Thursday, November 6, 2008

Thanks to my superqualified audience...

...I've learned that:

someone else is taking much better pictures of Rio than I am. This competitor came in quite handy because
I lost the cable to download pictures from my camera. So, by all means, check out this blog...;

the "guy" in the supermarket altar is not Christ (as I described in a previous post), but a saint who is the patron of Rio, São Sebastião (for the Rio reference, read the portion on patronage);

peeing on the streets is not a carioca phenomenon. It goes on in many other cities, including São Paulo (see the comment on the post on peeing, in Portuguese), and other countries, including U.S.A. and European countries;

women are peeing on the streets of Lapa, in Rio (alas, I have only a hard copy of the article). So apparently Rio is still beating everyone else with their unique audacity of peeing!

Thanks for the comments and for being such a super qualified audience!

Big hugs to all of you!



1 comment:

em nadim said...

this reminded me of an incident a couple of years ago when i witnessed a screaming match in my brooklyn neighborhood between a woman and a guy peeing on the sidewalk against a building's wall (not even a tree). the woman was so disgusted and loud!