After talking to dozens of tango tourists from North America and Europe - informal interviews conducted over the 12 months I've had the pleasure of living in this fine city - I have come to the realization that the tango industry in Buenos Aires is an important, effective and highly beneficial...
I should be getting my new passport later this week. The now-expired old one will be returned with the new one.
Does anyone know whether I need to check in with Argentine immigration for a new tourist visa stamp in the new passport? Can I just wait until next time I leave and re-enter the...
I was in denial for months. At first I actively despised CrónicaTV. I hated the "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality. I loathed the shallow interviews and the cheap political hits. I couldn't stand what the very existence of such a channel says about the people of Argentina.
And then I realized...
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Poll: 73 Percent Of Americans Unable To Believe This Shit
PRINCETON, NJ–According to the latest Gallup Poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday of this week, nearly three out of four Americans can no longer believe this shit.
In addition to the 73 percent of poll respondents...
In Amsterdam at the moment, enjoying my new favorite booze, Jenever, among other things. Does anyone know where to get Jenever in BsAs? Are there any Dutch restaurants or bars in Buenos Aires? It will be sad to leave something so good behind.
Totally shameful outcome in the Ghana-Uruguay game. The ball was in the box, and Uruguay stooped to the indignity of using hands to avoid a loss. How undignified and unsportsmanlike can you get? Ghana deserved to win that game - indeed, Ghana *did* win the game. Apparently the only way Uruguay...
So Coach Maradona dressed for the game like he's been doing drug deals in Puerto Madero between thunder dumps on his million-peso custom toilet. Classy!
When la Selección Nacional scored it sounded like a human bomb had exploded in the streets below my apartment. Or maybe it was a real bomb...
I mean, what the fuck? Are we really a country that now identity checks people on the basis of skin color? In what sense is illegal immigration *this* kind of a problem? No doubt all the closet racists in America, most of them Republicans who blather in public about limited state power but...