Bizarre Brazil

The Pope was pop once. At least in 1980, when John Paul II visited Brazil.

Here is the prove! Those lovely red shoes!

This video features the first Zombie Walk in Porto Alegre, the most southern state capital in Brazil. Somewhere on the video you’ll can see Daniel Pellizzari, a “new generation” Brazilian writer and translator.

Pororoca is a phenomenon that occurs twice a year on the Amazon River Delta and it’s comparable to a Tsunami. For 20 to 40 minutes an enormous wave spawns for hundreds of miles across the delta ravaging everything in its way. So what? This guys surfed the wave and made this documentary. Watch the trailer bellow:

In a recent survey from Datafolha (the research Institute of Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most important newspaper), 51% of the interviewed people didn’t know the name of the Pope. Benedictus XVI, or Joseph Ratzinger, will visit the country next month.

Brazil is considered the biggest catholic country in the world, with most of 70% of their 180 ~ million people declaring themselves as catholics. Another 15 percent spawns their beliefs in various protestant denominations and the rest 15% belong to other churches or religions - or are non-believers.

Datafolha interviewed 5700 people from 236 towns in all of the 25 states.

“O Papa é Pop” (The Pope is Pop) is a famous 80’s song from Engenheiros do Hawaii (The Engineers from Hawaii), a pop band from Porto Alegre. You can listen to it here (.br). It’s the 7th track.