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Guatemalan Beer: Chelada or Michelada?
February 5th, 2010 at 7:16 pmLast one first: Moza.
I have tried: Moza, Gallo, Cabro, Monte Carlo, Brava Extra.
I know there is also Victoria, Brava Beats, Brava, and there used to be Aguila Dorada.
And I lament they stopped making the apple beer before I was able to try it.
PS. Thank you Rudy for fixin’ the prob.
Colonial Kitchen And Modern Appliances
February 5th, 2010 at 10:21 am@Eric: I feel your pain.
@Rudy: Nice kitchen, but not even with the best job available for a “local” psychologist in Guate could I have afforded that.
There is an issue with the beer post. No comments allowed. Maybe Guate Beer is “no comments”
Luna de Antigua
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:06 pmDon Rudy, can I ask for this photo instead of the pila?
Say you can… pls. For me “Luna” and “Luna de X” are synonyms of serenade.I have to get back home to listen to your versions. I have it with the Cuarteto Pentaforum (a string quartet)on an arrangement by Joaquin Orellana. And a few years ago it used to be my ringtone(midi file) for someone’s phone number.
Colonial Washbasins from Guatemala
February 1st, 2010 at 7:22 pmSo, there have been 13 posts about “pilas” (…cual es la piiilaaa). @Janna, maybe the laundromat has become the North American version of the public tanque. Once you have the “power” (read $) to wash your clothes at home you stop relating with others at that level. Same difference, don’t you think?
What time is it?
January 24th, 2010 at 9:31 amThe movie is at 8 pm, so we have time to grab a drink with Rudy and Arturo before.
Life Is Good!
January 21st, 2010 at 6:39 amPues this post should be called from now on the “Optimist Manifesto” that proclaims the “dictatorship of the moment”. Many many thoughts. Some sort of “new nostalgia” is born on me after reading this. Connections with the past: Intellectual musings about Funes looking at the Aleph, about the impossibility of happiness but only of happy moments.
The song, like life, is good. Melancholic folk. Thank you for introducing to me this Mexican singer. You always contribute to our education, sentimental and otherwise.
Saludos mi amigo antigueño.
Making Pilas: Putting the Dots
January 13th, 2010 at 9:52 amPues it seems to me you are dotting the i’s… I wonder when and how you would cross the t’s…
Free Christmas Concerts in Antigua Guatemala
December 13th, 2009 at 10:55 amI guess you were able to capture some stardust… or what is left of fireworks.
Recycling Sewing Machines
December 9th, 2009 at 5:38 pm@Rudy… wonderful idea and beautiful tables. Now, in your aside you forgot to mention that this holiday period is better known as the “Guadalupe Reyes tour” by more bohemian individuals.
@Erin, you might also like my Home for the Holidays post.
Slide Show of Burning of the Devil in Antigua Guatemala
December 8th, 2009 at 9:08 pmWell… the hell with it!
Slide Show of Burning of the Devil in Antigua Guatemala
December 8th, 2009 at 10:44 amIt took me a while to see the differences on each picture on slideshow mode, but clicking on each of them separately made me see the dramatic crash and burn of the fallen angel, better-known as Lucifer, or the devil.
I guess that having a community burning is better than having each household make their individual bonfires. I wonder if British people have found a way of reducing the environmental impact of Guy Fawkes day (another kind of devil).
Stop Violence Against Women the World Over
December 5th, 2009 at 1:56 pmTomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre… here is a post in Spanish (with links to sites in English) about the event:
http://eltoronteco.blogspot.com/2007/12/no-somos-feministas.html
Theme Day: Waiting
December 1st, 2009 at 10:06 amI wonder how long you were waiting to post this pic. Nice colours and the location is superb (although my bias is relative).
Alforja Sign
November 29th, 2009 at 10:10 amHummingbirds… no? Pues then I’d have to say wrought iron stuff. What do I win?
The Gatekeeper
November 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pmI wish Google Maps Street View were available for LAG. Maybe you can pull some strings Rudy? Or “volunteer” for it? Actually they might hire you to do it.
Stop Violence Against Women in Guatemala
November 19th, 2009 at 1:33 pmHIM: Well well… now and forever.
HER: I will survive.
I think my conscience was born after finding and reading Ibsen’s “A doll’s house” among my mother’s books.
Stop Violence Against Women the World Over
November 19th, 2009 at 5:59 amDon Rudy, ahora si te mandaste, ya viste, no me necesitas por aca ni para los posts profundos ni para la psicoloquera
) of how sometimes I feel I “escaped” Guate and one of the reasons was that *expletive* machismo, just to find that it is a universal problem. @Arturo, I could agree with your observation about men, but that will mean diminishing myself, and by not respecting who I am as a male, I wouldn’t be able to respect the other (male or female). Respect begins at home, and oneself is the first one to respect.
Now the serious comment: I actually was just talking to someone (my therapist, but don’t tell anyone
Does this make sense or is it just my “patient” persona?
Craving Corn: Elote
November 10th, 2009 at 7:00 amCorn is the ultimate mesoamerican food. However, I have found that it is a very important part of the culture (in any possible sense) of the prairies (th e region in Canada above the US midwest) and that it serves as a pretext to gather people in Quebec (French Canada) through a “corn roast” or épluchette de blé d’inde which loose translates as the “feathering of wheat from India”… oh the history that can come from a little tradition.
El Grito
October 29th, 2009 at 10:36 am“yo ya meeee voooooy…” and then the marimba starts… rockin’ good man. For some reason it reminded me the first time I heard the album “Get behind me Satan” of The White Stripes. There are a couple of songs that start with marimba and the sound of that instrument just took me back to Guate.
I haven’t heard el Grito in ages… although the other day I found myself singing to myself: “yo soy puro guatemalteco…”
Feria Food: Manzanas encarameladas
October 28th, 2009 at 6:53 amCase and point (link to article in Spanish):
En Toronto, ahora educación a la mexicana
Feria Food: Manzanas encarameladas
October 28th, 2009 at 6:49 amIn Canada, in the almost 10 years I’ve been here, Spanish went from being in the top 20 languages spoken to being in the top 5. In my ‘hood I hear Spanish spoken everyday (although I hear also Tagalog every day,but that is more neighborhood effect and Spanish is more widespread around the city).
Feria Food: Plataninas
October 27th, 2009 at 1:31 pmPapalina es la que uno se pone cuando se pasa de traguitos.
Guatemalan Cuisine: Loroco and Cheese Pupusas
October 26th, 2009 at 6:06 pm@Janna & Rudy. I have a dark sense of humour. Although forensic anthropologists are just a variant of physical anthropologists, whom might be interested in the human remains of the people’s that inhabited mesoamerica centuries ago (and might have predicted the end of the world in 2012, but that’s another story). In any case, Guatemala actually has exported forensic anthropologists to work in the former Yugoslavia, which is a sad fact, as it is that in Olympic disciplines Guate might win a medal first in shooting…
Guatemalan Cuisine: Loroco and Cheese Pupusas
October 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pmSorry, forgot to say, I guess loroco could be planted and kept on an indoor, community, or backyard garden. I might try to smuggle some into the true white north.
Guatemalan Cuisine: Loroco and Cheese Pupusas
October 26th, 2009 at 12:46 pmFunny… but watching TV on DVD the other day loroco was mentioned on an episode of Bones, which by the way mentioned Guatemala on their series premiere and on this season’s premiere. After all, the main character is a forensic anthropologist (I wonder why this profession would be interested in our little motherland?)