Channeling My Inner-Punk

Sometimes things like our jobs, personal relationships, and constant inner-monologues get in the way of what really matters: blogging. Dear readers, I apologize and will not soon let you down again. The other night I had dinner, a subtle euphemism for blog fodder, with a good friend, her visiting-New York Latin lover (who loves being [...]

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Foreign Types with the Hookah Pipes

One of the great things about vocally, perhaps pathologically hating cilantro is people are constantly offering cilantro anecdotes, testimonies, periodical features of interest. Many of these tidbits aren’t SO interesting after all, but some of them are. My dear friend (I was going to call her “best friend” but didn’t want to step on any [...]

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Cilantro, The Anti-Death

There’s so much fodder in any given issue of the New York Times, it’s a wonder I ever get around to reading anything else. It’s not that it’s the best publication out there for news or anything else, far from it, but they’ve mastered the ability to hook me with one story or another before [...]

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I LOVE CILANTRO

Er, uh, April Fools? Ok. Back with a real post tomorrow.(+)* *New thing I’m trying out whereby periods and exclamation points can be nuanced with the addition of (+) or (-) (“+” making it more exclamatory and “-” making it less exclamatory, more period-y) because I really think we need a punctuation between “.” and [...]

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Sí, Por Favor

~ Totally Generic Grocery Store Checkout Girl: This is flat leaf parsley, right? Cilantro-Loving Birthday Friend: Uh (rolls eyes), no; this is cilantro. TGGSCG: Right. ~ This is the scene that had taken place in a local grocery store mere hours before my friend’s annual birthday brunch this Saturday past. We had chilaquiles. We had [...]

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I love Netflix! (and cilantro)

If you’re anything like me (first of all, God bless you — it’s messy up there, huh?) there are few things as amazing as stumbling across a movie, a book, a philosophy, anything that sort of lays it all out there in a way that not only connects seemingly disparate kinds of things and thoughts, [...]

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