From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Fraternal Twin

2007.May.31 Thursday

 I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I’d look like without plastic surgery.” – Joan Rivers, comedienne Buenos Aires – So there we were, two days later, looking at a narrowed, elongated version of Sucre, with lower height ceilings. You could tell the same thought process went into the design of [...]

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Gimme some Sugar

2007.May.30 Wednesday

 Believe me, General, nobody loves your glory as much as I do. Never has a Chief paid more glorious tribute to a lieutenant. At the moment it is being printed, a telling of your life done by myself; being faithful to my conscience I give you all that you deserve. I say this so that [...]

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Theme Wars

2007.May.29 Tuesday

 You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” – Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Buenos Aires – What to do when there are competing themes for an [...]

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Tomorrow Belongs…

2007.May.28 Monday

 Oh Fatherland, Fatherland, Show us the sign Your children have waited to see. The morning will come When the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me! – Chorus from Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Cabaret Buenos Aires – Recently I’ve decided it’s time to get back into theater mode – I mean going to as opposed [...]

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There’s Always Room for Gel…

2007.May.26 Saturday

 Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically, a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot [...]

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Blurb Quartet

2007.May.25 Friday

 Sound bites and quick appraisals are not conducive to thorough analysis. People’s reputations often rest on how we talk about important matters.” – Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States Buenos Aires – It’s simply not in the cards to review in full every spot that I get to eat at. Sometimes it’s [...]

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Castles in the Sky

2007.May.21 Monday

 And you can pretend that it would be different If it happened to you But up on the rooftop, it’s a whole other world And who could see heaven And not want to stay?” – from Nobody Knows, by Paul Brady Buenos Aires – You know how you can walk by something time and time [...]

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Quayle vs Murphy Revisited

2007.May.20 Sunday

 Ultimately however, marriage is a moral issue that requires cultural consensus, and the use of social sanctions. Bearing babies irresponsibly is, simply, wrong. Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown – a character who supposedly epitomizes [...]

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Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble

2007.May.19 Saturday

 No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.” – William Osler, Canadian physician Buenos Aires – We’ve all heard about foams, airs, and even sponges – food that’s been pumped full of nitrous oxide so that it creates “slithery, liquified blobs … that have been frothed up with [...]

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