Esperanto-USA

This is one Libera Folio story I'd take with more than just the proverbial grain of salt, especially when it comes to something as big as the Nobel Peace Prize.

I was startled to find that TAKE made news south of the Canadian border — on National Public Radio's The Bryant Park Project:

Native Esperanto speaker Boris-Antoine Legault, president of the Québec Esperanto Society, joins us from the 7th Esperanto Congress of the Americas in Montréal.

I've been looking for a good Esperanto equivalent for "foot–in–mouth disease" — the verb "fuŝparoli" is the closest I've gotten — ever since I read this item on Libera Folio quoting Czech Republic President Václav Klaus on the European Union's doomed Lisbon Treaty…

I've meant to post the news a few weeks ago... A while ago, a very good friend of mine — a Bay Area (California) musician named Cyoakha Grace O'Manion — invited me to participate in the remix of "Church of the Holy Trees," a song recorded by her band Land of the Blind.

But here's the grabber: She asked me to record my voice, chanting the two key refrains of the song… in Esperanto.

Following his 2006 dub/sub DVD–R of the Russian film Kin–Dza–Dza!, Andrej Grigorjevskij has produced a new disc, this time of the 1966 comedy Ŝtelado de fianĉino.

I don't normally blog on the E-USA site during the day, but I just read on Libera Folio that UNESCO is officially dropping the Internacia Ligo de Esperantistaj Instruistoj (ILEI) from their roster of non–govermental organizations, or NGOs.

Over the last few weeks, I've found myself trying to identify those areas of Esperanto studies where I am in need of focused study. Call it a deficiency review, if you will.

The celebrated free–form radio station WFMU-FM recently honored Alberta Casey as part of the station's
365 Days Project.

For the perpetually curious: the Esperanto–speaking cult horror film Incubus — yes, the one featuring a young William Shatner — has been republished on DVD.

Bonvolu pardoni min… It's been too long since my last blog post, and there's a simple explanation: Life tumbled in for me.