Well Color Me Stupid

 I figured if I was going to write about Dia de los Muertos, I'd be safe going with what I've known low these so many years. Known and practiced as if I were Mexican. Well was I wrong or what. I was wrong. Dang if'n I don't just hate it when that happens. Today, and today would be Tuesday November 2, 2021, is Dia de los Muertos. Allow me to clarify some matters that I hadn't bothered to clarify for years. The 'days of the dead' are as follows - Halloween and that would be October 31, is All Hallows Eve. November the 1st is Dia de los Innocentes or 'day of the innocents' and November the 2nd is Dia de los Muertos. Ergo...'days of the dead'. Color me stupid and damn lazy. I figured it safe to simply follow along with the little I've known about the holiday and just call it good. Well ignorance and especially willful ignorance is damning to say the least. Had I bothered to get the facts and nothing but the facts Ma'am, well, I wouldn't have to be sitting here pounding out clarifications on my keyboard. Damn and here I thought I was right all along. Dumb ass! Lazy dumb ass at that. All this goes to show how local bias can affect one's beliefs interminably. For years, here behind the Zion Curtain, we went to La Frontera (a Mexican restaurant on Salt Lake's west side) on the assumed Dia de los Muertos for the large combination plate or chili verde enchiladas with mas cerveza por favor on what we all assumed to be 'the' day November the 1st. I'd never bothered to ask and the waitresses at La Frontera didn't mind much as they did their duty by bringing the dumb ass white guys Mexican grub and beer. We always left exceptionally large tips on what we thought was Dia de los Muertos so the La Frontera food handlers simply smiled and waved. "So long gringos and we appreciate your being estupido." Damn damn and double damn on the way out the door. Contrition and machine art are up next. 

blue jay and I'm almost certain of that -

port of foreign call -

if I'd only known about google all those years back when. 😬