1491: The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
While the book was not chock-full of shocking revelations as its publicity implies, it was a very amenable read on the state of the Americas before Columbus. The only really interesting thing for me was its explanation of the population collapse due to disease, something we’ve known but at least I didn’t quite fathom its scale.
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Instrucciones para vivir en México by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Aunque en algunos pasajes se nota que el libro fue escrito hace cuarenta años, su aguda crítica y excelente sentido del humor lo hacen más vigente de lo que debería para un país que ha cambiado tanto (y tan poco) como México. Recomendable.
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Instrucciones para vivir en México by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Aunque en algunos pasajes se nota que el libro fue escrito hace cuarenta años, su aguda crítica y excelente sentido del humor lo hacen más vigente de lo que debería para un país que ha cambiado tanto (y tan poco) como México. Recomendable.
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I’m pretty sure some of these executions would break the law in places other than Mexico City, but I found it very interesting that Halo 4 is so mainstream they would consider doing a grafitti guerilla campaign in the city. Some executions below.
“Wake up John, we need you” under a traffic light
Similar execution accompanied by artwork in a building site.
More standard outdoor execution in an underpass. The whole underpass was covered in Halo.
I even saw the slogan stenciled in the main ringroad of the city. Crazy! Although, admittedly, being the marketing manager responsible for that budget must have been a lot of fun 
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Visited Mexico for business and pleasure during November. We stayed in the Condesa neighbourhood in Mexico City and a short time in Acapulco. All the photos here in Flickr, as usual a selection below.
Day of the Dead candy
Day of the Dead altar in Plaza Satélite
Bikers’ pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Pancita
Day of the dead altar in the market square
La estela de luz, a.k.a. la suavicrema
On our way
Day of the Dead altar at the hotel
Parque México in Condesa
Church
Mexico Stock Exchange
Day of the Dead decor
Sushi street stall
Alebrijes, nightmare creatures
Cochinita Pibil en Azul Condesa
Driving to Acapulco
Tough life part one: coconut juice, coconut “fruit” and piña colada
Tough life part two: the Mexican Pacific
Dawn sequence
Dawn sequence
Dawn sequence
Driving back to Mexico City
Guerrero State landscape
Posting it here for posterity. Maybe we’ll have more participants next year?
The team behind Patrona decided to try a new concept in the place where it all began. Café de Nopal is no more, but now Cholo offers a much wider variety of Mexico City style tacos and even Northern Mexico style burritos that the previous restaurant ever could and it is open for lunchtime during weekdays and Saturdays too.
This is one taquería I will be frequenting as much as I can .
