Comments on: Minor incident in the history of intercultural exchange http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-88268 Dave Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:04:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-88268 If i ever include post blurbs here on my sidebar, like i used to when I was on blogspot, I'll definitely have to include "shuffling, shambling abominable troglodyte"! I don't know about proud, but comfortable, certainly. I yam what I yam. If i ever include post blurbs here on my sidebar, like i used to when I was on blogspot, I’ll definitely have to include “shuffling, shambling abominable troglodyte”!

I don’t know about proud, but comfortable, certainly. I yam what I yam.

]]> By: butuki http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-87997 butuki Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:43:21 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-87997 but you were proud of being that shuffling, shambling abominable troglodyte, yes? That's why you so proudly displayed it here! It's the cheery Africans who don't seem real... just figments of a past television commercial that you vaguely remember. Dancing Africans in a habitat of sun-hating porcupines and arboreal memorabilia or a shambling troll from the depths of hibernation... which seems more real? but you were proud of being that shuffling, shambling abominable troglodyte, yes? That’s why you so proudly displayed it here! It’s the cheery Africans who don’t seem real… just figments of a past television commercial that you vaguely remember. Dancing Africans in a habitat of sun-hating porcupines and arboreal memorabilia or a shambling troll from the depths of hibernation… which seems more real?

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-82621 Dave Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:01:40 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-82621 There's always more. Just not necessarily of whatever it is you're expecting. There’s always more. Just not necessarily of whatever it is you’re expecting.

]]> By: Lucy http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-82400 Lucy Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:01:31 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-82400 More more more! (Please) More more more!
(Please)

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81755 Dave Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:50:10 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81755 Keith - Different sides of me feel at home in different kinds of situations. I'm like the protagonist in that song I recorded the other day: "Any old place that I hang my hat, it sure feels like home to me." marja-leena - This was complete nonfiction. Sorry to throw you off like that! I don't even really have a proper category for pieces like this, except maybe "self-portraits." Bill - Except they weren't Kenyans, but West Africans (from Niger). And thus, culturally speaking, not so unfamiliar to an American. The one who yelled at me when I played thrash metal always asked me to open my door and crank up the volume whenever I played my old blues records. We had a love for that Sahelian groove in common (among other things). Keith – Different sides of me feel at home in different kinds of situations. I’m like the protagonist in that song I recorded the other day: “Any old place that I hang my hat, it sure feels like home to me.”

marja-leena – This was complete nonfiction. Sorry to throw you off like that! I don’t even really have a proper category for pieces like this, except maybe “self-portraits.”

Bill – Except they weren’t Kenyans, but West Africans (from Niger). And thus, culturally speaking, not so unfamiliar to an American. The one who yelled at me when I played thrash metal always asked me to open my door and crank up the volume whenever I played my old blues records. We had a love for that Sahelian groove in common (among other things).

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81750 Bill Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:39:18 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81750 I've missed the obvious. Of all available co-equals, it was your notion of Kenyans that was most like your own idea of self. I’ve missed the obvious. Of all available co-equals, it was your notion of Kenyans that was most like your own idea of self.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81739 Bill Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:20:06 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81739 Life on bottom, myself thrice a rent slave, once in the cellar; who would have thought there to be an edge so keen as the one which separates a shared house? House mates. Such proximity, such exclusion. So well I remember standing at the door, hand on knob, only to helplessly go forth, out of the aural, into sight. By electing an intercultural situation, though, you cannily defuse the whole "likes finding likes" equation Smart. Contrary. Difficult. But doubtless stimulating. Life on bottom, myself thrice a rent slave, once in the cellar; who would have thought there to be an edge so keen as the one which separates a shared house? House mates. Such proximity, such exclusion. So well I remember standing at the door, hand on knob, only to helplessly go forth, out of the aural, into sight.

By electing an intercultural situation, though, you cannily defuse the whole “likes finding likes” equation Smart. Contrary. Difficult. But doubtless stimulating.

]]> By: marja-leena http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81712 marja-leena Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:40:55 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81712 Funny...as I was reading this, I kept thinking: is this a realistic dream or dream-like reality? From the comments I gather it was the latter :-) Funny…as I was reading this, I kept thinking: is this a realistic dream or dream-like reality? From the comments I gather it was the latter :-)

]]> By: Keith http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81709 Keith Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:21:05 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81709 But where did you feel more "At Home?" But where did you feel more “At Home?”

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81688 Dave Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:20:14 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/02/27/minor-incident-in-the-history-of-intercultural-exchange/#comment-81688 <em>I do believe each of those young men would have quickly found other accommodations.</em> True. But remember, I was practically squatting by that time. And the A-Frame was a hole even before Darren and I wrecked it. My residence with the Salifs was much more legit -- I paid rent and everything. I do believe each of those young men would have quickly found other accommodations.
True. But remember, I was practically squatting by that time. And the A-Frame was a hole even before Darren and I wrecked it. My residence with the Salifs was much more legit — I paid rent and everything.

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