WanderingSalsero

Bachatero.....pretty good magazine from Australia

I found this magazine tonight.  It's called 'Bachateros' and it's strictly about Bachata.  Looks like bachata is definately comparable to salsa in popularity.  I'm not surprised.  I like it to.

Cebu sorta reminds me of early Singapore

I found this video about Cebu Island, Philippines, tonight.  Check it out and tell me if it doesn't sound like Cebu has a good plan going. 

Anthony Persaud of "Addicted2Salsa.com" gives tech tips on iPhone and Salsa Music

HTTP://www.addicted2salsa.com , owned and operated by Anthony Persaud has been around for a few years now and gets better and more diverse all the time.  It started out with simple salsa instructional videos posted on YouTube.

The salsa videos are still there but Anthony next established his own blog.  Then he got into some excellent salsa music podcasts and most lately he's doing tech tips for salsa lovers.

In this video, he mentions Pandora, AOL Radio and a few other nifty tools.  Remember I mentioned Pandoara 2 or 3 years ago.  AOL Radio too.  They're both excellent sources of music.  I can't get Pandora over here in S.Korea but I can (if I remember correctly) get AOL Radio.

World's Largest Rueda event....in Italy?

I found this video in my YouTube subscriptions today.  Is it really the world's largest rueda event?

I think it might be.  They had enough people to go all the way around a track field.  That's gotta be a lot of people.

The info that goes with the video is in Italian so I don't know all the details but apparently it was accomplished by a group in Genova, Italy called "ballacolsorriso" di Genova.

Something tasty to come home to after a night of dancing

Wait til you hear the crunch of this sandwich at the end.  And he tells and shows you how to make it too. 

A free 2 year degree in blogging

Yaro Starak continues to be one of my favorite educators online.  What he teaches is just a relevant to us in the dance business as in any other business.

What dance step is this?

Of all the big name clairinet players of the dance band era, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, and Artie Shaw, I always felt Artie Shaw was the best.  Not only did he have technique as good as the others but I especially thought his tone was the smoothest and his phrasing was the smoothest.

Tonight I was looking at some of his videos on YouTube and I found one of him and his band doing a number called "Lady Be Good".  In it, toward the end there's some people dancing.  But what step is that the dancers are doing? 

The step they're doing isn't your basic swing step is it?  Anybody know?

If you do, I'd like to know myself.

Obama's birth certificate is a fake?

Well, what's so hard to believe about that?  You already know he's a lier.  He's a politician isn't he?

Don't believe me.  Just read this info I got from the Glen Beck site.  Click here.

Also I found this interesting video.  Notice what Mr "O" says at the very last of the clip.  It pretty well sums up what him and 99.99% of other politicians are all about.  They're all bums and liers with not an ounce more integrity than the average mafioso.

I swear........when I see and hear stuff like this it simply amazes me why Americans keep on putting the same kind of white collar gangsters in office.  I'm voting Libertarian this year.  The only difference between Obama and John (Manchurian Candidate) McCain is that McCain makes no bones about being wierd.  Obama is perhaps a little slicker about it.  But what do you expect?  He probably isn't even from this country.

Yachting Lifestyle Videos...what a place to have a dance!!

Remember I mentioned SiteFlipAcademy and Justin and Chaunna Brookes several weeks ago?

They're still at it.  And doing very well.  And I'm still at it too. 

I've been slowly working on a project of a website about yachting and here's some of the videos I've selected in my research on gool 'ol Youtube.  If you're like me, you've not really had a chance to see much of what these supertoys of the rich and famous look like.

Enjoy:

Michael Savage is probably right about many 'autistic' children

I just logged onto the Yahoo front page and see in the news that lots of parents of supposedly autistic children are in a tizzy because Michael Savage, one of the top conservative radio hosts in the country, recently said that 99% of kids diagnosed with autism are nothing more than spoiled brats.

I find it easy to agree with him.  Not because I know that much about autism but because I think I understand the mentality and capitalistic motivation of the U.S. drug industry.  Autism is a big business both for them and for doctors.

I'm always surprised that members of certain groups (gays, nudists, Trekkies, stamp collectors, whatever) always to get totally bent out of shape when somebody says something that rather than being understood as it was stated and meant to be... they take it personally.

In this case, Michael was probably right.  I have no trouble believing that a lot of kids diagnosed as autistic actually are just 'brats'.  99% of them?  I don't know about that but 'so what'?  It's supposed to be a free country and Michael should be able to say anything he truly believes.

In his particular case, he happens to have several scientific and academic qualifications to have such an opinion anyway.  As I've commented several times on this blog, I sometimes think Michael is a bit too abrupt and opinionated too but I still respect and admire him for the courage to state his opinions and the hard work that's gotten him where he is in his industry.

Here's the article.  Most of these people protesting need to get a life.