-dropping moments every day; moments that don't need rewriting or amplification to reveal their comic craziness. All you need is the ability to see them and then present them plainly, as if you were born yesterday, with nothing but big eyes and a sense of right and wrong. OK, maybe born the day before yesterday and in Albania, but still with that sense of right and wrong.

Francine Prose has just such a sharp protagonist in her wry novel... The person with the new American life is Lula a 26-year-old waitress from Tirana, Albania, who has been living in a shared apartment in New York and is deeply worried about being deported. Then again as she notes everyone in... America seems to be worried.


J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
perdido en paraiso

OTRA DIA / OTRO FOTO: Vacaciones

photo caption: Suspension de los negocios o estudios por algun tiempo
[Stopping of work or studies for some time]

 

 

 

-- WE NEED A VACATION

 


-- WHAT?

 


-- WE NEED A VACATION, SAYS LILLIAN.

 


-- I THOUGHT THIS WAS A VACATION?



-- WE HAVEN'T TAKEN A VACATION IN A LONG TIME.



-- I NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS. CAN I HAVE A BEER?



-- O.K.

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
perdido en paraiso

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OTRA DIA / OTRO FOTO: Differential Calculus

photo caption: CABALLEROS, NINAS, NINOS, ROPA - tienda, Caguas, PR


I PICKED OUT FOUR DONKEYS TO BRING TO THE HOUSE
AND DECIDED TO RIDE ONE OF THEM.


ALONG THE WAY, I COUNTED...

-- ONE, TWO, THREE.

-- HMM.

 

 

I COUNTED THEM AGAIN...

-- ONE, TWO, THREE.

-- ???

 

 

WHEN I GOT HOME I TOLD LILLIAN WHAT HAPPENED.

 

-- THAT'S ODD, SHE SAYS, I SEE FIVE.


OOPS, I FORGOT TO COUNT THE ONE I WAS RIDING.

 

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
perdido en paraiso

UNA FOTO / UN DIA: Well, I'm a monkey's uncle!

photo caption: entrance to Canton Mall, Bayamon, PR


Selection from: FIRST SPANISH READER, A Beginner's Dual-Language Book.
Edited by Angel Flores. Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 1964.

SPANISH ORIGINAL:

East Side, New York
11 de octubre de 1492

Querido Tio:

Y estoy en el Nuevo Mundo un dia antes que Cristobol Colon. Tengo en mi servicio a un italiano viejo pero muy simpatico que toca el organito mientras yo bailo. El italiano se llama Benito y parece muy feliz.

Yo tambien estoy muy contento y ademas gano mucho dinero y de manera muy facil, sin tener que trabajar. Solamente bailo y bailo. Que bella es vida! verdad?

Con mucho carino, tu sobrino,

Panchito el Mono

ENGLISH:

Letter from a Monkey to His Uncle

East Side, New York
October 11, 1492

Dear Uncle:

I'm already in the New World one day ahead of Christopher Columbus. I have an old, pleasant Italian, who plays the hand-ground organ while I dance. His name is Benito and he seems very happy. I am very pleased, and besides I earn a lot of money, quite easily, without having to work. I just dance and dance. How beautiful life is! Isn't that so?

Lots of love, your nephew

The Monkey, Frankie

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
perdido en paraiso

UNA FOTO / UN DIA: Facebook comment icons

photo caption: opening screen, 75grand.com, an irregular [±] journal of
comment [¾] and commentary [»]   (CLICK HERE FOR WEBSITE) [©]


COPY AND PASTE THIS TEXT TO A NOTE ON
YOUR DESKTOP. USE COMMENT ICONS IN FACEBOOK
COMMENTS. [¢]

[±] More or Less

[¢] Two cents worth

[¤] bright idea

[»] let me get another opinion

[Ø] Dislike

[®] You're entitled to your opinion

[©] I'm entitled to my opinion

[«] I'll get back to you

[÷] I'm divided on that

[¼] about right

[½] could go either way

[¾] almost right

[¿] no idea


EXAMPLE: EVERY LIFE IS UNIQUE: shouldn't your final resting place reflect that?[¿]

(Ad on my email webpage this morning [ed. I'm pretty sure my email web utility reads my emails, coming and going, and gives me ads [Ø] based on text strings in the email])


J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
Perdido en Paraiso

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UNA FOTO / UN DIA: el DIA de los ENAMORADOS

photo caption: (AIN)TUSIASMO de los ENAMORADOS, el mall, Plaza las
Americas, Hato Rey district, San Juan, PR

 

 


-- YOU KNOW WHAT TODAY IS, DON'T YOU? ASKS LILLIAN.


-- UH THE 14TH, I THINK.


-- YOU KNOW WHAT STEVE TOLD ME HE GOT FOR JITKA?


-- NO, WHAT?


-- TWO DOZEN TULIPS. AND! HE'S TAKING HER OUT TO A
    FANCY DINNER.

-- THEY'RE IN PRAGUE.

-- SO?

-- UH, YOU WANNA GO TO THE BEACH?

-- SURE.

-- CAN WE BRING BEER?

-- SURE.

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR
Perdido en Paraiso

UNA FOTO / UN DIA: POEM ABOUT A TREE

photo caption: Nature morte, (L) Jeff Koons, (R) J. Galligan and Peter Hall


No one has ever successfully
painted or photographed
a redwood tree.

The feeling they produce is not transferable.
From them comes
silence and awe.

It's not only their unbelievable stature,
nor the color which
seems to shift
and vary
under your eyes, no,
they are not like any trees
we know,
they are ambassadors
from another time.

TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY
John Steinbeck

[excerpt] pg 143

Really? No painting? No photograph? Ever?

J.Galligan
75GRAND/SUR
Santa Olaya, PR