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I
think we’re ready for the coffee and pie by Ran Scot
“So why?”
“Why what?”
“Why are two good-looking intelligent people like us alone?”
“I think it’s cuz we expect to much. We’ve grown
up seeing the prefect love, or date, or chance meeting on television,
movies, and books for years. Everyday love isn’t good enough
anymore. It has to be a Speilbergian explosion of lust, romance,
and desire. A bowling game of 300.”
“You think?”
“I know.”
“Oh, you know.”
“Why? What is your explanation?”
“Easy, we’re simply in touch to much, that’s
why we’re alone. The better technology gets for us to communicate,
the more isolated we become on a personal level.”
This nearly causes her to snort the pie out her nose. She smirks
and drinks some of her coffee.
 "I
have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child
and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink
and harlots."
~William Butler Yates
The news came a week prior to the annual office holiday party.
The head of the group was leaving the firm and taking his top
two senior officers with him. A sense of abandonment was permeating
throughout the office. It seemed as if their departure was extremely
well timed with the guarantee of their enormous bonuses. When
one ran the most prestigious trading desk on Wall Street for over
a decade, one’s compensation could be considered extremely
generous. Even by the Street’s standards.
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El Trencherman
Tragón: Ristorante Bella Italia
(Español) Ristorante
Bella Italia, se encuentra dentro de uno de los más antiguos,
y algunos dirían más escandalosos, hoteles en SMA.
El Hotel Sauto ha sido largamente conocido por sus razonables
precios, y sus huéspedes  apasionados
y a veces excéntricos. El Restaurante es dirigido y administrado
por su propietario y Chef, Paolo Bizzotto, quien renta el espacio
del Sauto.
Por supuesto, la comida tiene sazón italiano, el ambiente
es informal y despreocupado. De hecho, llega el punto donde uno
se voltea hacia su compañero de cena para preguntarle,
“...cuando crees que traerán el menú?”
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(English)
Ristorante Bella Italia stands inside one
of the more historic, and some would say ‘infamous’,
hotels in SMA. The Hotel Sauto has long been known for its reasonable
prices and its flamboyant and at times dubious guests. The restaurant
is run and managed by its owner and chef, Paolo Bizzotto, whom
rents the space from the Sauto.
The food definitely has an Italian sazón, the ambience
is informal and laid back. As a matter of fact, it reaches the
point where you will actually turn to your dinner partner and
ask each other, “...when do you think they will bring a
menu?”
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Running
the Bull
or More Favorite Liars
by Keith Keller
Fellini was once asked if he was making
things up when he told stories. “No,” he answered.
“Every story I tell happened just as I tell it. It is only
that I tend to repeat myself, so I feel a responsibility to friends
to make a story more interesting each time I tell it—but
it is always the truth.”
Desde Aquí
por Amaranta Caballero Prado
A ser extranjera se aprende. Puede ser comprometidamente
fácil o irremediable y complicado. La sentencia es sencilla,
vivirla, no tanto. Hablo como siempre, con la única posibilidad
que tengo: la que conozco. (Comprendiendo esto cada vez menos
obviamente).
Empiezo por desmenuzar una situación casi hilarante: ser
extranjera en la propia casa. La posibilidad de cualquier cosa
–al entrar a una casa ajena– tiene sentido, no así
cuando se entra al espacio físico vital de cada una. Sentir
frío o miedo, sentir desconcierto y hasta curiosidad, suena
confuso al tener esas percepciones justo en el momento en que
la llave de la chapa ha girado. Y si eso sucede, no atino a pensar
qué tanta bondad exista en esas señales. Más
extraño aún, si adentro se tiene temor de cualquier
cosa, de hacer ruido por ejemplo, aún cuando se tenga plena
consciencia de que la casa está sola. Una entonces, ya
es extranjera y quizá hasta probable exiliada.
Butuca
de mi Casa
por Zulu Lloydd
Algunas películas rodean a las acciones,
otras a un personaje y otras a una idea. Yo suelo preferir las
que parten de una idea, pero en esta ocasión me quedé
traumado con dos películas “de personaje” que
les comparto ahora… ambas relatan vidas que dan un vuelco
completo.
.
Nuestro primer personaje es un hombre castrado… no, no es
Farinelli; Barry Egan está castrado psicológica
y emocionalmente, tanto por sus ¡siete! hermanas como por
su empleo y, en general, toda su vida. La película, dirían
hollywoodenses, literalmente “Comienza con un Bang”:
un automóvil vuela por los aires frente a su planta y da
una marometa frente a él; de inmediato, alguien deja un
armonio en la calle, sin razón, y se va.
 (Español)
Una de las mejores cosas de Japón,
es que nos recuerda justamente que tan diferentes pueden ser las
culturas. A través de este puente del entendimiento, se
encuentran los juegos conocidos como <<Kuso-ge>> o
juegos de mierda. Dentro de este género esta el totalmente
inapropiado, disturbador y sacudidor de almas <<Cho Aniki>>
o como la encantadora reseña dice: “He escuchado
que esto se traduce vagamente como ‘Super Big Brother’
y/o ‘Great Big Brother’, pero en lo que a mí
concierne, realmente se traduce como un montón de homosexuales
lunáticos, con huecos en sus cabezas.”
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(English)
One of the best things about Japan is that
it reminds you just how different cultures can be. Across this
bridge of understanding stand games known as “kuso-ge”,
or shit games. Within this genre was the utterly uncalled for
and soul-shakingly disturbing “Cho Aniki” series,
or as the delightful review says: “I’ve heard that
it loosely translates to ‘Super Big Brother’ and/or
‘Great Big Brother’, but as far as I’m concerned,
it really translates to ‘A Bunch of Speedo-Wearing Homosexual
Lunatics with Holes in their goddamned Heads.’”
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Kinky
by Stucco Steve
 At
this time Bobbie got quite animated in protest of her experience
in Dallas. Of course, so did Jackie Kennedy. The experience Kinky
and I had was euphoric and we both went overboard in our praise
of what we remembered.
Flash-forward to 2005. Someone I’ve known all my adult life
is running for Texas Governor. Kinky! Who do you think I’m
voting for? Like Jessie Ventura, Kinky is running as an independent.
Therein lies the problem, at least in Texas that is. If an independent’s
war chest was converted to gasoline there wouldn’t be enough
to run an ant’s putt-putt around a BB. I’m urging
all my friends registered to vote in Texas to call their friends
and spread the word. Forget those big buck candidates. Vote your
heart!
Steve
Olson
(Español) Steven
Olson reprobó cada clase de arte en cada escuela y de las
cuales también fue expulsado. Un  patinador
con personalidad legendaria y formación de campeón
del mundo, Olson gasto el tiempo de aprendizaje artístico,
encerando su tabla de surf y ayudando a su hermano mayor en crear
diseños de punta para patinetas. Influenciado por la cultura
“Punk-Rock” de los años 70s, Olson ha emergido
como un héroe de los jóvenes patinadores por tres
generaciones.
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(English)
Steve Olson failed every art class in each school he was expelled
from, which was all of them. A legendary skateboarding personality
and former world champion, Olson spent his artistic apprenticeship
waxing his surfboard and assisting his older brother in forming
state-of-the-art surfboard designs. Largely influenced by late-1970’s
punk rock culture, Olson has emerged as a hero to three generations
of young skaters.
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Buenas
y Flices Noticias
La Subasta De “Feed the Hungry” Alcanzo Los $84,000
Dólares
El pasado 23 de febrero, la fundación
“Feed the Hungry” realizó el mayor evento del
año, su fiesta anual mexicana. “La Subasta y Rifa
recaudó cerca de 84,000 dólares, casi la misma cantidad
que el año pasado. Según acordó Tony Adlerbert,
Director  Ejecutivo.
El beneficio ayudará a proveer de alimentos a los niños
de San Miguel de Allende en el 2005.
Good
and Happy News
Feed the Hungry Auction Raises US$84,000
On February 23rd Feed the Hungry held its
largest fund-raising event of the year, the Annual Mexican Fiesta.
“The Auction and Raffle raised nearly US$84,000, about the
same amount as last year,” according to Executive Director
Tony Adlerbert. The benefit will help provide nutritious hot meals
to young SMA children in 2005.
“The generous support from local residents and visitors
will help us further our current program of feeding more than
3,000 hungry young children a day from 25 kitchens in San Miguel
and the surrounding communities,” Adlerbert commented.
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