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Lights in the Dark and Random Thoughts

December 24, 2014 by William Eaton

  During the holidays one of the pleasures of my childhood was the night when my parents drove us around Sacramento to see the decorated houses. There was one street called “Christmas Tree Lane” with every house in a blaze of lights in strange and wonderful configurations. It was spectacular. I appreciate the creative efforts that these industrious house-decorating artists take to enliven our ordinary landscapes with bright, warm, good cheer once a year when dark descends early.  On my […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, New York City

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Children Challenging Borders

December 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

The Physical and Psychological Journeys that the Children of Immigrants Make for their Families By Alexia Raynal Click here for PDF version. {Note: This is the sixth in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders, the borders here being between countries, between families, and between generations.} [print_link] [email_link]   One summer morning about two years ago, as I was finding my seat on a plane in New York that would take me to Mexico, I noticed a group of elementary-school […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: borders, child labor, children, family roles, immigrant bargain, immigration, Joanna Dreby, Mexican-Americans, Robert C. Smith, second generation, traveling, unaccompanied minors

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"Venus and Mars" by Sandro Botticelli

Mars and Venus and Prose

December 23, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

Prose poetry is in style these days. It’s true. The cutting-edge journals are publishing it, the traditional journals are publishing it, and even the boring ones are publishing it. So, it’s no wonder that a good many poets are writing it. But, not every poet is doing it well. In fact, I rarely come across a prose poem I like. The lack of form seems lazy and bulky to me, and I miss the premeditation implied by well-placed line breaks. […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: art, books, lit, literature, poetry, reading, writing

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Spiritual rats, money spells, and short boys

December 21, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] “I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.” — Sydney Greenstreet’s memorable line in The Maltese Falcon, made in 1941. Seventy years later, in our electronic age, we might rephrase this “I like following websites that websites like to follow.” The lines came to my mind in the wake of WordPress, magnanimously, honoring my blog—Montaigbakhtinian.com—with one of its special “Freshly Pressed” labels. This has led to an ever-growing wave of followers, with perhaps 5-10 new […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: blogging, faith healing, money, Montaigbakhtinian, Syndey Greenstreet, WordPress

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“I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus,” and Other Classics

December 20, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link]          [email_link]   For a little seasonal fun this week, I offer you 7 Classic Christmas Songs Greatly Improved by Reversing the Gender Roles from Stylite.com. I appreciate the choice of words for the title, as they are indeed “greatly improved,” but admittedly still playing heavily into gender stereotypes. Don’t bypass the commentary above each video, as that may be the best part. 4. “I Saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus” by The Anti-Queens While I don’t think it […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: art, gender

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Forgotten Books

December 19, 2014 by William Eaton

I fear this post will seem, or indeed be, advertising for a particular company: Forgotten Books and its Classic Reprint Series. They do seem to provide a useful service: selling on-demand copies of old books. My particular interest here, however, is in the look of these books, and hence this post’s inclusion in our nascent “Zeteo is Looking and Listening” series. The company states that it “utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of the historically important writings.” At least […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: books

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Augie March’s Christmas

December 19, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link][email_link]   For an unsentimental take on Christmas, and a view of not-so-loving, cat-and-mouse relationships between adults and children, I went back to Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March. In this scene the young Augie is in the Chicago department store where he has been hired as one of Santa’s helpers for the Christmas season: Painted and rouged with theater greasepaint and dusted with mica snow, Jimmy and I marched around the store with tambourines and curl-tongued noisemakers, turning […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, children, literature, reading

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The Janus Culture

December 18, 2014 by William Eaton

“I reflected on why, over the years, I’d come to think of France as imbued with a ‘Janus culture,’ a nation whose world-view, like the ancient god of thresholds, managed at the same time to look back and ahead,” observes David Downie in Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. Janus lived simultaneously in the past and present. This struck me as absolutely appropriate… Janus was contemporary France. Mr. Downie and his wife walk the […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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Holiday Mix

December 18, 2014 by William Eaton

A sight we have come to dread during the holidays is the invasion of Santas and Mrs. Santas for their annual drinking “pub crawl.” SantaCon 2014 took place this past Saturday, December 9, and, according to news reports, it was supposed to be saner and more sober. It did start out less boisterous in New York City, perhaps because the same day 25,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park to march against Police Violence. These two radically different populations intermixed in […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiLL • Tags: art, civil rights

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