Bert Bailey wrote:

>Margaret Mikulska on Ricky Martin:
>
>>OK, so who is that guy? The name sounds vaguely familiar, and since
>>you wrote "a record", he's presumably a musician.  I'm not kidding, I
>>honestly don't know who he is.
>
>The latest incarnation of Desi Arnaz,

Oh, I see.  Unfortunately, I never heard of Desi Arnaz.

>without the maracas

That's a pity, it's a nice instrument.  I have a pair at home.

>or the dizzy redhead.  Puerto Rican pop/mambo sensation with a monster
>hit: "Livin' la vida Loca." The jury's out on whether he's got another
>one in him.

I'm trying to imagine the kind of music, but it's tough.  Thanks anyway.

>If you stretch to this kind of music,

I hardly ever stretch to music, and, as I said, I have difficulties with
imagining what kind this kind is.

>I'd recommend the more tongue-in-cheek but true-to-the-roots Lou Bega.

Never heard of, either.  Unforgivable gaps in my classical music education.

>A little less processed (as in cheese), and to me, far more fun.

I'll take your word for it.  I hate processed cheese, btw.

-Margaret Mikulska