From the monthly archives:

February 2009

We Go Hawker

2009.Feb.11 Wednesday

 Singapore’s other primal passion is eating, and it really is fairly difficult to find any food in Singapore about which to complain. About the closest you could come would be the observation that it’s all very traditional fare of one kind or another, but that hardly seems fair…. The food in Singapore, particularly the endless [...]

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More on the Burger Battle

2009.Feb.09 Monday

 Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you [...]

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Visiting Our Lady

2009.Feb.08 Sunday

 Argentine shrine, forty miles west of Buenos Aires. Its main object of devotion is a small doll-like statue of the Blessed Virgin; her head is surrounded by a golden aureole and is crowned with hundreds of diamonds and other precious stones. The Basilica of Our Lady of Luján is the most important pilgrimage center in [...]

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Golden Ears

2009.Feb.04 Wednesday

 Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let’s stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.” – Anne Raver, author, specialist in gardening books Buenos Aires – It’s strange. I openly declare, nearly two years ago, [...]

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Haas Disturbance?

2009.Feb.03 Tuesday

 We don’t care if these girls want to eat their men. That’s the Piranha Man’s problem. We just want the avocados.” – Ford Maddox, in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle Buenos Aires – Can I just say that I find this video, the winner of the Avocado Video Bowl… mildly disturbing? (sorry, I can’t [...]

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Holy Holy Land!

2009.Feb.03 Tuesday

 This holy land, this semi-Eden, was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.” – Marvin Olasky, Journalism Professor Buenos Aires – Somewhere along the line after the big Shawarma Chronicles series, I forgot to [...]

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Classy Quartet

2009.Feb.01 Sunday

 I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.” – Adrian Belew, guitarist and singer Buenos Aires – Having fallen a bit behind in my various postings, I realized I hadn’t been keeping up on the last sessions of our Color Palate of Italy course. The first group finished up the ten session class this [...]

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