December 19th
, 2011
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I’m baaaaack.... Did anybody notice I deserted my post for the last two issues and didn’t write anything on this page? Judging from those cards and letters and obscene phone calls, I would have to say that’s affirmative.
Notice I didn’t ask if anybody missed me, only if they noticed; being missed and being noticed are worlds apart, especially in my case, since I seem to be such a polarizing presence. If you don’t believe I am, read the letters to the editor in this issue, they’re concerning the greatly exaggerated reports of my being deported again, and they’re a hoot.
No I have not been deported, that was just wishful thinking on the part of some folks at Radio Mil whose wishing evolved into the rumor that I was a goner. That will teach us not to call Radio Mil a crappy radio station as one of our writers did several issues ago. All right, don’t waterboard me, I’ll confess, it was David Flores who wrote it. But he’s Mexican and he can’t be deported so it’s no fun screwing with him. Therefore I get the fallout from it. I didn’t write this column for two issues because we didn’t have any extra room in the paper, it was full of real news and real income producing ads. So I leapt on the chance to give up my spot. I don’t mind writing this column so much, what I don’t like is coming up with an idea for something to write about. I try to keep this space relative to something in the issue but it’s harder all the time to come up with something relative, yet fresh and new to write about. I mean, how many times can I write about how my stupid cat got stuck on the roof? I only have one cat.
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People seem to like my funny columns the best, my rants not so much, so I try to keep it light, and those are easy for me. They are all true, not even exaggerated more than a tiny bit; they’re funny because the funny is in how I view the world and how I tell it, and I’m good at seeing the humor in anything. But after 17 years, I’m out of subjects. Not out of funny, that will never happen, but out of themes. So, it’s either I’m done with writing this column or you people, my precious readers, are going to have to chip in with some help. Tell me what you want me to write about. Send your story ideas to
carrie@gringogazette.com or so help me, you will never hear a peep out of me on this page again. I mean it, without your help, I’m done. Toast. Charcoal.
up Mr. Olgilvie the PE teacher. What was it like at home that night, and how long did it take for your brother to heal up after your dad got finished with him?” Yeah, I can even make that funny. Funny for everyone but my brother. I doubt it Mr. Olgilvie is laughing about it, either. And, if you weren’t going to Woodrow Wilson High School at that time, it might be hard for you come up with that idea. You will need to keep it more generic, something like, “tell us about your 30 years of riding 30
Send in suggestions like, “tell us about the time your brother got kicked out of school for beating
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different motorcycles that you’ve owned.” Or, “what was it like to live in Costa Rica?” Or, “What was it like to drive to Costa Rica?” Or, “What do you do when you’re not working your ass off for us readers?” (I have hobbies.) Or, “Tell us about all the times you nearly killed yourself flying your own plane.” Or, “Tell us about the five months you spent in the hospital after you were mowed down by a car.” Believe it or not, that story is actually a laugh a minute. Looking back, I must admit I behaved badly, which makes for fun stories and a tolerable recovery. Or, “Tell us about how you managed to get yourself fired from the post office.” Or, “Tell us about your first job and how you managed to screw that up in about four hours.” Or, “tell us why you couldn’t even manage to stay in high school long enough to graduate.” Gosh, it does look like there’s a lot of material there. The problem is I can’t write about that stuff without breaking my rule about keeping it relevant to Mexico. The only way I can do that if one of our PRs (precious readers), asks me to write about it. So there you have, it, the ball’s in your court. Ask me anything. We could call this partici- patory journalism if we could call what I do journalism. But so help me, if nobody steps up to the plate with a simple dog gone email, well then just stick a fork
i n me, cause I’m done.
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he left. Aviles had warned the working committee that un- less a united front was shown, Governor Covarrubias would not be happy, and it seems he was right.
It was at this point that the shouting and name calling started, but eventually people sat down in a circle with Reachi and Aviles, including Natalie Tenoux, one of the biggest shit stirrers, and a hopper from one side to the other, and Susana Bueno, who publicly offered to rep- resent the neighbors who are the owners where the work was to have begun. These two gals were prime movers originally for the project but were opposed to starting it in high season; they had been persuaded to go along with it only when the city made cer- tain concessions and pre- 2
sented what looked like a well planned schedule with spe- cial sensitivity to minimizing the inconvenience to the neighborhood. And, because this funding was a now or never offer due to legal con- straints.
Just as Reachi finished his opening plea that people
have a little vision, he received a phone call from the Gover- nor informing him that the state had decided to cancel the project altogether and use the money somewhere else, but not in Los Cabos. He also announced that he was can- celling stages two and three of the remodeling plan (an-
other $5 million lost,) sched- uled for 2012, and that money will now be spent elsewhere in the state as well. Attorney Valdez and what turned out to be just three le- gitimate signers who she rep- resented, did not appear to back down, even when it was continued on page 7
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