LISBOA, Portugal, January 27, 2006 The carpet hurts to walk on with bare feet - thick grooves of natural fiber, laid directly on cold Portuguese marble. So when I fell directly on my face from the top bunk - goofing off with my friend Jen, attempting to change the song on iTunes on my laptop on the [...]
January 27th, 2007
Read...LISBOA, Portugal, January 22, 2007 One of the best things about my job at the Oasis hostel is the free dinner, cooking by a rotating cast of local chefs. Seeing as how free food is my number one passion in life - (heck, this ain’t the first job I took because of the munchies) - I’ve [...]
January 22nd, 2007
Read...LISBOA, Portugal, January 20, 2007 Sometimes it’s easy to forget that I’m in another country. Easy, that is, until I turned on the TV last week to see a man in blackface eating his hand. I had stumbled onto a PORTUGUESE FREAK SHOW on TV! [Update: A reader has informed me that this channel is Brazilian. I watched [...]
January 21st, 2007
Read...Flickr’d by Tierecke. When I first got to Lisboa, I was like, “Dude, there’s a giant Jesus here!” I knew there was an enormous statute overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, but the Lisboa Jesus just doesn’t get enough press. So why do the countries have matching statues? This got me to imagining the following conversation: Portugal: Dude, [...]
January 18th, 2007
Read...LISBOA, Portugal, January 18, 2007 I was thrilled the other day to discover that Portugal is home of the world’s coolest tunafish tins. Each is a marvel of design - harkening back to some distant era, where lone designers sailed the seas of unconventionality, fishing for a look that would set their can ahead of the [...]
January 18th, 2007
Read...LISBOA, Portugal, January 18, 2007 My last official meal in Lagos was at Linda Bar on Meia Praia. The day was too sunny to be believed; we were warm in jeans and short sleeves - in the middle of January! Monkeys pals Kaci, Beck, Jimmy and Timmy joined Raff and I for our farewell - so to [...]
January 18th, 2007
Read...… Crazy sick! The Internet rumours swirled long enough that Ms. Paula Abdul has finally addressed the public re: her seeming constant state of drunkeness. Seems she has a “neurological disorder,” complicated by “plane accidents” “cheerleading accidents” and “car accidents.” From USAToday.com: Drugs? I’m not addicted to pills of any kind,” Abdul says in the new issue of People [...]
January 13th, 2007
Read...LAGOS, Portugal, January 12, 2007 Admittedly, I’m a bit behind the times here in Portugal. (We’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of Borat next week.) I had heard about a new version of Hairspray popping up, but I had no idea of the delicious goodness of the casting. In case you’ve missed these pics, here ya go, lifted [...]
January 12th, 2007
Read...[For the non-MySpace-obsessed: It's a common practice to send around a list of questions via bulletin (a message that goes out to all your MySpace friends). Users fill out the questionnaire, then re-post it on the bulletin board for their friends to read. It's a mindless time waster that I will now inflict on you!] Number [...]
January 11th, 2007
Read...LAGOS, Portugal, January 11, 2007 Chef Sharon Crayton and I treated ourselves to a night out at Lagos’ premiere Thai restaurant, Lemongrass. (OK, technically, it was her treat.) The entire meal was divine, with the notable exception of the bland papaya salad, which we didn’t bother to finish. Grilled mussels in Portugal are delectable, moist, and [...]
January 11th, 2007
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