This is really beautiful. I would love to visit 1930s Havana (in my time machine, of course). I am rereading Alejo Carpentier and yes, I am on an archival travel footage jag. I would show Samarkand in the twenties if I could find it. (The voiceover on this video may be distracting, but you can … More Havana, 1930s
Last Wednesday I discovered the blog Choledad Privada, a nonacademic blog by an academic (just like this one), so today I am featuring it. Read it for pleasure. If you are one of those prepared to understand it, you will instantly see why I recommend it. And it is also a FACEBOOK group, which makes … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Private Cholitude
This video is really good, with excellent music, and unlike some I have posted recently, it is not American made: This one, too: Axé.
I used to hear that only APRA, or only foreign investment could save Peru. Then I heard that only Alberto Fujimori and the sinchis could save it. Now mining is supposed to be saving the country, which has coal among other minerals. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to show this video about coal mining. … More Coal Is Not an Alternative Fuel
We already know that of things one can have done to oneself at low prices in Lima, I prefer acupuncture over beauty services. We also know that I almost never go to restaurants, and that when I do, they are cheap ones, that I like Lima 1, and that I shop in the central market … More Fancy Cafés of Lima: Open Thread
The owner of the bus company HORNA, in whose vehicle I was riding when it hit a truck and then crashed into a car, said that he had no way of controlling whether or not the drivers had accidents. He was therefore not responsible for anything that happened, so that it was not his duty … More Yet Another Coda
This is very good. H/T Hattie. As a side note, it alludes to one of my main themes: the fallacious idea that it is more healthy and “natural” (or “genuine”) for women to be irrational than for us to be logical. As we know, that idea is central in Reeducation. Axé.
It is a serious problem. Listen closely to the clever commentary by the reporter! And here, we see people burning electrical cables in the street near the Gamarra market. Update: Some of the commentators on the second video say the reason people are committing this ecological crime is that they are “shitty Indians” (sic). In … More Meones en Lima
FUN AND FLUFFY I associate Peru with seafood, but usually we eat many forms of starch, fruit, and milk – with instant coffee and herb tea. This diet causes me to crave fried eggs. Today, fortunately, we consumed meat, vegetables, and wine, and I was fortified at last. Then we consumed an item new to … More Your Travel Guide Requete-speaks
For the third day in a row I have failed to get into the Lima film festival. It is somewhat disappointing, but now I know: you have to study the program way ahead of time, and drop down on those tickets like a hawk the first hour they are available. I justified buying Jorge Bruce’s … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Jorge Bruce
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