I guess I'd better post something here before livejournal blows me away

(In Spanish, "andar de pata de perro" or "to walk like a dog's leg" means to wander hither and thither or take a crazy jaunt ( Read more... )

And now, ladies and gentlemen, presenting, newly returned from their Mexican tour, the members of Especial Majestic Superlamb ( Read more... )

And just when you get reeeeaaaaalllllly down in the dumps, your best Mexican friend promises to take you to a wrestling match on Friday and get you shitfaced. Life is funny that way.

Approximate speed at which I hit the wall today ( Read more... )

Sierra Gorda in the north of Querètaro state. Last weekend turned out to be something like a g-rated version of "Y tu mamá también". So I went on this trip to the sierra with a group of freshmen students in the foreign language department...and it was seriously like being on a road trip with Tenoch and Julio. Except in my case it was Morel and ( Read more... )

is a town that is like Guanajuato turned inside out. It's built up a hillside instead of in a valley but it's similarly labyrinthine, bleached-out instead of particoloured, and between the streets any improvised place is slung with tarps and becomes a makeshift market. You move around the city vertically almost more than horizontally; ever read ( Read more... )

Me: Hi. I need...something ( Read more... )

cactus-fruit ice cream
how art is not a commodity, but is authentically democratic
that you're just sitting there and then all the sudden something like this happens

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So there's a baby in my house. I'm not a real baby person ( Read more... )