Early Morning Karaoke

The American Cardboard Dream And The Mexican Realism

Baja Californians (Mexicans) reject American 'stick-built' housing construction, American heavy-watering landscaping and American no-cash-down mortgages. They build very slowly, in concrete blocks, ceramic roof tiles, paying cash as they go, planting cacti and other fat desertic plants. They basically enjoy their scenery the way nature made it: semi-desertic.
To them the American 'Dream Home' is 'matchsticks and cardboard', cannot stop a bullet (!) or even a toddler on his trike. On the outside it is packed with plants species that drink up like drunken sailors. And this is depleting the water tables and slowly drying up Mexican farms and cities too close to California. So that when the wildfires licked Mexico's border yesterday, pushed by violent Santa Ana winds, they had nowhere to go. The land in Mexico is rocky and mostly barren, the plants are all native, having thick water-gorged leaves, the houses all have mostly non-combustible shells. Here in Baja the 'bomberos' are truly a lazy bunch as there are few house fires.
An analyst on TV suggested that some of the arsonists in California are probably angry owners about to lose their house to foreclosure. This breed is unlikely to exist in a country where houses are built with cash.
Thanks, Mexico, for your school of realism, but don't you find it ironic that your Mexican sons in California have become the dominant landscapers and framers, stick-builders and sheetrock applicators? Thanks also for providing the Archimede Institute a few good arguments for the peculiar housing system it is about to export and build locally: low-cost prefabricated fire-proof ,earthquake and hurricane proof housing.

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I have a serious plumbing issue in my life. This is strange since all my mother's 9 brothers are either plumbers or plumbing contractors. I mostly do it too fast, not tight enough, with the wrong glues etc...This seriously affects my self-appraisal...I spent my life telling construction trades what to do. But i cant do what they do. I have hundreds of plumbing pieces left over from all the repairs of repairs of repairs I did on both houses for the last 5 years. When the dogs see me holding a pipe wrench they both go hide under the bed. PS I have solved this issue with meditation!!!!!!! June 2022

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Another Gypsy Dance with 3 dancers

This is our second czarda on Blablablawblawg. The first one is still very popular. The female dancer in this Slovakian czarda early 80's home movie is Stephanie Elchuck, the Gypsy healer/magician friend who helped me quit smoking. Her two Gypsy compadres are now dancing legends in Bratislava .Stephanie a graduate pharmacist, now also sells beautiful and magical healing stones on the Internet at stefstones.com .  She owns a beautiful second home on a bluff by the sea in Baja California MX, and  so we get to see her often. Her step has barely slowed down after all these years!