The Most Overdue Post of All Time: Retrospective 2024/2025
Every year I start my retrospective by complaining about how long it took me to finally sit down and write it. This year, I broke all records. It’s almost June… Read more »
Author Archives: Francisco
Oppenheimer and Star Wars
For a long time now I have sustained that Star Wars is not science fiction – and indeed it isn’t. Based on the same criteria, neither is Oppenheimer a movie… Read more »
Writer’s “Block”
For a few years now I’ve been having a certain difficulty writing stuff for this blog. It’s not like “back in the day”: I just didn’t went through the trouble… Read more »
2022 and the positive derivatives
This is probably the longest I’ve been in this blog without posting a post like this. It is the first one this year, which means it is supposed to be… Read more »
Why I root against
The World Cup has kicked off last week – and here we are again, in this weird mood that takes over Brazil every four years. To me, the difference is… Read more »
Evolving means leaving the past behind
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about a former University mate. Back then, those of us who had a less developed class consciousness would laugh at him. I don’t remember… Read more »
Empathy, Friendship and Common Sense
2009 was a very complicated year in my life. A lot of people know that. But almost nobody knows the story of everything I went through that year. Context I… Read more »