Cyberflanerie: Pita "dessssssspota" Amor, 100 Years Ago, Bay Area Shellmounds, Silicon Valley Solutionism, Nobody Knows What The Hell Is Happening

Pita Amor recites her poetry. (If you don't speak Spanish, ni modo, this is a must-watch).
P.S. My interview with her biographer, Michael K. Schuessler.

German-American Historian of Mexico Heribert von Feilitzsch on Why We Should Care About What Happened 100 Years Ago

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and this is the first I've heard of the Bay Area Shellmounds (which, in itself, says volumes).

Lloyd Kahn on Wild Foods from Berkeley and Oakland

Literal magazine covers Silicon Valley Solutionism

Evgeny Morozov talks about Silicon Valley Solutionism (video)

Learn to fix bikes.

Writerly quote du jour:

"Anyone who claims to have useful information about the publishing industry is lying to you, because nobody knows what the hell is happening. My advice is for writers to reject the old models and take over the production of their own and each other's work as much as possible." 

From "Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Now That I No Longer Teach in One" by Ryan Boudinot. 

P.S. Read my blog post on making PODs.

Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

Reviewed in LITERAL: Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence edited by Sarah Cortez and Sergio Troncoso

Lurid television, newspaper stories, and cliché-ridden movies about Mexico abound in English; rare is any writing that plumbs to meaningful depths or attempts to explore its complexities. And so, out of a concatenation of ignorance, presumption and prejudice, those North Americans who read only English have been deprived of the stories that would help them see the Spanish-speaking peoples and cultures right next door, and even within the United States itself, and the tragedies daily unfolding because of or, at the very least kindled by, the voracious North American appetite for drugs. For this reason, Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence, a treasure trove of one dozen personal essays, deserves to be celebrated, read, and discussed in every community in North America. >> CONTINUE READING IN LITERAL

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New Podcast-- A Traveler in Mexico: A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan

Just uploaded a new podcast: my reading of my article for Inside Mexico, "A Traveler in Mexico: A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan." Sullivan is the author of Villa Air-Bel: WWII, Escape, and a House in Marseilles, a beautifully written and deeply researched work which tells the harrowing stories of several refugee artists, including many who came to Mexico. (Fans of Leonora Carrington, P.K. Page and Remedios Vario, this is for you!)

Surf on:

>>Read the original article on-line at Inside Mexico
>>Visit Rosemary Sullivan's webpage
(and you'll find there "The Road Out," a documentary about Villa Air-Bel)
>>Read "Three Traveler's in Mexico," by Rosemary Sullivan in Literal
>>Listen to all C.M. Mayo podcasts on podomatic or on iTunes
>>Podcast page http://www.cmmayo.com/podcasts.html