The Isuzu Gemini, for all its flaws, was the taxicab of a generation. This was the early 1990s, where air conditioners were supposed to release a visible cloud of vaporized antifreeze that smelled like car exhaust. The dashboard of the Gemini, which featured a whole lot of non-useful (there’s a difference between “useless” and “non-useful”) [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Lyrics Translations: Of Love, Politics, and Dance
Posted: 29th April 2009 by Marocharim in Lyrics TranslationsBlogging controversies are my least favorite topic, but lyrics translations are among my favorites. So given the choice between blogtroversy and lyrics translations that piss people off…
I’ll go for the latter. Between passing myself off as a highly regarded blogger (which I’m not) and a lyrics translator, I’d rather live up to the lyrics translator [...]
Juris pracepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum no laedeare, suum cuique tribuere.
(These are the precepts of the Law: live honorably, do no harm, and give each one his or her due.)
- Justinian I, The Institutes
“Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give each one that to which he or she is entitled,” writes Justinian. [...]
I have to admit: pigs are cute animals. Whenever we have to butcher pigs at home for a gathering or a celebration, you kind of have to turn away from the squealing animal for the guilt that’s in it. There’s nothing more heartbreaking that watching a pig cry – literally – as the butcher’s knife [...]
Back in grade school, our class sections were named after Christian values. I guess none of those virtues – (I) Friendliness, (II) Generosity, (III) Graciousness, (IV) Confidence, (V) Industry, and (VI) Responsibility – ever rubbed off on me the way it was meant to. At least it wasn’t III-Obedience.
I’m not the most obedient son in [...]