SaltShaker

 You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? They hand me a script. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.”
- Brad Pitt, Actor
Buenos Aires - A […]

 We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist, Political Activist
Buenos Aires - Some of you may remember I mentioned back in November that we’d had a telelvision film crew in for one of our dinners (their idea, not ours, though in a moment of mental […]

 I’ve become wary of interviews in which you’re forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you’ve done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.”
- Peter Weir, Film Director
Buenos Aires - Just a quick “check out the interview” with FoodCandy, a much anticipated Q&A […]

 I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so.”
Sydney Smith, Essayist, Clergyman
Buenos Aires - In the last couple of weeks a trio, or is it a quartet, or quintet, of books has come across my desk. They didn’t get there by themselves, I went to book launching parties and was […]

 I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.”
- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States
Buenos Aires - Anyone who travels extensively, especially in Europe, is probably familiar with the Blue […]

 It’s all about popular!
It’s not about aptitude
It’s the way you’re viewed
So it’s very shrewd to be
Very very popular
Like me!
- excerpted from lyrics to Popular from the show Wicked
Buenos Aires - Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be popular, part of the in-crowd… well, we finally made it - we’re in in… no, that’s not […]

 All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan, Scientist
Buenos Aires - For those of you not familiar with bit-torrents, don’t go searching to find out, they’re addictive little […]

Buenos Aires - First off, a Happy New Year, or Happy Rosh Hashanah, or Shana Tova, in particular to any of my Jewish readers, friends, neighbors… though really, to everyone - today begins the year 5768, and we’ll just have to see what it has in store for SaltShaker, my life, and the lives of […]