Mandaste cagada mamado? Los Tarahumara la tienen atada

"Is the man in prison for growing?"

"No, he killed a man at a tesguinada. It wasn't his fault."

"Why not?"

"He was drunk."

This I had read about. The Tarahumara believe that the body and mind are controlled by a group of souls of various sizes and capabilities. When a person drinks tesguino, the biggest soul, the one responsible for the proper functioning of the brain and large physical movements, leaves the body because it doesn't like the sour milky smell. This is why drunks say stupid things and have poor balance and also why a man who kills someone when drunk is not considered responsible for his actions. His main soul had left his body. 

"Usually they don't report killings that happen at tesguinadas," said Randy. "If he killer goes to prison, that leaves two families that need supporting. So what they do instead is make the killer support the victim's family so he has to work twice as hard."

"How often do these killings happen?"

"It's pretty commonplace, unfortunately. The guy who did it usually feels terrible about it the next day".

(God's Middle Finger - Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre, Richard Grant)

Sobre los Tarahumara, que ademas son grandes corredores de larga distancia, ver esta nota de la Nat Geo.

Carita

Cintas a la basura

Hoy temprano en Once. Un tipo llenando un volq uete de cintas de film. Esas que son como de plástico con agujeritos a los costados. Abría las latas redondas grandes y tiraba el rollo que salía tipo serpentina. Qué curioso.

¿De qué serían?

superbici

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Central Park

Manhattan-Brooklyn

Bici desde Pier 84 (Manhattan) hasta Coney Island. 3 hs. y media. Calor y sol, un rato en la playa, visita a Nacho y todo.

Narcocorridos II

A hundred years ago they sang corridos in the Sierra about famous bandits, outlaws, revolutionaries, curent events like the Tomochic rebellion or a particularly bloody feud or a heroic-tragic death. Now the sing narcocorridos about the drug lords, who sometimes commission the songs out of vanity, and events both real and imagined from the lives of drug growers, local bosses, regional traffickers, smugglers, dealers, pilots, assassins. There's a great deal of macho bragging and stancing involved and, despite the accordions and polkas, the music form it most resembles is gangsta rap.

(God's Middle Finger - Into the Lawlwess Heart of the Sierra Madre, Richard Grant)

Un librazo de lo más entretenido.

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Honor y devoción

For instance, in one play the palace of Lord Hosokawa, in which was preserved the celebrated painting of Daruma [Bodhidarma] by Sesson, suddenly takes fire through the negligence of the samurai in charge. Resolved at all hazards to rescue the precious painting, he rushes into the burning building and seizes the kakemono, only to find all means of exit cut off by the flames. Thinking only of the picture, he slahes open his body with his sword, wraps his torn sleeve about the Sesson and plunges it into the gaping wound. The fire is at last extinguished. Among the smoking embers is found a half-consumed corpse, within which reposes the treasure uninjured by the fire.

(The Book of Tea, Kakuzo Okakura)

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La Bruja Julepe

Flaca y envejecida, con una mueca de locura. Perversa y desesperada. No es la de antes. Las drogas, la gran ciudad, años de prostitución. Supo tener familia. Hoy vaga descocada, tratando de salir de una vida-infierno sin final. Le reza a la muerte para que venga a buscarla pronto; pero ciertos pecados se pagan caro.

Ositos cariñosos

Hace un par de semanas, en plaza San Martín.