Our Lady of Awesome (street art in Guadalajara)
Guadalajara doesn’t exactly wear its street art on its sleeve. There is some great stuff around, but it can often take some digging about to find. This is part of […]
Tag Archives: Frida Kahlo
Redeeming Frida (for a guy who apparently needs his women to be very well-trimmed)
I don’t think I ever really got Frida. I’ve studied her a few times; I can appreciate that she did something different, even that that something might be important, but […]
A little compassion please, Ms. Kingsolver
Yes, semi-spoiler alert. I just finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna. It’s a magnificent novel, containing some wonderful descriptions of cats. The best of it is probably the treatment of […]
Trotsky vs. the Artists
We were between meals in Coyoacan, Mexico City, and we decided to visit the Leon Trotsky house. This is a one of DF’s quietest tourist sites – a slow trickle […]
