voncookie | November 19, 2009
La Place Française. c’est fermée. Translation? The French Place is closed. Indefinitely. Here I go and get a new computer so that I can start working down there again and it’s closed! WTF??? I talked to the owner today, and he looked like he was on the verge of tears today when he made me [...]
voncookie | June 30, 2008
For starters, the Samba King is no longer here… at least temporarily. He’s been detained in Mexico by some personal business, and his 4-day trip has now turned into a month-long epic journey. ¿Quién sabe? The BarChicas have changed the music overhead to reflect their youth. Thank God. Indochine and the Samba King always seem [...]
voncookie | May 30, 2008
Today’s Samba King is a tired Samba King. For once he has very little to say, here at a quarter after 7 in the morning. He goes about his business, not talking to me, for once. He rubs his eyes repeatedly. The Samba King is still tired from Carnaval, where he samba’d his way up [...]
voncookie | February 3, 2008
I am having flashbacks to the fifth grade when I learned how to write an outline. We would have to take an already-written little article and then put it in the {I, A, 1, a, i } format. It was a total P.I.T.A., but hey, it’s 22 years later and I’m doing it all the [...]
