If I vote for McKinney and McCain wins, don’t blame me, blame Barack Obama and the Democrats who refused to look seriously at candidates who offered alternatives to Republican policies! I am irritated at Obama and at a few other things, but I am actually in an excellent mood because I have been hanging out … More Cynthia McKinney
Gonzalo Portocarrero (among others) says we should look at racism in daily life. The other day we went to a rather fancy lunch at RUSTICA and I noticed that many employees – many more than in most restaurants – were Afro-Peruvian. It had to be intentional. Given the atmosphere the restaurant creates I decided this … More Sobre el racismo en la vida cotidiana
Bobby Jindal is worse than Katrina. Read all about it at FireDogLake. I was tipped off to this post by the resting Redstar Perspective. See also Dancing With Katrina, by Geoffrey Philp, dedicated to our own Kalamu ya Salaam. * Our other featured post for today is Incipit, on academia and integrity, by Servetus. Here … More On Jindal and Katrina
Our cook is going to Huaripampa this weekend to investigate the possibility of buying property there, and I am envious. This video of one Huaripampa musical culture is not of the Huaripampa she is going to, and it was filmed in Lima, but it is truly excellent, so I am posting it as a way … More Waripampa
Anytime is a good time to study La Perricholi, a famous 18th century diva, and to consider the composition of her strange name (perra + chola). Axé.
Sara Beatriz Guardia gave an interesting talk the other night at the Café Bar Sancho Panza (Grau 209A, Barranco) – a locale I recommend, by the way. The talk on 19th century women writers Clorinda Matto and Mercedes Cabello, focused on the hatred and intolerance Lima society showed these authors. Guardia has written a paper … More Sara Beatriz Guardia
So it is São João and my official 50th birthday! June 24th is the year’s best day. Last night we leaped over fires and sang the midsummer song. In the southern hemisphere it is midwinter but we leaped over fires just the same, and drank hot cane liquor with cinnamon. * This is not necessarily … More Sankt Hans
Whiteman: How long has it been since you were last here? Professor Zero: Nine years. WM: Do you find it has changed? PZ: Not greatly. It is different from the early eighties when I first came, and from the mid eighties when the Shining Path activity was intense, but I noticed those changes already in … More Dat Whiteman
Our featured site for today is Ride for Climate: Americas, about an 18 month long bicycle ride designed to raise awareness of global warming. Our rider climbs mountains too, and talks about melting glaciers near Huaraz, where I have been and may now go again. The glacier Pastoruri is almost 50% melted at this point. … More El Pastoruri
Tomorrow is Juneteenth, and we are already celebrating by listening to live blues from Club Raggs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on KQXL – 106.5 FM. Last weekend was the Donaldsonville Juneteenth Festival, rumored to be good. Axé.
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