SaltShaker

I’ve hesitated a few days about writing this up, mostly because I don’t want family and friends to be worried about living here in BA, nor people who don’t really know the city to take this as a sign of insecurity here in town. In the end though, it’s not something that couldn’t have happened [...]

 I try to live up to my standards and not sink down to my principles.
- paraphrase of an old movie quote that I can’t quite remember, but it fits…
Buenos Aires – The blogosphere is abuzz, yes abuzz I tell you. First it was a week or two ago’s big kerfuffle over Dr. Vino calling out [...]

 The “double speak” in tourism material, in a country as new and immature as Argentina is to tourism, is lamentably common, much like the “double price” (for foreigners versus locals) that many practice since the devaluation of the peso, starting with our own Argentine government. That “native cunning”, along with the inefficiency of domestic air [...]

 Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
- George Bernard Shaw, critic, essayist, playwright

Buenos Aires – Just shy of two years since the original edition’s publication, the second edition of my bilingual Spanish and English food and wine dictionary was officially approved today. It will [...]

 The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is and what he tries to be.”
- Dore Schary, producer
Buenos Aires – I was originally going to do a compare and contrast between my last spot reviewed, PozoSanto, and the one I’m [...]

 Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom?”
- Terry Pratchett, Author

Buenos Aires – Bored? Sitting at home wishing you had something to do, something to stimulate your interest, your intellect, your skills, your tastebuds? In town for just a short [...]

 The same me that stands here now
When I think that all this stuff
Can make a life that’s pretty hard to take it in, that was me
That was me, ya, that was me!”
- Paul McCartney, final lyrics to That Was Me
Buenos Aires – I wasn’t a member of the debate club in high school, though I [...]

 Calmness,” said Aaron quietly, “is a drink we can buy in the bar next door. Come.”
- from One More For The Road, by Ray Bradbury
Buenos Aires – Virtually everyone who visits this town, and many who live here, comment regularly on the bus system. Apparently buses are the theme of the day, as my friend [...]