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Hand-made books, taco journalism, cubanitos in Miami and an anecdote or two
I am half-dressed and staring at myself in the mirror.
Husband walks past me toward the closet.
We’re going out for the evening.
“What is the matter?” he asks.
“I’m thinking,” I say.
“Must be bad.”
“This,” I say, walking toward him and pointing to the top of my head. “is what I am thinking about. You see this pubey-looking gray hair? I’m thinking about pulling it.’
“Then pull it,” he says.
“But, you remember that bartender in Havana who caught you trying to kill the roach on the bar?”
“Yeah, the guy who said: ‘Señor, ju cannot keel dem all.”’
“Yes, him. Well, I cannot pull them all.”
Half-way to 42 has its plusses and its minuses.
OK, so aging be damned, we’re doing some links here today:
Check out this letterpress bilingual Spanish/English ABC book. It’s made by a printmaker in Puerto Rico and all hand-cut and linoprinted. Ordering information is on the site. I love the representation for the letter C.
A friend and foodie just moved to Austin. I found this blog Taco Journalism just for her. I love it! Why yes, I spend time reading about tacos in Texas that I have no chance of eating.
And here’s a Web series by smart cubanitos, founders of the site generation ñ.
I used to read them when they had a magazine, so I’m glad to have found them online. Finally found them. They doing lots of video and producing a novela. Click here to see.
I watched a couple of episodes yesterday while it was freezing here in Tennessee and now, coño, I need some sun and a mango shake down in la saguesera.
They’ve also got old episodes of the pee-your-pants-funny and classic ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A? and a total Miami cubanita astrologist called Rosemary. She says in the latest episode: “The moon changes every three days and it affects us all.”
That reminds me of when I came home after interviewing an ob-gyn for a story on menstrual problems (see the thrilling former life I had?) and reported to my husband: “You know that as a woman, my hormones are never the exact same from day to day? That’s truly amazing.”
“You needed to interview an ob-gyn to know that? I could have told you that.”
He also told me to pull the pubey-gray this week.
you said pubey…
loves it!
Hey! I’m so glad we connected! Living here in north GA, far from my California roots, I miss the Chicano heritage I grew up around. And one of my buddies in college choir was a cubana from Miami.
I needed some espanol in mi vida.
And yeah, I laughed the most at pubey. ;)
Hola Cubana fria,
I recently came across your blog and have followed it for a couple of weeks now. I just started one and am learning about the blogosphere. I thought that you, and other moms, might want to check it out since it’s based on child development. It’s http://www.downtheslide.blogspot.com.
Pio…Pio…Pio…
Oh yeah,
my Twitter name is Osonegro if you’re ever around in the early A.M. and I am editor in chief at a new publishing company called Talespinner Publications, Inc. http://www.talespinnerpublications.com if you’re interested in literature. I’m working on our second book right now and writing a book for pre-school teachers on positive guidance and discipline (that’s my “specialty”).
Laura, again, I think we’d get on famously…
Steph, looks like we’re living similar lives as fish out of water. So nice to connect.
Early Bird, welcome. Love your blog name and sounds like you have a cool job!
Thanks for the response. I have many cool jobs. I’m currently managing a retail store for a friend because it was falling apart! I’ve got it running pretty smooth right now and will soon be switching jobs. I’ll be working for a local Tribal school as an academic advisor and helping them to create an entirely new system of education. How’s the clothing company going? While I’m working at the retail store I can get shirts at very low prices (we stock over 7.000 pairs of Carhartt pants alone!) and I have two friends who own screen printing shops. I designed a logo (yes, I do artwork as well) for the Hoopa Valley Tribal Roads Dept. and had the shirts printed in one color and was able to sell them, at a keystoned mark-up, for $9.99. Maybe we could help each other to get you some lower prices. We can get pink or green camo onesies n’ stuff.
Have you had a chance to read my blog? I’d like to know what you think.
I didn’t pull mine, that I got at 35…now I have two!