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There's lots of graffiti in Buenos Aires; this might be my favorite.

I thought this would be a good reason to link to that other anti-Bush photo I took; apparently, I liked it so much I posted it twice.

remember when I went to Argentina?

Hey, you know how I posted those photos from Louisville? I took way more in Buenos Aires, and I hardly posted any of them. I'll be doing that over the next few days. Something to look forward to, right?

Books That I Bought In Buenos Aires

Inspired by Jeb

Fiction
Rayuela Julio Cortázar

Non-Fiction
El Socialismo Latinoamericano: Un Recorrido Hasta Nuestros Tiempos, ed. Claudia Korol
Nación y nacionalismo en Latinoamérica, ed. Jorge Enrique González
Neoliberalismo y sectores dominantes, eds. Eduardo M. Basualdo & Enrique Arceo
Reforma Financiera en América Latina, eds. Eugenia Correa & Alicia Girón

Pamphlets
la américa latina y los congresos del partido comunista ruso, Víctor Alba [1960s?]
los EE.UU. y América Latina, H.L. Matthews and K.H. Silvert [1963]


In case you were wondering, my Spanish skills are not nearly up to the task of reading all of these books (case in point: I'm not entirely sure of what "sectores dominantes" means--the literal translation is dominant sectors, but I think it might be more 'domestic sectors'), but hey, that'll just make things more interesting, right?

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Things That I Love About Buenos Aires

1. Nonna Bianca's Super Dulce de Leche ice cream

2. Gibraltar, a super awesome pub with Staropramen. Staropramen! Czech beer in BA!

3. taking a day trip to Colonia [pictures on Flickr eventually]

4. getting home from a night out and drinking more wine and watching American movies with Spanish subtitles [oh, if only I could think of some good examples. cock=miembro? I swear I'm not watching Spanish soft-core porn, though I could as it's on channel 35 after midnight]

5. shopping. Look, I'm sorry, consumer culture in the US is terrible, but I have bought two different bags that make me so happy, so so happy.

6. Wine. Vino. Tinto o Blanco, me gusta vino.

7. I'm sorry about the shopping thing. Buenos Aires has bookstores on every corner, and I bought five books today. Five books in Spanish. Spanish. Which I... can read? Maybe? We'll see.

8. Everything.

All right. Buenos Aires, so far.

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I've had a lot of cafe con leche.

I've purchased two bags so far; I may buy more. I am all about consumption in Buenos Aires.

We went to the San Telmo Feria (Feria de San Pedro Telmo) which was full of tourists and jewelry and old things and generally very full. I wanted to buy an old cigarette case, but the cheapest one I could find was 450 pesos, which is something like $125. I don't need an old cigarette case that much, but maybe they'll have one at the Feria de Mataderos. I think I'll enjoy that one more; apparently it's not nearly as crowded.

What else have we done... we went to a few museums. The Palais de Glace and el Museo de Bellas Artes (I think). There were some amazing pieces by modern Argentine artists at the Art Museum, and the Palais de Glace had a really impressive photojournalism exhibit. We'll get to MALBA eventually, which is apparently the best art museum in the city. We also went to the Museo de San Telmo and tried to go to the Puppet Museum (fuck if I remember the Spanish name). We walked by the penitentiary museum and the Museo de Arte Moderno; the first one we'll see later, the second one has been inexplicably closed since at least March. We went to the Toilet Museum too, which was pretty great.

We've walked around a lot, mostly San Telmo and Palermo. Argentina empanadas and ice cream are both delicious, and I'm basically in love with dulce de leche. We're going to Uruguay tomorrow during the day (the ferry only takes an hour!) and then the Hippodrome at night. If we time everything right, we'll see the last horse race of the day.

There are other things, but they can wait I think. I swear I'll have pictures on my flickr soon (I know you're all waiting with bated breath), but the wifi in the apartment is spotty at best, and I have a lot of photos to upload. I'll get to an internet cafe by Tuesday at the latest, and maybe I'll try to upload everything later tonight when no one else is online.

still alive!

Buenos Aires is aaaaaawesome.

Kira and Max's wireless is aaaawesome as somehow it automatically sends me to Argentine Google and Argentine Blogger, so el titulo as "still alive!" y voy a publicar entrada en uno minuto. Vamos al Aquabar pronto pero ya bebé una media botella de vino Malbec que cuesta 8 pesos. That's like $3! And it was amazing!

Pictures tomorrow, probably. I think we're going to the San Telmo fería and various San Telmo museums.