Don’t read this. It’s boring. I just had to get it out.
On Monday I left early for an appointment. I took local streets because it was rush hour, which in Seattle is a nightmare. As I was tooling innocently through the south end of town, a patrol car pulled me over. I obediently drove into [...]
General Blog
I Am A Criminal. Officially.
Seattle domestic scenes
KIKO
Right now I’m staying at Kiko’s house. She has graciously allowed me to stay here and is unfailingly polite and pleasant. Affectionate even, and we’ve just met.
However, sometimes it’s hard to communicate with Ms. Kiko. Here’s what she does when I call her.
BRRRRRR
This is the back of my car in the morning. March 7 2010
Oscar [...]
Yentas visit The Bodies exhibit, Seattle
Shocking. Unbelievable. Riveting. Produces strong mixed feelings. These are my reactions to Bodies. My other feeling was regret that I’d just had a wonderful lunch of ramen soup with pork floating in it.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Bodies phenomen, it is a Chinese entertainment enterprise that’s basically a bunch of dead bodies [...]
Restaurant Review: Caspar’s Southern Cuisine, Seattle
Judy and I turned into the north Seattle strip mall to have lunch at the Old Korean Village restaurant. Vegetables, rice noodles, fish, very healthy. We cruised around and parked – and then we saw it. Caspar’s. It was new, just opened last month. We immediately gave up our saintly food goals and wheeled around [...]
Reading on a Kindle
It seemed to me that if I have an eBook on Amazon Kindle Books, I should check out the Kindle. So I borrowed one from a friend and downloaded my current book club selection, Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, The Lacuna.
Since Kingsolver is an a acclaimed writer and doesn’t have to observe any of the usual [...]
Henequen in Yucatan
Henequen represents slavery, rope, the conquest, heavy labor, and haciendas. It is, of course, the plant and fiber produced on most of the the huge haciendas of Yucatan. Henequen, a type of agave, is uniquely suited to northern Yucatan’s rocky, torrid terrain. It takes at least five years for a henequen plant to mature on [...]
Koreans in Yucatan
In the beginning of the 1900s, several hundred Korean laborers were shipped to Yucatan after having been told they were going to Hawaii. They were indentured servants on the henequen haciendas and were required to work there for three years to pay off their passage. When their three-year terms were up, most of them didn’t [...]
Trains and The Merida Railway Museum
The Museo de las Ferrocarilles en Yucatan is located in Merida,on Calle 43 between 48 and 46, Colonia Industrial. No phone, not much of an office, no indoor exhibits except for inside the railway cars. Go on a nice day as you are walking around outside and occasionally going into a railroad car.
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Although in the [...]
Expat Thoughts
I moved to Mexico at least partly because the Bush administration was so brutal to so many. They killed many of the things I loved about the USA. Like hope, pride, and the feeling of belonging to something I could be proud of. We Americans weren’t perfect, but we sure as hell tried. We had [...]
Slow Food Market
Slow Food Yucatan has put together a group of organic food producers and they had their debut Friday market yesterday. It was quite crowded, and some vendors ran out of products. There was great stuff available for sale – chimichurri, peanut butter, bread and muffins, fruits and vegetables, granola, etc. The market, located in front [...]