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	<title>Roaming Around with Peter Rice</title>
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		<title>Biking the West: Western Washington to Glacier National Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Oh yes, it&#8217;s that good.
Your Faithful Correspondent has actually been somewhat less faithful to the blog over the last few weeks, owing to a excellent visit to the land of the free and the home of the brave. But the fun and games are over now, people, as he has returned to Mexico in search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t ask me. Ask a Mexican.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahoy all! Your faithful correspondent is still whooping it up on his United States family tour/vacation. So this week, I want to encourage you to try out some different blogs.
First: Ask a Mexican. This newspaper column is syndicated by the alternative Orange County Weekly. It&#8217;s a Q and A format, but that&#8217;s about where the similarities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/dont-ask-me-ask-a-mexican.html</link>
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		<title>Wearing bimbos</title>
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Relax. It&#8217;s just bread.
EAST LOS ANGELES &#8212; This was the plan that could not fail. My sister lives in East LA, which, despite being in the United States, is one of the world&#8217;s biggest Mexican cities.
So what better &#8220;hey I haven&#8217;t seen you in a while&#8221; present could there be than a jersey from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midnight love: On the road with a serenade</title>
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Grupo Estrella: One day, they may wake you from a peaceful slumber. 
JACONA, Michoacan &#8212; Normally at 12:30 a.m. this sleepy residential street on a hill overlooking Zamora, is, well, asleep. But one recent early morning, about a dozen conspirators gathered to carry on a tradition that, while started by Europeans, has been honed to a fine art by Mexicans.
The plot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/a-most-happy-and-somewhat-bleary-eyed-birthday.html</link>
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		<title>Hard lluvia&#8217;s a gonna fall</title>
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Covering Dylan: The Spanish Rocker Eva Amaral
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So a few weeks after concluding that Bob Dylan was a lost cause for Spanish speaking audiences, I woke up to Radio Zamora playing a Spanish version of Hard Rain that features the same top-shelf passion as the original, all while actually sounding better.
Turns out the song is a very new creation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/hard-lluvias-a-gonna-fall.html</link>
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		<title>A liberal&#8217;s love letter to the United States</title>
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 Let&#8217;s hear it for those spacious skies and amber waves of grain, baby!
LOS ANGELES &#8212; Your faithful correspondent returns to the United States today, for a month-long vacation/family obligation tour. The Mexican school year is over, so it was a logical time to head back. But as it happens, this is also the week when we raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amor en Custodia: Greatest novela ever to hit the crazy world of Mexican television</title>
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The drama. The bodyguards. The babes. The reality-defying plot twists.
All the finest ingredients combine and then explode in a cloud of jealousy and betrayal every weekday at 2 p.m., when Azteca 13 broadcasts this compelling train-wreck of a telenovela, Amor en Custodia (Love in Custody). It&#8217;s so bad, so melodramatic, and so cheesy as to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/amor-en-custodia-greatest-novela-ever-to-hit-the-crazy-world-of-mexican-television.html</link>
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		<title>English as aesthetic, not language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I should have been lecturing this particular English student about his obnoxious habit of not doing his homework, but honestly, I was more interested in his shirt, which featured the English phrase &#8220;Molars Forest&#8221; in giant capital letters.
What exactly was that all about, I wanted to know. Who/what is Molars Forest? And why is it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/english-as-aesthetic-not-language.html</link>
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		<title>Cops are dying by the dozen in latest drug war chapter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just imagine the uproar if a drug kingpin knocked off an American police chief coming home from work. Think of the live continuing news coverage, the outrage, the congressional hearings, the candlelight vigils, the marches, and the fiery speeches laced with a thousand never agains. 
But here in Mexico, sadly, this sort of incident is becoming so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://peterbrice.com/cops-are-dying-by-the-dozen-in-latest-drug-war-chapter.html</link>
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		<title>This jealousy: King Vicente takes Mexican ears by storm (again)</title>
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Imagine the combined popularity of Elvis and Madonna, then add the staying power of The Beatles. That&#8217;s Vicente Fernandez, the Mexican crooner who is knocking at 70&#8217;s door, but doing it with vigor and immense popularity.
These days, it&#8217;s darn near impossible to walk down a street without hearing his latest smash hit, &#8220;Estos Celos&#8221; (This Jealousy), a long [...]]]></description>
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