The Pledge Drive

I have made a conscious decision to try to avoid politics in this blog. Mostly because it is what us Venezuelans usually talk about so I wanted to have a space that was free of that. But Sunday's plebiscite or popular consult or whatever you want to call it is too important to ignore. I ask you if you are reading this and you are Venezuelan please access the following links to find out where you can participate:

If you are in Venezuela: https://crdvenezuela.com/index.php/puntos/
If you live outside of Venezuela: http://www.unidadvenezuela.org/2017/07/conozca-los-puntos-la-consulta-soberana-del-16j-habilitados-exterior/

If you are not Venezuelan maybe you can help by spreading the word or if you have some free time go and encourage the people in these places. It means a lot to us to feel that we are not fighting alone against this curse that has been upon us for the past 18 years. The short summary of what is happening Sunday is that the current president is trying to change our constitution to support some sort of soviet style commune state. The only legal way to change the constitution is via elections, but that has been denied by the servile courts. Polls say that about 80% of the population reject this, so the civil society has decided to organize these elections themselves to pressure the government to listen. Massive support and participation is needed so every bit counts.

After that public service announcement I get back to this blog's real topic. The day was pretty quiet, much better than yesterday. The highlight came this morning from Lucas. I had to go change my shirt after a Matias spit-up and I asked Lucas to watch him while I quickly ran to my bedroom. His response was: "I am always going to take care of him. I promise!" Lucas is going to be a great big brother.

What did I watch?
Stazione Termini: Every movie directed by Vittorio De Sica that I had seen until now I had loved, unfortunately this was the exception. A very boring tragic love story with two unlikable characters. The only redeeming quality of the film, I think, was the setting. It all happens at the Termini Station in Rome which is home to some interesting sights and sounds, I wish they had exploited it a little more.

High Society: The final result of the Friday poll was a tie between this movie and the Emigrants. I didn't really feel like watching a 3 hour Swedish movie so I went with this one. Nothing really special, as the most notorious commenter of this blog, Russ, mentioned a better version of this story can be seen in The Philadelphia Story.