Year: 2023

Winter of Our Malcontents November 19, 2021 Winter is arriving here in the high country of Chiapas, with evening lows dipping down to 40, but […]

Thanksgiving Tour November 25, 2021 The little tour bus looks like a San Francisco cablecar with old tires.  I have yet to board one of […]

La Proxima Frontera November 29, 2021 “Yo no Soy de Aqui, pero Tu Tampoco” I’m not from here, but neither are you. Jorge Drexler, “Movimiento” […]

Feats of Guadalupe December 2, 2021 “Our fiestas are explosions.  Life and death, joy and sorrow, music and mere noise are united, not to re-create […]

Kambó and Quantum Quackery December 6, 2021 Giant Monkey Frog venom holds no great appeal for me.  Anything that might be secreted by a distressed […]

Apparently Sweet Marie December 10, 2021 I waited for you inside of the frozen traffic, When you knew I had some other place to be. […]

Bombitas December 12, 2021 “Que es?” I ask the kids, who are squatting in the middle Calle Guadalupe. “Bombita,” one says, nonchalantly.  Little bomb.  He […]

Viña de Vaca December 13, 2021 I initially misheard the name as Vaca, not Bacco, so I naturally assumed the place had something to do […]

Tres Andadores December 17, 2021 “The city has allowed this to happen, and violent eviction may be necessary,” one merchant says, in a prominent online […]

My Mexican Insult December 24, 2021 The sun sets at 5:41 on the winter solstice in San Cristobal, gaining a minute of daytime from hereon, […]