The Che, Vive!

Magnum photos has a gallery of images of some cat named Ernesto Guevara, who would have been 80 this week.... What I was most struck by is that of the 17 photos, only five are of the man—and 12 are of portraits of the man, born aloft by anti Vietnam war protestors, Cuban school children, and the bellies of supermodels.
I don't really know much about the history of The Che: It seems to me that he lived violently and died violently. Motorcycle Diaries is a wonderful movie about his life before the time that the shooting started. Man, when it comes to charisma though, you either gots it or you don't, and the man was Elvis Presley with an AK-47. Of the series, I really love this particular photo: you can just smell the tobacco and the coffee in that room, can't you, and feel the air sticking to you. And of course, our subject is shaking hands with him, but he's saying hello to you. Jaysoos Christ, it's 2008. Hey Che, the people have this invention called the internet now. And we're using it to destabilize the crypto-fascist capitalist industrial complex from within, by harnessing the cuteness of cats.
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