From the monthly archives:

February 2006

“Seafood?” “I dunno…”

2006.Feb.16 Thursday

Buenos Aires – “Where do you wanna eat?” “I dunno. Where do you wanna eat?” “I dunno. Where do you wanna eat?” “I don’t really care.” “I don’t either.” “Me neither.” Believe me, this witty repartee sounds just as stupid in Spanish. I’d started out the other evening with the best of intentions – it [...]

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Happy John Frum Day!

2006.Feb.15 Wednesday

Buenos Aires – Yes indeedy folks, it’s John Frum Day. Forget Valentine’s Day yesterday – the chocolates are eaten, the flowers are wilting, those hopeful “Will You Be My Valentine?” cards are already slated for the circular file. Ignore, if you will, that today is National Gum Drop Day, Candlemas, and Lupercalia all rolled into [...]

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Plate of Pancreas, sir?

2006.Feb.14 Tuesday

Buenos Aires – These are mollejas, or as we know them in English, sweetbreads. Let’s face it, if a restaurant said, “hey, how about a nice plate of grilled pancreas?” they couldn’t give the things away. But then they might not have to, they could just as easily be trying to sell you on a [...]

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Paper Anniversary

2006.Feb.13 Monday

Buenos Aires – Happy Anniversary to Us! Not the blog, but Henry and I. We met February 12, 2005. We had a bit of a whirlwind romance for the two weeks I was in Buenos Aires after meeting, followed by daily instant messaging chats and at least weekly phone calls. When I first set out [...]

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Modern Art, Take 3

2006.Feb.13 Monday

Buenos Aires – I’ve heard from folks already who just plain think I’m wrong about MALBA and its collection of modern art, in my last post. As I said, there are clearly people out there who like what’s there, or the museum wouldn’t be in business. One thing I forgot to point out, and as [...]

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Some things are just wrong…

2006.Feb.11 Saturday

Buenos Aires – I keep wanting to visit the Municipal Museum, but somehow or other it always seems to be closed when I go that direction. Yesterday I was informed that it would be closed until mid-March. For whatever reason, its cafeteria is open, but nothing on the menu looked interesting. Then again, museum cafeterias [...]

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Ice Cream is a Real B*tch

2006.Feb.10 Friday

Buenos Aires – Family owned and operated, in business since 1973, now with 12 branches around the city, but I headed to the original shop, because it was near to where I ended up my walk yesterday. The first Chungo, which literally means “a real bitch” or “a nasty piece of work” or anything else [...]

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Paint By Numbers 1.5

2006.Feb.10 Friday

Buenos Aires – This is a short continuation of my first foray into my Paint By Numbers plan, as I’d left off partway through my tour of 3 de Febrero. I’m going to leave this one as mostly a photo essay, as, simply, the rest of the street was almost purely small homes, from the [...]

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Bolivian Spice Fix

2006.Feb.10 Friday

Buenos Aires – One more stop on The Great Empanada Tour! On the recommendation of a couple of folk, I headed out to Belgrano to try some Bolivian empanadas. Actually I headed out to go somewhere else entirely, but it was closed for lunch, and then I remembered this recommendation. It wasn’t exactly a recommendation [...]

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