So you know you're back home when…

…some guy toots his horn and out blares La Cucaracha.

La loqueria has officially begun: Cuba Nostalgia has kicked off. If you want to see what the fun and crazy is about you can soon find pictures at Babalu Blog and at My Big Fat Cuban Family. My own pictures won’t be up for a while, as I am on Mami’s dial-up.

In other Cuban-American news, CBS announced a fall show called Cane, about a wealthy Cuban-American family in Miami. The talented Rita Moreno, Jimmy Smits and Hector Elizondo will star. The Miami Herald story in this morning’s paper says it is about “fraticidal tensions as its sugar and rum businesses are passed down to the next generation.”

I’m excited about adding this to my weekly TV addiction, but it won’t be authentic Cuban unless the Mami matriarch still makes her grown son’s bed and the daddy still complains about how tight his grown daughter’s clothes are. And since it is set in Miami, they must show someone stuck on the Palmetto at least once an episode.

Eh well. Also on the CBS schedule dramas about vampires and wife swappers.

Que compania.