Category: Weekly Posts
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Exploring the Rackova Valley – Tatras National Park – Slovakia (Jim O’Donnell)
We be will hosting two major events while Jim O’Donnell is in Portales: Reading on Friday, the 23rd at 2pm in JWLA 112 (our nice, new lecture hall) Lecture on Thursday the 29th at 2pm in JWLA 112
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Thinking West: Tortillas in Space
Tortillas are part of the Southwestern diet, displacing the tasteless, crumby sliced bread. You can roll them. You can stuff them. You can use tortillas to clean your plate or shovel morsels of beans and meat into your already stuffed mouth. Tortillas are the Swiss Army knives of food. They’re served in restaurants and sold…
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Jack Williamson Endowed Chair Reading and Lecture
Please welcome this year’s Jack Williamson Endowed Chair to campus. Jim O’Donnell is an acclaimed travel writer and photographer. He is a former field archaeologist and conservation specialist. His work has appeared in National Geographic Maps, New Mexico Magazine, Vrai Magazine, Boots-n-All, Perceptive Travel, Taos News, Destinations Travel, Water Matters!, The Ambler, Arrival, Public News…
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Influence and Homage: When Walt Whitman Met Oscar Wilde
It’s hard to imagine a meeting between two celebrities like Whitman and Wilde. However, history is full of surprises. During his stay in America, the youthful Wilde met with the aging poet Whitman. This meeting between Whitman and Wilde made a lasting impression on Wilde and how he handled his celebrity status. David M. Friedman’s…
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A Sample of Jim O’Donnell’s Work
Check out the photo essay and YouTube video of Jim O’Donnell’s recent hike to the Untersulzbachtal Glacier in Austria. Melting Glaciers in Austria — Hiking the Untersulzbachtal
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Silencing Rivers by Jade Smith
I reached down to the bottom of the back bar. I poured another tequila shot and slid it down the crumbling lacquer to Marcos. He didn’t look down as he caught it. He had been sitting there the entire night watching me tend. I wiped the tables down and I could feel his body shift…
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El Portal’s First Web Feature
Check out El Portal‘s very first web feature (“Silencing Rivers”) by Jade Smith. Our hope is to publish a web feature every month between August and May. If you have any questions about El Portal‘s web features, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu.
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Best Books of the 21st Century (USC Rossier)
What do you guys think? Anything missing from this list? What should be excluded from this list? Leave your suggestions in a comment. (Check out the original feature.) Original Source: http://rossieronline.usc.edu/best-books-of-the-21st-century-infographic/
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English (Urban Dictionary Definition)
English. A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
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The World’s Greatest Storytellers (According to Raconteur)
Check out the original feature at Raconteur.
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Thinking West: Sci-Fi Growing Up
What happened to classic sci-fi? What happened to the fiction that spanned the known galaxy, hopping from star system to star system? What happened to the fiction gleaming with technological wonders and an optimistic view of the future? What happened to the fiction that imagined boundless frontiers amongst the stars and those spaces between stars…
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Thinking West: Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
[A]s for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Thinking West: Carl Sagan & Wanderers Short Film
Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.– Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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IT’S HERE!!! Episode VII – The Force Awakens Trailer
We’re breaking away from literature and all things writing today. We’ve decided to post the teaser trailer for the upcoming Star Wars film. Star Wars has something to do with El Portal, right?
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