“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. – Frank Zappa So, let’s see, Argentina has an airline, of sorts. It has quite a few football… Read More A Pint and a Burger

“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” – Ernest Hemingway, author Wine bars are not popular here in Argentina – the idea of standing around with a glass of wine in hand rather than sitting at a table with a bottle or glass of the same and a spread of food on the… Read More Wine Before Food

“I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.” – Fritz Perls, psychoanalyst I spent the last few days (well, bits of them) debating internally over whether to post this review. My oft-time dining companion and I were treated… Read More Hip or Hype?

“Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.” – Marc Lowenthal, translator’s introduction to Francis… Read More No Ridicule, Perhaps Meaningless

“By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.” – Albert Ellis, Psychologist Let the hate mail begin. Let’s just get it over with. The Office, Arévalo 3031, Las Cañitas, was insufferable. Right there. I just pissed off… Read More A Night to Forget

“In regione caecorum rex est luscus. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” – Desiderius Erasmus, author, philosopher, scholar Once upon a time when I first vacationed in Buenos Aires – before deciding to move here, and life was oh so inexpensive and I had a salary in dollars, I met… Read More In a Land of Meat, a Prince of Fish

“The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.” – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, French essayist A Grand Slam, that is. Over the net, through the hoop, home run, or, as they say here… Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooool! Let me just say, upfront, Sunae, you rock. Yes, our closed door adventure this week… Read More ASEAN Slam

“The French wooden shoe or clog (sabot) was, in the 18th and 19th century, associated with the lower classes. During this period, the years of the Industrial Revolution, the word sabotage gained currency. Allegedly derived from sabot, sabotage described the actions of disgruntled workers who willfully damaged workplace machinery by throwing their sabots into the… Read More Like a Comfortable Old Shoe