Recording a podcast is hard.
I mean, it’s already hard talking to yourself without feeling like an idiot, wondering if you should stick to a script or wing it, and double-guessing whether anyone really cares to hear what you have to say, but on top of that, just getting the damned thing straight in the least number of takes possible is just hard. I have new-found respect for all those who do it on a weekly basis and make it seem so easy.
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One of the things they had at Cuba Nostalgia was a large map of the city of Havana as it looked in 1953. It was actually one of the highlights of the show, as pretty much everyone went by it so they could find their street from before they left Cuba. My Mother-in-law was able to show us where it was she lived, almost down to the lot. Â
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Posted by Daniel M. Perez to Miami Daily Photo at 5/24/2006 11:34:00 PM
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Took this pic at the Cuba Nostalgia show, where as you can probably imagine, Ernesto “Che” Guevara is not exactly the most loved of people. The word is a play on the Spanish for assassin, replacing a syllable with the Che’s name, and it speaks loud and clear to how the Cuban exile community feels about this man, who for some reason, many other people in the world revere. This is as quintessentially Miami as our beaches or the Everglades. Â
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Posted by Daniel M. Perez to Miami Daily Photo at 5/23/2006 11:24:00 PM
From CSMonitor.com:
Another new country for Europe
Montenegro voted to break from Serbia, with 55.4 percent in favor
The joyful fireworks and street parties that exploded in the streets of Podgorica on Sunday night, as Montenegrins celebrated a vote in favor of independence, found few echoes Monday in other European capitals.
Read the full article here.
Though the EU government is not exactly happy with this new development, I kinda like the idea of having another new nation go independent and add to the tapestry that is Europe. Though I understand why the Eurocrats are meeting the news of Montenegro’s independence with tepid resignation–this would mean yet another mini state (only 650,000 inhabitants!) that the EU must contend with politically as if it were a France or a Germany–I am glad that these former Soviet-block nations are coming into their own. For example, I never considered Yugoslavia “Europe;” it was just Russia on the Adriatic. But as independent nations, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and now Montenegro (as well as Serbia), all stretch the borders of what Europe is a lot further east, opening the doors to tourists worldwide to come and experience a new side of Europe, a Europe that is coming into its own, rebuilding and growing with the enthusiasm of a child let loose. The larger, established members of the EU have a duty to act as mentors and make sure these child-like energies are channeled correctly, but also to welcome and embrace these younger cousins, remembering the periods in their past when they, too, found themselves emerging as their own nations. Â
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One thing is for certain, this World Cup will be the last one for the Serbia & Montenegro team. We’ll see how they perform once the games begin on June 9.
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Posted by Daniel M. Perez to Destination: Earth Travel Blog at 5/23/2006 12:41:00 PM
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Yesterday I went to the Cuba Nostalgia fair, a yearly event where the Cuba of yesterday is both remembered and celebrated. There was music, food, vendors, memorabilia, food, guests, food, artists and food. It was a really cool event, especially for me as a Puerto Rican married to a Cuban American girl, thus married into a Cuban family, as I got to see and experience a little bit of the Cuba that existed before Fidel screwed it up, the Cuba that my parents-in-law had to escape and can never regain. Â
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Posted by Daniel M. Perez to Miami Daily Photo at 5/22/2006 09:24:00 PM
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Just a lazy Sunday afternoon (for a change) in Miami Beach. Â
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Posted by Daniel M. Perez to Miami Daily Photo at 5/21/2006 11:05:00 PM
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