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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Just for fun: La Llama que llama
About six months ago, I saw “La Llama que llama” for the first time, on a friend’s Facebook wall, and I fell in love. Normally I can’t stand television commercials, but this series, produced for the phone company Telecom in … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Arts, Latin America, Silliness, Television, Travel
Tagged Argentina, Buenos Aires, Jim Henson, llamas, Muppets, Telecom
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From here to Eternauta: the art of Oesterheld and the politics of Néstor Kirchner
A few evenings ago, I was excited to return from the office and find in my mailbox the anthology of Argentine comic strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld’s work I’d ordered recently. I immediately flopped down to read the second version … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Arts, Latin America, Political, Travel, Uncategorized, Visual/Plástico
Tagged Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Alberto Breccia, alien attack, Argentina, Buenos Aires, comic books, comic strips, Cora Fernández Anderson, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Día de Memoria, desaparecidos, detenidos, El Eternauta, Elsa Sánchez de Oesterheld, Eternautas, Eternéstor, Fernando Oesterheld, Francisco Solano López, Graffitimundo, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Juan Perón, Juan Salvo, Justicia y Verdad, La Cámpora, Martín Oesterheld, Néstor Vive, Nestornauta, nuclear winter, Plaza de Mayo, science fiction comics, sobre historieta, stencils, street art
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A post-ette/Una tarjeta postal
I might post more often if I accepted that every article does not have to be a full-fledged essay. Or, to use an Argentine metaphor: it doesn’t have to be the whole parilla; sometimes it’s just an alfajor. But now … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Latin America, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing & language
Tagged alfajores, Argentina, blog writing, Chile, Mendoza, parilla, posts
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On U.S. immigration and prejudice, Left and Right
My small nuclear family has an in-joke about email forwards from my stepfather, a white, working/middle-class retired firefighter in his 80s who grew up on a farm in Western New York in what used to be an agricultural area but … Continue reading
Posted in Political, Uncategorized
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