Last Monday I conducted an interview with a long-time member of the local BDSM scene, my first as part of an MLIS research project on information behaviour and kink. In Newfoundland a few years ago I did a few freelance journo interviews, but this was my first stab at ethnography. It went amazingly well: my subject was articulate and thoughtful, eager to share and had plenty of helpful things to say. Fingers crossed that the next two go so well.

I also got my first taste of transcription over the weekend at my brother’s cottage up north. It’s fortunate that he doesn’t have the internet up there because, as it was, I was lucky if I had a ratio of 4 minutes typing to 1 minute of audio. I could only do hour-long stints without going totally batty, so a 70-minute interview took five sittings to transcribe.

I had thought that the worst part of transcribing would be hearing my own voice. Turns out that’s not so bad and, as friends and acquaintances in radio have told me, you just get used to it. What was really awful was hearing the ums and uhs, stutters, stammers and sentences left hanging. Man, I talk like shit, I’m embarrassed. But it was neat to dwell on the relationship between the spoken and written words. Hearing the words (by either party), they seem banal, airy and haphazard; written, they seem authoritative and coherent.

Also, as a sometimes-aspiring writer with issues committing words to the page, I was pleased to see how much content was generated: 70 minutes of interview equal a hair under 10,000 words, and 18 single-spaced, 12 point pages. Of course, most of it was the interviewee’s doing, but I still wrote all that shit out. It has occurred to me that, if a short novel is 50,000 words, you could just as well talk one out in 6 hours.

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I’m re-reading Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the cherry. I’m trying to make a point of reading more women authors because the canons I have inherited seem to be sausage-fests. I read Gut symmetries in Korea and found it a bit intimidating – I tend not to go for poetry in writing and was stunned to realize, reading such a poetic and elegant novel, how much I’d been missing. After reading some Russell Hoban again recently (Kleinzeit this time; Hoban is, perhaps, my all-time favourite novelist) I had a hankering for some more sparse, Brit elegance and picked up Sexing the cherry, which I’m now reading again because a) I think it’s worth it, b) I haven’t re-read a book in fifteen years (at least not that I remembered reading in the first place – halfway through The mote in god’s eye, I realized I’d read it as a teenager).

Anyway, on to the quotations:

“Who are you in love with?” said Jack.

“No one. She doesn’t exist.”

“It’s the most unhygienic thing you can do,” said Jack.

“It can’t be. What about people who work in sewers?”

“They wear protective clothing. People in love hardly ever wear clothes – look at the magazines.”

And,

If you’re a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself all the time, and nobody minds. Heroes are immune. They have wide shoulders and plenty of hair and wherever they go a crowd gathers. Mostly they enjoy the company of other men, although attractive women are part of the reward.

Way to tell it!

…and they did, and so did I. Last week, as if by sheer magic, the Saigon Cinnamon Chocolate Cheesecake from Eli’s Cheesecake in Chicago, first recommended by Ebert on his blog in retort to my proclamation of love for the maple pumpkin cheesecake I discovered right here in Toronto, descended upon me. It was a last minute surprise…handmade in Chicago, brought fresh via an eight hour drive, and placed in my hand on a chilly autumn evening. The cardboard box compact and heavy. It seemed smaller than I thought, quietly laying in my palms. I examined it carefully, trying to keep it steady in an upright position as I carried it home.

I somehow found the strength to restrain myself from opening the box until the next night, when a friend was scheduled to drop by for tea. All day at work the cake haunted me. I visited Eli’s website repeatedly, looking at the slice of perfection that perches on the screen, so elegantly provocative. I thought about making it my desktop background just for the day, but then scolded myself for even having such maschoist impulses.

When the time came, I could barely wait for the water to boil before ripping into the packaging. The plastic wrapping was no match for my ravaging desire. Already pre-divided into 12 even slices, there was nothing else to do except to…well, partake. I picked up a fork and with a deep breath, took the plunge.

……..

It took a full five seconds for my brain to comprehend the buttery substance that melted on my tongue and coated the bubbly surface in a rich slush of sugar and cocoa.

…moist…creamy…..a bittery dark bite…intense shot of chocolate….and a tinge of cinnamon that threads throughout, rising to the roof of my mouth, slowly wavering towards the back of my throat, quivering, and lingers there…until the last drop has been absorbed.

Perfection.

Hi!My name is Elis. I like English class is very interesting. My favourite football team is Manchester United. My birthday is on the 13th of December.

Bye!!!

13th of December… St. Lucía ´s Day… let’s dance Bulgarian!

In your honour, Elis

Limpou em um dia os currais do rei de Elis, Augias, filho de Poseidom; que continham três mil bois e que há trinta anos não eram limpos.

Estavam tão fedorentos que exalavam um gás mortal.

Para isso, Hércules desviou dois rios.

By Ben Miller

Mazto Ball Soup, Laktes, and Old Bay? That’s right, according to a story in today’s Washington Post:

Old Bay Seasoning was the invention of Gustav Brunn, a German Jew who emigrated to Baltimore in 1938. An experienced spice merchant, Brunn soon landed a job at McCormick & Co., which wanted him to develop blends for meatpackers who were making products including sausages and hot dogs.

Sadly, the story misses the irony of having a Jew design the best spicing combination every for the most delicious forms of traif. (That’s right, I’ll throw that out there–Crustaceans are tastier than pig or any other food that is inherently un-kosher by itself–i.e. not a cheeseburger.) The article does, however, include a few amusing quotations such as how to properly pack Old Bay for cross country travel:

“Unless you like to get strip-searched, it is best to have your Old Bay can in your checked baggage,” warns Deborah Fedorchak Liberatore, who, for the record, has never been strip-searched for carrying Old Bay. “Pack a small stash in your carry-on baggage, just in case your luggage gets lost.”

Or, just what is in that delicious, delicious tin:

The predominant ingredients were no secret: red and black pepper, salt, celery seed and dry mustard. But Gustav added minor quantities of more than half a dozen other spices, including ginger, laurel and bay leaf, so that his blend would be difficult to replicate. “They had no relation to the main flavors,” said Ralph Brunn. “But they combined and created a background that rounded out the flavor. He didn’t anticipate that.”

The article notes all the various things that Old Bay gets used for in addition to the tried and always delicious staples of crabs, corn, and french fries: fried green tomatoes, grilled pineapple, and pizza. I’m pretty sure I’ve also had it with potato salad and in mayo (at Good Stuff Eatery), and I could see it working well on deviled eggs.

But that’s not all the good Jewish news today. As I was walking past the gym last night, I noticed that Eli’s Deli, the delicious but somewhat expensive kosher deli on the corner of 20th and N, has opened a carryout wing. They don’t appear to have a menu online, but the addition appears to offer falafel and shawarma… hopefully with Old Bay on it.

I stopped by Eli’s Cheesecake Festival this past weekend, and had a good time, despite the bit of rain we got.  I sampled some cheesecakes, of course (choco chip, snickers to name a couple), and bought small pumpkin cheesecake at their dock sale to take home.  Oh, and I saw the Michigan Apple Queen, and this guy…

Chris had some fresh (and I mean fresh) coffee from Crop to Cup.  I sampled the Horchata with Espresso.

This mural in the foyer of Eli’s building kind of cracked me up. 

I’d like to live in cheesecake-land…

Elis es una banda de metal gótico originaria de Liechtesteinque comenzó en el año 2000 que tras la publicación de su primer disco “Twilight” surgen una serie de distinciones internas en el grupo.

Así, Sabine, Pete, Juerguen, Tom y Franco, componen la formación que el año 2003 saca a la venta su segundo álbum “God’s Silence, Devil’s Temptation”, producido por Alexander Krull bajo el sello Napalm Records consiguiendo muy buenas críticas.

Después de las giras con Eisheiling y The Vision Bleak por Alemania, Suiza y Bélgica tras sustituir al baterísta Franco por Rene, la banda regresan al estudio para grabar su tercer álbum “Dark Clouds In A Perfect Sky” que fue lanzado en Octubre del 2004 por Alexander Krull. Un disco que demostraba el crecimiento de la banda.

La gira del disco comenzó en Abril del año siguiente por Alemania, Austria y Bélgica junto a Vision Of Atlantis y Lyriel, poco después empezaron una gira europea acompañando a Atrocity, Leaves’ Eyes y Battlelore que acabó en el Metal Female Voices Fest 3, tras el cual Jurgen abandonó el grupo amistosamente y fui sustituido por Chris Grube.

Tras la gira, el grupo se centró en un disco conceptual “Griefshire” que sería su siguiente trabajo. Sin embargo, en Julio, La trágica muerte a los 29 años de la vocalista Sabine Duenser debido a su derrame cerebral mientras ensayaban, hizo que la banda se paralizara por completo aunque el disco finalmente saliera como estaba previsto en el mes de Noviembre de ese mismo año en Europa y el mes siguiente en Estados Unidos.

Finalmente la austriaca Sandra Schleret es la nueva vocalista de Elis que había trabajado en Dreams Of Sanity y Siegfried. En Agosto del 2007 retomaron su actividad en los escenarios eligiendo México.

Para mostrar como funcionará la voz de Sandra en el próximo disco en el que ya está trabajando, el grupo lanzó en Noviembre del el MCD “Show Me The Way” con dos nuevas versiones y tres canciones que se incluyeron en el álbum anterior y en las que aún canta Sabine.

El 25 de Noviembre del 2009 Elis lanza su cuarto álbum “Catharsis” con la nueva vocalista Sandra Schleret después de haber remplazado a Sabine Dünser debido a su fallecimiento. el álbum es muy prometedor, un sonido nuevo, con un metal melódico y muy diferente a sus álbums anteriores.

Integrantes
Sandra Schleret – Vocalista
Pete Streit – Guitarra
Chris Gruber – Guitarra
Tom Saxer – Bajo y Coros
Max Naescher – Baterísta

Discografía
2001 – Twilight
2003 – God’s Silence, Devil´s Temptation
2004 – Dark Clouds In A Perfect Sky
2006 – Griefshire
2009 – Catharsis

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In Brazil popular music can be an unexpected mix of jazz, folk, pop and rock, genres which are usually kept separate in American popular music. The big names, some of whom have been around since the 60s or before, are joined each year by new stars and each has their following. Some musical styles are very local, others spread throughout the culture. The result of all this, for listeners, is exhilarating. Brazilian pop is smart, sophisticated, rhythmic and sometimes raucous. I couldn’t possibly list even a fraction of the interesting performers, so I’ve collected some information on some of my favourites. sample sounds

Adriana Calcanhotto
Born 1965 in Porto Alegre, Adriana’s melancholic songs are most often categorized as being from the MPB (popular music) genre. She started her professional career in 1984 and released her first studio album in 1990. Of her nine albums, 5 have been gold and two, Perfil and Cantada, have been platinum.

Alcione
Born 1947 in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Alcione (Birth Name: Alcione Nazaré) has won 19 gold records and two platinum records. Alcione recorded her first single in Brazil in 1972. In 1975, she recorded her first LP, A Voz do Samba. It became her first gold record.

Ana Carolina
Born Juiz de Fora, September 9, 1974, Ana Carolina Sousa released her first CD in 1999. In 2003 she released her third, Estampado and in 2004 she performed a show with Seu Jorge. The song, “É Isso Aí” reached the #1 spot on the charts. She released her 6th album, Dois Quartos 2008.

Antonio Carlos Jobim
Born January 25, 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, died December 8, 1994 in New York City, also known as Tom, Jobim was a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. A primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, Jobim is acknowledged as one of the most influential popular composers of the 20th century.

Beatriz Azevedo
Poet, singer and composer Beatriz Azevedo is a multi talented artist who uses samba, bossa nova, afoxé, xaxado and maxixe and other traditional rhythms to create a contemporary, seductive and truly personal style. “Bum Bum do Poeta” was her debut CD. “Mapa-Mundi (samba and poetry)” is her latest release.

Bebel Gilberto
Born Isabel Gilberto on May 12, 1966 in New York City, Bebel is a Brazilian popular singer often associated with bossa nova. She is the daughter of João Gilberto and singer Miúcha. Her uncle is singer/composer Chico Buarque. Bebel has been performing since her youth in Rio de Janeiro.

Beth Carvalho
Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho (born May 5, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro) is a samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer. Beth has celebrated the work of legendary composers such as Cartola, Nelson Cavaquinho & Guilherme de Brito, at a time when they were neglected.

Bia
Bia is a Brazilian-born singer currently living in France. Bia sings in several languages, creating tasty mixes between Bossa Nova, Samba and Pop, all sung in a South-American way.

Caetano Veloso
Born Aug 07, 1942 in Santo Amaro da Purificação. A true heavyweight, Caetano Veloso is a pop musician/poet/filmmaker/political activist whose stature among international pop musicians is on a par with that of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and Lennon/McCartney. He has made 50 albums, created a new style in Brazilian pop music (tropicalia), influenced a generation of singers and composers and remains totally original.

Cassia Eller
Born December 10, 1962 , died December 29, 2001. Cássia Rejane Eller was born in Rio de Janeiro but spent most of her adolescence in Brasília. Eller is known for her fusion of rock and MPB, and for her extremely deep and husky singing voice. Eller died in December 29, 2001. Her death was found to be due to a heart condition.

Ceumar
Ceumar’s (born Estreia Ceumar) debut album Dindinha, released in 1995, is an acoustic Brazilian pop classic. The daughter of a multi-instrumentalist and singer, Ceumar was born in the interior of Brazil, south of Minas Gerais. Ceumar’s most ambitious project was 30 Musicas Que Voce No Radio (30 Songs That You Won’t Hear on Radio).

Ceu
Céu’s full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças. She is a singer-songwriter whose first album was released in April 2007. Born around 1980 into a musical São Paulo, Brazil, family, her father was a composer, arranger and musicologist. Her songs reveal her many influences, which include samba, valsa, choro, soul, rhythm and blues, hip hop, afrobeat and electrojazz music.

Chico Buarque
Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro), popularly known as Chico Buarque, is a singer, composer, dramatist and writer, one of the country’s greatest singer-songwriters and interpreters of the samba.

Cibelle
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos was born in Sao Paulo. She met the then-unknown Yugoslavian DJ Suba and worked on an album with him, São Paulo Confessions. Cibelle appeared on guitarist and singer/songwriter Celso Fonseca’s 2003 album, Natural, and released her self-titled debut album. She followed up in 2004 with her EP About a Girl, and in 2006, Shine of Dried Electric Leaves, which featured duets with Seu Jorge and Devendra Banhart.

Clara Nunes                                                                                                                             Clara Francisca Nunes Pinheiro (1943-1983) became known as a samba singer. Her rhythms were inspired by her religion, Candomblé. She was recognised as one of the top three “Samba Queens” with a huge following. In 1983 she died during surgery. Com vida is a tribute album on which the most prominent singers from Brazil duet with her recorded voice, singing some of her best loved songs.

Eliana Printes
Eliana Printes is a singer/songwriter. Her first CD, Eliana Printes (1994), was nominated by the Sharp Awards as the best new MPB CD of the year. Later in that year, her third CD, O Próximo Beijo, had two hit songs, “Sobre o Tempo” and “Você e Eu”.

Eliane Elias
Eliane Elias (born March 19, 1960 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a consummate Brazillian jazz pianist, arranger, vocalist and songwriter. Elias has lived and worked in New York City since 1981. Her music is readily recognizable by her mature command of jazz harmonies, her rich blending of rhythmic styles, and (occasionally) her soft, warm voice.

Elis Regina
Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 1982) was a singer of popular music who achieved great success and recognition during her lifetime. She remains one of the most popular and beloved stars in Brazil today.

Gal Costa
Born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos September 26, 1945 in Salvador, Gal became one of Brazil’s foremost female Tropicalismo movement singers and guitar players during the late 1960s and 70s. Along with her friend Maria Bethânia, she became a political activist. She has made over 30 albums.

Ivete Sangalo
Born May 27, 1972 in Juazeiro, Bahia, Ivete is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian axé and MPB singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. She is arguably the most popular and best-selling Brazilian female singer of the present, with six albums released with Banda Eva, and seven more albums in a solo career. Ivete is most often recognized by her powerful voice, charisma and live performances. Her music is also popular in Portugal.

João Bosco
João Bosco de Freitas Mucci, better known as João Bosco, is a famous MPB singer, guitarist, and composer. Born on July 13, 1946, in Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais, Joäo Bosco’s profession was engineering when he moved to Rio de Janeiro. He soon became admired as a virtuoso vocalist and a dynamic performer. Joäo Bosco has been noted for “his singular fusion between the Arab culture, Afro-American music and the Brazilian style bossa nova,” influenced by American jazz.

Joyce
Joyce Silveira Palhano de Jesus, commonly known as Joyce, is a singer/songwriter, as well as an accomplished guitarist and arranger. She was born in Rio de Janeiro on January 31, 1948. Joyce premiered in the late 60s, and since then has recorded over 20 solo albums. Much of Joyce’s work has been compared to the early boom of the jazz fusion scene in the U.S.

Leila Pinheiro
Leila Pinheiro moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1979 and recorded her first album, Leila Pinheiro, with guests Tom Jobim, João Donato, Ivan Lins, Francis Hime, and Toninho Horta. In 1989 she recorded and released a bossa nova album which sold a total of 200,000 copies, the biggest sales of a bossa nova album in Brazil until then. In 1993, her album Coisas do Brasil won a gold record as did next year’s Isso é Bossa Nova.

Lisa Ono
Lisa Ono (小野リサ, Ono Risa) is a popular Japanese bossa nova singer. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1962 but moved with her family to Tokyo at the age of 10. From that time on she spent half of every year in Japan, and half in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She became a type of MPB (Brazil Popular Music) ambassador in Japan. Besides singing, Lisa Ono plays the guitar and is a songwriter. Her first album, Catupiry, was released in 1989.

Maria Bethania
Maria Bethânia (full name: Maria Bethânia Vianna Telles Veloso) is a Brazilian singer, sister of Caetano Veloso, born 18 June 1946 in Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, Brazil. She started her career in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro with the show Opinião (Opinion). With her strong, low-key voice and dramatic interpretation, she is the second best selling Brazilian female singer of all time, with more than 26 million albums sold.

Maria Rita
Maria Rita (born September 19 1977 in São Paulo, Brazil) is the performance name of Maria Rita Mariano, the daughter of famed pianist/arranger César Camargo Mariano and the late Brazilian singing legend Elis Regina and sister to Pedro Mariano. Maria Rita began singing professionally at the age of 24. Her first CD, Maria Rita, went platinum and was a hit worldwide, making her an international star. Rita is pronounced “Hee-Ta”.

Monica Salmaso
Mônica Salmaso recorded the CDs Canções de Ninar and Canções de Brincar (Paulo Tatit/Sandra Peres), both winners of the Sharp award in 1995 and 1997 as Best Children’s CDs. In 1999, she won the Prêmio Visa MPB – Vocal Edition. With her third CD, Voadeira, she won the APCA award as Best Singer of the Year; the album was judged the best feminine solo album of the year.

Mylene Pires
Mylene’s first album was released in 2003. Called Mylene, it is downtempo Brazilian popular music (MPB) with a nicely contemporary electronic edge.

Nana Caymmi
Full name Dinahir Tostes Caymmi. The daughter of singers Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris (Adelaide Tostes Caymmi), Nana Caymmi is an established singer on her own, with an extensive discography and two gold records. Nana debuted on record in Dorival Caymmi’s album Acalanto (1961). She moved to Rio in June 1966 and became involved with the Tropicalia movement. She met Gilberto Gil and eventually they became informally married, with general scandal, as she was white and he, black.

Rabo de Lagartixa
A choro group formed in Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s by Daniela Spielmann (soprano and alto saxes), Alessandro Valente (cavaquinho), Marcello Gonçalves (seven-string guitar), and Alexandre Brasil (acoustic/electric basses), Rabo de Lagartixa launched its first album in 1998 with the participation of Elza Soares and Pedro Luís e a Parede.

Rosani Reis
Rosani Reis is a Brazilian singer who lives and works in Germany. She has released two CDs with a bossa nova/jazz fusion style, in 1991 Cafuso and in 2001 Mosaico. She also performs with the a capella group Chocolat.

Sabrina Malheiros
Born in Rio about 1983, Sabrina presents a mix of bossa and samba with touches of hip-hop, r’nb and electronica. She is the daughter of Alex Malheiros, bassist from legendary Brazilian band Azymuth. ‘Equilibria’ is her debut recording. Sabrina’s follow up album is ‘New Morning’, an album of bossa – soul that mixes bossa, samba, disco and house together to create a sophisticated and sublime album.

Sambaguru
Featuring Katia Moraes, Sambaguru is an ensemble of six musicians from Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the United States, who have been playing a wide-ranging blend of Brazilian music since 1997. It is a vibrant band that produces an upbeat world music experience of remarkable depth and quality.

Silvana Malta
Silvana Malta was born in 1960 in the town of Marília, in the Brazilian state of Sâo Paulo. In style, Silvana Malta is lyrical and relaxed, singing mainly in the softer end of the classic bossa nova and samba genres. She describes herself as a Brazilian jazz singer, and her trademark is a sensual and melancholic expression, recognisable from the very first notes.

Simone
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira has recorded more than 31 albums, increasingly abandoning her repertory of compositions by João Bosco/ldir Blanc, Geraldo Vandré, Chico Buarque, and Milton Nascimento in favor of mainstream romantic songs, with which she has enjoyed international success. She recorded her first LP, Simone, in 1973. She has performed before audiences of 15,000 or more at the Morumbi stadium. Her voice is distinctively low in tone. She also sings in Spanish and English.

Sylvia Patricia
Sylvia Patricia Cesar Pires Valença was born in Salvador Bahia, 21 March. Her parents are Gutembergue de Araújo Valença y Maria Aldinar César Pires Valença. She has released six CDs, most recently No Rádio da Minha Cabeça in 2006. One of most important composers and singers from Bahia-Brazil, Sylvia mixes Bossa Nova and Brazilian Rhythms with Blues, Jazz, Rock and Roll.

Tania Maria
Tania Maria (b. May 9, 1948 in Sao Luis) is a singer, composer, bandleader and piano player, singing mostly in Portuguese or English. Her music is mostly vocal, sometimes pop, often jazzy, and unmistakably Brazilian. Whether playing fiery samba, tranquil bossa, Afro-Latin, Pop and Jazz Fusion, or any other style, she maintains a style that is uniquely her own. Her vibrant voice, brilliant piano work and outstanding performances have made her an artist of international popularity.

Vania Abreu
Vania Abreu was born on May 30, 1967 as Vania Mercury de Almeida. She is the younger sister of Daniela Mercury. Abreu began her professional performances in 1986 as a back up singer for the band, Gerônimo, in Salvador. The next year she released her self-titled album, “Vania Abreu”. Her most critically-acclaimed album to date is “Seio da Bahia,” where Vania sings classic songs from Bahia.

Wanda Sá
Wanda started her professional career at 19 with Wanda Vagamente (1964), featuring the earliest compositions by Edú Lobo, Francis Hime, and Marcos Valle. By the end of the same year she joined Sérgio Mendes’ Brasil ‘65 (with Rosinha de Valença and Jorge Ben Jor). Married to Edú Lobo from 1969 to 1982, a period in which she left the scene, Sá returned in the late ’80s, performing shows with Roberto Menescal and Mièle, recording Brasileiras in 1994 with Célia Vaz.

Zelia Duncan
Zélia Cristina Duncan, simply known as Zélia Duncan (Niterói, October 28 1964) is a Brazilian pop singer. In 2006, she replaced Rita Lee as the vocalist in the reunion of the band Os Mutantes.

Zizi Possi
Zizi recorded her first album (Flor do Mal) in Rio in 1978. Her first hit was the title track of her second album, Pedaço de Mim (Chico Buarque). The LP Estrebucha Baby (1989) represented a different, almost experimental phase. She recorded the album Sobre Todas As Coisas in 1991. Valsa Brasileira (1993) had two hits, “Bom Dia” (Swami Jr./ Paulo Freire) and “Lamento” (Pixinguinha).

Var á tupperware party eitt kvøldið. Hetta er ikki nakað, eg vanliga geri, mær dámar betur party við øli og góðum práti, men satt at siga, hugnaði eg mær, og eg keypti sgu eisini okkurt. Eg meini so við, vit skulu øll eta, og hví ikki gera tað við stíli?

Hetta við tupperwareparty var nokk so stuttligt – gamal feministur er, so ikki sørt av fordómum vóru.

Enska Ann Oakly skrivaði nógvar bøkur fyrr um leiklutin sum húsmóðir. Í einari lýsir hon húsmóðurleiklutin við fýra eginleikum:

1. its exclusive allocation to women
2. its association with economic dependence
3. its status as non-work
4. its primacy to women

Tori at siga, at nógv vatn er runnið í grýtuna síðan hasa skilmerking, men ikki slepst uttanum – at kvinnur enn hava mest sum alla ábyrgd av heimi og børnum. Tað, sum er hent, er, at umframt hava tær eisini fingið arbeiði uttan fyri heimið, so at tær nú hava dupult so nógv at gera, sum tær høvdu frammanundan. Og Elis í útvarpinum hevur langt síðani funnið útav, at hann kann økja um sín popularitet við at siga við allar konurnar, sum ringja inn til hansara, at tær sanniliga  ikki bara eru húsmøðrar, sjálvandi gera tær eitt arbeiði, og tað gera vit jú, men tað hevur framvegis lágan status og er ólønt og kann tí ikki skilmerkjast, sum arbeiði vanliga verður skilmerkt. Trælir arbeiddu/arbeiða jú eisini.

Nå – nóg mikið við hesum: tupperware hevur eina langa og áhugaverda søgu – sjálvandi var tað ein maður, sum fann uppá tað, men tað var ein kona, Brownie Wise, sum fekk marknaðin fyri tuppervørum at eksplodera. Hetta var í 50´unum, og konufólkið varð júst sent heim aftur til kjøtgrýturnar, eftir at menninir, sum enn vóru á lívi eftir 2. heimsbardaga, komu heimaftur. So tíðin var júst tann rætta, tí hvat skuldu hesar konurnar finna uppá, tær vóru jú vanar at arbeiða og høvdu onkursvegna fingið eitt annað innihald enn bert gleðina við at gera reint og ansa børnum.

Og tað gongur fínt enn, og onkursvegna fekk eg sett hetta við at selja plastíløt inn í eina aðra dýpd, tá eg dagin eftir sá sending um sølumenn, sum brúkti nett somu søluhættir, men har vøran var ætlað á marknaði, sum var so himmalvítt øðrvísi enn hesin hjá konum.

Samskifti hevur týdning og tað persónliga sambandið við viðskiftafólkið, søgdu hesir sølumenninir, og tað siga konurnar, sum selja tupperware eisini. Men so heldur líkleikurin eisini uppat. Ok- mottoið: Caos is opportunity kundi kanska eisini verið motto hjá báðum pørtum, men kaos hjá tupperwarekonunum er tað, sum valdar í køksskápunum, og hitt kaosið er tað, sum valdar í kríggi, og tað er sanniliga hvør sítt!

So meðan tupperwarekonurnar halda fram við sínum friðaligu søluátøkum, so ferðast hesir menn til ófriðarstøð við sínum pansarabilum fyri at demonstrera, hvussu væl teir klára at verða skotnir eftir við AK47 riflum og kalisjnikovum, tí sum teir siga, onki er so gott sum The Perfect War, tí tað er proportionelt við vaksandi sølutøl. Hesar bomburnar við vegjaðararnar eru gull verdar fyri hesar sølumenn – nei, siga eg, tá velji eg til einoghvørja tíð heldur eitt tupperwareparty, tað doyrt tú so ikki av.

Og Ali Baba – tað merkir bandittur – so nú vóni eg at hava punkterað allar dreymir.

Me raxo de rir até hoje com isso

O inglês do meu querido primo é tão bom. Qualquer dia ele se muda pra USA.

Bom dia gente !

Estou no curso agora. Então resolvi escrever uma historia, mais como não saiu nada eu estou aqui atoa escrevendo merda. Estou pensando em escrever uma fic com Hentai, mais meus hentais são muito pesados então vou escrever algo leve. Tô Chocada com o rolo da REDE RECORD, sei que não vem ao caso aqui, mas eu estou chocada com isso. 

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