http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ I have not fallen off the planet, I'm just underneath it. en-us tones@projectallende.org 2010-06-29T16:15:28+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000156.html All and all life in Buenos Aires is fine... "Can't complain!", as my mother would say. While the world falls in love with football (written during one of the more boring world cups), a "The society of the spectacle --... 156@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Buenos Aires Orientation 2010-06-29T16:15:28+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000138.html The uniform was green and white plastic chiffon. They put me in a shirt, little booties and a skull cap. A cap? I'm bald! I found the whole outfit quite unbecoming and a tad chilly for this time of year! I was allowed to keep on my undies ... 138@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Health 2009-06-18T17:51:51+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000121.html There were Cubans, Venezuelans and some Argentines and 3 gringos myself included. 121@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ 2008-06-10T04:56:58+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000120.html View image Some thoughts on the procedure. A short note to you all that I have done something rather extraordinary (for me, anyway). I bought an apartment and I live here now. It has been a mind-bending experience, the... 120@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Buenos Aires Orientation 2008-05-18T18:17:37+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000118.html It was a sunny Saturday in the walled compound of a turn of the twentieth-century unusual gated-community, the puzzle factory: hospital Borda. The buildings all look rather similar and so I stuck close to Paul as we went in. The... 118@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Buenos Aires Orientation 2007-12-04T03:46:28+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000117.html Saturday I had the pleasure of being invited to partake in an extraordinary visit. I took some maté and bought cigarettes for the first time in four years. The maté was to help me get over the ill effects of cachaça and beer the previous night, the cigarettes were not to be smoked but to be shared. This is part one of a story of how a paranoid Irishman enters the world of some of the whackiest stars of Argentine media. Hi, ho and off we go to Hospital Borda, (better known by its radio station La Colifata). The Buenos Aires insane asylum. 117@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Buenos Aires Orientation 2007-11-30T14:15:28+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000116.html I've been in Buenos Aires now more than a few seasons. I've been in Latin America a few years. Every once in a while I ask myself why? The locals always ask too. "So where are you from?", Answer:... 116@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Green 2007-11-12T02:13:12+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000112.html 112@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Buenos Aires Orientation 2007-09-12T17:40:45+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000108.html 108@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Asuncion 2007-07-05T18:22:07+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000105.html Asunción Paraguay: 29th. June 2007 The form asked whether we would be arriving by commercial jet or private plane. In our case transport was provided by the Brazilian discount airline GOL. Two hours behind schedule, at 6:00PM on the... 105@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ 2007-07-03T13:27:29+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000100.html 100@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Spanish 2007-04-28T02:12:56+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000096.html I’m really pushing the hand-baggage rules here at terminal one, Guarulhos, São Paulo’s International Airport. My checked bag, however, was a professional 1.5 Kilos over the 23 Kilo weight limit. Better to suffer as the overloaded/overdressed Irishman in the... 96@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Travel 2007-02-06T18:26:40+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000095.html The day began as most days do, yesterday in Buenos Aires. But today was to be different, quite different! At 10:40PM my plane took off for Washington Dulles. I had asked the flight attendant if the liquids ban was... 95@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Travel 2006-12-27T03:24:00+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000094.html Summer in Buenos is too hot to sleep. Even if you do manage to collapse exhausted in a pool of sweat, the AC on, you will doubtless be very rudely awoken, the house shaken to its foundations by a... 94@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ Buenos Aires Orientation 2006-12-14T11:29:27+00:00 http://WWW.NOT-TRUE.COM/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/archives/000092.html Today I feel like a migrant. Migrant is a word with its own agency in the United Nations, a word that implies visas, quotas, tents in the desert with questionable plumbing. This is not my experience. I live in... 92@http://www.projectallende.org/buenos_aires/cgi-bin/ 2006-08-30T04:48:16+00:00