swift-speaking mexican newscasters

...are too hard for me to understand

07.28.05

I was channel surfing earlier. And as I was going past one of the spanish-speaking channels, I was forced to stop for a moment.

The screen was filled with masses of squirming, muddy toads or frogs -- I couldn't understand what the narrator of the news story was saying, so I'm not sure. I was guessing that some sort of mass spawning, or plague, or rain of amphibians had ocurred in some portion of Mexico or Central America, but I couldn't tell where, or even if that was the case.

I was just witnessing rather dark-skinned people poking gobs and gobs of muddy, web-footed critters with poles, all while looking disgusted and irritated by the sight.

And all I could find online was information about noisy alien Caribbean coqui frogs pissing people off all over Oahu, and poisonous cane toads running rampant all over Queensland and nearby areas, like New South Wales, on up into much of the Northern Territory.

But no news about the contents of that particular news report.

Maybe it was really just a story about Aborigines and problematic cane toads, or native Hawaiians and problematic coqui frogs, as these groups are all either rather dark-skinned or amphibian in nature.

Fuck if I know, it just looked terribly interesting, and perhaps especially so because I couldn't understand any of it.