Season 10, Episode 34: No Good Choices, No Choices at All

This week - the fabled short episode finally manifests as the sheer magnitude of Zanscare's atrocities in Mexico leaves us with little else to talk about. Cronicle's crimes are as big as his tires, Nina makes (and loses) a new friend, Uso gets what he needs (with a little help from his friends) and Katejina's rhetorical strategy is unpersuasive.

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Show Notes

• Wikipedia pages for the Tampico Bridge (English) / Puente Tampico (Español), the Premio Internacional Puente de Alcántara (Español), the Mexican city of Coatzacoalcos, and the Puente Ingeniero Antonio Dovalí Jaime (also known as 'Puente Coatzacoalcos II') (Español). 

  
  Bottom Left Photo: http://ingenieriaycomputacion.blogspot.com/2010/02/puente-tampico.html#google_vignette
  Bottom Right Photo: https://megaconstrucciones.net/images/puentes/foto5/antonio-dovali-jaime-puente-12.jpg

• A page about the Tampico Bridge on a blog devoted to civil engineering and architecture (Español).

• The government of Mexico's page about the Puente Ingeniero Antonio Dovalí Jaime / Puente Coatzacoalcos II (Español).

• The Coatzacoalcos Bridge's page on Structurae - International Database and Gallery of Structures (archived).

• Retrospective articles about the Puente Ingeniero Antonio Dovalí Jaime / Puente Coatzacoalcos II (Español). The ones from 2023 were likely written for the 40th anniversary of the bridge's opening:
  
  Pamplona, Fabian. “La Historia Del Puente Coatzacoalcos II, En Su Tiempo Una de Las Obras Más Importantes Del Mundo.” Diario Del Istmo, 14 Oct. 2023, https://diariodelistmo.com/coatzacoalcos/la-historia-del-puente-coatzacoalcos-ii-en-su-tiempo-una-de-las-obras-mas-importantes-del-mundo/50444214. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024.
  
  Ríos, Jose. “Así Fue La Construcción Del Puente Antonio Dovalí.” Diario Del Istmo, 22 Nov. 2023, https://diariodelistmo.com/coatzacoalcos/asi-fue-la-construccion-del-puente-antonio-dovali/50459085. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024. // Includes great contemporary photographs of the bridge's construction! //
  
  Sidebar about something inconvenient but humorous - if you try to copy and paste any text from the above pages, this is what actually pastes:
  

• Articles about Coatzacoalcos II, cont:
  
  Carrasco, Tere. “Puente Coatza II, 26 Años de Comunicar al Sureste Mexicano.” Imagen Del Golfo, 31 Mar. 2010, (archived) https://web.archive.org/web/20111007161512/http://www.imagendelgolfo.com.mx/resumen.php?id=165013. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
  

• Archived page from obrasweb.com commemorating the Coatzacoalcos II Bridge's 30th anniversary.

• The site I used to look at coastal flooding and sea level rise was by Climate Central. This link shows the coastal flooding map for the relevant section of the Mexican Gulf-coast, with sea level rise set to the tool's maximum (10 meters).

• Wikipedia pages for the Mexican city of Taxco, and the Church of Santa Prisca de Taxco.
  // the page for the Church of Santa Prisca de Taxco includes a number of beautiful photographs of the interior and exterior of the church //

  
  Bottom Left Photo: https://everis-fotofreaks.blogspot.com/2010/04/cupula-de-iglesia-de-santa-prisca-en.html
  Bottom Right Photo: https://retofotomexico.com/torres-de-la-iglesia-de-santa-prisca-en-taxco/

• World Monuments Fund page about the Santa Prisca Parish Church.

• Additional articles about the Church of Santa Prisca de Taxco and its importance in the history of Mexican architecture:
  
  "Jerónimo de Balbás." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2024. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Jer%C3%B3nimo-de-Balb%C3%A1s/443978. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
  
  "Latin American architecture." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 Jan. 2019. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Latin-American-architecture/437366#277093.toc. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
  
  "Churrigueresque." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 20 Jul. 1998. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Churrigueresque/82584. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.

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