Showing posts with label Swine Flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swine Flu. Show all posts

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Weekly Football Results





Still, dear reader, I don't have Swine Flu. Thursday I got out of my lockdown and went to the market. The deserted streets were a very unfamiliar sight, with my neighborhood being very noisy and crowded.







I spoke with some friends on the phone and three of them watched Wereder Bremen v. Hamburg in the Semifinals of the UEFA Cup. The number of people talking about a UEFA Cup match was really high but regarding the lockdown that many Mexicans are facing certain luxuries or even bothers to watch certain matches that in "normal circumstances" would not be watched. Returning to the game the northerns beat one-nil the Bremen side in a pretty dispair match. In the first forty five minutes the visiting side obtained a late lead through a header of Trochowski. Through the following period Bremen had at least four clear chances to score with several more over the bar. It will be until next thursday that the outcome of the German semifinal shall be cleared.







El Clásico took place at Madrid yestereday. Los Blancos got battered by the overwhelming power of Barsa. If there was a moment in which Los Blancos could have equalled their counterparts, immediately Barsa showed them that it was not going to happen. The home side were simply outclassed in each department and if Casillas would have not been there, the scoresheet could have shown a wider gap.







I still disgust the way that Barsa played testerday. They played well but they cannnot be put together in comparisson to Cruyff's Barsa. The Spanish commentator on SKY sports stated that Iniseta was "Laudrup from the 21st century." Please, measure yourslef! Finally congratulations to Indios of Ciudad Juárez and Puebla, they will be playing next season in Mexico's top competition since they saved themselves from relegation. Even though the battle still continues with Tigres and Necaxa.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

From "Ground Zero"





First, no I do not have Swine Flu. Second, dear reader, I am updating the blog since I left it a couple of months off due to school. Now that school's out until the temptative deadline of May the sixth I have some time to think regarding this disease and football.
I have been reading Geoffrey Hill's poetry in the last months and I am still overwhelmed by the power of his verse. I plan to make my undergraduate dissertation on Yeats but several times Heaney and Hill have crossed my mind, even McEwan.







Regarding McEwan everything went "smooth" in our Colloquium. Unfortunately this time I could not record any presentation. I received three critics from very good friends regarding my subject and these proved to be very helpful. I will be reading another presentation on the Sixth Classical Literature Students Colloquium as soon as classes resume. It will be on Yeats's "A thought from Propertius" regarding Bloom's influence theory.


A Thought from Propertius

She might, so noble from head
To great shapely knees,
The long flowing line,
Have walked to the altar
Through the holy images
At Pallas Athene’s side,
Or been fit spoil for a centaur
Drunk with the unmixed wine.


Did I say InFLUence? Yes. Streets were deserted today and to prove that today I passed through the park to see if some of hte lads were plaing: obviously not. Ussually thi place is packed at noon. I think I should keep reading and working on the blog, since wednesday's match approaches. Come on you Gunners!


Ovid in the Third Reich

non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare,
solaque famosam culpa professa facit.
—(Amores, III, xiv)

I love my work and my children. God
Is distant, difficult. Things happen.
Too near the ancient troughs of blood
Innocence is no earthly weapon.

I have learned one thing: not to look down
So much on the damned. They, in their sphere,
Harmonize strangely with the divine
Love. I, in mine, celebrate the love-choir.