should we share our infinite cookies?

you may say to yourself that just because i´ve come to granada that i´m not able to hear the bee gees on a regular basis. you are very wrong! on election night, waiting for my slice to go at telepizza, i stopped cursing the service long enough to catch "i started a joke." just today, cutting through the cluttered passages of the market, the part where nobody seems to sell poker chips, i caught the last few notes of "words" before someone switched the station. one terrible morning weeks back, realizing that the water i had just boiled and poured into my oatmeal had a mouse turd in it, and that the eggs i had hardboiled the night before were missing, and that in my effort to have one less pot to clean i poured my coffee directly down the drain, and that the kitchen was now occupied by my host mother and sister in their flurry of morningtime cooking and chatting, and that the bagel i ordered at the euro cafe as a replacement breakfast would take a whole eternity to toast - it´s just at this moment that "staying alive" came through the speakers. i can´t forget to mention the times i´ve been racing down calle atravesada, trying to get by the money-changers and taxis and fresco sellers and folks with baskets on their heads when i´ve stopped in my tracks to listen to "night fever" playing on a tv in the street (yes, a tv in the street) or even, my personal favorite, "how deep is your love."

"how deep is your love" is from the era of disco bee gees, saturday night fever time (late 70s), but it was written in protest of california´s recent proposition 8, the consitutional ban of gay marriage. in an effort to allegedly preserve the sanctity of the most unsanctimonious, whored-about insitution in our society, Marriage, the California Straights just passed a law made sure that they don´t have to share their cookies with the California Gays. the thing is that these silly bastards don´t realize that there´s enough cookies to go around - an infinity of cookies! in a perfect california the Straights would nibble on their cookie and divorce it two bites in, while the Gays would stroll off to their yard and eat their own cookie without dropping a crumb. the problem is that the Straights just care too much. hence the lyric: "cause we´re living in a world of fools, breaking us down, when they all should let us be, we belong to you and me..."

i don´t personally think that the fact that a song has a political message makes it better. usually it´s the opposite. and it could even be argued that the bee gees lacked the prescience to protest a gay marriage ban 30 years in advance. but the fact is that if you think that you probably haven´t watched the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRFeJEG6_o

since you all love this topic so much, remind me to tell you sometime about the culture of incredibly flaming gay men in granada. it´s the last thing that me or any of my friends expected to see in such a stereotypically macho country. or, if this topic is making you all uncomfortable, i´ll tell you about the little old lady i know who used to be a sandinista spy. and no, she isn´t gay.