Sunday, June 8, 2025

Classy Stuff

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  “Class, Crisis & the State ” by Erik Olin Wright, 1976-1978-1979 (Part 1) Wright was a Marxist sociologist who specialized in identi...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Time-Wasting Sci Fi

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  “Mickey 17” film by Bong Joon Ho, 2025 This is a dystopian space 'comedy' about a disposable worker stuck on an ice planet in 20...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Safe As Milk

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  “Half-Blood Blues” by Esi Edugyan, 2011 This is a story so familiar it seems predetermined.   It is about some jazz-men in the 1930s-194...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Viejo Gringo Reports #5: Peruvian Creativity

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  Jose Carlos Mariategui Casa & Museo - Lima Peru This was the final home of Mariategui, one of the most creative Marxists in Latin A...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Viejo Gringo Reports #4: Old Mountain, Old Reality

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  A Wonder of the World A visit to Machu Picchu is an event, a trip to one of the ‘7 Wonders of the World.’   However it is also mass tou...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Viejo Gringo Reports #3: Endurance Contest

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  Traffic in Peru Traffic in Peru could be called orderly chaos.   I have seen no accidents, no pedestrian injuries, no arguments or road...
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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Viejo Gringo Reports #2: The Left Writes

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  Casa Museo Mario Vargas-Llhosa - Arequipa , Peru Mario Vargas-Llhosa is a contradictory figure.   His early life led him to the bohemian...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Viejo Gringo Reports #1: Grisly Museum

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  Andean Sanctuaries Museum (Museo Santuarios Andinos) – Arequipa , Peru This odd museum at the center of Arequipa, Peru near the Plaz...