From the monthly archives:

October 2006

First Rank

2006.Oct.10 Tuesday

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come [...]

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Argentina for beginners

2006.Oct.09 Monday

‘One of the things I wanted to do, especially for beginners, was to make sure people could walk in, feel comfortable and ask anything.” – Kirk Novak, Owner, The Northern Angler, Traverse City, Michigan Buenos Aires – I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had some new and interesting projects coming online. Shortly after, [...]

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Night of the Museums

2006.Oct.08 Sunday

“Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.” – Robert Warshow, U.S. author, in The Gangster as Tragic Hero Buenos Aires – Last night was a very special night here in Buenos Aires, [...]

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The Cook’s Vibe

2006.Oct.07 Saturday

 Can anything be more humiliating than that your mother, friendless and alone, should have to eat others’ food?” – Queen Pritha-Kunti, from the Mahabharata Buenos Aires – Perhaps I should have taken it as a sign when we were turned away the first time we visited this restaurant. Especially given the reasoning of the wave-off, [...]

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All That Glitters is not Flax

2006.Oct.06 Friday

“In each religion there are essential things, and others which are only forms and fashions; as a loaf of sugar may perhaps be wrapped in brown or white or blue paper, and tied with a string of flax or wool, red or yellow; but the sugar is always there.” – Benjamin Franklin, American Statesman, Scientist, [...]

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Spicy Apples of Madness

2006.Oct.04 Wednesday

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” – Ursula K. LeGuin, Science Fiction Writer Buenos Aires – Such slanderous words written against the eggplant! And from one of my favorite science fiction authors. And the white eggplant has [...]

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Patience of Angels

2006.Oct.03 Tuesday

“This house, is a place to enjoy a tranquil moment, with good music, enjoying delicate dishes, artesanally prepared for you. For each dish we use top quality natural and fresh products that have not been pre-prepared; because of this, they are prepared to order, respecting the time it takes to create them. It is an [...]

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Random Notes

2006.Oct.02 Monday

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet & Essayist Buenos Aires – I’m now convinced. Argentines will stand in line for anything. Patiently. I rarely hear anyone complain while they stand in line. Sometimes for hours and hours. It’s just an acceptance of some [...]

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A Pound of Cure is Worth More than any Prevention

2006.Oct.01 Sunday

“Whoever would be cured of ignorance must first confess it.” – Michel de Montaigne, 16th Century French Philosopher and Writer Buenos Aires – There must be something in the air related to time and energy. Sally over at A Broad in Costa Rica just posted on the confusion over not having daylight saving time, in [...]

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