It’s my lunch hour. Let’s see how quick we can do this.
People power rattling politics of Latin America
I have a feeling the Mexican media is doing a much better job covering the protests going on throughout this country and throughout Latin America than back home. It’s really pretty amazing to turn on the news every [...]

I just now finished Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins and it is – there is no doubt – my favorite book of the year so far.
There is a genre of literature that some over-caffeinated professor decided to one day call post-modern. Despite my general aversion to both hyphens and professors, it’s a [...]

OK, so I forgot to say in the last post, an 11th whole birdie round of applause for Mister Moreno who wrote the 500th post on this blog. Now there’s a reason to celebrate. Da bubbly, da bubbly. Of course it goes without saying that there is no better way we could have reached such [...]

There is a saying, or dicho, I hear often in Mexico. And I hear it most often when I am talking with my girlfriend’s grandmother:
Si Dios Quiere
Which translates to, “if God wants,” or “God willing.” Equally common are “primeramente a dios” which also sorta translates to “God willing” and perhaps the most popular, “gracias a [...]

why is it that so many stories in the Yahoo News Oddly Enough section come from india?

He Sues Lover After Sex Change Hitch
Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian who became a man to marry a female relative was dumped after the surgery, a newspaper reported Monday.
Twenty-nine-year-old rubber tapper [...]

UPDATE: Ahh, you (un)lucky souls. It turns out tonight I will be dining with my computer screen. Which is to say you, asynchronously, which means, if you’re so courageous, you can now at least skim over the smarts of Mr. Robbins which I have typed out below. Before I forget, a shoutout to my boy [...]

I dunno whats funnier: this video/song or the fact that HP will no doubt find it awe-inspiring and make him feel all fuzzy inside. Please watch this; if you don’t you undoubtedly hate Amerika.
Feel free to comment on your favorite moments in the video. Mine are when he pats the little [...]

the new Pope is a German. He was in Hitler’s Nazi Youth through “mandatory enrollment”.
Ratzinger [the new Pope], who was the powerful dean of the College of Cardinals, used his homily at the Mass dedicated to electing the next pope to warn the faithful about tendencies that he considered dangers to the faith: sects, [...]

They canceled my class at the brewery. Walking up and down Alfonso Reyes, I look for a place to buy a phone card. A thirty peso phone card. 30 pesos to the richest man in all of Latin America who will charge me 40 cents American per minute to speak to my girlfriend on her [...]

ok, ok, last post on the pope. the guy just provides me so much material!

with love, from brooklyn.