foto by smith
a note from our new friend no-snow:
“Mexico is the world’s longest running and most successful Fascist Dictatorship. On the other hand, it is one of the world’s greatest revolutionary hot beds. The revolution here, based on socialist and anarchist principles, predates the Russian revolution and is still seething along under the surface …witness the 6th declaration.
“This was born in on me when I saw a crowd of two hundred pissed off Mexicans with machetes and ropes chasing URO, the current governor through the halls of the El Camino Real 5 star hotel last year. I’m quite confident that if they had caught him they would have hung him in the Zocalo, then staged a thanksgiving dance under his swinging corpse. Unfortunately, his pack of heavily armed body guards opened fire on the crowd and got him away.”
no-snow says when he told his u.s. friends he was moving to mexico, they asked why he would move to a fascist country. he told them to look around – he wasn’t moving to a long time fascist country as much as he was moving away from the cheney-bush-clinton-corproation neophyte fascism taking over amerika.
no-snow is an interesting fellow. 3-4 years older than i, he was a chef on the mississippi tow-boats for 7 years, an army ranger in germany, had a young bobby dylan as a college roommate for 5 months just before dylan exploded big time on the nyc folk scene in the early 1960s. he thought young dylan a brash selfish unsharing arrogant man, which fits the biographies i’ve read. but as lady says, we believe in redemption, and from dylan’s songs i hear and his later words i read, he’s grown greatly emotionally and spiritually since then. like he sang, he was so much older then, he’s younger than that now.
no-snow says folk down here are helpful, sometimes too much so – if they don’t know where something is, they’ll give you directions to where they think it should be.
as for us, we’ve become water carriers – we drink water in the kitchen, walk into the bathroom and deliver it to the toilet. we’re the only water carriers in the apartment this sunday morning though – the cistern ran dry so we can’t shower, wash dishes, or flush the toilet until the next water delivery. we’ve only been in the apt 4 days, so we don’t yet know the rhythm or flow, so don’t know when we’ll be able to flush our fermenting 2-person feces soup.
today’s thought – best not throw the bath water out with the baby.
Oaxaca governor URO – foto by smith