Recent content by Blake

Hey.I'm pretty sure anyone would agree with you on the liveliness factor. Palermo kinda goes all night whereas most of ST is dark and silent in the middle of the night.So if you are looking for many happening scenarios at 2-5AM, you gotta roll with Palermo over ST. quote="Dudester"]Muchas...

Okay, the streets were a little moist. Knew they would be: it was humid as heck during dinner and I told some friends, "Nothing but stars out, but it's fully gonna rain tonight." They say, "You sure it's not just residual humidity from the last rain?" "Uh, yeah." So anyway, just another 2:30AM...

Okay, mang, empirical science time tonight: round about 11PM I'm gonna walk from Plaza de Mayo to roughly Peru and Independencia, milonga it for a few hours, then about 2 or 3 I'll walk back to PdM and catch a taxi home. I will report back whether my throat was slit or I felt otherwise menaced...

I'm gonna say ST is both safe and lively at night. That is my impression after going there regularly for dinner and milongas at night for 2.5 months.I think if you end up buying into fear in general or the FUD and cranks on this board, those regular people on the ground in ST who find it fun and...

k8x, you sound like one of the most interesting people I've ever "met" in BA. :) What is the third language? Italian? French? Or are you rightfully counting Spanish and Castellano as dos?I imagine insane stories pertaining to "special needs" told over extremely fine 3-peso per bottle red wine in...

I can't think of a single time I've had a substantive conversation with a flight attendant, nor can I think of any opportunity for one other than possibly a minute or two waiting to get into the bathroom. I am typically trying to sleep and they are typically working. Do you have meaningful...

"True." "True" or not, I'm pretty sure W is a registered Republican and head of that particular party. As such, he has changed the meaning of it somewhat. Though much of what you say might apply to that other non-Republican, Nixon.My sister-in-law is an evangelical Christian living in Texas and...

So long as you bring up Boca, why not check out my recent blog posts about the Boca Jrs. vs. Independiente match? http://ibinba.blogspot.com/They are two posts, titledBoca Juniors Match, Parte Uno yBoca Juniors Match, Parte Dos

Yeah, I know you can vote. I understand your viewpoint, just don't agree with it's basis: that if you don't like what your country seems to represent in it's 50.1% majority, that you should bail it to increase that majority.I don't think the Italians etc. coming over here to wipe out the...

No, I don't agree with the premise that you should bail your country because your man doesn't win the presidency that particular decade. I believe you should stay and represent your vision of what the USA is about, e.g. what the Founding Fathers thought it was about. This is an expat board so...

I just spent today there watching a professional igo tournament between a Japanese professional and Argentina's (and Latin America's) top igo player.http://www.go.org.ar/page.php?name=congreso2008It was a beautiful place to watch a game of go!

I would totally consider San Telmo next time I come down here. I've never caught a danger vibe there at night, but on the other hand not much reason to walk around there at night unless you're going to a milonga, resto, art show, whatever, where there will be people around anyway. Every gringo I...

Hey Ryan, what's up. The core of us who did the Milion gig just returned from a Boca Jrs. match tonight, so we're starting to have a regular "club," haha. No poker tourney yet, but I did notice that one of us at the football match had a t-shirt which said, "I've got the nuts," so that's...

Well I'm still wondering if they have parks with BBQs in them. :) Milion's a darn hip joint with excellent tapas and cocktails. The Manhattan I had there was easily as good as the ones I get at home. The place is quite swank. It was me, Cory, and Chris. I don't know if the gal who was going to...

How about a no-limit Hold'em tourney with a 50p buy-in?Or going to a football game?Do they have parks here with BBQs in them where you can picnic? I ain't seen that yet.