tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72250885202006294102024-03-13T07:58:25.503-03:00Fly BrotherA black man and his passport.Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-68084175874208956162010-06-26T22:15:00.003-03:002010-06-26T22:29:01.648-03:00Fly-Brother.com is Now Live!Ladies and gentlemen, my tenure at Blogger has come to an end. Fly Brother has flown over to WordPress, with a new URL: <a href="http://fly-brother.com/"><span style="font-size:180%;">fly-brother.com</span></a>. The new site will continue to give you the fly international flavor you've come to expect from Fly Brother travel posts, plus offer links to podcasts, videos, books, and music that will lift you whether you're in the air or the armchair.<br /><br />So, please update your links and subscription feeds to reflect Fly Brother's new address:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TCapBio4n_I/AAAAAAAAA0w/IrrJ7icitL4/s1600/fly-brother_logo_2color.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 184px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TCapBio4n_I/AAAAAAAAA0w/IrrJ7icitL4/s400/fly-brother_logo_2color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487259039940780018" border="0" /></a>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-49139070780245891432010-06-22T17:50:00.010-03:002010-06-22T18:26:29.129-03:00I Love What You Do For Me, FEE-atchee!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TCEnkDsD4TI/AAAAAAAAA0g/kDUbEs_Y53Y/s1600/IMG_7493.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TCEnkDsD4TI/AAAAAAAAA0g/kDUbEs_Y53Y/s400/IMG_7493.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485709321532858674" border="0" /></a>I bought a car. Finally, after taking <a href="http://fly-brother.blogspot.com/2010/06/afternoon-in-brasilia-part-deux-or-why.html">three hours to get to the doctor's office</a>, or <a href="http://fly-brother.blogspot.com/2010/05/afternoon-in-brasilia-or-why-im-gettin.html">seven hours to do three things by bus</a> in Brasília (which really means <a href="http://www.cityoforlando.net/">Orlando</a> in Portuguese), I have my 2011 <a href="http://www.fiat.com.br/monte-seu-carro/conheca/170/PALIO+FIRE+ECONOMY+2011">Fiat Palio Fire Economy</a>. Fiat (pronounced FEE-atchee here) is an Italian car company that doesn't exactly make Ferraris, but keeps me from having to hoof it around the Brazilian capital. I financed the $18,000 thing for sixty months, which means my monthly payment is about 10% of my pre-tax salary, but I think I got a good deal, all things considered; cars are a luxury Brazil. Anyway, I would write more, but I gotta put some kilometers on my new baby. She's <span style="font-style: italic;">preto vulcão</span>, which means volcanic black* (or, <a href="http://fly-brother.blogspot.com/2009/05/black-like-me.html">Black Like Me</a>, as I like to say), but I need a name for her. Suggestions?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TCEnKK1NdhI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/BSVRoLIxtJ0/s1600/IMG_7494.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TCEnKK1NdhI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/BSVRoLIxtJ0/s400/IMG_7494.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485708876773684754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">*Y'all know I'm taking it over to somebody's cousin's house in the hood to get a spoiler and that darkboy tint on the windows, right?</span><br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ncTgJQOj5yI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ncTgJQOj5yI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em><br />Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-16641312333576054782010-06-18T14:49:00.009-03:002010-06-18T16:08:58.224-03:00Impactful Author José Saramago Dies at 87<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBu6EhI6hwI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/Bk9ibJl_DgU/s1600/saramago1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBu6EhI6hwI/AAAAAAAAA0Q/Bk9ibJl_DgU/s400/saramago1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484181558031714050" border="0" /></a>Portuguese author and Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, whose chilling <span style="font-style: italic;">Ensaio sobre a cegueira</span> was published in English as <span style="font-style: italic;">Blindness</span>, and later made into the movie of the same name, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/books/19saramago.html">died today at his home in the Canary Islands</a>. Usually, his stories analyzed human behavior in the face of incredible circumstances, such as the plague of sudden "white blindness" that hits an unnamed city in <span style="font-style: italic;">Blindness</span>. Saramago outlined the disintegration of society as both the inability to see and the accompanying wave of uncertainty sweeps through the population, with the book being much more disturbing and graphic than the film (i.e. read the damn book, slackers!).<br /><br /><a href="http://blindness-themovie.com/">The movie version</a>, released in 2008 with Julianne Moore and Danny Glover, was filmed mostly in São Paulo because of the city's relative lack of distinguishable landmarks (for most people outside of Brazil), which supports an atmosphere of urban placelessness that is the reason for Saramago's omission of proper nouns in the novel; the events portrayed could essentially happen anywhere.<br /><br />Like Gabriel Garc<span class="searchmatch">ía</span> Márquez, Saramago was a master of magical realism, making fantasy tangible in the lives of his protagonists, but unlike Gabo's fanciful Caribbean dreamscapes, Saramago danced around the fringes of nightmare and sometimes crossed over into the darkness. Get thee to a library and get lifted!<br /><br />Here's the trailer from the film:<br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rYjIvdFQqls&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rYjIvdFQqls&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em><br />Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-65276972642245932402010-06-15T20:02:00.012-03:002010-06-15T21:56:35.043-03:0080 Years in the A<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBgGl9Cu_jI/AAAAAAAAAz4/oJKc68WxCao/s1600/delta_atlanta_poster_ca1961.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBgGl9Cu_jI/AAAAAAAAAz4/oJKc68WxCao/s400/delta_atlanta_poster_ca1961.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483139795434536498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Y'all wasn't exactly expectin' a pitcher a'Mammy, wuzya?</span><br /></div><br />Eighty years ago this week, Monroe, Louisiana-based <a href="http://www.delta.com/">Delta Air Lines</a> began serving Atlanta Airport with one daily nonstop to Birmingham. From that skimpy hop over the state line, Delta has developed ATL into the world's largest airline hub, with nonstop flights to over 80 international destinations and who-knows-how-many domestic cities (well, Wikipedia probably knows, but...). In fact, it's because of Delta that whether you're going to Heaven or Hell, you'll have to change planes at ATL.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBgc8PsQq4I/AAAAAAAAA0I/_thSZNs7IFQ/s1600/ATL.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBgc8PsQq4I/AAAAAAAAA0I/_thSZNs7IFQ/s400/ATL.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483164367653481346" border="0" /></a>A large part of the reason I like Delta (theoretically, anyway) is because of its commitment to Atlanta, a Southern city that, for all its faults, has always been much more progressive than the region to which it belongs, no doubt a positive consequence of its connections to the rest of the world. Likewise, Southern culture gets exported as well, from the unrefined graciousness of the cleaning ladies in the terminal to the gleam of the TSA agent's gold tooth<span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">—</span></span>my home culture, for better or worse. Oh, and there's also that <a href="http://www.chick-fil-a.com/">Chick-fil-A</a> in Concourse A.<br /><br />You can read more about Delta and the A at the <a href="http://blog.delta.com/2010/06/11/80-years-serving-atlanta/">airline's blog</a>. Meanwhile, in honor of Delta's 80th anniversary at the doubly-named <a href="http://www.atlanta-airport.com/">Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport</a>, I leave you with Atlanna's own OutKast and their Southern Gothic classic, "Ms. Jackson," probably filmed right down US-19 from the airpert itself. For real.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b8MZMNcY7vw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b8MZMNcY7vw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em><br />Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-82385434666601096722010-06-12T17:57:00.010-03:002010-06-12T18:21:30.509-03:00An Afternoon in Brasília, Part Deux -or- Why I'm Gettin' A Car With the Paycheck I Just GotI know the numbers are hard to read, but let's try and follow along anyway, shall we?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBP2BL1ENmI/AAAAAAAAAzw/eMPSDOML2qw/s1600/qimap.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TBP2BL1ENmI/AAAAAAAAAzw/eMPSDOML2qw/s400/qimap.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481995671655691874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mode of Transport</span><br />Green Line = Bus<br />Red Line = Foot<br /><br />1. Spot where the bus dropped me off in the vaguely-named block, SHIS QI 15, for a doctor's appointment (Brasília's full of vaguely-named blocks. "SHIS" means South Sector of Individual Habitations in Portuguese. Don't know what the "QI" stands for). Time, 5:30pm. Appointment, 6:15pm.<br /><br />2. Point where I realized that I was entering SHIS QI 13, and not headed towards Bloco "O" in QI 15, the location of the doctor's office. Decided to head towards the lone commercial strip in the block and ask for directions.<br /><br />3. Point within the commercial strip where I encountered at least four people who either couldn't give me directions to where I was going, or gave me convoluted directions in a language I didn't understand. In addition, there was no ATM in this commercial strip and I had no cash; therefore, a cab was out of the question. My appointment was in 15 minutes. I found a lady who spoke rudimentary English who told me I could walk to the office in about 20 and pointed me in the right direction.<br /><br />4. Point where got pissed at seeing the bus stop where I'd disembarked a mere 35 minutes before.<br /><br />5. Point where I stopped and wondered if turning right would mean a short cut. I continued straight, of course.<br /><br />6. I got to the gotdamn medical park and spent another 15 minutes running from building to building asking people in white coats where my doctor was located, only to have them tell me with pained faces, "You know what, honestly, I don't really know. Ask the doorman." Y'all don't know shit in Brazil, do ya? Time of arrival at doctor's office, 6:20pm. Appointment, 6:15pm. I wish somebody <span style="font-style: italic;">would</span> have told me I had to reschedule.<br /><br />Liked that? Read about <a href="http://fly-brother.blogspot.com/2010/05/afternoon-in-brasilia-or-why-im-gettin.html">another afternoon I had recently in Brasília</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-59367853821847907582010-06-09T07:32:00.006-03:002010-06-09T08:17:44.663-03:00VTP: IndiaThis post is part of a monthly series of eye candy at Fly Brother, imaginatively named VTP (short for Vintage Travel Posters). We'll see how travel companies and bureaus have been enticing people off the couch since international leisure travel first became a bourgeois conceit. Few places stimulate the imagination for better or worse than India, though travel posters seem to have focused primarily on elephants, the Taj Mahal, and multi-armed Hindu deities to sell a continent-sized country full of over a thousand languages and just as many cultures. Still, the colorful, detailed designs make up for the lack of thematic ideas.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TA93V8nDRYI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/61BhKHdQ_jY/s1600/india3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TA93V8nDRYI/AAAAAAAAAzQ/61BhKHdQ_jY/s400/india3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480730490464060802" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TA93WaVvVxI/AAAAAAAAAzY/7xe_C2aaHTM/s1600/imperial-airways-poster.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TA93WaVvVxI/AAAAAAAAAzY/7xe_C2aaHTM/s400/imperial-airways-poster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480730498444515090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TA93Xf1Q0vI/AAAAAAAAAzg/ffkq7AeHsEY/s1600/india2.jpg"><img style="display: block; 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I was also a little bit too occupied with getting my club on this weekend to refresh the album with new images; sometimes a playa just has to play.<br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&noautoplay=1&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fkaramale77%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26access%3Dpublic%26psc%3DF%26q%26uname%3Dkaramale77" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="400" height="267"></embed><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em><br />Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. 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If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><a style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-7051701952050696572010-05-31T05:30:00.002-03:002010-05-31T09:11:07.159-03:00Fly Favorites: May 2010<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TALWFybaejI/AAAAAAAAAw8/gSGZJdZ1mR8/s1600/MxDF_logo.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477175491760388658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TALWFybaejI/AAAAAAAAAw8/gSGZJdZ1mR8/s400/MxDF_logo.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">This phat-ass image by <a href="http://www.escobas.com.mx/">ESCOBAS</a>.<br /></span></div><br />See who's artistically reppin' your hood at <a href="http://www.citid.net/">Cit/ID</a>.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">A Brother in Sweden</span> profiles the <a href="http://ibousthlm.blogspot.com/2010/05/indians.html">Noo Awlins Indians</a> (thas hah we say it in Flawda).<br /><br /><em>Der Spiegel </em>highlights <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,691988,00.html">"May Day Riot Tourism in Berlin"</a> while the <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Economist</span> covers Germany's French-like attempt to <a href="http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16218324">save its language from that gaudy party-crasher, English</a>.<br /><a href="http://cuadernoinedito.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/indistinguishable-places-some-notes-on-adjectives-in-travel-writing/"><br /></a><a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Dhani_Jones">Dhani Jones is back tackling the globe</a> Mondays on the <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Travel Channel</span> (does this fool ever wear <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span>shirts?).<br /><br /><a href="http://cuadernoinedito.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/indistinguishable-places-some-notes-on-adjectives-in-travel-writing/">Using "The Beautiful Hortense" and Chihuahuan Mennonites</a> to appropriately describe place at <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Cuaderno Inédito</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TALm5KmkV4I/AAAAAAAAAxE/2dW95T3wcuE/s1600/rioteamo.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477193966608996226" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/TALm5KmkV4I/AAAAAAAAAxE/2dW95T3wcuE/s400/rioteamo.jpg" /></a>Fall for the next installment in the <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Cities of Love</span> film series: <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><a href="http://rioeuteamo.net/">Rio, Eu Te Amo</a> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">(here's hoping it's more like the sparkling <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Paris, Je t'aime</span> and less like the Wonder Bread NY edition; I <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">want</span> to love this movie).</span><br /><br />Fly photographs and classy culture from the Motherland on <a href="http://outandaboutafrica.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Out and About Africa</span></a>.<br /><br />The current time in Paris, brought to you by funky Franco-Japanese timepiece, <a href="http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/">Uniqlock</a>.<br /><br />Resurrecting the <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Miami Herald</span>'s <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/index.html">award-winning series on Afro-Latin America</a>.<br /><br />The hoof-stompin', devil-worshippin' <a href="http://www.sataniquesambatrio.net/index.htm">Satanique Samba Trio</a> (click "Imperialist Pigs" for the English site, LOL).<br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em><br />Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><a style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-8157738390917255742010-05-28T04:57:00.003-03:002010-05-28T04:57:00.171-03:00From the AV Room: Brazil in Black and WhiteA Brazilian airline's image of Brazilians:<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vo0f7rnAJ9k&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vo0f7rnAJ9k&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />A Korean airline's image of Brazilians:<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YhBjNukVkEw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YhBjNukVkEw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Just sayin'.<br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em><br />Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-82579764907085052582010-05-25T19:21:00.017-03:002010-05-28T18:47:12.280-03:00An Afternoon in Brasília -or- Why I'm Gettin' A Car With My Next Paycheck<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S_z6bfKypZI/AAAAAAAAAw0/Mm9GkGyXd3o/s1600/IMG_7336+%282%29.jpg"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; display: block; height: 224px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475526597105853842" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S_z6bfKypZI/AAAAAAAAAw0/Mm9GkGyXd3o/s400/IMG_7336+%282%29.jpg" border="0" /></a>Like Florida and California and any other sun-shiney place that boomed in the 50s and 60s, Brasília's spread way, way out. So an afternoon of running errands without your own private vehicle just might look like this:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12:00pm</span> - You finish work early with the anticipation of making a deposit at the bank, stopping by the <a href="http://www.tam.com.br/">TAM</a> office downtown to pay for a plane ticket that can't get paid through the website because of a glitch, and pick up tickets for Saturday's tango and milonga event at the <a href="http://www.bb.com.br/portalbb/home22,128,10170,0,0,1,1.bb?&codigoMenu=9906">Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil</a> (because if you wait until Friday, they'll be sold out...trust).<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12:15pm</span> - A kindly coworker whose waiting for her own lift to the airport offers you a ride to the bank, which is on the way. That's 3 reais (pronounced hay-ICE...as of May 25, 2010, USD 1 = BRL 1.85) and at least 30 minutes of walking/waiting/bus time saved.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12:30pm</span> - The friend arrives to pick you and your coworker up. They chat about flying up to Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon, to work on a government project and return two days later.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12:50pm</span> - You arrive at the bank, take a number, almost make it to the counter when some relatively-healthy-looking 50-year-old shows up and gets to skip you because he's "elderly," but aside from that, you make the deposit with relative ease.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:15pm</span> - You run out to the bus stop to make sure you catch the bus actually headed to where you're going. The first bus that passes is not one that's going where you're going.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:35pm</span> - Neither is the second.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:50pm</span> - Neither is the third.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:53pm</span> - A small car with three women and a male driver pulls up and yells, "Rodoviaria" (which means bus station, which is where you're going). You say, "sim" and one of the ladies squeezes in the back while you squeeze into the front seat with the broken seatbelt and hope to high heavens that homeboy doesn't wreck the car. Oh, and your knees are pressed into the dashboard, so really, you wouldn't go anywhere if there were to be an accident, you'd just have shattered kneecaps.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2:10pm</span> - You arrive at the Rodoviaria, thank your driver and tup him the R$3 you would have paid the bus driver, then navigate the few blocks through the concrete ant farm that is downtown Brasília, dodging cars, soaking up sun, and feeling heady about the fact that you're navigating the few blocks through the concrete ant farm that is downtown Brasília.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2:22pm</span> - You get to the TAM office, located at the once-grand Hotel Nacional, and take a number: 162. They're now serving number 148.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3:40pm</span> - You leave TAM, ticket in hand, but got-damn if it wasn't like pulling teeth to get them to waive the R$30 "administrative fee" for processing a ticket that you should have been able to do yourself, if it hadna been for that glitch. Cute office manager, though.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3:42pm</span> - The free "hourly" shuttle bus to CCBB, which is located way off in BFE, despite its rich and profound cultural programming doesn't come until 4:50pm. You say, "screw that," and walk back to the Rodoviaria. There's gotta be a bus heading that way.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">3:58pm</span> - You ask a couple of random, blue-shirted bus drivers which greenhound is headed for the CCBB until you score; the driver of your chariot agrees to drop you off as close to your final destination as possible.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4:16pm</span> - The driver drops you off as close to your final destination as possible: on the side of a six-laned highway with traffic zooming by at, I don't know, 100 kilometers per hour and the CCBB squarely on the opposite side of that highway <span style="font-style: italic;">and</span> a barbed wire fence. Lucky for you, the sun's starting to hide behind some clouds, so that should cool things down a bit.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4:19pm</span> - You dash across three lanes, then straddle the middle divide.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4:21pm</span> - You dash across the other three lanes.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4:36pm</span> - You arrive at the ticket booth of the CCBB because it's located on the exact opposite side of the complex from where you crossed the highway and have to circle the entire thing on foot. Brasília really does hate pedestrians.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4:40pm</span> - Tickets purchased! Next free shuttle bus departure back to downtown is at 5:50pm. The free wifi is out. You've got paperwork for your job to do while you wait, and eat an overpriced pancake wrapped around some chicken and cheese at the gallery cafe.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5:25pm</span> - The shuttle bus arrives, but the driver says it isn't leaving for another 25 minutes. Real quick, snap some pictures of the twilight sky being covered over with rain clouds and some of those cool cosmic-clover streetlights they have all over Brazil.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">5:50pm</span> - It's actually pouring rain, uncharacteristically, since it's supposed to be the dry season. The bus departs. You can't see shit out the windows.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6:28pm</span> - After fighting through a sea of flashing tail lights, the shuttle arrives at the drop-off point closest to your house: a taxi stand near the subway station at which there are no taxis standing. It's still raining, but not pouring. Some people are like, "screw that," and walk out into it. You do, too.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6:35pm</span> - You're walking faster than the pack of cars inching along the road next to you and you're glad you didn't waste money just sitting in a cab. Your shirt's getting soaked, though.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6:49pm</span> - You arrive home, your three goals accomplished.<br /><br />Total elapsed time: <span style="font-weight: bold;">6 hours, 49 minutes</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-29785679694554910972010-05-22T23:46:00.008-03:002010-05-23T00:27:55.238-03:00Global Juke Joint: Mama Used to Say<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S_iftxj6h8I/AAAAAAAAAwk/ThRl3_REYsU/s1600/recreationcvr.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S_iftxj6h8I/AAAAAAAAAwk/ThRl3_REYsU/s400/recreationcvr.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474300955815741378" border="0" /></a>Afro-Belgian musical group <a href="http://zapmama.be/">Zap Mama</a> has effused pan-African rhythm and flow for the last 20 years, badooing and doowapping on politics and partying in English, French, and Bantu. Started by the striking Congolese-born, Belgian-bred Marie Daulne, and using their voices as musical instruments, the all-lady ensemble carries you from London to Lyon to Lagos with a mix of traditional West African rhythms and their diasporic progeny: soul, reggae, funk, jazz, salsa, and house. I've recently rediscovered them on my iPod, so I thought I'd share.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aEj9QZakbxU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aEj9QZakbxU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxkbipVwZv4&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VxkbipVwZv4&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9QRvgWnqQ4M&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9QRvgWnqQ4M&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YddKiTo4CZM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YddKiTo4CZM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CTb1W_aqz9o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CTb1W_aqz9o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nMrIueH3r4k&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nMrIueH3r4k&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-88895121571772076322010-05-19T19:17:00.020-03:002010-05-19T20:05:43.299-03:005 is Never Enough<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S_RuYoVcIJI/AAAAAAAAAwc/khyZhY4FgFg/s1600/continents.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S_RuYoVcIJI/AAAAAAAAAwc/khyZhY4FgFg/s400/continents.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473120816585253010" border="0" /></a>Many Americans might think the question of how many continents exist on Earth should be settled (of course, the demotion of Pluto as a planet a few years back ought to remind everybody that even "established" facts can change). But in Latin America, where I've lived and worked since 2005, the established number of continents students learn is five: Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and...America.<br /><br />Already, us United Statesians are considered arrogant for claiming "American" as a nationality, when it's seen as a continentality akin to "European" for most in the rest of the hemisphere (that's a whole other post), so trying to separate the Americas is viewed as a knock against Latin Americans: "North Americans don't <i>want</i> to be on the same continent as Latinos." This, of course, conveniently ignores the grouping of Central America and the Caribbean, regions soaked in Latin-based languages and their associated cultures, soundly in North America.<br /><br />I've had arguments with both students and other professors regarding this slight difference in continental calculation. Fivers argue that America should be counted as one landmass because it's so separate from the others, and that Europe, Asia, and Africa—all three of which are connected to each other—should be counted separately because of the varied cultures. Poor Antarctica is consigned to continental limbo because she has no human population native to her frozen expanses.<br /><br />I, a staunch sevener, counter that technically, there should be four continents, since the very word comes from the Latin, <span style="font-style: italic;">terra continens</span> (thanks, <a href="http://www.askoxford.com">AskOxford</a>!*), which means "continuous land." Ignoring the divisions caused by the man-made Suez and Panama canals, America, Eurafrasia, Antarctica, and (maybe) Australia are each continuous lands. My argument, however, is that since Eurafrasia is indeed considered three continents by both camps, North and South America, connected by svelte and sexy Panama and her 37-mile waist, should only naturally be counted as separate. <span style="font-style: italic;">And</span>, considering continental drift and geologic history, the isthmus that comprises Central America is indeed very, very young, having risen from the ocean a scant three million years ago, while South America started separating from Africa 130 million years ago and North America from Europe 70 million before that.<br /><br />I don't know how the Brits or other English-speaking countries view things, or how many continents other teachers accept in their classes; on <span style="font-style: italic;">my</span> tests, <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>it's seven. Get it right.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">*In the interest of fairness, I consulted the <a href="http://www.rae.es">Real Academia Española</a> for the official Spanish-language definition and got </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >cada una de las grandes extensiones de tierra separadas por los océanos</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> ("each one of the large extensions of land separated by oceans," basically, no real help for either argument).</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-75512253298253175592010-05-16T09:38:00.006-03:002010-05-18T08:33:53.147-03:00Fly Brother Podcast - Season 1, Episode 9: Multilingual Swagger<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-_nsxL_P1I/AAAAAAAAAwU/DVh_CQpDwqM/s1600/foreignlanguage.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471846828582322002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-_nsxL_P1I/AAAAAAAAAwU/DVh_CQpDwqM/s400/foreignlanguage.jpg" /></a>In this episode of the <b>Fly Brother Podcast:<br /><br />The Fun and Frustration of Learning Other Languages</b><br /><br />Playlist:<br />1. "A Ring" - Towa Tei<br />2. "Plekete" - Zap Mama<br />3. "Chica Chica Boom Chic" - Bebel Gilberto & Carlinhos Brown<br /><br />Links mentioned in this podcast:<br />Fly Brother - <a href="http://fly-brother.blogspot.com/">fly-brother.blogspot.com</a><br />NEGES Foundation - <a href="http://www.negesfoundation.org/">http://www.negesfoundation.org/</a><br /><br />Florida A&M University Study Abroad - <a href="http://www.famu.edu/index.cfm?oied&welcome">www.famu.edu/index.cfm?oied&welcome</a><br />New York University Study Abroad - <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/">www.nyu.edu/studyabroad/</a><br />University of Texas at Austin Study Abroad - <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/student/abroad/">www.utexas.edu/student/abroad/</a><br /><br />Alliance Française USA - <a href="http://www.alliance-us.org/">http://www.alliance-us.org/</a><br />Goethe-Institut - <a href="http://www.goethe.de/enindex.htm">www.goethe.de/enindex.htm</a><br />International Language Institute of Cairo - <a href="http://www.arabicegypt.com">www.arabicegypt.com</a><br />Instituto Cervantes - <a href="http://nuevayork.cervantes.es/">nuevayork.cervantes.es</a><br />The Japan Foundation - <a href="http://www.jpf.go.jp/">http://www.jpf.go.jp/</a><br /><br />Berlitz - <a href="http://www.berlitz.com/">http://www.berlitz.com/</a><br />International House - <a href="http://www.ihworld.com/">http://www.ihworld.com/</a><br />Meetup - <a href="http://www.meetup.com/">http://www.meetup.com/</a><br /><br />Shoot me your comments, questions, suggestions, requests, or just a shout-out: flybrother [et] rocketmail [daht] kom.<br /><br /><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI3MjcxMzU5MzM1OSZwdD*xMjcyNzEzNjE2NjQwJnA9ODQ2ODEmZD*mbj1ibG9nZ2VyJmc9MSZvPWMyMTI*NzFmNTE4OTRi/NmM4OGE3NTIyOWMzODNhZGMyJm9mPTA=.gif" width="0" border="0" height="0" /><div style="margin-bottom: -7px;"> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.podomatic.com/swf/jwplayer44pro.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="plugins=viral-1&viral.link=http://flybrother.podOmatic.com&height=340&file=http://flybrother.podOmatic.com/mrss_stream.xml&playlist=bottom&playlistsize=80&streamer=rtmp://streams.podomatic.com/vod" width="320" height="340"></embed> </div> <div><a target="flybrother" href="http://flybrother.podomatic.com/"> <img src="http://www.podomatic.com/images/share/player_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><a border="0" href="http://www.gigyamailbutton.com/wildfire/gigyamailbutton.ashx?url=aHR*cDovL3dpbGRmaXJlLmdpZ3lhLmNvbS93aWxkZmlyZS93ZnBvcC5hc3B4P21vZHVsZT1lbWFpbCZ1cmw9aHR*cCUzYSUyZiUyZnd3dy5wb2RvbWF*aWMuY29tJTJmcG9kY2FzdCUyZmVtYmVkJTJmZmx5YnJvdGhlcg==" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.gigya.com/wildfire/i/includeShareButton.gif" width="60" border="0" height="20" /></a><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><a style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,0)" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" /></a><span style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102)">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-9057997215976559362010-05-13T07:46:00.004-03:002010-05-13T08:06:23.083-03:00Fly Brother Interview on Jay Travels<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-vdAYC_EXI/AAAAAAAAAwM/RuFLmVClD5k/s1600/IMG_3888.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-vdAYC_EXI/AAAAAAAAAwM/RuFLmVClD5k/s400/IMG_3888.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470709170896310642" border="0" /></a>Atlanta-based fly blogger and brother Jay interviewed me a few weeks ago for his international travel site, <a href="http://www.jaytravels.net/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Jay Travels</span></a>. The resulting madness went live this Tuesday, featuring my musings on Greenland, Mickey Ds, and prostitutes. Here's an excerpt:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have you ever experienced a problem when traveling (passport, victim of crime, etc.)?</span><br />Once, in Rio de Janeiro, I was walking home from the gym with a Brazilian friend and while we were talking, a kid of maybe 9 or 10 came up to me and started talking in Portuguese. I told him, in Spanish, that I couldn’t help him and he grabbed my wrist. I, in typical American fashion, yanked my arm back and told him not to touch me (or as we say in Florida, bag back!). He started yelling at me in Portuguese and I yelled back in Spanish, then turned to make my way home. He came up and kicked me in the butt, then ran back across the street.<br /><br />Things escalated from there, with him throwing a rock at my foot and my friend pulling me away from the scene because Lil Man was about to get the whippin his daddy clearly wasn’t giving him. Meanwhile, my friend kept commenting how kids these days don’t even seem to fear two over-six-foot-tall men anymore. When we got back to the house, my anger had turned to anxiety because I was lucky the kid only picked up a rock as opposed to pulling out a knife or gun. And it didn’t matter that I understand all the socio-economic backstory behind this young, black street kid; I was identified as foreign and subsequently as an easy mark. That ended my short-lived love affair with Rio.</blockquote>Check out the rest of the interview <a href="http://www.jaytravels.net/traveler-spotlight-ernest/">here</a>. Thanks, Jay!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-89934401175976954132010-05-10T06:07:00.000-03:002010-05-10T06:07:00.146-03:00Executive Decisions -or- Sometimes, It's Okay to Pass<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-dHXfkLqcI/AAAAAAAAAwE/9PfvT8HDdd8/s1600/exec.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-dHXfkLqcI/AAAAAAAAAwE/9PfvT8HDdd8/s400/exec.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469418741400578498" border="0" /></a>For those of us averse to a sedentary, monotonous lifestyle, there often comes a point when we have to make executive decisions regarding our time, our resources, our needs, and our wants. I'm both extremely sociable and intellectually inquisitive, so living in the capital city of a large South American country known for its highly-sociable population and culture, executive decisions have been the order of the day, almost every day.<br /><br />Had I not committed myself to an every-third-day blogging schedule, posts at <span style="font-style: italic;">Fly Brother</span> would be haphazard and sporadic, reflecting the random socializing that inevitably presents itself whenever more than two Brazilians get together. As I'm inclined to accept any welcome diversion to the mental and sometimes emotional strain of penning new text, it takes major focus on my part to decline the enticing offer of movie night or an embassy cocktail or karaoke or sushi with the crew, especially on school nights (booty calls, however, always get answered; y'all know how it is).<br /><br />Now, if my professional objective were only to stack then spend bills, rolling out every night would gravy. But to appropriate a recent tweet I ran across, "a real writer's job isn't to be popular." That particular tweet referenced an article on the responsibility of journalists, or any event chronicler, to report the truth, no matter how unpopular or even dangerous doing so might be. I take that quote, however, on a much less profound level to mean you can't be a real writer and be hanging out all gotdamned night; not unless all you do from noon to four, once you wake up, is write. Sometimes, you just gotta say, "nah...I'll pass. Thanks, though" (you do, however, still want to be invited to stuff).<br /><br />And it's not just about writing; it's about balancing your life in such a way that all of your projects become manageable and still get done, whether or not that's raising well-read, well-rounded kids or starting a business or planning your first round-the-world trip. After all, life's too short to just be focused on work, but ain't none of us heir to a hotel dynasty. Like they say in Spanish, <span style="font-style: italic;">unos por otros</span> (basically, one thing for another). Yes, you may have a twinge of regret about missing one thing or another, but when you've finally reached your objective, you won't regret not doing what it took to get there. And there will always be another movie night or embassy cocktail or booty call (though maybe not with the same person, since you flaked out the last time).<br /><br />So yesterday, instead of meeting up with a large group of friends for the closing day of the <a href="http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=141091&which=&aid=13621&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com">Robert Polidori</a> retrospective I'd been wanting to see, I decided to stick around the house, stock up the fridge, finish preparing two tests, call the important women in my life and thank them for their interminable maternal love, deflect the few regrets that did arise about waiting too late to get to the Polidori showing, and continue conceptualization of upcoming <span style="font-style: italic;">Fly Brother</span> expansion.<br /><br />I've also decided to cut my planned two weeks on the road this summer to only nine days, starting with the <a href="http://www.travelblogexchange.com/profiles/blogs/tbex-10-new-york-city-here-we">TBEX '10</a> travel blogging conference in New York, followed by a week of fellowship with two very good friends in Toronto (holla TDK and <a href="http://oneika-the-traveller.blogspot.com/">La Femme Nikita</a>). Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City were originally on the itinerary, but it felt wiser to shorten the trip and deepen the finances available to me in NYC and <a href="http://www.gtaa.com/en/home/">YYZ</a> than to spread myself too thin across eastern Canada. Executive decision.<br /><br />And now, I can buy a nice video camera and take you good people with me on some of my fly-falutin' adventures. See...it's all about you, baby (wink).<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-10066009759042828922010-05-07T07:54:00.011-03:002010-05-07T08:28:38.829-03:00Vintage Travel Posters (VTP): RioThis is the first of a new monthly series of eye candy at Fly Brother, imaginatively named VTP (short for Vintage Travel Posters). We'll see how travel companies and bureaus have been enticing people off the couch since international leisure travel first became a bourgeois conceit. Our first destination: the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro, where both terrestrial and corporal landscapes have been hot commodities since the 1920s.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzpopZVfI/AAAAAAAAAv8/vJydmsNXNFg/s1600/rio30s.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 254px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzpopZVfI/AAAAAAAAAv8/vJydmsNXNFg/s400/rio30s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468482269169145330" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzpT3RdQI/AAAAAAAAAv0/SIQt4LB2Lgo/s1600/rionyrba.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzpT3RdQI/AAAAAAAAAv0/SIQt4LB2Lgo/s400/rionyrba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468482263590204674" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzpEKYI5I/AAAAAAAAAvs/6B9wwnFpddA/s1600/riocruise.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzpEKYI5I/AAAAAAAAAvs/6B9wwnFpddA/s400/riocruise.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468482259375367058" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Pzo6mIlvI/AAAAAAAAAvk/YBUzenEmjrE/s1600/riopanam.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Pzo6mIlvI/AAAAAAAAAvk/YBUzenEmjrE/s400/riopanam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468482256807433970" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzYd5zn3I/AAAAAAAAAvc/sVEUhgV8yfY/s1600/AF+LAT+46%2895%29+Amerique+du+Sud.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzYd5zn3I/AAAAAAAAAvc/sVEUhgV8yfY/s400/AF+LAT+46%2895%29+Amerique+du+Sud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468481974227410802" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzYEThdjI/AAAAAAAAAvU/k9pVnHXwvKU/s1600/riony.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzYEThdjI/AAAAAAAAAvU/k9pVnHXwvKU/s400/riony.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468481967355950642" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzX38pTNI/AAAAAAAAAvM/Bo6BJ1941Sc/s1600/rioboac.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PzX38pTNI/AAAAAAAAAvM/Bo6BJ1941Sc/s400/rioboac.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468481964038769874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Pyx2FlKuI/AAAAAAAAAvE/j1Thk5iPrhU/s1600/PA+SAM+55+South+America.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Pyx2FlKuI/AAAAAAAAAvE/j1Thk5iPrhU/s400/PA+SAM+55+South+America.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468481310704347874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Pyxq5diqI/AAAAAAAAAu8/_UGfP78NfpI/s1600/riovarig.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Pyxq5diqI/AAAAAAAAAu8/_UGfP78NfpI/s400/riovarig.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468481307700726434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PyxSGgzAI/AAAAAAAAAu0/DDc77Q8LnS4/s1600/riobraniff.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 319px; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-PyKtwoy-I/AAAAAAAAAus/IuSrxQOIHeg/s400/Figure5rio.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468480638454123490" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-24098705510132490452010-05-04T17:20:00.028-03:002010-05-04T20:22:39.607-03:00Airline Geekery: Mergers and Marketing in Latin America<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Cr7jNb4LI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/Z2YdmOoWwd8/s1600/Banner_OceanAvianca.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Cr7jNb4LI/AAAAAAAAAuQ/Z2YdmOoWwd8/s400/Banner_OceanAvianca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467558987180007602" border="0" /></a>While the press and traveling public gawk at the news of merger of <a href="http://www.united.com/">United Airlines</a> and <a href="http://www.continental.com/">Continental Airlines</a>, another move towards industry consolidation is taking place south of the border. Last month, Brazil's <a href="http://www.oceanair.com.br/">OceanAir</a> (yes, in English), started a few years ago by Colombo-Brazilian multimillionaire Germán Efromovich, adopted the brand name of its much larger Colombian sister airline, <a href="http://www.avianca.com/">Avianca</a>, also owned by Efromovich's Synergy Group. With this re-branding, the airline hopes to move up from its position as Brazil's fifth-largest carrier, offer international flights from Brazil, and become a recognized name in the region. Avianca is following in the tradition of Chile-based <a href="http://www.lan.com/">LAN Airlines</a> and Central American conglomerate <a href="http://www.taca.com/">Grupo TACA</a> (with which it merged last October, forming the double-branded Avianca-TACA) in cross-border airline mergers and branding, turning national airlines into continental carriers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Cp2lxJ64I/AAAAAAAAAuA/bAuUZYnIrTM/s1600/TACA-AIRPLANE.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-Cp2lxJ64I/AAAAAAAAAuA/bAuUZYnIrTM/s400/TACA-AIRPLANE.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467556702944095106" border="0" /></a>El Salvador-based TACA was the first airline to jump into multinational consolidation in the early-90s by investing in the flag carriers of its neighboring countries: Aviateca of Guatemala, Lacsa of Costa Rica, and NICA of Nicaragua. Though maintaining different owners (with Lacsa retaining its airline code), the combined company created one brand identity and focused hub operations at San Salvador and San José, then later at Lima when TACA Peru signed on.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-CptVrr7FI/AAAAAAAAAt4/1HBacLfIPKQ/s1600/avianca.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-CptVrr7FI/AAAAAAAAAt4/1HBacLfIPKQ/s400/avianca.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467556544007367762" border="0" /></a>TACA's merger with Avianca, in which both airlines will continue to operate under their respective brands, is the largest of the various mergers and acquisitions that Avianca has undergone in its history as the world's second-oldest existing airline. After engulfing several smaller Colombian airlines, Avianca bought the tiny VIP in Ecuador and its new owner, Efromovich, started OceanAir in Brazil, both of which are now called Avianca in their respective countries, though they continue to function separately under local operating certificates.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-CnWDgKk4I/AAAAAAAAAtw/u8O1wcj7nWI/s1600/lan_nwpose02_0907_300%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S-CnWDgKk4I/AAAAAAAAAtw/u8O1wcj7nWI/s400/lan_nwpose02_0907_300%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467553944966960002" border="0" /></a>LAN, the largest airline in Spanish-speaking Latin America and one of only a few anywhere that can fly you to Tahiti, works similarly; the Chilean branch and its subsidiaries LAN Peru, LAN Argentina, LAN Dominicana, and LAN Ecuador all operate with differing certificates, but unified branding. LAN also bypasses its hubs at Lima and Santiago, with nonstop flights from Miami to Bogotá, Caracas, and Punta Cana, furthering the concept of LAN as a super-national airline brand and having dropped the name LanChile years ago (<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=12298.blog">they also have a thrice-weekly JFK-Toronto hop</a>).<br /><br />As the global airline industry contracts for its own survival, the major US carriers whittle themselves down to a handful of legacy (i.e. old-as-dirt) and low-cost brands, unable to merge with foreign airlines because of US legal restrictions. The major Latin American airlines, much like <a href="http://www.airfranceklm-finance.com/">Air France-KLM</a> or <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8608667.stm">British Airways and Iberia</a>, are steeling themselves for the future of air travel by offering broad networks and convenient transfers that transcend national frontiers. And now you've got three (or two?) more options for heading down Argentine way:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.avianca.com/">Avianca</a>: Non-stops from Miami and New York-JFK to Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, and Barranquilla; Miami to Cartagena; and Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, and Washington-Dulles to Bogotá. Connections to all major South American cities through Bogotá.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lan.com/">LAN</a>: Non-stops from Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, and San Francisco to Lima; Miami and New York-JFK to Santiago; New York-JFK to Guayaquil and Toronto; Miami to Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Punta Cana, and Quito. Connections to all major South American cities through Lima and Santiago.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.taca.com/">TACA</a>: Non-stops from Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York-JFK, Orlando, San Francisco, and Washington-Dulles to San Salvador, with connections to all major South American cities; Los Angeles, Miami, and New York-JFK to San José; and Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami to Guatemala City.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-54425904473481795862010-05-01T08:33:00.004-03:002010-05-01T08:37:01.712-03:00Fly Brother Podcast - Season 1, Episode 8: Night Flight 695 - The Trance-Atlantic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9wRxMBCeqI/AAAAAAAAAtg/e6sCZ3RMoMo/s1600/miacdg.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9wRxMBCeqI/AAAAAAAAAtg/e6sCZ3RMoMo/s400/miacdg.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466263584457783970" border="0" /></a>In this episode of the <b>Fly Brother Podcast:<br /><br />Night Flight 695 - The Trance-Atlantic</b><br />Journey with Fly Brother on an ethereal, all-music flight from Little Havana to the Latin Quarter - Miami to Paris - featuring recent and classic house, downtempo, acid jazz, soul, and electro-samba. Whether its to work out, chill out, or make out, this compilation will transport you each time you listen. Download and get lifted.<br /><br />Playlist:<br />"Vazilando (Rasmus Faber Mix)" - La Oreja de Van Gogh<br />"Cerca de Mí" - Louie Vega f. Raúl Midón<br />"The Way That I Feel" - Vikter Duplaix<br />"Casa Batillo" - Brazzaville<br />"Late Night Swing" - David Borsu f. Damia da Costa<br />"La Femme d'Argent" - Air<br />"A Day in December" - Manoo and Francois A.<br />"Girls & Boys" - Prince & The Revolution<br />"Leaving Monte Carlo" - Physics<br />"La Rhythme et Le Cadence" - Dimitri from Paris<br /><br />Links mentioned in the podcast:<br />Fly Brother Blog - <a href="http://fly-brother.blogspot.com/">fly-brother.blogspot.com</a><br />Fly Brother Podcast - <a href="http://flybrother.podomatic.com/">flybrother.podomatic.com</a><br /><br />Shoot me your comments, questions, suggestions, requests, or just a shout-out: flybrother [at] rocketmail [daht] kom.<br /><br /><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI3MjcxMzU5MzM1OSZwdD*xMjcyNzEzNjE2NjQwJnA9ODQ2ODEmZD*mbj1ibG9nZ2VyJmc9MSZvPWMyMTI*NzFmNTE4OTRi/NmM4OGE3NTIyOWMzODNhZGMyJm9mPTA=.gif" width="0" border="0" height="0" /><div style="margin-bottom: -7px;"> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.podomatic.com/swf/jwplayer44pro.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="plugins=viral-1&viral.link=http://flybrother.podOmatic.com&height=340&file=http://flybrother.podOmatic.com/mrss_stream.xml&playlist=bottom&playlistsize=80&streamer=rtmp://streams.podomatic.com/vod" width="320" height="340"></embed> </div> <div><a target="flybrother" href="http://flybrother.podomatic.com/"> <img src="http://www.podomatic.com/images/share/player_logo.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><a border="0" href="http://www.gigyamailbutton.com/wildfire/gigyamailbutton.ashx?url=aHR*cDovL3dpbGRmaXJlLmdpZ3lhLmNvbS93aWxkZmlyZS93ZnBvcC5hc3B4P21vZHVsZT1lbWFpbCZ1cmw9aHR*cCUzYSUyZiUyZnd3dy5wb2RvbWF*aWMuY29tJTJmcG9kY2FzdCUyZmVtYmVkJTJmZmx5YnJvdGhlcg==" target="_blank"><img src="http://cdn.gigya.com/wildfire/i/includeShareButton.gif" width="60" border="0" height="20" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-50065797528773978592010-04-28T06:24:00.015-03:002010-04-28T12:31:11.595-03:00From the AV Room: Portraits of a Megacity, Then and Now<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9gQn9ElsDI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/fn-upzh7PvM/s1600/cidade+pela+noite.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9gQn9ElsDI/AAAAAAAAAtQ/fn-upzh7PvM/s400/cidade+pela+noite.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465136426408849458" border="0" /></a>Today, I return to São Paulo, my favorite megacity, for a weekend of sophistication and debauchery. Brazil's largest city presents me with ample opportunities to sate every aspect of my being. I love her for that. The four videos below juxtapose images of the world's largest underrated city from its adolescent growth spurt to its mammoth adulthood and accompanying developmental issues:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">São Paulo, 1943:</span> This propaganda-soaked documentary, produced by the US government in 1943 (when Sampa's population was a mere 1.3 million), highlights the seeds of industrial development that have served as a blessing and a curse for São Paulo. Despite the film being skewed towards an upper-class, light-skinned Brazil, it's still fun to see images of the bustling old downtown districts (my favorite parts of the city) in their heyday.<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/InWifglIkQ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/InWifglIkQ0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">São Paulo 1954:</span> This short film, with unfortunate sound editing (the rockem-sockem instrumental score should have been used to punctuate the footage of traffic and movement, not static skyscrapers), conveys the sense of emerging power and importance of the nascent metropolis.<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zuqCyjDPfbQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zuqCyjDPfbQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">São Paulo 2008:</span> Featuring the modern metropole of 20 million that I know and love, this short film captures the vibrant realities of SP, good, bad, and ugly. Chaotic, inspirational, tough, profound, crowded, progressive, imposing, impressive, endless.<br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2894899&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2894899&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">São Paulo 2009:</span> Part of a National Geographic multi-part series on megacities, this 45-minute documentary features the green revolution taking place in São Paulo and the aspirations to sustainability as good business for Brazil's financial capital.<br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=255790348939145827&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-31616031353773372302010-04-25T10:10:00.028-03:002010-04-25T14:58:38.639-03:00Fly Favorites: April 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9R-qHSCurI/AAAAAAAAAtA/uqZRroU6Zuk/s1600/ww2posters.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 312px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9R-qHSCurI/AAAAAAAAAtA/uqZRroU6Zuk/s400/ww2posters.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464131509881584306" border="0" /></a>Faux-WWII posters for the fly-ass crib at <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/urbanbazaar">Urban Bazaar Posters</a>.<br /><br />The <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span> on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/arts/25abroad.html">why French is indeed <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> an endangered language</a>.<br /><br />Jetrosexual expat Kiratiana <a href="http://kiratianatravels.com/2010/04/20/donate-5-and-send-denise-jacobs-to-london/">helps deserving web designer Denise Jacobs get to Londontowne</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">National Geographic Traveler</span> offers a <a href="http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com/2010/05/real-travel-text">heart-tugging treatise on the goodbyes of travel</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">NoDebtWorldTravel</span> insists you <a href="http://nodebtworldtravel.com/2010/04/shut-out-doubters-shut-down-your-own.html">shake off the Haterade and hit the road</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9SCNerx1EI/AAAAAAAAAtI/xmQywa3yVn8/s1600/NL-poster1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 181px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9SCNerx1EI/AAAAAAAAAtI/xmQywa3yVn8/s400/NL-poster1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464135415993848898" border="0" /></a>To the East: peep the Asia issue of <a href="http://blackexpat.com/new/magazine/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Black Expat Magazine</span></a>.<br /><br />Fellow Florida A&M University alums Andrea and Teri go crazysexycool abroad at <a href="http://www.travelista.tv/">Travelista.tv</a>.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Jaunted</span>'s "<a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/4/21/81943/3295/travel/Five+In-Flight+Things+That+Will+Remain+Free+From+Hidden+Airline+Fees">Five In-Flight Things That Will Remain Free From Hidden Airline Fees</a>" (for now).<br /><br />Kick it in Paris or Costa Rica with the <a href="http://www.blackatlas.com/">Black Atlas traveler sweepstakes</a>.<br /><br />Kelly of <span style="font-style: italic;">Travellious</span> on "<a href="http://www.travellious.com/why_you_should_always_have_a_trip_planned">Why You Should Always Have a Trip Planned</a>." Amen.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em></em></strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-76555568554640205772010-04-22T06:33:00.024-03:002010-04-22T13:34:10.544-03:00Brasília's Birthday Bash<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9AskK4isSI/AAAAAAAAAsY/lcwSQm-0xng/s1600/brasilia-50-anos.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 311px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9AskK4isSI/AAAAAAAAAsY/lcwSQm-0xng/s400/brasilia-50-anos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462915347908833570" border="0" /></a>With fighter jets, inflatable pools, Nigerian-Brazilian hip-hop artists, beach volleyball, politicized circus clowns, <a href="http://www.danielamercury.art.br/?lang=en">Daniela Mercury</a>, and a Disney parade, the Brazilian capital celebrated its fiftieth birthday with a barrage of parades and concerts rivaling Carnival. Candangos (immigrants from the four corners of Brazil who came to build Brasília) and Brasilienses (successive generations born in the city) converged on the central axis of the Plano Piloto, bookended by the Eiffel-esque TV Tower and the bifurcated Brazilian Congress, to dance samba and forró, eat corn-on-the-cob and street meat, and, of course, drink gallons of <a href="http://skol.com.br/">Skol</a> and <a href="http://www.antarctica.com.br/">Antárctica</a>. A special free concert by electronica guru <a href="http://www.moby.com/">Moby</a> served as a pre-show last weekend, but the official celebrations kicked off Tuesday night, with concerts by established and emerging pop, rock, hip-hop, and gospel acts (Tuesday, incidentally, was the not-widely-heralded Day of the Indian). <br /><br />Wednesday, a nationally-recognized holiday honoring independence hero “Tiradentes” and the official date fifty years ago when Brasília opened for business, saw a bona fide Disney parade thunder down the Esplanade, the reverence for good ol' Walter Elias Disney echoing that for the similarly visionary President Juscelino Kubitschek (affectionately known as “JK,” Jota-Ka), whose controversial dream of a modern and futuristic capital came true out of, literally, thin air. Crowds in Brazil's trademarked rainbow of browns—from coal to cream—poured in and out of the mile-long party space, laughing, yelling, flirting, fighting, and mixing under a constantly morphing sky. Uniformed police ambled through the masses, eyeing bare midriffs while keeping order; vendors hawked beer and mangoes and prayer tickets, while Rihanna's “Take A Bow” blared from the speakers at the central bus terminal anchoring the action. As dusk descended and the puppet shows and folkloric indigenous and Afro-Brazilian dance presentations turned into rock and samba and jazz and MPB concerts on various stages, families with curly-haired youngins headed home as teenie-boppers and hipsters in skin-tight everything flooded the area in anticipation of the headliners Daniela Mercury and <a href="http://www2.uol.com.br/miltonnascimento/home.htm">Milton Nascimento</a>, and a tsumani of lower-profile but popular bands who rocked BSB until 4AM. If nothing else, Brasília's birthday bash is a testament to making something out of nothing, and to a youthful, energetic city poised for another fifty years of planned disorder and chaotic progress.<br /><br />Parabéns, Brasília!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9Aux_vD8OI/AAAAAAAAAs4/i7GpMUkVUsM/s1600/IMG_7127.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9Aux_vD8OI/AAAAAAAAAs4/i7GpMUkVUsM/s400/IMG_7127.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462917784457703650" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9AuxEmKCqI/AAAAAAAAAsw/9JrsKGnjNKY/s1600/IMG_7112.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9AuxEmKCqI/AAAAAAAAAsw/9JrsKGnjNKY/s400/IMG_7112.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462917768582662818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9AuwVpEqeI/AAAAAAAAAso/wpiEFW39WAo/s1600/IMG_7111.JPG"><img style="display: block; 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margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S9Aom-4OyVI/AAAAAAAAArA/DEJaYSLqeas/s400/IMG_7148.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462910998179400018" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-1611041072958489422010-04-19T07:33:00.025-03:002010-04-19T11:17:50.530-03:00Tracking Your Trips (a.k.a. Catnip for Airline Geeks)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xl4zI-mNI/AAAAAAAAAq4/GxA5lb3_mmk/s1600/bg.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 130px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xl4zI-mNI/AAAAAAAAAq4/GxA5lb3_mmk/s400/bg.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461852474568513746" border="0" /></a>For airline geeks like me, or for folks interested in keeping track of their air mileage or flying habits, German-based website, <a href="http://www.flightmemory.com/">FlightMemory.com</a>, records and organizes your travel data, offering whimsical statistics and personal route maps.<br /><br />After entering destination, schedule, and seating information for about 90% of the flights I've ever taken, FlightMemory calculates how many times I could have circumnavigated the Earth (8.9), my longest and shortest flights (that Seoul-LA hop was a killa), and how often I've sat in the front, middle, or back of the plane (of 224 flights, I've flown first 3 times, business 9 times, and cattle class 211 times).<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xj-QyxhDI/AAAAAAAAAqo/X-vFdWa_a90/s1600/flightmemoryscreen.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 178px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xj-QyxhDI/AAAAAAAAAqo/X-vFdWa_a90/s400/flightmemoryscreen.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461850369404535858" border="0" /></a>I also get these lovely maps, plotting my flight paths within and outside of the US (you can tell I'm an East Coast boy with Latin American tendencies), and when I decide I like the looks of things, I can order a more colorful, detailed wall map so I can brag about my travels even more than I do now.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xjjBXsbfI/AAAAAAAAAqg/2LzsjZWjmf0/s1600/usmap.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xjjBXsbfI/AAAAAAAAAqg/2LzsjZWjmf0/s400/usmap.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461849901407956466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xjNDktXrI/AAAAAAAAAqY/FZJY9EOzjJw/s1600/worldmap.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 162px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xjNDktXrI/AAAAAAAAAqY/FZJY9EOzjJw/s400/worldmap.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461849524042292914" border="0" /></a>Other trivial tidbits include my top ten airports, airlines, aircraft, and routes (<a href="http://www.elnuevodorado.com/">BOG</a>, <a href="http://www.delta.com/">Delta</a>, <a href="http://www.boeing.com/commercial/737family/">Boeing 737</a>, and Bogotá-Barranquilla, respectively) based on actual flights flown, not so much personal preference.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xi9cz9ZkI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/-NxKl_yqP3E/s1600/flightmemoryscreen2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8xi9cz9ZkI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/-NxKl_yqP3E/s400/flightmemoryscreen2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461849255939237442" border="0" /></a>Innit cool? Track your trips at <a href="http://www.flightmemory.com/">FlightMemory.com</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-63521695845042702942010-04-16T06:12:00.004-03:002010-04-16T06:16:25.097-03:00Fly Brother Podcast - Season 1, Episode 7: Especial Colombia!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8gqLWv6h4I/AAAAAAAAAqI/FXwQjhK24Pk/s1600/3814770077_cfe45b83a0_b.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8gqLWv6h4I/AAAAAAAAAqI/FXwQjhK24Pk/s400/3814770077_cfe45b83a0_b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460660922760202114" border="0" /></a>In this episode of the <b>Fly Brother Podcast:<br /><br />Colombia, with two O's and no U</b><br /><br />Playlist:<br />1. “Calle 19” - La Mojarra Eléctrica - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.myspace.com/lamojarraelectrica%E2%80%9D">www.myspace.com/lamojarraelectrica</a> (Spanish only)<br />2. “El Mapalé” - artist unknown<br />3. “Somos Pacífico” - Choc Quib Town - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.chocquibtown.com/english.html%E2%80%9D">www.chocquibtown.com/english.html</a><br /><br />Links mentioned in the podcast:<br />Fly Brother - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://fly-brother.blogspot.com%E2%80%9D">fly-brother.blogspot.com</a><br />NEGES Foundation - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.negesfoundation.org%E2%80%9D">www.negesfoundation.org</a><br /><br />Official Colombia Travel Website - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.colombia.travel/en/%E2%80%9D">www.colombia.travel/en/</a><br />Cartagena Tourism - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.turismocartagenadeindias.com/ingles/es/general.htm%22">www.turismocartagenadeindias.com/ingles/es/general.htm</a><br />Bogotá Tourism - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://english.bogotaturismo.gov.co/%22">english.bogotaturismo.gov.co</a><br />Cali es Turismo (Spanish only) - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.caliturismo.com%E2%80%9D">www.caliturismo.com</a><br />Medellín Tourist Guide - <a href="http://www.guiaturisticademedellin.com/index.php?lang=en">www.guiaturisticademedellin.com/index.php?lang=en</a><br />San Andres and Providencia - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.sanandres.gov.co/turismo/home.php%22">www.sanandres.gov.co/turismo/home.php</a><br /><br />AIRES (Spanish only) - <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.aires.aero/%E2%80%9D">www.aires.aero</a><br />Avianca - <a href="http://www.avianca.com/">www.avianca.com</a><br />Continental Airlines - <a href="http://www.continental.com/">www.continental.com</a><br />Delta Air Lines - <a href="http://www.delta.com/">www.delta.com</a><br />JetBlue Airways - <a href="http://www.jetblue.com/">www.jetblue.com</a><br />Spirit Airlines - <a href="http://www.spiritair.com/">www.spiritair.com</a><br />Copa Airlines - <a href="http://www.copaair.com/">www.copaair.com</a><br />LAN Airlines - <a href="http://www.lan.com/">www.lan.com</a><br />TACA Airlines - <a href="http://www.taca.com/">www.taca.com</a><br /><br />Shoot me your comments, questions, suggestions, requests, or just a shout-out: flybrother [et] rocketmail [daht] kom.<br /><img style="visibility: hidden; 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If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225088520200629410.post-59123029690971602652010-04-13T22:07:00.009-03:002010-04-13T22:30:25.364-03:00Resurrecting the Jetrosexual<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8UZe8s4twI/AAAAAAAAAqA/oqSTT7PtBsc/s1600/jetro.0.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 390px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_791NXdSzssk/S8UZe8s4twI/AAAAAAAAAqA/oqSTT7PtBsc/s400/jetro.0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459798142737757954" border="0" /></a>Five years ago, <a href="http://www.virginatlantic.com/">Virgin Atlantic Airways</a> came up with an inspired and inspiring marketing campaign as a way to put the glamour and excitement back into air travel<span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search">—</span></span>to spawn a new Jet Age, populated by a group of "high fliers" whose mission is "to achieve greatness" and "raise the bar in their industry or simply succeed where no one else could." These go-getters who get around were dubbed <span style="font-style: italic;">jetrosexuals</span>. Can't get any flier than that.<br /><br />Along with the designation came a list of eleven commandments to which Fly Brother tries his darnedest to adhere, and in order to advance to the level of a true jetrosexual, grasshoppers, you must not only commit these to memory (in theory, at least), but you must live by the mantras espoused here in your everyday actions as well:<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>11. Thou shall have thine passport ready to go at a moment’s notice.</strong><br /><br /><strong></strong>Fly Brother says: Naturally.<br /><br /><strong>10. Thou shalt have a favorite airport and be prepared to explain why it is thine fave.</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/1600/cheklapkok.0.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 121px; height: 116px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/320/cheklapkok.0.jpg" width="189" border="0" height="159" /></a>Fly Brother says: <strong style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/index.html">Hong Kong International</a></strong>. A triumph of glass, steel, and light, HKG at <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Chek Lap Kok</strong> is a monumental yet supremely user-friendly temple to transcontinental air travel. You <em>could</em> get lost, but there’s plenty of English around to make sure you don’t wander onto the runway. If only they could keep the new terminal but bring back that classic <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Kai Tak</strong> landing. <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/1600/kaitak2.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 144px; height: 187px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/320/kaitak2.jpg" width="185" border="0" height="192" /></a><br /><br /><strong>9. Thou shalt not be a Chatty Cathy with thine seatmate.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: Never. In fact, the eyes are lowered into a vintage Toni Morrison before the seatbelt light goes on.<br /><br /><strong>8. Thou shalt never hold up the security line.</strong><br /><strong><br /></strong>Fly Brother says: Even though it is ridiculous that only <strong style="font-weight: normal;">United States</strong> security personnel require shoes to be removed, it’s even more ridiculous to continually set off the alarm with the Herringbone you got last weekend at <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Flea Market USA</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>7. Thou shalt be able to order a beer in at least six different languages.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: Let’s up the ante a little on this one, shall we? <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/1600/martini.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 89px; height: 102px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/320/martini.jpg" width="99" border="0" height="112" /></a><br />Vodka martini. Shaken, not stirred.<br />Martini de vodka. Sacudarido, no revuelto.<br />Vodka martini. Secoué, non remué.<br />Vodka martini. Ristet, ikke rørt.<br />Martini, που τινάζεται βότκα μην ανακατωμένος.<br />揺れるウォッカマルティーニかき混ぜられない。<br /><br /><strong>6. Thou shalt respect the five minute rule when using thine lavatory.</strong><br /><strong><br /></strong><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/1600/thai.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/320/thai.jpg" width="210" border="0" height="135" /></a>Fly Brother says: This is a tough one on those 17-hour <a href="http://www.thaiair.com/index_station_usa.shtml">New York to Bangkok</a> flights. Just try to go before you leave home. And don't eat too much.<br /><br /><strong>5. Thou shalt be able to pack a week’s worth of clothes into a single carry-on bag.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: A good laundry service at your destination and appropriate clothing selection can stretch that week to a month if necessary.<br /><br /><strong>4. Thou shalt not own one of those inflatable neck pillows.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: While they may be comfortable, they look horrid. Style and comfort must be balanced.<br /><br /><strong>3. Thou shalt have at least one passport stamp from a country that now goes by a different name.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: This may be difficult for some of the less-seasoned jetrosexuals. A stamp from a country on the <strong style="font-weight: normal;">US State Department</strong>'s <a href="http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html">travel advisory list</a> will do. <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/1600/State-Department-seal.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 101px; height: 92px;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/320/State-Department-seal.jpg" width="116" border="0" height="111" /></a><br /><br /><strong>2. Thou shalt travel Economy class, on rare occasions, just to keep thine self humble.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: This is relatively easy when thou payeth for thine own ticket.<br /><br /><strong>1. Thou shalt leave terra firma behind in order to move business and culture forward.</strong><br /><br />Fly Brother says: Done.<br /><br />Now, copy and paste this handy pocket-sized list of jetrosexual commandments to print for quick reference in the event of kidnapping or memory loss.<br /><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1032/2277/320/jetrocommands.1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong><em>Fly Brother</em></strong><em> welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, please comment and/or click</em></span><em></em></span><em></em><span style="font-style: italic;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://fly-brother.blogspot.com%26title%3DThe%2BArticle%2BTitle"><img alt="" src="http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/120x20_su_gray.gif" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</span></span>Fly Brotherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02675211627726489759noreply@blogger.com9