I had been to San Miguel de Allende once before. I was staying with two friends, Jessica and Mario, in Queretaro and we drove up for the afternoon. Just as we arrived it started to rain and I spent the entire afternoon slipping and sliding down the cobblestone streets, focusing all my attention on the [...]

Guanajuato is dope. I’m not sure quite else how to explain it. From Leon the drive was less than forty minutes. We went back on our word, forked out the thirty pesos to drive on the cuota and enjoyed the easy ride at 110 km/hour. No longer was the countryside flat and repetitive like the [...]

We learned our lesson after spending more than $15 in tolls to take the “cuota” from Torreon to Zacatecas. The driving was easy, fast, and direct, but did not pass through any pueblos and was way over our budget. The “libre” – an always available free alternative to Mexico’s toll roads – showed us the [...]

All the nonsense that follows below is basically trying to say that we now have a “chatroom” on the blog. That little thing on the right that says “scream it” gets updated every two seconds without the page refreshing. If it doesn’t work for you, try clearing your cache. My morning conversation this morning with [...]

Entrevisté a Juan Varela del blog español, Periodistas 21, para una serie de Global Voices que cubre los blogeros nominados para un premio de Reporteros Sin Fronteras: ¿Porque empezaste Periodistas 21? Al principio era una herramienta de un periodista y consultor que viajaba mucho. En el blog reseñaba materiales interesantes y reflexionaba sobre ellos. Poco [...]

Sucker, sucker is my girlfriend’s new all-encompassing catch phrase. I know not what it means or when she’ll use it, but use it she does at least once every five minutes or so. Y’all. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m pretty sure it’s the heat – easy scape goat. Anyway, I’m totally stuck [...]

i’m as confused as you are

so today is Mr. John C. Reilly’s 40th birthday. i’m not on the john c. reilly mailing list or anything, i just happened to see it on imdb.com and so i thought i’d honor an actor who i think deserves some attention. some classic John C. Reilly characters: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) – This [...]

anyway, for those of you who will be in the NYC area on June 8th (none of you), Via Violenta are headlining the Brooklyn Sunset Music Festival. It’s going to be nutso like Bingo Gazingo. And now, thanks to MonstrOso, you can buy tickets to the show at our website. What an age we live in! Anyway thats my plug.

This month’s podcast somewhat accompanies this post. It’s been a long time coming: my response to the HP’s second argument in our series of blogger debates. For those of you new to the blog, the blogger debates between Hispanic Pundit and I evolved out of last year’s election. While I saw many progressives talking of [...]