Well, I'm off to the beach ladies and gentlemen. Unless I have internet access down on the shore, I'll see you in a week.
As they say in Maryland, going' down Ocean, ay?
Just avoid the greased up guys in Speedos on Dewey Beach who offer to change your tires and come with sqwonking porn music to do it.
They needed me, so I went
I was a student of Latin American Revolutions in university, so I didn't want to miss out on the experience. It was a great decision . . . followed by a seriously bad decision to visit El Salvador before returning to the USA. Very bad.
Wasn't that the plot of
Stripes 2: Weekend at Oscar Romero's?
Actually, I was housemates in Berkeley with a grad student who was doing his PhD on revolutions. You couldn't walk past a People's Park demonstration without him joining in with a notebook (and the next thing I remember I am diving over wooden gates between houses as rubber bullets go whizzing by down the street.)
But El Salvador -- that was a complete cluster-fuck in the 80s.
Actually, speaking of movies, have you seen one of Oliver Stone's earliest,
Salvador?