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the great sorrow
that is silence
cuba, very interesting.
standing on a dark habana street, figures swirling by,trike cabs and belching handpainted behemoths. hard to believe that i could be there, freely, peacefully, safely, in this country that ‘we”ve been at war with almost our entire lives.
no advertising, no photographic images. only the face of che and inspiring rhetoric:
we will never stop struggling to turn our dreams into reality.
it did not feel like a cynical and bitter people passively waiting for the united colors of benetton.
in the mausoleum of the fighters for freedom, rows of grey marble doors, little enaled fotos: those cubans who went to angola in the 70s were not passive soviet puppets. they were the children of slaves voluntarily returning to their homeland to defeat a white invader with their lives. That defeat initiated the collapse of the apartheid system. i didn’t know that.
great architecture: colonial, deco, moderne. all filthy.
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best musical moment: a cook who came out in his tocque to join the combo and just knocked us out with his big country cow- calling vocal style.marrrrrrracas. heard a lot of good stuff but if i never again hear cut 1 from buena vista social club it won’t be too long. it was a plague.
best conversation: with a capatilist gardner who had turned a vacant lot into a vegetable garden selling fresh food to the new restaurants
‘and what’s in YOUR garden now?” he asked me. how do you say ‘ winter rye ground cover’ in spanish?
lots of tourist sex: ugly old white men with tiny slim black girls in the bars.
middle aged gringo gals are more discreet but they are definately lapping up that virtuous black virility. socialist salsice.
my sister catherine’s cuban ‘friend’ showed up to be my host in habana and promptly started boning a big fat pig in our group. ugh.
Saul for now.
Howdy-
From the New York Times 11/30/03
“Debt reduction for developing nations.”
“Bush out of the White House in 2004, a Democratic House and Senate
ASAP,
the retirement of Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas (after a Democrat take
the
White House and Democrats take the Senate).”
“The repeal of all the tax cuts of the last three years and a new and
equitable corporate and individual tax bill assembled to allow for
reasonable and real economic growth (as opposed to stock market booms
and
crashes and an ever-expanding service economy to cater to debt-ridden
middle
class people and the hoggery of the very rich) while making it possible
to
take care of the American people and it’s needs.”
“Education (FREE! PUBLIC! SUPERB! NURSERY SCHOOL TO Ph.D.!).”
“A renewed and serious peace process in the Mideast, the wall and
settlements dismantled and the presence of a real international
peacekeeping
force to patrol the borders and Jerusalem.”
“Genuine global resolve to bring Afghanistan back to life and stabilize
Iraq
for the Iraqis.”
“Instant, free psychoanalysis for everyone who owns or is thinking of
purchasing an SUV or a Humvee or any similar ecocidal obscenity.”
“An overflowing fund to fight AIDS everywhere on earth.”
“Global protection for and adherence to universally accepted principles
of
human rights, which include reproductive and other freedoms for women
and
full and equal enfranchisement for sexual minorities.”
“Gun control! Like, REAL gun control.”
– a partial list of Tony Kushner’s (playwright – Angels in America)
current
political preoccupations.