From the monthly archives:

April 2007

Half & Half

2007.Apr.29 Sunday

 Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.” – Nam June Paik, pioneering moving image artist Buenos [...]

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Take Your Pen Out of My Chocolate!

2007.Apr.25 Wednesday

For those who don’t spend their days perusing through the proposed regulations at the FDA website, the word is suddenly out, and unfortunately at last minute, that the FDA is considering a regulation that will allow manufacturers of “common products” to substitute cheap ingredients for more expensive ones if they think that consumers won’t notice. [...]

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Of Books, Wine, & Lentils

2007.Apr.24 Tuesday

 A square egg in a dish of lentils won’t make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid’s leg.” – Les Dawson, British Comedian Buenos Aires – That’s so pretty, I should just let it speak for itself. And, for the moment, I will. Sunday was a whirlwind [...]

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The Eternal City of Herbs

2007.Apr.23 Monday

 I should like to see Rome,” she said; “it must be a lovely city, or so many foreigners would not be constantly arriving there.” – Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, Hans Christian Anderson Buenos Aires – Here’s the legend in a nutshell. Romulus and Remus (not Regulus and Remus from Harry Potter) were [...]

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First Stabs

2007.Apr.20 Friday

 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Buenos Aires – Before there was Casa SaltShaker, there was the S4 – the Second Sunday Supper Circle (okay, it’s 3s’s, but the alliteration was there). May 28, 1994 was the date, the invitees were a few friends – Patty, Eileen, hmmm… I don’t remember [...]

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The Imperial Pizza, and Walking it Off

2007.Apr.19 Thursday

 A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.” – Benjamin Franklin Buenos Aires – It’s not uncommon here to see restaurants claiming to be El Rey (the king) of this or that, but I’ve seen few that claim to be the Empire. Nonetheless, in response to a recent review [...]

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Sawatdee Bee Mai!

2007.Apr.15 Sunday

 History and, at the present time, the question of globalization are the works of men and women who have lived through these events. There are those who are observers and those who are the active advocates of such a “global village,” with the ideal of a human family, such as Renaissance men and women in [...]

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Building Geometrics

2007.Apr.11 Wednesday

 …a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.” Roland Barthes, French critic, in relation to New York City While in Plaza San Martin yesterday, I spotted these two buildings, and [...]

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Island Photos

2007.Apr.11 Wednesday

 Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.” – George Jean Nathan, Journalist, Essayist Buenos Aires – I’m not going to get into the whole political mish-mash that surrounds the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas – more than a few local bloggers, from [...]

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