Not too far from where I live in Mexico City you can find the neighborhood of Tacubaya. With its converging metro lines and numerous bus lines, the place has sprouted and maintained a multitude of vendors, ranging from simple tents, to stalls, to actual stores, all of which seem to be changing occupants at a regular pace. Occasionally you'll see a store get shut down, boarded up, but never for too long. I'm sure that will be the fate of this abandoned store, with its less than spectacular images. Might be a good reason to preserve them in the blockchain.

Recently I got to try some very fine tasting beers from the Cervezería Colima. At a ver unassuming-looking eatery, where they serve tacos de guisado, that is various cooked dishes that you can pick up with a tortilla (and hence call it a "taco"), I asked for one of those commercial beers that you find pretty much anywhere in Mexico, only to be told: "Sorry, we only serve craft beer."

Lately Bruce Springsteen has been talked about quite a lot in social media. The reason for this is not so much his music, but a statement he made about Donald Trump and the current political situation in the US. As a response Trump expressed his own criticism about Springsteen, offering the Internet a field day in all the comment sections. My favorite type of comment I saw repeated numerous times was something along the lines of I've never been a fan of Bruce Springsteen ... until now!

As much as I love sharing what I consider great music that many people may not know, I also love discovering great music that I'm certain hardly anyone knows. Because let's be honest: most of the artists that I listen to have been famous already, in some form, some place, or some time. Today, however, I'm excited to introduce a group of young musicians that are yet to be discovered outside their immediate circle. They are called Could Be Stars, which I'm kinda certain it's bound to happen sooner or later.

The other day I passed by one of the many painted walls in Mexico City's Mixcoac neighborhood (on Los Echave, close to the corner of Charco Azul.) It was made up of various sections, probably created by different artist - with unequal skill levels. It was kinda neat to see the progression.

Just recently I posted about Bob Dylan, which in turn inspired me to introduce his influence, Woody Guthrie. Since that post focused entirely on his music, I thought I should talk more about the man and his times, by reviewing his book Bound for Glory. Published in 1943, this work is a kind of memoir, even though Woody was merely 31 years old when it came out. In it he describes growing up in Oklahoma and Texas, between the oil boom and the dust storms, followed by the Great Depression, and ultimately the start of World War Two. It offers a fascinating insight into the world of rural America around the 1930s, and helps us understand the people of those times and their mentality.