Columbus Day!

I hope you all had a very happy Columbus Day (observed). I did. I even ate Italian food, but I do that. Often.

In honor of Columbus and things Iberian being brought to the new world, I wore a Bullfighting T-Shirt today. Not even a funny glance, which is about par for the course. No one reads T-shirts anymore, which is a good thing, since argument from T-shirt is only a notch above argument from bumper sticker. At least a t-shirt is a potential conversation starter.

"Oh, so you like rejoneo? Don't you think that it lacks the full emotional range of toreo a pie?"

So far it only works in bullfights, except that the typical response to a shirt promoting Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza in a California bullfight is, "he's very good, but Joao Moura is better."

Of course Hermoso de Mendoza is better, but don't say that too loudly around several thousand Azorans.

Of course this coming weekend marks the end of the bullfighting season, with the great two day bullfight at the festival of Our Lady of Fatima at Thornton in the delta. I am planning on making it for both days, so if you are going, look for me (I will post later in the week what I will be wearing).