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When was the last time you watched the birdie or said cheese while looking at a camera? Photos are ubiquitous, everyone has a phone camera i...

Porto Alegre Cathedral I live two blocks away from the Porto Alegre cathedral, I see it every day walking my dog. It’s not an impressiv...

And while I’m on the subject of movies (see previous post) here is a post that will discredit all my opinions on movies. Oh well. I hated ...

A pie-in-the-face simply isn’t funny anymore. Nowadays slapstick has developed a reputation of being simplistic and lowbrow.  Classic gags d...

Recipe for sincerity: take a measure of insincerity and distill it to achieve the desired concentration, use sparingly. Sincerity in its pur...

Walking back from a restaurant the other day I came across these two characters at a major intersection. It always amazes me how creative Br...

Imagine, if you will, that you live in a free country and you have one sister.  One sunny day a foreigner arrives in your country and kills ...

All things being equal Joe wanted the best of both worlds. He buckled down to fight tooth and nail to have his cake and eat it too.  The bal...

Hello travelers, I can’t say ‘fellow travelers’ because I’ve never been anywhere. I'm pretty much rooted to one place.  Remember me? I...

America's Freedom Packages                            The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c America's Freedom Pac...

I saw a tweet that read “I am responsible for what I say, not for what you understand” and at first it seemed like an irrefutable axiom. Our...

Am I alone in complaining about the leg room and general comfort of airline seats these days? Probably not.  Everyone who has traveled coach...

I spent the weekend with an aunt in Gramado.  She had fascinating stories to tell and we had the opportunity to walk around town.  As a chil...

Saskia came with some pre-installed routines: eat, sleep, poop, jump, lick, wag, sniff and bark. Each native routine has subroutines. For ex...

This post is for my aunt.  I have three aunts but only one who reads this blog and this post is for her.  If you're not her this post wi...