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Developing cabin fever after all this infirmitude, I did something H never, ever does: I turned on the TV.
Mi esposo is working late yet again. I am one big, empty, walking carb since the encounter with food borne disaster. What a friend termed "the Projectile Diet" has left be barely eating all week long. All this porridge, challah, and herbal tea is getting mighty tired…and I don’t appreciate the waistband of all my pants getting loose. The suspenders look is most definitely not "in".
So, vamos a ver, Telemundo.
I gotta say, watching telenovelas has got to be the best way one can practice Spanish, short of a nice vacation. Watching Pedro Almovadar movies works pretty well too in the edu-tainment department.
Perhaps you’ve seen the giant bus billboards for "Marina". I’ve seen them cruise by at BART all the time. Giant ads featuring Marina (I presume) who is the fanatasy girl next door stunning yet que dulce brunette. It’s somehow wierdly assuring to see so many annoying and hysterical parallels between Telemundo and TV in the mainland.
Chevy has bought out not only our John (Cougar) Mellancamp, but as I watched a pastiche of moving, manly images flit by to the tune of Justicia, Tierra, Libertad (Justice, Land/earth, Liberty) I realized they’ve scored Mana as well.
And as for the telenovela, it’s great fun watching all these characters pitch hissy fits and have serious talks while decked out in hair extensions, make-up, push up bras, and clubbing gear worthy of the Fredericks of Hollywood catalog. Better yet when they show up like that in the local hospital to torment our suffering heroine. Listen babe, when an evil Barbie clone shows up to whisper how you’d best spare your man the suffering of your illness, you oughta check her references before making any life altering decisions…
And as for the hombres, well, as one co-worker put it, "I don’t trust any man who has too much mousse in his hair." (this little comment in reference to our beleagured Mayor Newsom, he of the rico suave, just-got-outed for being a very,very bad amigo fame)
Ya Volvemos…
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