Sixth post. It should be the eighth. Abrieframbleaboutcartoonsandcomics.

To be honest, I’m not very in the mood of writing about this so I’ll be quick. As comics as cartoons were present at my childhood, because there was a time they were GREAT.

Starting with the cartoons, which have had a most notorious regression through the years, I grew up with the extinct (R.I.P.) Fox Kids and the old Cartoon Network, with the Insomnia’s nights and fantastic shows as Pinky and the Brain, Courage the coward dog among others. Not the nowadays shows that are rubbish (except for a few passable shows).  At the national channels, I watched the Simpsons and 31 minutes, which I don’t really know if it is considered a cartoon.

About the comics, I also loved to read them, and comics as Lucky Luke or Asterix and Obelix were on my bookshelf. I never have read the superhero comic’s, I guess because I didn’t get the chance. I don't remember Lucky Luke's author but the main character was a cowboy that used to wander the Western towns solving problems.  Hervé was the author of Asterix and Obelix, two village french who fought Julio Cesar's army with a secret potion that makes them invincibles. We never know why we like things, we just like it.

Nowadays, the kids play League of Legends from nine or ten years old and have lost the interest for “kid’s channels” and television in general and talking about comics didn’t make sense. I think the computer era is beating hard. And the thing goes beyond the television or books. 

7th Post: about pollution, environment and stuff like that

I think some schools have the environment care like one of the issues in early grades, but I can’t remember if my school had it, I have a dreadful memory.

I haven’t incorporated recycling into my habits directly, I mean, I don’t take my garbage into special bags or segment it for types, but I am very careful about where I let it, for example, I always keep my wastes with me until I found a dump.

I love walking. When I lived in Concón, which it’s quite littler than Santiago, I used to walk everywhere, but Santiago it’s gigantic and all of my friends live far from me. If I had my bike here with me I’ll use it always, even for coming here, but it is in Concón, so I have to take the bus (not the subway, I hate the subway). But definitely I don’t use car, but not for choice, it’s because I haven’t one.

I have never joined or officially supported any Eco-organization because I don’t use to get engaged to anything, but I support them in a symbolic way haha.

I would like to be vegetarian (for many reasons that I don’t want to explain here because I’m not in the mood), but I just can’t stop eating meat. I love it and there is no point of return.

To be honest, I do nothing to reduce my carbon footprint; in fact, I use deodorant in aerosol and much improper stuff like that, but I think that my entire life incidence in the environment can’t compare itself with the one minute incidence of big factories, so the focus should be at them.

Finally, I think that more than Santiago as a city we need policies and culture for Chile as a country, and even beyond in South America and the entire world. Especially the ones who pollute the most.

Article

The article I have chosen isn’t precisely a piece of news, but a music review. That’s because I’d like to work as a journalist related to music.

The article is about Damon Albarn’s first studio album, Everyday Robots, released April 25^th.  Albarn is better known for being Blur and Gorillaz’s front man, and after more than twenty years of career, he has finally released his first solo album.

The review it’s favorable to the album, giving it four of five stars, and the writer stands out the honesty of the singer, who shows himself finally as he really is, and stop hiding himself behind false characters that he created in his Blur and Gorillaz’s songs.

The journalist talks about the record in a holistic way such as in particular. He first talks about the context of the disc, what it means to the artist and then makes a quick summary of the most important songs, for finish giving a global sense to the record. He stares at Hostiles, which he considers the best song of the album, with Lonely Press Play, The Selfish Giant and You and Me.

An album "Beautiful but subtle, cloudy and elusive" that despite the delicacy shows that Damon Albarn is a great artist as much with a band behind his back as by his own.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/24/damon-albarn-everyday-robots-review