John Biggs
@biggsium
Poetry, politics, Latin America, travel
Galician speakers and Spanish speakers seem to be having a dispute here over the proper spelling of words.
My brother and I played "sapo verde" as children in South America. You score points by pitching heavy bronze coins into the frog's mouth or into other openings on the table. I was thrilled to see this version in Hontanas, Spain along the Camino de Santiago.
So @miblogestublog.bsky.social, should I go with the inner guts or the meat head? #TacoTuesday
Visited the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz/Birkenau in Poland yesterday and I've come to tell you that we in the US are well on our way to recreating this at "Alligator Alcatraz," etc. unless we stop and reverse course at once. "Never again" means not even once again.
These are replicas of a set Pablo Neruda inexplicably kept on his table at home. I bought these at his old house in Santiago de Chile which is now a museum. Not sure which is salt, which pepper.
I didn't know that the Pratt Street Ale House building had once been the home of Moses Sheppard, founder of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, a renowned psychiatric hospital in Towson, MD.
Shopkeeper in the Highlandtown neighborhood of Baltimore facing off against ICE and possibly other masked criminals.
Gov. Moore represents a threat to Trump. He's more accomplished, smarter, better looking, better educated, more popular.
It's traditional, that's why. That's the way it always goes, don't you know?!
ICE is lucky it's only whistles and not the "cacerolazo" -- the banging of pots and pans -- that Chilean protesters deployed in 2019.