Give Us Your Best Sid Vicious

In which Cristian looks like a character from Mike Tyson's Punchout, and Steven looks eerily, embarrassingly like Bam Bam Bigelow.

Jessica and Cristian are from Germany, and they are so nice that they are perhaps reason enough to one day visit that country. Though I'd also like to see Berlin at some point in my life.

Later on in this evening I looked down only to find that I was bleeding.


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"Negocios as Usual"

Shouts go out to Eric for the post-title idea. This is our EPMD shot, and given the apparent size of my face I fear that I may have to be the Eric to his Parrish. Who's booty?

Anyway, Eric rolled through town like ball lightning with his very cool friends Kat and Nick, charmed everyone with his salsa-dancing abilities and general social uterus-ness, and by morning was Copan-bound, via Mazatenango.

Eric, please tell me how long the ride to Mazate was, because I'm supposed to go visit someone there before I leave. Hello to Nick and Kat.

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I don't know the guy in the hat either.

Best sugar-thing ever, at Patricia's Bed and Breakfast in Guatemala city. What do you call these things? Is it a "sugary-caddy?" There's got to be a better name.


The backyard of the hotel.


View from the bus up to Xela. We waited at some sort of blockade with these folks in the microbus, for like an hour. No idea why. We just sort of sat there while our driver talked to some random guys controlling some sort of thing that ruins your tires if you drive over it.


Graffiti in Zona 1, Guatemala City, near the Plaza Nacional. "VIVA CHAVEZ. Muerte a las Yankees." "ABORTO LEGAL."

I've read that LA's 18th Street Gang has made it to Guatemala (and the rest of Central America) as a result of US deportations. Saw some 18th Street graffiti here in Xela Wednesday - it was really weird.




Mili has taken a liking to my camera. I don't know the lady in the second shot, but I really like the photo.





Hey, so Oakland almost went up in riots yesterday? It's sort of sad to say that when I saw the headlines about it, I didn't read the articles since it didn't sound particularly surprising. But today I heard about the "near-riots" and decided to look into it more. It sounds like an almost execution-style killing:

At least four cell phone cameras held by passengers on the train idling next to the platform captured images of Mr. Grant lying face down when Transit Officer Johannes Mehserle, 27, pulls his gun and fires a single shot. Mr. Mehserle looks up at another officer, and then handcuffs Mr. Grant.

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Headline today in the Times of London: Israel Accused of Killing 30 After Shelling Safe House:

"The United Nations has accused Israel of evacuating scores of Palestinians into a house in the suburbs of Gaza City, only to shell the property 24 hours later, killing some 30 people."