The season is upon us: Halloween/Jalogüín, and/or Días de los Muertos.
In my novel Smoking Mirror Blues I suggested combining them into a three-day celebration – Dead Daze. I still think it's a great idea, and I recommend it whenever I can. Maybe one of these daze . . .
But this was the 21st century, and recomboculture was a global phenomenon. Halloween collided with the Day of the Dead, becoming Jalogüín even here in the very heart of Mexico. Someday soon it would be a mongrelized Dead Daze, just like Beto's El Lay. (From Smoking Mirror Blues.)
There are those who think that Halloween and spookiness require a cooler climate that Aztlán. I've never seen it. Probably because I was first introduced to Carlos Fuentes via
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