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What happened to telling stories?

By Dave | Published: November 21, 2009
I’ve been think­ing a lot recently about how we tell stor­ies. I enjoy writ­ing, and it is obvi­ous to me that the inven­tion of the writ­ten word, and more spe­cific­ally the inven­tion of the print­ing press and mass media, has been more or less the most fun­da­mental revolu­tion in the his­tory of what we now [...]
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Semana Santa

By Dave | Published: April 3, 2007
It’s Sem­ana Santa (Holy Week) here in Mex­ico, which seems basic­ally to mean that noth­ing gets done for about a fort­night. All the schools and so on are off, and here in Guzmán a lot of shops are shut too. I spent the last week­end in Guadala­jara again, because Tucker is leav­ing this week. It’s [...]
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El Castillo

By Dave | Published: March 29, 2007
Yes­ter­day there was a “Castillo” in the centre of Guzmán to cel­eb­rate San José. After the cel­eb­ra­tions of “El Día Juarez”, every­body was ready for the fest­iv­it­ies, and the atmo­sphere added to the excite­ment. There were many people in the cent­ral square; the chil­dren screamed and played, a group played “Banda” music, and there were [...]
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