so this was my thursday

the battle of the museums was pure freshness. i was accidentally repping for queens, but i am a straight uptown/museo del barrio girl. i totally lifted this from someone's twitter post, but i think it captures duke riley's genius rather efficiently!

good times in new york.
damn it, i need to find my camera.

kisses,
m.

ny magazine review link attached. they are so much more eloquent than i...
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/08/saltz_duke_rileys_insane_trium.html

i guess i'm speaking in poems these days

this haiku came to me today, i'd like to share.

smiles and insults are
like an old happy couple.
they like to stay close.

i'm doing a concierge thing this week. it's great because it involves all the troubleshooting i love as well as shopping with other people's money. and i'm staying busy, which is nice.

until!
m.

bikram is my homeboy

i feel so lazy about my blog. it's partially that i am in ny, but it's also that i need a digital camera, i cannot seem to find mine, and there is no shame in having two. i mean, i could be narrating my new york life. i could talk about the amazing erykah badu concert last night, or the great time i had in newburg with my friends who are having a lovely life there. i could talk about my daily bikram practice which is making me feel stronger, and could hint around my current life challenges. i could talk about how i feel really good about my reiki practice this minute, and let my friends know that i'm trying to strengthen that practice and am open to trades. hint.

but that could be exhausting. so i just feel like submitting a simple bikram poem that danced around my head as i walk from class this afternoon. i was going to name it bikram is my lover, but i like homeboy better.


bikram is my homeboy

i'm not generally a woman about ice water
or sweating in the heat,
but in my practice everyday those feelings must be beat

my tummy feels much fitter
not that it was bad,
but in balancing stick pose these days it's looking rather rad

give me a water bottle
nay give me two,
anything that'll allow me to live through this will do

my practice is my joy
it helps my equanimity,
when feeling overwhelmed for me it is a perfect remedy.


it still feels unfinished, but it's late. maybe i'll edit in the sunlight.

kisses amores!
m.

disco road kill in zara home

we bought gold flatware for the home (finally flatware!!!)
and that's me sitting on a silver bean bag.
disco. road. kill.

kisses,
m.

street fruit, random horses

walked out of my apt in the rain yesterday, got in the car (our friend nereo is letting us borrow his while he's on vacation), made a left turn and bam! 2 horses tied to the trees next door. it's so urban/suburban here i forget that this kinda stuff just happens. i took photos and then we went to the supermarket to get more apple juice for our cleanse. by the time we got back they we gone, without a trace. so random. there was like 20 minutes total between seeing them and them disappearing. no saddles, not transport vehicles, no nothing. they were just there and then they were not.

in other news, i bought a traditional mexican pueblo outfit on thursday when we went to the central market with nereo. i'll post a picture later on me in it, but it's A LOT of fabric and rather colorful (although naturally i purchased the black one). if we'd made it to pueblo i'd promised i would wear it everyday, but we're not so i'm gonna find some way to incorporate it into my ny wardrobe eventually. you haven't seen moji in a floor length skirt in years!!

1995, we're coming!!

love love,
m.

chaune is here!!!

chaune is here and it's been a bit if madness. fun madness indeed though!

i'm running off to eat, but wanted to post the video of her dancing in traffic in the rain. seriously she just jumped out of the car and got it in. after this particular moment we accumulated 2 whole cars of mexican men following us. fans of chaune's, it seems...

anyway, enjoy!
m.

street fruit, meditation

so i've been thinking a lot in the last 24 hours or so about what street fruit is. i mean, literally, in moerines (that's a contraction or moji+erin+ese) it refers to the chopped mexican street fruit bathed in lime and chili that i blogged about a few days ago. but really it seems to be more that that. here are picture of trees bearing fruit that falls on the sidewalk as we're minding out businees. we've seen all kinds street fruit trees with mangos, avocados, pomegranites and all types of citrus (i'm not even sure what those huge green things are, i'd think grapefruit, but i'm pretty sure they are not.)

but there are all other kinds of street fruit too. i'll post later about the photo shoot that was literally happening during red lights cause that is a kind of street fruit. or the 8 peseo tamales by the supermarket that are a delicious street fruit (try the verdura, it's amazing.)

for me street fruit seems to be something, anything unexpectedly delicious that you find on the street. i'll be looking for more and more ways to illustrate my concept, let's see if it makes sense.

i guess by that definition I am street fruit too! yum!

besos!
m.

mexican street fruit, illustrated

this what we live for in mexico. you can make your own combinations but we consistently order pepino (cucumber), jicama, mango, papaya and tuna (which is prickly pear, a cactus fruit) because altogether it's a great balance of sweet and cooling. your selections are then freshly chopped, covered in a chili sauce and finished with fresh lime juice and, if you're into that sort of thing, they add this agressive rock salt. we try to steer clear of the extra salt as the chili sauce is salty enough as is and you could chip a tooth on those salt rocks.

i know it sounds crazy, but mexican street fruit is pure bliss to eat. between 11am and 3pm you can usually find the street fruit vendors pushing their carts or posted at thier standard spots around our neighborhood. it costs around 20 pesos ($1.47 as of today!) for a large container and trust me, that's money well spent. trying getting that much tasty fruit at whole foods for under $1.50!

here are photos of a local vendor doing his thing. this guy likes to to start an order by letting you sample how delicious the mango is that day. the mango was pretty yummy today, but not as yummy as 2 weeks ago when we ran into him!

notice the piles of mangos next to the vendor and the green bucket of his own chili mixture. once you get to the end of your serving there is this spicy lime juice sludge that the pepino and jicima taste lovely in, although it can be a jarring contrast with the sweeter fruits. 6 likes to lick the lime/chili off the fruit we give her before she eats it, cause she's mexican like that!

salivate and enjoy!
m.