The real Don Adams came to Mexico to die. It seemed like a good place for such a significant event. Convenient. He could drive down from Texas. Good weather if anybody wanted to walk in a funeral march. Free flowers all around. The way Don saw it, doctors and cancer had been trying to kill […]
Continue ReadingTijuana is the pits. Mexico’s border towns are all the pits. Normally, I just grab the bus from the airport, and go directly to Los Angeles (also, some would say, the pits), but in May of this year there we were in a night club called Perro Azul (the blue dog), a high-tech bistro in […]
Continue ReadingThere is nothing that can compare with the sounds, tastes, and delights of Mexico. Many words have passed through many lips about Mexico, from Herb Alpert to Erik Estrada — some humorous, some poignant. Let’s listen in on some of these voices, past and present, for in them we just may get a sense of […]
Continue ReadingMexican Kitchen While on a recent trip through the central plain states of Mexico I was having one of those evenings where I was too beat to get dressed up for dinner and I wasn’t really that hungry but I needed to eat something. As usual, I took to the streets in search of tacos. […]
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I had had a bad day. I had gone back to work after being sick for three days with the flu. People who were supposed to pay didn’t. My appointment this morning didn’t work out as well as I could have hoped and I felt just all around crappy. But every cloud has its lining […]
Continue Reading “…So I called the damned cable company and set ’em straight. I mean, how are my kids supposed to survive without cartoons? And how the hell am I supposed to get by without being able to watch wrestling?! You know what the problem with this country is? They don’t have their priorities straight!” – Commentary […]
Continue ReadingModerator: I’d like to call this meeting of T.T. (travel trailer) Anonymous to order. Who would like to speak? Bigfoot: I would. I’m Bigfoot, Wendy Devlin’s travel trailer. Everyone: Hi Bigfoot!!!!!! Bigfoot: I want to talk tonight about my experiences with Mexico. Everyone: Yeh! Bigfoot!!!!!! Bigfoot: I was manufactured in l983 in Canada and purchased by a retired couple from […]
Continue ReadingMexico Notes A family with creamy brown skin walks by, holding hands, swinging arms. Laughing aloud. They are arranged like stair steps – father, mother, big daughter and little daughter, who look to be around ages eight and four. Their small bodies reach the plaza corner where they turn to the wide path that leads […]
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