Amor y Amistad

Love and Friendship day is the colombian equivalent of st. valentines day in the US, without the focus on the massacre. I have always found it kind of interesting that in a country with fifty-some "st. fill-in-the-blank days" they do not celebrate Valentine's Day, but instead have a very artificial corporate-titled red-boxes-of-candy day of their own, which is what we people up there (north of mexico) do so well. I don't know who is imitating whom or what is being grafted onto what to make an apple tree that produces pears, but I do know that DIA DE AMOR Y AMISTAD has nothing to do with the Speilberg movie about that slave ship and is a great occassion to get out of the house and getcher funk on. So we did (one must always follow the steps that are painted out on the floor in order to learn how the dance is danced).



We (this is a long list, turgid with the elite of BQ) went to the new salsa bar Bambaleo and stayed until little birds were preparing to sing songs and chirp and chase worms and fly into large, clean windows. The night went off without a hitch and I was guiltly of not a single act of turpitude, which might be a record for me.

happy valentines day, love and friendship to all
fpp