Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
Buenos Aires – My Everquest friends will know the allusion of the title. Back in the day, before the game expanded like a muffin climbing out of its cup, Protection of the Cabbage was a druid spell that one spent eons working on getting a copy of, well in advance of ever needing it, but… Read More Protection of the Cabbage
Buenos Aires – I had reservations yesterday. Not the sort that garners me a table at some local dive, but of two very different sort. The first involved random happenstance, after leaving Güerrin, I continued my way down Corrientes headed for the Costanera Sur, or South Promenade. You may remember my brief dip in that… Read More Care to come up and see my etchings?
Buenos Aires – Very simply, I need a break. From eating. I know, for someone in my field that seems like heresy, but truthfully, we all need one from time to time. I’ve been out with visiting friends the last couple of days and nights eating up a storm, and just reached, well, a wall.… Read More Readings
Buenos Aires – Off we went yesterday to the Far East for a stroll in the sun. Calle de Canal is a long promenade along the southeastern edge of the city, just the other side of Puerto Madero Este and just this side of the Ecological Reserve. In beautiful weather, like yesterday afternoon, it is… Read More The Far East & Steak
Buenos Aires – My friend Max and I set off to do a little museum-going yesterday afternoon. Max is my Spanish teacher as well, and a good part of yesterday’s mission was to keep up a non-stop conversation for a couple of hours about museums, neighborhoods, art, and food – I think I managed pretty… Read More Native Craft
Buenos Aires – I’m feeling peevish as I’ve just come up against one of those “it’s just the way it is” situations and have yet to figure out a solution. Many things in this country are easy, some far easier than they would have been back home in the U.S. Other things are just not.… Read More Feeling Peevish
Buenos Aires – “One seventh of your life is spent on Mondays.” “Mondays are not part of the productive work week.” – Dogbert “Mondays suck.” – Garfield Actually, I generally like Mondays. I’m not good at Sundays as they tend to involve being far lazier than I’m happy to be. Mondays are good days to… Read More Mondays
Buenos Aires – It’s been raining a lot this week, so I’ve been in, catching up on lots of reading and writing. I just saw a great post over on eGullet, where I occasionally pop in to see if anyone is saying anything witty, brilliant, or amusing. Back in August of 2004 I wrote a… Read More A Short Musing