LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Who Do You Love?

"Who Do You Love?" is up on the Smithsonian Magazine website, under Arts and Culture. That Subject button is at the bottom, at the end of a row of several other Subject buttons.

One of the consequences of writing this farewell to Bo Diddley is that Mike Fleming, who is in the article, and then played with Bo for so many years, called, and talked with Vaquero about his days and times since then. Mike's still living and playing in Albuquerque. He says there's nothing online or anywhere else about those days and Roach Ranch West, which was such a center of vitality, so he and his buddies were extra glad about the article.

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