Hello from Mexico, friends.

Last night I saw a movie with a few friends, and one guy told us about his aunt's funeral the day before. His aunt was relatively young, and died suddenly. Here in Mexico they have a service immediately and it goes all night. They often have a mass several days or weeks later for the dead person.

When my friend and his family arrived at the funeral home for the service, they saw about 50 clowns dressed up in full makeup and outfits, juggling, funny-walking, all that clown stuff, all around the funeral home. It turns out a long-time clown had died, and his funeral was in the next salon. Well, being that the dead aunt collected clown figurines, the family decided to take advantage of the oportunity and invited the clowns across the hall for drinks, bocadillos (hors d'oeuvres), and to join the fun. My favorite part of the story is that one of the clowns made a balloon dog, and put it under the dead aunts hand on her chest. I think this might count as a MMM; I just can't see that happening in the U.S.