A worker cleans a beach in Tulum, Mexico, on 15 June. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
… Tourism secretary Miguel Torres Márquez tweeted a video of a pristine Cancún beach with the comment: “We’re looking after Cancún, ‘our blue-eyed girl’ and all the beautiful beaches of the Mexican Caribbean.”
(David Agren, Seaweed invasion threatens tourism in Mexico’s beaches as problem worsens,” The Guardian, 6-28-19)
A morbid sargassum bloom-and-rot cycle is befouling beaches from Cancun to Belize. The fatuous tweet of the Mexican bureaucrat adds a whiz of male-pattern badness to the Augean tide of human effluent corrupting the Caribbean.
(c) 2019 JMN
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Shooting Stardom: When Teenyboppers Write Subheadings
Bad Bunny, left, and J Balvin teamed up for “Oasis,” an eight-song collaborative album that was released as a surprise. Credit Left, Christopher Gregory for The New York Times; Right, Julien Mignot for The New York Times.
In the universe of Spanish-speaking musical artists there is a sub-group who are global pop superstars. Within that sub-group, there co-exist in diminishing numbers the little global pop superstars, the bigger global pop superstars, and the biggest global pop superstars.
Among the biggest global pop superstars are found J Balvin and Bad Bunny. What distinguishes them from the other global pop superstars is that they have achieved superstardom on a global scale in pop music — in Spanish.
And surprise! They have made an album. No disrespect intended for these two excellent artists — they’re both on my playlist. It’s the ripe rhetoric of the NYTimes that invites a friendly grin. But these are the puffy times we’re in, language-wise.
(c) 2019 JMN