Mel ME

Boliviana living in the DMV area, mother of three . interested in Design, urban planning, etc. iCARE

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@patriciajaniot Que sean más del norte los “verdaderos modelos a seguir” quienes terminaron siendo los buenos de la película ??, como periodista, se debería indagar en porqué los algoritmos cumplen una agenda, más que defender lo indefendible.

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@patriciajaniot No son el único país con logros… el hecho de que son pesados es cierto, como Boliviana me acuerdo de muchísimas veces fueron malcriados y xenófobos con nuestra gente y equipo, cada partido o lo ganan de a buenas o de a malas, con faltas, agresiones y todo lo no deportivo.

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@patriciajaniot Y confirmaron todo con sus actos al terminar el partido. Asi no hay suma d e títulos que valga, sólo confirmaron lo que corría por las redes. Lo que sí, esto es las grandes que contra Messi y contra Argentina, es un algoritmo que solo quiere que otros deportes jalen masas…

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@bernardbrind @carlosdmesag No es celebrar la mediocridad, es agradecer y reconocer su esfuerzo y dedicación, sino pateaste una pelota nunca, mejor ni hablar, se gana o se pierde, mala suerte, porque el equipo es bueno!

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@angelcareaga Pensé que era un post empatico, pero solo es un passive aggressive golpe bajo en venganza por algo que le dijeron🤥

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@capitalweather What is your prediction for snow accumulation on the metro DC area?

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on Earth.
Led Zeppelin had just sold-out stadiums across America. The machine was unstoppable — millions of dollars, infinite momentum, a mythology that painted him as a "golden god" of rock and roll.
Then his wife called from England.
The first call said their five-year-old son Karac had a stomach virus. Nothing unusual.
The second call came hours later.
Karac was dead.
Robert Plant — the voice that defined a generation, the man who seemed untouchable — collapsed in a New Orleans hotel room, half a world away from where his child had taken his last breath. There was no warning. No goodbye. Just a sudden infection that killed a healthy little boy in hours while his father sang for strangers.
The tour was canceled immediately. Plant flew home to bury his son.
And when he arrived, only one of his three bandmates showed up.
John Bonham came. Bonham's wife Pat came. They stood with Plant's family through the unbearable.
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones did not come.
Page later said they wanted to "give the man some space." But Plant didn't want space. He wanted his friends.
Years later, Plant would say: "Maybe they don't have as much respect for me as I do for them. Maybe they're not the friends I thought they were."
Something fundamental broke that day.
Plant retreated home with his wife Maureen and daughter Carmen. He stopped the drugs, the alcohol, the persona — all of it, on the same day. He told Rolling Stone simply: "I lost my boy. I didn't want to be in Led Zeppelin. I wanted to be with my family."
He applied for a job at a teaching college in Sussex. The man who sang "Whole Lotta Love" to millions wanted to teach children in a quiet English countryside school. He questioned everything: the fame, the money, the meaning of a life spent on stages while his family grew up without him.
But John Bonham convinced him to return — not with arguments about duty or money, but with friendship.
Bonham would pick Plant up in his six-door Mercedes, wearing a chauffeur's hat as a joke, and they'd go out drinking together. When police pulled them over, Bonham would wave from the driver's seat and the cops would laugh: "There's another poor guy working for the rich!"
Plant called it "the absolute darkest time of my life." And through it all, Bonham was there.
So, Plant returned — for one more album. Led Zeppelin released In Through the Out Door in 1979. Plant wrote "All My Love" about Karac, a song that became both tribute and testimony to everything he'd lost.
Then, on September 25, 1980, the world collapsed again.
John Bonham — Plant's closest friend in the band, the man who sat with him through his darkest grief — was found dead at Jimmy Page's house after consuming roughly 40 shots of vodka. He had choked in his sleep. He was 32 years old.
On the day he died, Bonham had told Plant: "I've had it with playing drums. Everybody plays better than me."
Two months later, Led Zeppelin released a statement: "The loss of our dear friend, and the deep respect we have for his family, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were."
No farewell tour. No final album. No goodbye spectacle.
The most profitable band in rock history simply stopped.
For decades afterward, the offers came. Reunion tours worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Record-breaking paydays. Every offer bigger than the last.
Plant said no to all of them.
Fans called him selfish. The industry kept waiting for him to crack — to need the money, to miss the glory enough to resurrect the machine.
He never did.
Instead, Plant did something radical: he dismantled the voice that made him famous. He lowered his range. Abandoned the scream. Explored folk, bluegrass, African rhythms. He collaborated with Alison Krauss on Raising Sand — an album of quiet, intimate songs that won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
Critics called it decline. Plant called it survival.
"I couldn't be that man anymore," he explained. "He died with my son."
Today, Robert Plant is 77 years old. He still makes music. Still tours. Still creates.
But he's never been Led Zeppelin again.
And he never will be.
In a recent interview, he said quietly: "Every now and again Karac turns up in songs, for no other reason than I miss him a lot."
That's the real Robert Plant.
Not the golden god frozen in 1973.
The father who buried his five-year-old son, lost his best friend three years later, and chose to protect what was left of himself rather than feed it to a machine that would never stop wanting more.
In an industry built on endless resurrection, on squeezing every dollar from nostalgia, on never letting the past rest — Robert Plant's quiet, permanent refusal remains the most radical thing he ever did.
Not the screams. Not the stadiums. Not the mythology.
The refusal.
#LedZeppelin #RobertPlant
~Old Photo Club

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@JohnArandia Ese comentario es real? Parece que en la noche quiere ser aprendiz de comediante

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@MiguelCasasCho1 @ZuritaLily @TuConcejoLP Mente arcaica es decir eso ⬆️ en todas partes del mundo hay edificaciones patrimoniales que se respetan porque representan una parte de la historia

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@NewsSoutham @ZuritaLily @TuConcejoLP No tiene que ser de un estilo particular para ser declarada patrimonio

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@marceloclaure @EvaCopa_Bol @Bolivar_Oficial Existe un máster plan de la ciudad de El Alto? que dice el zoning? puede ser uso mixto, pero Forestar sería el primer paso para cambiar la cara de la ciudad y hacerla más sustentable. Felicidades!

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@marceloclaure Bien, pero yo exploraría invertir fuera de la ciudad, en ciudades aledañas, así se propone expandir el impacto urbano, Rio Abajo por ejemplo.

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@LuchoXBolivia Vergüenza ajena! deja que el Evo se burle en su cara! Si no puede defender su honor como va a defender la patria?!

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

A heroes' welcome home for Japan 🇯🇵❤

#FIFAWorldCup #Qatar2022

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@Brax6Jackson @nbcwashington I was thinking the same, please somebody comfort him, give him a hug!

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@SDoriaMedina Arquitectura Falica, para que nadie se olvide de lo “grande que es” para borrar fracasas, mientras su compañera para la presidencia está en la cárcel. Y para colmo arruinando un poco más la ciudad, cero respeto por el entorno, ni por el vecino, que nunca mas tendrá sol!

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@Athos_LeFere @abejandratheone @JohnArandia Ataque de risa 🤣 🤣

[Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis]

If Louisiana was a country, it would be #2 on Earth in COVID cases per capita this week to Fiji. Florida not far behind.

[Mel ME @melmon515]

@evoespueblo Envidia y machismo puro. @EvaCopa_Bol es la nueva líder indiscutible crece gracias a declaraciones de odio y envidia.