{"id":378,"date":"2007-03-06T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/03\/06\/bumpin-with-gabo-and-wes\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:44:45","slug":"bumpin-with-gabo-and-wes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/03\/06\/bumpin-with-gabo-and-wes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumpin’ with Gabo and Wes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Birthday, Gabo!<\/a> He turns 80 today.<\/a> (BBC) <\/p>\n

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (El amor en los tiempos del colera)
\nGabo on youtube here<\/a>
\nFor non-Spanish speaking people one of the commenters on youtube helped translate Gabo’s words.<\/p>\n

he says, the men have three sort of lives: the public live, the personal live and the secret live; the women are present in three of them.
\nEn general the people think in their relationships: the comunication is the solution of all troubles,but Gavo thinks when the couples have a talk they end fighting; is better to forget and to continuo.
\nAfter he understood that, he never had discussion with any woman!!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mysteries of Bill Clinton by Gabo from Salon<\/a><\/p>\n

During his first campaign, Clinton had mentioned that his favorite book was “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” I said at the time — and I was quoted in print — that I thought he had said it simply to pull in the Latin vote. He had not forgotten — after greeting me on Martha’s Vineyard, he at once assured me that what he said had been quite sincere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gabo vs Mario Vargas Llosa – Two giants of literature, one black eye and 30 years of silence<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabo shares a birthday with Wes Montgomery<\/a>, the great Jazz innovator. Wes (John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery born 6 March 1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana; died 15 June 1968, also in Indianapolis)<\/p>\n