Multi-Tasking Is Like Cool and Stuff
Changed my home computer resolution to 1024 x 768 (from 800 x 600), and now I have room for bunches of multi-tasking. At the moment, I am:
- Blogging (obviously)
- Listening to my Yahoo! radio station on my IM client (Pet Shop Boy's "West End Girls")
- Playing Yahoo! Poker (5 clubs!)
- Getting ready to blog about Zozobra
Well, despite my clubs I lost the poker hand to womanlytreasures. Argh. So, on to Zozobra:
Fiesta has been celebrated in Santa Fe since 1712 by proclamation of the then-governor of the province Jose Chacon Medina Salazar y Villaseor, the marquis of Penuela. It is the oldest civic celebration of its kind in North America. ZOZOBRA, which has gone up in flames every year since Will Shuster created it in 1924, became one of the symbols of the city, a potent reminder of the madcap celebrations of those times and one artist's generous dedication to his adopted home.
The Zozobra event is staged each year by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe as a fiery and exciting kick-off to the annual Fiestas de Santa Fe during the weekend following Labor Day.
Although the Fiestas celebration dates back to 1712, renowned Santa Fe artist Will Shuster added Zozobra in 1924. Kiwanis became officially involved in 1963....
Local artist William Howard Shuster, Jr. - "Will" (1893-1969) conceived and created Zozobra in 1924 as the focus of a private fiesta at his home for artists and writers in the community. His inspiration for Zozobra came from the Holy Week celebrations of the Yaqui Indians of Mexico; an effigy of Judas, filled with firecrackers, was led around the village on a donkey and later burned. Shuster and E. Dana Johnson, a newspaper editor and friend of Shuster's came up with the name Zozobra, which was defined as "anguish, anxiety, gloom" or in Spanish for "the gloomy one."
The effigy is a giant animated wooden and cloth marionette that waves its arms and growls ominously at the approach of its fate....
Zozobra is a well crafted framework of preplanned and pre-cut sticks, covered with chicken wire and yards of muslin. It is stuffed with bushels of shredded paper, which traditionally includes obsolete police reports, paid off mortgage papers, and even personal divorce papers....
And at this point a potential poker confusion is brewing, since convent_reject refers to me as "ontie" [1] [2] (with an ie) and womanlytreasures refers to me as "ontty" (with a y). I refer to myself as "The Incredible Master Gee." (Follow along, you young whippersnappers.)
And Danii Minogue is spinning me right round like a record baby, but she calls it "I Begin to Wonder."
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