Holes In The Tongue Dept How to Speak American by Don Jibaro Wackytee
To be understood in the USA of the 21st century, you
gotta "kill" the words as you pronounce them. Today's
lingo is not what we
boomers learned in school
but in
the early 1950s, Puerto Rico had just become an official
"Commonwealth" of the U.S.A. and we, as children,
learned English as a supplemental way to enrich our
horizons. Inasmuch as it was mandatory in public
schools, we didn't "need" to learn it, but when we did,
we learned the "classic" verbiage. ►READ MORE
hat happens when a Latina
Alice-in-Wonderland meets up with an extraterrestrial underdog-gone-bad?
DON JIBARO: 'This awesome book is not for the faint-hearted. It's an adventure that takes you to a different cosmos where astonishing things happen for no apparent reason at all. Once you start reading, tell your mother, because you might not be home when she comes to bring you supper. Yupperrooney!!
"Intelligently Funny!" –DJ Winokur is da' man. Period.
Puerto Rico : A Political and Cultural History
by Arturo Morales Carrion
Clearing
Puerto Ricans'
Murky History in California By William Cumpiano Don Jibaro's Note:
William Cumpiano is a well respected Internet authority in all things Puerto
Rican and co-founder of the Puerto Rican Cuatro Project...
www.cuatro-pr.org,
a remarkable and utterly comprehensive website.
I
visited a Puerto Rican site recently, jumping on from a link in the
correspondence of Don Jibaro Barbanegra, and after browsing--and admiring-- the
site and learning of their goals and achievements, got caught up in the series
of articles on Puerto Rican history. Puerto Rican history and culture is my
passion, and as an amateur documentarian, I was struck by a passage in the
article... Puerto Rican Population in California:
Read More Here
Various Artists CD
Audio CD
Book
The history of a country...
is generally written by the
conquerors. The "conquered" seldom writes a thing. Many
things contribute to the correct and accurate depiction of
historical data. Sponsorship by the wealthy was one of the
favorite incentives. Such history tends to carry a partial
or one-sided view of the facts.
It is, consequently, up to the passionate historian to do
his or her own research to verify the facts. This leads to
documentation which will totally eradicate any pre-conceived
notion acquired during the student's
whippersnapper elementary history education. Puerto Rico, more
than perhaps any other nation, may fall victim to this
phenomenon due to the simple fact that Puerto Rico is the
oldest colony in the world today! Over 500 years, compadre.. Yikes, sez me!
READ HISTORY
Vicki
Solá: The Wacky
Queen of the Waves Vicki Solá and her long-running radio program Que
Viva La Música,heard on 89.1 WFDU-FM and
www.wfdu.fm , provide
the New York-metro community and beyond with Salsa and
Latin Jazz, produced by a singular mix of famous
performers, plus artists rarely heard on commercial
stations.
Featured on American Latino TV, a program hosted at the
time by Daisy Fuentes, Solá has served as an advisor to
the Smithsonian Institution, and her articles have
appeared in internationally-circulated trade
periodicals, like Latin Beat Magazine, for which she
writes the column "A Bite From the Apple." Read More Here
FINALLY DEPT.
Why Jíbaros.com?
About This Website
by Don Jibaro
Someone told me once: "I've had a perfectly
wonderful time, but this wasn't it. —Groucho"
I might have gotten a bad rap in the same way that
the messenger is blamed for the message: comment on the human condition without
apology and continually refuse to applaud mediocrity, and if given the opportunity, will
howl it down vehemently with morose glee... as in "For crying out loud...!!!"
Subsequently, my versions of the truth might get softened with humor. Still, my fan base is comprised of people from within all ethnic groups who share a
love, interest or passion for all things Puerto Rican. My goal is to promote
the beauty and depth of that culture, its values and positive influence... as a
contribution to the wellness of our local communities.
One of the activities that I'd love to see is a bi-monthly or quarterly Puerto Rican Pot Luck Dinner and Fellowship in which Puerto Rican
food would be served. I'd also hope in having
domino games, mini-concerts, readings, cuatro and conga classes, and many other
CLEAN fun activities.
My simple vision is uniting existing Puerto
Rican groups into a community where trust, respect and charity can be promoted
and practiced. Helping and feeding the poor will be our altruistic objective...
We can do it! It's a tough street out there, but we can do this!
I went to a convalescent home last Christmas...
The old timers wanted to learn to dance. I obliged.
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Anger?
What
!@#$%Anger? By DonJibaro
My son and I were at the local market when and I heard a
toddler crying very loud on the next aisle. I left my son
with the cart and went to see... Well, there was a lady
comparing the price of two items AND a 3 or 4 year old boy
kicking the shopping cart and screaming "I want that toy,
I want that toy NOW !!!"
I rushed back to my son and said something like:
"Somebody is taking over." Of course... I meant the kid over
his mom. "That kid will definitely have major issues with
self -control when he grows up," --I added. You see, I
am not a psychologist by trade but in 61½ years I've had a
great deal of anger related experiences; both with family
and friends... to the point that I have created a need to
understand anger, oppression and even death....
MORE
The Incredible Dave Valentín!
DON JIBARO's NOTE: "As a professional musician for over 45 years, I don't get
impressed easily... until I hear Dave. His remarkable talent and mastery of the
instrument just blew me away! Period!"
Oh, the signing of Don Jibaro's cuatro… Dave and Don Jibaro hit it off like
two long lost friends during the signing of the cuatro and Dave Valentin's
autograph is now proudly embedded in the instrument!
DJ's Word Bloggy: Today we kill the words in the English language... which
is nothing new. We kill the words differently than our
ancestors did. Shakespeare spins within his grave.
Adulterating words is considerably at variance with the
ways they are spelled and often even more so with the
ways we think we are saying them. We may believe we say
"later" but in fact we say "lader. " We may think we say
"ladies," but it's more probably "laties" or even, in
the middle of a busy sentence, "lays." Handbag comes out
as "hambag. "
We think we say "butter," but it's really
"budder" or "buddah" or even "bu'r. " We see wash, but
say "worsh. " We think we say "granted," but really say
"grannid." No one says "looked." It's "lookt." "I'll
just get her" becomes"aldges gedder. " YIKESAROONEY!
When
you examine the USA-Rican culture... and the ISLA-Rican
culture, both cultures are based on the same roots but do
grow different DUE to the environments in which they
develop... both accrue on enlightenment and excellence of
taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training that
is given by BORICUA peers, hopefully before you leave the
home ... parents being the MAIN influence there.
IF YOUR parents don’t teach you to be Puerto Rican (in
culture, that is... not in the ethnics) you’ll grow to being
or thinking that you are anything, whatever... EVEN an
Eskimo or a Viking... WHILE deep IN REALITY you are a
BORICUA, “manchao con platano.” Gus Puleo, from Columbia
University, ambivalently believes that one element of an
“ethnos” will dominantly define that group…
“Likewise in Puerto Rico, the
white jíbaro has become a symbol of boricua
identity. However, in 1980 the Puerto Rican author
José Luis González published “El país de cuatro
pisos y otros ensayos” that documented the strong
African influence in that nation's history, culture
and development.” (Politics of Nationhood and
Identity)
I strongly believe that ALL elements of one’s particular
ancestry will define one’s culture. Yes, some elements will
be more dominant that others, as we nurture one over
another, but ALL will have a part on the development of each
character. THERE!
Holes In The Tongue Dept How to Speak American by Don Jibaro
To be understood in the USA of the 21st century, you
gotta "kill" the words as you pronounce them. Today's
lingo is not what we
boomers learned in school
but in
the early 1950s, Puerto Rico had just become an official
"Commonwealth" of the U.S.A. and we, as children,
learned English as a supplemental way to enrich our
horizons. Inasmuch as it was mandatory in public
schools, we didn't "need" to learn it, but when we did,
we learned the "classic" verbiage. We read "Dick and
Jane" and learned to pronounce the words properly in case
we ever needed to come to the States.
Well, we came to the States and nobody spoke like that.
Everyone spoke... idioms, slang, dialects, lingo,
mumbo-jumbo... etc. It was a nightmare to learn that
"hanging out" had nothing to with lynching a person, but
to congregate somewhere.
READ MORE
Ode to My Father My eldest daughter Raquel,
a student of the University Of Maryland, is a very independent person... She's
a leader, not a follower; a strong-willed gal that earns peer
respect by who she is; not by what she appears to be. She has
always maintained a certain degree of admiration for me because
she likes our intellectual exchange. What she wrote below,
however, blew my mind to Alpha Centauri, because how she
expressed things I never knew existed. I am deeply honored to
receive this form of mesmerizing accolade... it's like a Grand
Birthday Gift.
Raquel M. Vázquez — February 2011 - 8:50pm pithetical of my father: “I want to be thoroughly used up when
I die, for the harder I work, the more I live” wrote George
Bernard Shaw; I also attribute this to my “Papi”, Orlando
Vázquez, Don Jíbaro. He can wear any hat belonging to
Personality. A man of zeal, vigor and utter
affection; a “cariñoso” to the end, yet, at times
very misunderstood. He sometimes refers to himself
as a “curmudgeon” yet, in-fact, is a complete
opposite. To know him, is to love him but to be
loved by him is to become the epitome of extreme
value. READ MORE
“Live in such a way that no one blames the rest of us
nor finds fault with our work.” --(2 Corinthians 6:3)
"Intelligently
Funny!" Winokur is da' man. Period.
Friendship
Is Not Love might
not be an expert on what LOVE is, but I certainly know what love is NOT...
It's not friendship and should not be confused with it... There's a friend that's more faithful than kin, but that friendship is
rooted in LOVE, that which makes the friendship true.
"Trombón con Sazón"
The Latin Jazz Coalition & Demetrios
Kastaris
Format: MP3 Download
Download MP3s HERE
Straddling the 2008 world financial crises, this international drama unfolds against the backdrop of geopolitics, world business and current events, and then converges on a tiny hypnotic island that has been constantly in search of its destiny. BUY BOOK HERE
May I Say... ► MONEY disguises itself as a blessing that is of no
advantage to us excepting
when
we part with it, more an evidence of culture and a passport
to polite society reclining itself upon supportable property
or... things. MONEY IS NOT the "root of all evil".... the
LOVE of it, IS. ---Don Jibaro --- www.jibaros.com
JIBAROS.COM... The Papi of JIBAROS.NET, is the foremost
Boricua site on the WEB! - www.jibaros.com
JIBAROS.COM is a ONE MAN work
Cinco
Siglos
de Historia Book Review by Don Jíbaro About 10 yrs
ago I visited La Universidad de Puerto Rico. At their
bookstore I asked for the BEST book in Puerto Rican history
they had. "Cinco Siglos de Historia" inSpanish, by
Francisco Scarano from Fajardo now teaching at the Univ. of
Wiconsin-Madison)...I own it... I READ IT, loved it, now
my brother in law asks me "What's good in PR Hist? "HEY,
LUIS... DON'T LET THE PRICE FOOL YOU, there's none BETTER,
in real Academic SPANISH" Read for yourself
GO
HERE
READ THIS... ► A little bit of light
dispels a lot of darkness"; ► Some give and forgive,
others get and forget. ► Plan your work - work your plan.
► What matters is not the difference between rich and poor,
but between those who care and those who don't. ► Its
better to be hated for who you are - than liked for who you
are not. ► Anger is one letter short of Danger. ► God
comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable
Puerto Rican Book:
"The Photographs of Jack
Delano"
The Puerto Rican Diaspora
(book) Migrating and
building communities in the U.S.A. From Hawai'i in 1900 to New
England—the Puerto Rican diaspora grows in the States...more
than in Puerto Rico itself. ►◄
LET MY PEOPLE GO
TO FLORIDA DEPT.. The Puerto
Rican Exodus by Don Jíbaro ith
the Internet phenomenon, I have found that most of my pals of the R&R youth years are still doing well... in Florida. Although many Puerto
Rican rather have the island's landscape beauty, others feel the economy
there is detrimental for the kind of lifestyle they want. College grads,
policemen, teachers, artists and a slew of other professionals are
seeking Florida. WHAT happened? Is the local economy THAT
bad? Where's the money gone?
When
I was a kid in the 1950s there was no extraordinary reason to move to the
Unites States. Puerto Ricans had been doing it for fifty years but
somehow the post-war 50s was a time of some abundance, all over. Gasoline
was 25¢ a gallon and you could have lunch for a couple of bucks. A salary
of $20 a day could support a small family in PR. READ HERE
Holes In The Tongue Dept
IPad
hat happens when a Latina
Alice-in-Wonderland meets up with an extraterrestrial underdog-gone-bad?
DON JIBARO: 'This awesome book is not for the faint-hearted. It's an adventure that takes you to a different cosmos where astonishing things happen for no apparent reason at all. Once you start reading, tell your mother, because you might not be home when she comes to bring you supper. Yupperrooney!!
Book
The history of a country...
Vicki
Solá: The Wacky
What
!@#$%Anger?
DJ's Word Bloggy: 
When
you examine the USA-Rican culture... and the ISLA-Rican
culture, both cultures are based on the same roots but do
grow different DUE to the environments in which they
develop... both accrue on enlightenment and excellence of
taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training that
is given by BORICUA peers, hopefully before you leave the
home ... parents being the MAIN influence there.
learned to pronounce the words properly in case
we ever needed to come to the States.
My eldest daughter Raquel,
a student of the University Of Maryland, is a very independent person... She's
a leader, not a follower; a strong-willed gal that earns peer
respect by who she is; not by what she appears to be. She has
always maintained a certain degree of admiration for me because
she likes our intellectual exchange. What she wrote below,
however, blew my mind to Alpha Centauri, because how she
expressed things I never knew existed. I am deeply honored to
receive this form of mesmerizing accolade... it's like a Grand
Birthday Gift.
pithetical of my father: “I want to be thoroughly used up when
I die, for the harder I work, the more I live” wrote George
Bernard Shaw; I also attribute this to my “Papi”, Orlando
Vázquez, Don Jíbaro. He can wear any hat belonging to
Personality. A man of zeal, vigor and utter
affection; a “cariñoso” to the end, yet, at times
very misunderstood. He sometimes refers to himself
as a “curmudgeon” yet, in-fact, is a complete
opposite. To know him, is to love him but to be
loved by him is to become the epitome of extreme
value.
► MONEY disguises itself as a blessing that is of no
advantage to us excepting
when
we part with it, more an evidence of culture and a passport
to polite society reclining itself upon supportable property
or... things. MONEY IS NOT the "root of all evil".... the
LOVE of it, IS. ---Don Jibaro --- www.jibaros.com
