Saturday, July 2, 2011

Yendo y Viniendo

This just in...

Research shows that "maxipurses" cause damage to neck, shoulders, posture and overall wellbeing. A prominent doctor, or actor wearing a labcoat, recommends keeping the load in your purse under 1.5 kilos to prevent permanent damage. Various handbags are emptied and the contents weighed on screen.

No acknowledgement of manpurse in report.

Hardly anyone can pass a television without checking the score of the futból match, even serious, shaggy-haired, peacoat-wearing, man purse-toting jovenes. Authorities have responded by installing portapotties and an impossibly large HD television in the main plaza.

1. Words I learned from the bar:
matafuego
trago

2. Words I learned from Facebook:
cargando
pérfil
nivelado

3. Words I learned from Cortázar
cómodo
agujas
bestiaro
apenar
rechazar
esquivo

Three men play Don't Cry for Me Argentina on wooden Andean flutes on Av Florida. There's a white man with a head that's mostly shaved except for the sprout of dreadlocks growing in a firework configuration from the crown of his skull. He is a mediocre breakdancer. Yes, he is dancing on cobblestones, but he also has a mat.

Location:San Telmo