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Capsule
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
This Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled Guerrillero Heroico was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as "the most famous photograph in the world".
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail)
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Read more on the blog www.existentialautotrip.com
The blog? A daily three to four-minute excursion into photos and short texts to regale the curious with an ever-changing and diverting view of a world rich in gastronomy, visual art, ideas, chuckles, stories, people, diversions, science, homespun, and enlightenment.
Observing with wit and wisdom, Dom Capossela, an experienced leader, guides his team of contributors and followers through that world, an amusing and edifying conversation to join.
Note that the blog is also the first place that posts the "Hello, my friends!" videos.
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Commentary
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Got this letter/memory from Jim Pasto:
Hi Dom,
Feedback for the “Raven Post” – I may not be the only one who will tell you this, but Fr. Francis of Columbus used to punish us for various infractions by having us write out the whole poem of The Raven, 10, 20, or 25 times, depending on the infraction. Once, I was given the 25 time punishment, so I asked him if I could memorize it instead. I spent that whole night memorizing it. In class, I recited about half of it before my memory failed me, but he let me of the hook. I can still recite the first couple of stanzas. Thanks for the nice memory.
Jim
And responded with this:
Hey, Jim,
I have my own high school memory of that same (must be a Franciscan tool) punishment.
When I was in the seminary I got many such punishments.
They were a pain.
We who were punished often, I was the class leader by a long shot, learned to write in tiny script in order to write faster.
But then my criminal mind clicked in and I discovered the trash bucket where Fr. Kenneth (the chief dispenser of this punishment) threw the sheets after we handed them in.
After that, I never wrote them out again.
I always had a multitude of sets ready to hand in.
Handwriting couldn’t be a clue since we all were using that tiny script and it didn’t look anything like our regular handwriting.
I’m not advocating such evasion of just punishments and yet, I do like those who take advantage of opportunities.
Dom
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News re: existentialautotrip
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Tomorrow Marc is coming to help with an upgrade to the video production.
Am excited.
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Monday’s Dinner posted on
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
The single best day-after-turkey dinner of my young life.
Ate it with the same veggies (mashed roasted butternut squash with a bit of honey.
Chopped roasted turnip with mascarpone cheese and
Mashed sweet potato with butter.)
Still great.
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Chuckle of the day:
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
You know you’ve drunk too much when:
You ask for another ice cube and put it in your pocket.
You suggest everyone stand and sing the national budget.
You realize you're the only one under the coffee table
You tell everyone you have to go home... and the party's at your place.
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A “Hello, my friends!” video.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Three cute jokes.
Two minutes.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (4 June 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.
A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed.
His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology.
Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
22-year-old Guevara in 1951
His Father - Museo Che Guevara
Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government.
These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba's armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism.
Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and bringing Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba, which precipitated the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Additionally, Guevara was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful continental motorcycle journey.
His experiences and studying of Marxism–Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an intrinsic result of imperialism, neocolonialism and monopoly capitalism, with the only remedy being proletarian internationalism and world revolution.
Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed.
Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs, and films.
As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by moral rather than material incentives, Guevara has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist movements.
Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Thanks to Jim Pasto for his terrific memory.
Thanks to the Jokes Warehouse for the chuckle today.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
”Che” is a romantic icon.
Although I know nothing about him, I carry his picture.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon