fajitas – millibeep

this machine kills fajitas

This is one of my favorite songs. It was made famous by Woody Guthrie, who had a guitar inscribed with the words “This Machine Kills Fascists“. We know a little bit about that. /millibeep

a bundle, an oppressive ideology, a slur, and some delicious tex-mex

Long ago, the Proto-Italic language that predated Latin had a word to describe a bundle of something: “faskis”, which itself stems from the Proto-Indo-European “bhasko”. This term later appears in Latin as “fasces” and refers to a bundle of wooden rods with a protruding blade. The fasces was carried as a symbol of legal authorityContinue reading “a bundle, an oppressive ideology, a slur, and some delicious tex-mex”