Nuevo Cabezote y Homenaje / New Banner as a homage

Buscando alguna forma de agradecer a todos nuestros estimados lectores/visitantes por habernos acompañado por todo este tiempo, y con deseos de celebrar lo bien que nos están haciendo rankear, the sipmac ensemble quizo diseñar un cabezote que identifcara este blog.


Nuestra forma de abordar temas fue ecléctica desde el principio, lo que con el tiempo sembró la posibilidad de que the ensemble se expandiera como cáncer a otros blogs; pero al principio sólo fue sipmacrants!: su blog mágico-cómico-musical.


Igual que La Carabina de Ambrosio, una versión de SNL muy mexicana, muy latina y muy de fines de los 70's, que se quedó para siempre en los corazones de quienes tuvieron la suerte de verla. Por esto, el personaje del banner no podía ser otra que Gina Montes, ícono del show y símbolo sexual, dueña de un prototipo de belleza que antes era más común, pero ahora inexplicablemente cayó en desuso.


De paso, la expresión Carabina de Ambrosio es un símil que se refiere a algo que no sirve para nada, o que no sirve para lo que está ideado, y que además no despierta ningún temor. Oh, oh. ¿Será que esto aplica también a sipmacrants!?

Bonus track: un remix del tema de Carabina de Ambrosio.

Looking for a way to thank all our dear readers/visitors for joining us for all this years, and being eager to celebrate how well we are ranking, the sipmac ensemble wanted to design a banner to identify our blog.

Our approach was using eclectic items right from the start, which eventually brought the ensemble the possibility to spread like a cancer to other blogs, but at first it was only sipmacrants!: A magical-musical-comical blog.

Just as the early La Carabina de Ambrosio, a very Mexican, very Latin and very late 70's, version of SNL that remained forever in the hearts of those fortunate enough to watch it. Therefore, the central character of the banner could not be other than Gina Montes, the show's icon and sex symbol, owner of a prototype of beauty that was common once upon a time but now inexplicably fell into disuse.

Incidentally, the expression Carabina de Ambrosio is a comparison that refers to something that is useless, or cannot used to what is conceived for, and it is also harmless. Uh, oh. Does this also apply to sipmacrants!?

Ingrid of the Jungle

A Dr. sipmac translation (original text taken from Tijera Press)

"This should never have happened. Everything was so crystal clear in my mind: Larry King, Oprah, then the Nobel Prize, best-selling books about my captivity in Spanish, English and French, a major motion picture in Hollywood, the Awards ceremony, negligence lawsuit against the Colombian state, the presidency, and then ... " Perhaps I exaggerate, but more than one of these things certainly thought Ingrid Betancourt during and after his captivity. The story of her mighty tantrum originated because she didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize says a lot.

Accustomed as we are to their miscalculations, it took us completely by surprise the obvious: writers Serge Scotto and Eric Stoffel, teamed up with illustrator Richard di Martino and prepared between July 2008 and December 2009 the perfect blow to the arrogance and ambition of the former hostage, a comic satire of her well known behavior in and out of captivity. A simple idea, but it never ocurred until now in this proud land of "humorists".

Currently scheduled to go on sale one week before the captivity memoir "There is no silence that does not end", the graphic satire and is already an Internet sensation. The web forums are full of prospective buyers, willing to buy a Spanish version.

Yet to be known is if the parody will be successful in France, where there was certainly a lot of backlash, and saturation with everything having to do with Ingrid Betancourt; but is almost certain that it could be completely successful in the country that loves to hate her. Meanwhile, she continues with its strong levels of unpopularity, which I doubt can be alleviated with an exclusive interview with reputed writer and intellectual Héctor Abad. Even Larry King at its best couldn't have been able to rescue her image. Another gaffetastic miscalculation.

We should recall that her first miscalculation was to enter a combat zone in spite of the warnings.

Shakira, todo está dicho (por este año)

Hay gente que te quiere bien!/There's a lot of people that care for you!

Y de paso, feliz 2010 para todos los visitantes de sipmacrants!, El Barranquillero Promedio y Tijera Press; de parte de The sipmac Ensemble.Y para los demás, también.

By the way, a happy 2010 for all the sipmacrants!/El Barranquillero Promedio/Tjiera Press visitors wishes The sipmac Ensemble. And for the rest of you, a happy new year, too.

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