Running out of clever titles

[sabotabby]

By the way, these entries are mostly public so that my mom knows I'm alive. I'm going to lock them down once I come back. But anyway, with this in mind, I'll start with a gross anecdote, which is that I saw my very first giant flying cockroach today. Right by my bed, too. My Chilean dorm mate made quick work of it, splattering cockroach guts everywhere.

Other than that, today was good. We struck out with the PRI again--they told us to come back tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes. The CMT was also a washout--they told us to go to the Labour Congress instead.




They have a big bust of Ricardo Flores Magon, the anarcho-syndicalist, in their lobby. He'd be rolling in his grave.


I did like this penguin/walrus thing.

The whole experience there was surreal. It was another one of those 70s Brutalist buildings, but not very well maintained. The secretary was an older woman chainsmoking in a dim office with inspirational sayings in English on the wall. We then talked to one of the guys there, but after giving us a detailed overview of Mexican labour history, he said that he couldn't say any of it on camera without official permission.


From there, we went to Tlatelolco, which has ancient Aztec ruins, a Spanish cathedral, and the site of the 1968 government massacre of students, all in the same place. So it's pretty creepy.


Photo memorial for the students.












This monument is overly kind to the Spanish.


The monument to the murdered students.

So I can say with confidence that the day improved after the cockroach incident. But then, when your day starts with a flying cockroach, there is nowhere to go but up.

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[eumelia.livejournal.com]

when your day starts with a flying cockroach, there is nowhere to go but up.

A-fucking-men!

So hey, is there any idea as to when this doco is going to be released?

[sabotabby]

As soon as we finish it! We're hoping to wrap it up during the fall.

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

The monument to the murdered students reminds me eerily of AM because I am, in fact, a terrible person.

But then, when your day starts with a flying cockroach, there is nowhere to go but up.

I contest the truth of this statement. What if the day ended with a giant cockroach who was going to be your boss from now on?

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

loving the updates!!

came across this blog post, which you might be interested in:

http://womenandhollywood.com/2010/08/03/chicken-and-egg-announces-news-grants/

oh - i thought they were looking for people to give money to, but upon actual reading it looks like they already gave hte money. still, maybe you could get the next batch. of random money. lol.

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

They have a big bust of Ricardo Flores Magon, the anarcho-syndicalist, in their lobby. He'd be rolling in his grave.

In Mexico, I often found myself reminded of this quote:

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

--Lenin, State and Revolution

Some of the worst hagiographers were the '30s muralists. Except Orozco.

Your itinerary is largely paralleling mine.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Wow. That quote.

That works for MLK Jr. for sure.

[(Anonymous)]

東京に来る、心の準備できた？

[(Anonymous)]

ベージュのショルダーがかわいいけけど、これってカジュアルに普段つかいは贅沢。

[rojonoir.livejournal.com]

"So I can say with confidence that the day improved after the cockroach incident. But then, when your day starts AS a flying cockroach, there is nowhere to go but up."

I LOLed

I need to go to sleep. My eyes are tired.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

I get very upset when people kill innocent bugs, but I can't imagine coping with a flying cockroach anywhere near me!

You look amazing with your red hair and green top and loveliness. The place looks amazing too. What is the film to be about?

[sabotabby]

Trust me. They are better off dead.

Thanks! The film is about how NAFTA and neoliberalism have screwed over Mexico.

[ironed_orchid]

They have Brutalist architechture in cities other than Canberra? That's scary.