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Virtual Memories Show
\nCOVID Check-In: Peter Kuper<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The line of demarcation was that Oval Office speech; the day before that was one thing, the day after it was another.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few days ago, political cartoonist Peter Kuper<\/a> returned from Oaxaca, Mexico to the Upper West Side of New York City. He joins the show to talk about why he & his wife made the decision to come back at a time that New York’s COVID-19 cases are blowing through the roof. We talk about the communal nature of life in Mexico, whether the situation here matches up with his decades of dystopian visions in World War III Illustrated<\/em><\/a>, the good omen of raising monarch butterflies in his Oaxaca garden, the bad omen of giant scorpions in said garden, his unfortunate choice of reading material just before the pandemic started to spread, and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go check out his work at peterkuper.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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“My wife & I looked at this beautiful scenario in Oaxaca, and then we looked past it. It’s very hard to stare at that when you’re in a beautiful environment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n