Okay, okay, so I must apologize for my lack of updates, barely-existent reading audience. As they would say in Venezuela, I’ve been ganandome la arepa (I.e. bringing home the bacon). So sorry. Now that I’ve groveled. I have something much more important to talk about, like…
…What Venezuelans think of American and how we’re going to [...]
Are you an alcoholic occasional cocktail imbiber, but also a parsimonious cheapskate? Then I’ve found the website for you.
The Cocktail Calculator allows you to plug in the ingredients of your favorite drink, right down to the tonic water, and find out just exactly how much your drink truly takes to make.
My gin & tonic, which [...]
Some charities in Houston this year, including the Salvation Army, checked immigration status before deigning to hand out toys to needy children. Just like Jesus would have wanted.
Now your anti-human trafficking campaign makes sense, Salvation Army. You’re not trying to prevent the transport of human beings for sex or labor across national boundaries, you’re trying [...]
I cook special hamburgers Senor has dubbed Yummy Burgers, and last week I decided that they needed their natural accompaniment – French fries! If you’ve ever seen my dumpling shape, you know that I naturally love French fries. In fact, I’m in love with all things potato, as I’m proud to show. So for Sublime [...]
Once again, proof that the rest of the country sees the South as just one big blob of redneck.
Recently, due to the wonders of PaperBackSwap.com, I was able to procure a book that’s been on my reading list for a long while. Academy X: A Novel by Andrew Trees is a fictional tell-all about a [...]
Here in the South, we have biscuits. In Venezuela, they have arepas.
Basically, arepas are a breakfast food made out of corn. They are native to northern South America, and not just Venezuela, but they seem to be inextricably tied up with the Venezuelan national character so much so that if you called one an Arepa [...]
