MOLO, FAMILY!

Molo means Jambo in Xhosa. Yes, that X at the beginning means you are supposed to make a sound somewhere between a suck teeth and a chicken cluck.

For those of you who might not know, for the past three weeks, I have been in South Africa. Yes, the crying beloved country, the rainbow nation, the place that inspired our college shanty towns and sit ins, gave Paul Simon's career a big boost, hosted the UN racism conference, etcetera etcetera. It is also the land of Americans with big platitudes, none of which I will try to transfer unto you, my gentle readers. At least, not yet.

Unfortunately, perhaps due to combusting sexual activity, our home internet access is on the blink. So much for the pics I was going to simulpost to you all. And the update, which you will note, stopped sometime after my sex life started up again in June. So, I sit in an internet cafe called African Access, where our friend Terri from Kenya works, listening so some afro-Portuguese tunes, while the music booms from the bars in the neighborhood called Observatory which everyone says is a "Hippie" neighborhood.

So this is the intro, so I will post some links first and then a few short comments. Look for more later, kay?

I miss you guys, but this has been good for me. And not just the sex.

First of all, check out website of this film, uCarmen eKhayelitsha, Carmen in Xhosa in a Cape Town township. We just saw it today (Naomi for the second time) and it is SOO amazing. They won the big prize at Berlin. Here is the site: Hopefully it will come to New York and everyone can see this stunning production. Shot in Khayelitsha (Ki- yuh-lee-shuh)with lots of cool adaptations and backstory.

Second here is the Cape Town official website, if you want to know where I am:. Yeah it's the official story but it'll tell you some background.
Okay that's the intro for now. More later.