SaltShaker

“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
- Abby Hoffman, Activist
Buenos Aires - The subject of finding a good hamburger in town came up several times recently on the internet - a travel forum and a couple of expat forums. It was an instant blood in the water with circling sharks fest, as some touted various locales [...]

Buenos Aires - This is the starting point of a meme. Since starting blogging over a year ago I’ve wanted to start a meme. I participated in a few, but have never actually been “tagged” for one, only picking them up either on my own or when someone tags “anyone who reads this”. For those [...]

Buenos Aires - It’s a rainy day today, so I’ll go with a second post that’s been in the works for awhile. A few weeks back I did an early Saturday morning introduction to the geography of Uruguay, and have realized that I’ve never done the same for Argentina. This has been underscored recently by [...]

Planet Earth - Those of you who’ve read along know I have a pet peeve when it comes to menu translations. If you’re going to go to the effort to translate your menu into another language, have someone who speaks both do the translation. I didn’t personally encounter either of these, though after fits of [...]

Buenos Aires - I had a couple of hours before my lunch date yesterday, and after running a few errands found myself near to the Plaza Congreso. The plaza has become home to daily gatherings of the unemployed and/or homeless - most just seem to choose a spot that is theirs for the day, some [...]

Buenos Aires - Back in the summer of 1980 I participated in the first really organized gay pride march in Ann Arbor, Michigan, my hometown. Maybe 100-125 of us, maximum, gathered on the steps of the federal building. Speeches were speechified, chants were chanted, marching commenced. We walked along the couple of commercial streets in [...]

Buenos Aires - I received several e-mails from friends concerned that I was finding myself in the middle of “the riots” that occurred yesterday. Local news media certainly sensationalized what was happening, concentrating, of course, on the truly negative aspects of the protests. I’m not really sure what those of you “in the states” or [...]

Gorina-Hernández, Argentina - I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse. It involved several weeks of discussion, so it wasn’t spur of the moment with a gun pointed at my head. Henry’s sister, Sylvia, asked me to be the padrino, or godfather, to her son Branco at his confirmation. It’s a little different than being [...]