A great read "Too much Ann Rand and John Wayne in your formative years can be very bad for you." Funny and well said. This was a joy to read. Hello and thank you for the words from the KC Frisbee game.
Mike S.
I just don't believe that the global economic crisis has been caused by bad mortgage lending. In my opinion it's called paying for unending wars. I just don't see the return in creating million dollor baseball sized craters in froiegn countries.
so good i love love love your costumes! they look amazing. my question is, did you find other people of your own kind to dance with? or were you just hanging with bobo? i miss you guys.
wow i should consider actually writing when i make a blog entry. it would be a lot more interesting. for me and likely for others. good job colin. btw, check my blog to see how i credited you and carly for the best decorating idea in my apartment: www.tobeckyw.wordpress.com
Hey nice essay. Made me feel stupid, especially when you compaired the plaza to the paris plaza, used these words: "whimsical colorful rotundity ." I have yet to understand how the word "whimsical" can describe architechture. I also enjoyed the examination of spell check. Jamie
My two cents "Universidad de Chile bebe la leche del pie de la vaca"--The U of Chile won at the other team's field, hence they drank the milk from the source (at the foot of the cow, rather than having bought it from the store). These are absurd discussions...
me tinka I am going to make an effort at explaining an idiom from a country I have never visited. As an American, I see it as my god-given right. Anyhoo, I believe the traditional metaphor that would be used (milk=generic benefit + teat=effort of individual) has been modified to reflect the circumstances (milk=victory + teat=foot of footballer). In other words, they are reaping the benefits of his footwork. Que piensas?
Mmmm, you got it wrong good theory, but the verb "tincar" comes from quechua, the inca language (tinka'y), and it means "to have a feeling". Nice try though.
¿te tinca..... ....comprarte el diccionario titulado "How to Survive in the Chilean Jungle 2"? (¿do you feel like buying the dictionary titled "How to Survive in the Chilean Jungle 2?). if you're intrested in the chilean language, i really recommend the aforementioned book, written by John Brennan and Alvaro Taboada (published by Comunicaciones Noreste Ltda., 2003). it's a green cover little book that's a lot of fun and explains the ins and outs of chilean slang and idioms. you should be able to find it at any larger downtown book store (like those on paseo Huérfanos). here's how the dictionary defines "tincar": 1) to like or be attracted to someone or something, ex. "¿Tú crees que yo le tinco a Alvaro? (do you think alvaro's attracted [or into] to me?); 2)to have a "hunch"--an intuition--about a person or the outcome of a future event, ex. "Mejor que no arrendemos esta casa, me tinca que va a estar llena de goteras en invierno (we'd better not rent that house, i have a hunch it's going to be full of leaks in winter); 3). to want or desire something, ex. "¿Te tinca ir al teatro? (do you feel like going to the theatre?). as far as the soccer cow expression, no idea. maybe if you write it out in spanish some loyal reader of your blog may be able to explain it.
by the way, i really like your prior description of the protester-police dance. that's totally what it is in chile. you've hit the nail on the head!
Tossing the tear gas canisters The teargas dance with local cops was standard operating procedure in the late 60's and early 70's in Berkeley. Phil and I watched the same street play (from a safe distance, of course). ;) The "pigs" would throw the tear gas at the students, and one of the students would run and grab it before it let out much of the gas, and toss it back at the cops. It was very entertaining.
Mas cervezas Amigo What is clear is that your Spanish skills drink milk from the foot of a cow. :) Expect nothing but positive support from the ex-pat community.
man that disclaimer made me wince. You can be so brutal, like a tank running over a poppy flower. And sometimes I am the poppy flower, and you could be too, if you let yourself. Tra la lala
Appreciating comment "esp. Fleur and Sanj\" Lucky you put that one in old boy!
Thankfully your words are now online, rather than your triangular scribble lost in leather bound books that, of course, got stolen.
Always wondered what you were writing down. Now I have a glimpse. Thank you for sharing.
F x
no luck... for years, I tried to get robbed in Hungary, Serbia, Transylvania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Sweden and the Netherlands. You were even with me on a few of those excursions. I drank and flailed, humped and fought with academics and acrobats to prostitutes and policewomen. Not once did I get robbed. How is it, with your persistent condition of slothliness and farmers-blows, that you continue to have such flabby-pocketed luck? I truly wish you and C the best of luck in your adventures and look forward to you coming to Portland as I'm running out cash and cameras. Be well, dear UniRib and travel safely, alright?
i admire your use of the word gravitas colin. and thanks for the very entertaining account of your entertaining-in-another-way experiences as a victim of theft. i am going to figure out how to call you soon cause i feel like i'm in outerspace over here sometimes, and i know you are quite familiar with these surroundings. luv, b
Reading Matter Colin, Tio Bull again. See if you can find a copy of Isabel Allende's latest novel, Ines of My Soul. It's based on the Spaniard your Indios may have made kebabs of and his major squeeze (the Ines of the title). Allende is a cousin, once removed whatever that means, of Salvador Allende. She is one of my favorite writers. She did a lot of research to write this book so I imagine the historical references are pretty much spot on. And here I thought Panama was the only place Spanish speakers dropped the "s" off everything. I did hear a young Chilean say of an airplane, "Esta Chileno" except what he said was eh-tah, no "s." I found Ecuadorans the easiest to understand. If you guys ever get the opportunity to hear a Chilean musical group that includes a harpist, don't miss it. I'm talking Rolling Stones stuff.
Bull
Runs in the Family Colin, this is your Tio Bull but for God's sake don't say my initials--TB--around UN folks! Your cousin Corey was robbed by two knife wielding locals while shopping at a market somewhere in Mexico in 2002. Two years later we visit him in Paris and I become the victim of one of the oldest dodges in the book--the old ketchup squirt on your back trick by a three-Gypsy team. I fell in love with Vina del Mar in July 1985 while attending an inernational conference of sorts in Santiago. VdM was a side trip for the day. Since I was a guest of the Chilean Air Force we enjoyed the "belonging" as you and Carly did but I'm one up on you insofar as riding in authority autos goes. Two security guards took me all over Santiago looking for a bird your Tia Annie ahd to have, and which we found later in Panama of all places, where we lived. This bird was supposedly made of stones native to Brasil. Couldn't find even a facsimile of it but I enjoyed zipping around Santiago and when traffic got tight the guards would flip on their siren and folks got out of the way. Of course this was when Gen. Pinochet was still the jefe. That was the year, in September, I believe, that the folks who didn't like him tried to assassinate him while he was returning to Santiago from Vina del Mar. I returned for the same type conference in 1986 but things were considerably quieter. Things are really different in Chile now, and I'm happy about that but in closing I'd like to say that the Chilean Air Force cannot be equated with Pinochet's ilk. Its commander, General Mattias (how about that one?), along with the Chilean Navy top admiral convinced Pinochet to hold elections in 1990. And the rest, as they say, is history. I hope you two develop a capacity for sleeping with the windows closed. Or at least switch to one-use cameras! Salud!
Bull
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the military goverment of pinochet was not "found" by the US it was put there