Crazy Canuck calmly decapitates seatmate (Canada)

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News flash:
¡THIS IS SURREAL! A man riding the Greyhound Bus literally---literally!---cut off the head of the young passenger seated next to him.

What the ¡#@%?!

I often travel via Greyhound and, thankfully, have only had to put up with uncouth, smelly ghetto and hillbilly types. Knock on wood.

( read news article )

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Dwindling U.S. value (Mexico)

Today I noticed the exchange rate of the $USD to the $MXN was $9.13. The almighty greenback is now worth less than the standard bearer ten pesos!

When I first passed through the country during Semana Santa in April the rate was an impressive high ten to eleven pesos...now, three months later it's barely $9 pesos.

¡BUSH (and BERNANKE) SUCK!

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The eight don't ask questions of the Olympics - Yahoo! News

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In wake of the Summer Olympics the Chinese government has informed its citizens not to pester foreigners with the following intrusive questions. According to posters they should not ask about:

1. income or expenses
2. age
3. love life or marriage
4. health
5. someone’s home or address
6. personal experience
7. religious beliefs or political views
8. what someone does
   

In Jalisco, Mexico, the Mexicans annoy you with all eight of these questions---EVERY DAY!

The number one question on their lips is ¿De donde eres?---"from where are you?"---leaving unsaid,"Oh I'm just being nosy and have nothing to add to this conversation. We're territorial and need to know where people come from...and anything else that isn't necessarily any of our business."

( read about the '8 don't asks' )

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Mexican ¡salsa, salsa!

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(more political funnies)

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Old fashioned fashion (Guadalajara)

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On June 27 the Casa Museo López Portillo in Downtown hosted a free fashion show, exhibiting the latest wear in turn-of-the-century women's fashion. The event was preceded the day before by a slide show and lecture on various women's wear and was full of beauty, sleek corsets, ruffles, feathers, heavy-handed jewelry and---yum-yum---cleavage.




I regret not snagging a front row chair but with a full house in attendance I was glad to get a chair at all. The models were hot and one can only wonder, minus the Max Factor, if Mexicans back then really looked as sexy. If so, then the modern Tapatia ain't living up to the yardstick!




The fashion show was well organized, well attended, and well worth the educational and visual experience.

Casa Museo López Portillo
Liceo 177
Centro Histórico

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