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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
5 Things You Need To Know For A Wedding In Cuba
June 5, 2008 – 7:57 pm
Inspired by this travel piece that was linked to by Babalu Blog, I’ve decided to post my own version of “5 Things You Need To Know For A Wedding In Cuba:”
Selecting a church: Fidel and Raul Castro’s communist Cuba is atheist, so good luck there. But hey, maybe if you promise to change Fidel’s colostomy [...]
Cuba Nostalgia
May 18, 2008 – 8:08 pm
I had a chance to visit Cuba Nostalgia today (Sunday, the last day of the three-day festival of Cubanness) for the first time ever. The weather was hot, dry, smoky, the sky tinged with an odd orange glow. But the food was great.
And Cuba Nostalgia itself was great. And right [...]
Woohoo, my first hate mail!
February 19, 2008 – 8:03 pm
With apologies to an individual who sent me, at best, a lukewarm, condescending e-mail a few months ago, today I received my first true hate mail. I won’t reprint it here–it was basically a self righteously indignant diatribe with the typical leftist “blame America first, Cuba has great education and medical systems,” etc., cliches. [...]
Awww, poor little baby, no time to read…
February 16, 2008 – 9:49 pm
…since your big brother took ill. Break my freakin’ heart:
I’ve got little time to read books. I’ll die with hundreds of books I’ve got waiting there for me to read some day … but for now, lots of (official) papers” to handle, Raul said on opening the International Book Fair in Havana.
Lots of other [...]
Castro’s Bizarro world
February 12, 2008 – 10:28 pm
Only in Castro’s Cuba would this kind of BS pass for normal:
A Cuban student who appeared in a video last week grilling a top Cuban official is denying reports that he was arrested afterward, and maintains that his questions were aimed only at bettering socialism.
In the video CNN obtained and aired last week, [...]
Batista items going up for auction
January 27, 2008 – 5:15 pm
FWIW, a dumpster diver found a bunch of Fulgencio Batista’s–the guy in charge in Cuba before Castro took over–old stuff in a Palm Beach dumpster some years ago. The dumpster just so happened to be located near the family’s office there.
Batista left Cuba for Spain after Castro took over in 1959. [...]
Watch “Shootdown”
January 27, 2008 – 12:21 am
I just came back from watching the documentary Shootdown, the one about the murder of four innocent men in slow propeller planes, by Castro’s MiG jet fighters, on February 24, 1996.
Wow, what a film.
One of my favorite lines: A Cuban-American gentleman was asked by a reporter shortly after the incident took [...]
Brothers to the Rescue “Shoot Down” documentary premieres
January 18, 2008 – 7:42 pm
Shoot Down, the documentary on the 1996 shootdown of two unarmed Brothers to the Rescue Cessnas by Castro’s supersonic MiG fighter jets (which we blogged about back in August), premieres today to a limited, invitation-only audience in Miami. I couldn’t make it–I aggravated an already bad leg injury which I’m currently nursing at home [...]
