Jan 07 2010
Mountaintop
Here’s my new favorite song.
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Here’s an ad that keeps showing up in the sidebar of my Google search page, whose results are now in Spanish, against my wishes.
After class today we puttered around school for a while, getting a very late start to Monte Albán — so late that we had only an hour up there before having to catch the last shuttle down for the day. I wasn’t happy about that. Those ancient places are magical and haunting, and careening through them sucks the big one.
The ancient Zapotecs leveled off this hilltop (elevation 6400 feet) to build their capital, beginning around 500 BC. Monte Albán means “White Mountain.” Today it was brown, but maybe it pales sometimes.
I don’t feel like talking any more. I’ll just show you a few carefully culled pictures. That’s the Sierra Madre in the background.
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That’s a lovely song. I understand three whole words of it. Oh, una sonrisa perfecta! Just like my mother’s.
Perhaps it is White Mountain because it falls under the güero/moreno hierarchy you mentioned previously.
I also enjoy the picture with the cactus. WHY are you in such a pretty place and I’m not?
ReCaptcha: “be distress”.
I want to hear YOU singing this.
Hey-is HE single?
What about the toothy guy?
I think Molly’s got the right idea, and so I’m going to take her lead.