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 Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.”
- C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian, Novelist
Buenos Aires - Yesterday started about six weeks ago. I’d gone to that molecular gastronomy seminar, and at [...]

 When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS”
- Unknown
Buenos Aires - I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by Jude of Lulu of London spa, who has recently helped found an organization called Aesthetic Argentina. Now, the website that was up at the time looked more [...]

 Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.”
- Clay’s Conclusion
Buenos Aires - I don’t know whether or not to be flattered. It started a few days ago when Technorati started showing up image links to my blog - all of a particular picture… a milanesa napolitana, and to my mind, not that interesting of one at [...]

 It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. “They all eat one another!” he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, “They all feed one another,” and called it good.”
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer, Lecturer, Social Reformer
Buenos Aires - This weekend [...]

 I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
Buenos Aires - It wasn’t long after arriving in Buenos Aires that I began to see Lo de [...]

 I was just in London - there is a 6 hour time difference. I’m still confused. When I go to dinner, I feel sexy. When I go to bed, I feel hungry.”
- Henny Youngman, Comedian
Buenos Aires - A little while back I got an e-mail from Maya. She was new to the city, liked my [...]

 There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. [...]

 War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
- Ambrose Bierce, Writer, Journalist, Editor
 Someone once said that war is God’s way of teaching geography, but today, apparently war or even the threat of war cannot adequately teach geography. More American young people can tell you where an island that the ‘Survivor’ TV series came from is [...]