Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Diamonds are a Tough Guy’s Best Friend
I just came across this new report on two NBA players who have recently been robbed. Just imagine someone robbing a 6-foot-9, 245 pounds guy (206cm, 111kg )or a 6-foot-11, 285 pound guy (210cm, 129kg). You have to have a lot of fire and back up to pull that off. The story goes on […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Essays by eric
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
My Name is Red
I first started reading My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk in 2004 while on vacation en solitario in Fuerteventura. My friend, Waya, recommended it to me and said that it was an amazing story that I would love. After reading and re-reading the first thirty pages, I gave up. I just couldn’t follow the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Essays, Friends / Family, literature by eric
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Cumpleaños en Úbeda
¿Cómo sale una persona nacida en Úbeda en pleno verano a más de 40º a la sombra? ¡Mega mona, mega tó!
¡Felicidades!
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Preservatives
At 11:00am this Saturday morning, I found myself in a farmacia sweating through my green “Getting Lucky in Kentucky” t-shirt, with my sun glasses on, iPod blasting Roland Kirk’s I Talk to Spirits, and asking the pharmacist for Fortasec (a diarrhea medicine), a tooth brush, and preservatives. And this wasn’t even the first pharmacy I […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Living la vida española by eric
Friday, July 27th, 2007
Save the Prince
When Jeb Bush came to Spain a few years ago, he committed the horrible blunder of actually referring to the nation as the “Republic of Spain”. Spaniards were outraged at his ignorance. Spain is not a republic, it is something else. I think that if Spaniards looked up the term “republic” in the dictionary, they […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
Inauguración del Ascensor Exprés
Después de dos semanas con un ascensor que no funcionaba, nosotros pensábamos que estaba averiado y no entendíamos por qué tardaba tanto en arreglarse. Sin embargo, nos hemos enterado ahora mismo que estaba en obras y que hoy venía el alcalde de Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, para inaugurar el nuevo ascensor ligero exprés, linea directa […]
4 Comments » - Posted in FON by eric
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Ransom and RealPolitik
This week there was good news: Lybia finally decided to commute the sentences of five Bulgranian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been in jain for the past eight years on bogus charges of having infected some 400 children with the HIV virus. All evidence points to the fact that the children were infected […]
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Mine Virgin Eyes
After many complaints about nightmares caused by the Qtip earwax image, I am putting this photo of a beautiful morning in Bethany. Thus, virgin eyes won’t be exposed to the golden earwax right upon opening Grave Error. Please scroll down to be digusted.
1 Comment » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Orange is the Color of My True Love’s Earwax
Earwax is kind of cool, especially after just reading about it on Wikipedia. Why did I read about earwax? Today I went to the otolaryngologist. No one ever says I have an otolarynogologist appointment in English. We usually just say ENT (”ears, nose and throat”) doctor. But in Spain, they actually use the full term […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Living la vida española by eric
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
America’s Solution
I think I finally found the solution to America’s problems right after I published my last post on the Vick scandal. We need the American citizens to unite to force NFL football players’ to treat dogs more humanely. Then once we’ve finally achieved that, we can pressure the US government to treat people more like […]
