Monthly Archives: September 2007

you can never hold back a spring

After about 8 months of winter (4 in austin and 4 here), spring is here!! Yesterday was Student’s Day and the Spring Equinox, and apparently on that day, its customary for women to receive flowers just cause from anybody just cause. I didn’t know this and was actually kind of chastised (however slightly) by a [...]

pasas y pesci | langostas roqueras y dibujos animados

ridiculously wonderful things to shake off the “impending doom” message that gets thrown at us daily nowadays.

los garcia-olano cantando en el cumple del gran Andres Oeyen

a few weeks ago, Amy, my little brother and I were invited to the birthday of a very good family friend of ours Andres Oeyen by his wife Cristina. In addition, she asked that we make him a birthday song and sing it as a suprise at the party. Ofcourse, we waited until an hour [...]

taibbi, vergara, riis, roosevelt, dickens

* sequence of 4 photographs taken by Camilo José Vergara of Fern Street in N. Camden, NJ from 1979-2004. Clockwise from top left 1979, 1988, 1997, 2004. So I went on one of those random long wikipedia information sprees a few days ago. As of late, I’ve been reading alot by the political journalist/ex-professional basketball [...]

the not so sweet side of life

So this morning I was listening to some spanish radio online and came across this piece on Radio Mundial Real and boy did it just further the disgust I’d been starting to feel towards the Coca Coca Cola Corporation since I’d moved to Argentina. So the radio bit brought to light that in Mexico, Coke [...]