Now some long distance buses in Peru play videos. The choice of videos, however, is really shocking, they are so violent. I am wondering whether this is just my luck or whether it is a generalized phenomenon.
Yesterday, while driving through for hours through some of the most depressing industrial slums I have ever seen, including [...]
Everyone knows not to be in Lima in winter, because of the weather. I would add to this that if you are traveling (as opposed to renting your own apartment), not to be in Miraflores in the month of July because it is inundated with “backpackers” and other people you left Europe and the United [...]
If you have spent any time at all in Lima in winter - and I suspect the poverty of the early 20th century, although different from the current poverty, was about the same - you see why Vallejo was able to write such depressed poems about this city. The pollution, the traffic, the general deterioration, [...]
My original blogging plans for this Bastille day have been superseded by the need to help broadcast the call to HELP SAVE ZIMBABWE and to ask you, if it is possible for you, to DONATE to this important cause.
I was to have blogged today for Derrick Ashong’s band SOULFEGE, a much better cause than [...]
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 at [...]
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 was [...]
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.
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Our other featured post for today is Incipit, on academia and integrity, by Servetus. Here in Lima there [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
