Last night Sol, our tour guide from a couple of weeks back, invited us out to her dad’s swank house just north of the city to eat asado. Asado is Argentine barbecue, a ritualized feast of a variety of God’s grilled creatures that puts our sad North American hamburger and hot-dog endeavors to total shame. … Continue reading
This morning, walking past a kiosko (that is, a street kiosk that sells magazines, newspapers, and smokes), I saw my first front-page headline pertaining to the falsification of the Argentine president’s cancer scare. A bit of background: la Presidenta Cristina Kirchner (whose late husband, Nestor, was the president before her) was diagnosed with thyroid cancer … Continue reading
The weather is beautiful and the people are nice, but I miss everybody.
Buenos Aires is beginning to make sense. Maybe because today was the first time I got properly lost on my own, which is a fabulous way to get one’s bearings in an unfamiliar place. For the past 13 days (!) I’ve been relying on my travel partner for navigation. In a sense, he’s the orchestrator … Continue reading
I’ve been in Buenos Aires for five days now, long enough to have run (and nearly perished during) an 8k race in 30 degree heat, acted a fool on New Year’s Eve (the 8k made me an absurdly cheap date), visited far-flung suburbs, and made new friends. The Spanish is beginning to flow more naturally now, … Continue reading
I arrived in Buenos Aires early this morning after nearly 24 hours of travel. I haven’t slept much in the past couple of days, and it’s beginning to show. I find myself repeating sentences that I’ve already said or written; a roughly 600 word article took me the better part of the day to write. … Continue reading
I was raised Catholic, which often comes up in conversation when I’m drunk. Apart from that, Papism features in my life as the one thing that both my parents have always held in common, despite their extraction from what may as well have been two entirely separate planets. But, while both sides of my family … Continue reading
Life’s been too busy for updates. BUT, here’s a sampling of the past month’s work: -On Occupy Toronto feeling like a high school cafeteria in the Toronto Standard -…And the queer community taking on Occupy Toronto -…And Occupy Toronto post-eviction from St.James Park -A “catvertising” video spoof that brought international attention to a Toronto ad … Continue reading
I attended a discussion on transportation revamps. The takeaway: mobility management isn’t an argument about cars vs. public transit, but about increased efficiency and optimized interaction. As one might say, it’s about dolla dolla billz as much as individual contentment and convenience. Writeup here.
Nothing’s for sure yet, despite a Toronto Star article that led people to assume otherwise, but there is talk about pedestrianization in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood becoming a regular thing. I lay it down here.
