Cielito Lindo (click here), a famous serenade composed by Quirino Mendoza y Cortés, has been claimed by Mexicans as a second national anthem, and is also known to most English-speaking Americans simply as the “ay, ay ay ay” song. It is also worth mentioning that Spaniards, Cubans, Argentines, and people from almost every other […]
It is a funny thing to be angry. I have always known anger as a passing emotion, because it motivates you to take some action, and that action will remove the anger one way or another. But it is different to hold in anger. To choke on it. I never knew that the sensation could […]
A particularly good lunch today at a Korean restaurant today made me reflect again on the many advantages provided to our town by our immigrant community. A good lunch is not only good food, of course– something in a mild day, relaxed company, getting lost on the way there and not caring, drinking an […]
Just for fun, here is a song by a Lila Downs, a singer from Oaxaca who plays traditional Mexican music with a modern touch. I don’t know much about Lila Downs, except that she seems to be an independent woman in the mold of Frida Kahlo. I can say that I had this […]
I have not offered many clear personal details about myself so far, but it may interest some of you to know that I work for the Communist Party of America. No, not that wussy impostor organization you may have heard of whose leaders all teach at the University of California. The identity of […]
Today I have a song (click here) I would like for you all to hear, as well as an English translation of the lyrics. I first heard “En Barranquilla Me Quedo” (”In Barranquilla I’ll Stay”) when I was in Colombia, though I did not know anything about Joe Arroyo at the time.
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There is a coffee scene here in town, a little place with coffee merchandise on the first floor, and an upstairs loft with couches and a microphone. On Monday nights they have open mic for musicians. Today I was there with a friend; we saw mohawk girl, who had been sitting and glaring in the […]
I’d like to take this opportunity to comment on a recent news story that’s really depressing me. As some of you may have heard the full might and power of the rebuilt Iraqi military recently went down to Basrah to take care of a certain unruly militia there. Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki even […]
Well, here we are, on the internet. What started as an idea several months ago, when I had lots of free time, has now become a real webpage. I would like to thank friends and family for believing in me, my car for not breaking down, my tap water for not giving me […]