Posts that have become popular for their content, whether just advice, or controversy, and have generated the most e-mail or comments, and therefore keep showing up in my consciousness.
“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… Read More How Do I Make…?
“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… Read More What Debate?
“Sherry… a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.” – George Borrow, English Novelist Buenos Aires – I’m going to give you the one sentence basics of sherry,… Read More Hitting the Sack
“‘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… Read More And One More For The Road
“I’m not going to make calf’s brains. But at a certain point, I’d like to retain the permission to do something that’s delicious — to have the chance to win them over.” – from The Finicky Gourmet by Alexandra Jacobs, in the NY Times Buenos Aires – There’s no question that I’ve invited this surplus… Read More Aversity or Adversity…?
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” – Igor Stravinsky, Composer Buenos Aires – Does blogging, or this blog in particular need, or even merit a defense? Is there any point to it? What… Read More Fount of Wisdom? Not.
Click here to purchase the SaltShaker Spanish – English – Spanish Food & Wine Dictionary The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking – it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available from a print on demand publisher. Hopefully it’ll get picked up by some folks like Amazon and others…… Read More New and Improved
Buenos Aires – I was all set to spend a little time catching up on some of the reviews I’ve been wanting to do when I happened to glance at the calendar and something about the date reminded me of my time here in Buenos Aires. I’ve been thinking that I’d arrived in early June,… Read More Dos Años