tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949041.post5224669836346104588..comments2024-02-09T07:26:54.065-08:00Comments on Lelo in Nopo: Dia de los Muertos: BienvenidosLeLohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15073317400749817075noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949041.post-76764190557831624712007-11-05T16:05:00.000-08:002007-11-05T16:05:00.000-08:00RSG: Your voice is made for podcasts. Rozanne: Yes...RSG: Your voice is made for podcasts. <BR/><BR/>Rozanne: Yes, it's on both days. <BR/><BR/>Christine: AdRi and I both got a kick out of your comment. :) We were fortunate to be in Mexico 2 years ago for Day of the Dead and I'll never forget it. <BR/><BR/>Gen1pic: These aren't my shrines, but ones I photographed in Tlaquepaque, Mexico (I want to hear you try to pronounce that one). As for the Robert E. Lee aspect, wow, I guess so. This was one of the largest ones of about 40 we saw that night in a cultural center in this small town. It was an amazing evening.LeLohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15073317400749817075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949041.post-30368086771184171862007-11-04T17:52:00.000-08:002007-11-04T17:52:00.000-08:00Check your first photograph.You have a shrine to.....Check your first photograph.<BR/><BR/>You have a shrine to... Robert E. Lee????gen1pichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356764449769660998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949041.post-10136958737091269912007-11-03T07:34:00.000-07:002007-11-03T07:34:00.000-07:00Maybe I can't get into Halloween because I have su...Maybe I can't get into Halloween because I have such a strong preference for Day of the Dead. In the city where I grew up in Mexico, there would be tens of thousands of people in the cemetery by night fall, which turned into wonderlands of light and flowers as people congregated in family plots and visited those of friends. It was an amazing opportunity to hear oral histories of families...and eat the holiday food. Where I lived, champurrado, made with masa harina and generally flavored with crumbly sheets of Ceylon cinnamon bark, was a very typical drink; well, that and alcohol of all kinds.<BR/><BR/>My favorite story from Dia de los muertos is of a family who, every year, hired a sex worker to sit on the grave of a departed philandering uncle. You know, just in case. Don't want him to come back for a visit and not feel welcome!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949041.post-73357360322393351652007-11-02T18:32:00.000-07:002007-11-02T18:32:00.000-07:00B and I were dithering back and forth about whethe...B and I were dithering back and forth about whether the Day of the Dead is Nov. 1 or Nov. 2. I told him I'd check your blog (LOL).<BR/><BR/>Now we know, although Wikipedia claims it's celebrated on both the 1st and the 2nd. <BR/><BR/>Those altars are amazing. Imagine being knee-deep in flower petals!Rozannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04536916678337782615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10949041.post-7509606519182820542007-11-02T13:38:00.000-07:002007-11-02T13:38:00.000-07:00I love your podcasts. I must put that on my thing...I love your podcasts. I must put that on my things to learn to do.Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03729142248190674175noreply@blogger.com