i usually leave the brazil in the news blogs for other people but i’m in the mood to procrastinate so i thought i’d share this NYT article about the boom of armored car sales in brazil in response to the global economic crisis. yes, theft is bad. it sucks that rich people are fearing for their lives. i would, too, if i were them. but can we puh-leez have an article about poor people in brazil that doesn’t involve musicians or cute kids from the favelas. i don’t even want to get started on the antm episode in são paulo. i’m so mad they dressed up like carmen miranda and took pictures in people’s doorways. i wonder if antm did anything for the people of that neighborhood. i just spent all year researching images of brazil in the foreign imagination so i shouldn’t be surprised that antm epically failed to do anything intelligent. but damn.