see you later baby

 

my sweet darling husband, mi vida, my constant companion

Nopales!

harvesting nopales in the pampas -video

Joy & thanks / Felicidad & agradecimiento

When you think...

Just when you think that you can't love someone more... you discover that YES, you can!

B.A. Cast

In Episode 4 of BA Cast Fernando ruminates on Nestor Kirchner, his death, and his meaning to Argentina… and then we get back to our show… but seriously this time.

En el Episodio 4 de BA Cast Fernando comenta sobre Nestor Kirchner, su muerte y su significado para Argentina... y despues sigue el show... esta vez en serio.

Builders´ love

Beef with Beef -part II

Interview by Gareth from Tourist 2 Townie

Beef with Beef -part I

Interview by Gareth from Tourist 2 Townie

Baseball: this Saturday! / ¡este sábado!

Come join the Buenos Aires Shankees!
free shuttle from Plaza Italia
¡ Veni a hinchar por los Buenos Aires Shankees !
colectivo gratis desde Plaza Italia

9 !!!

Y.O.

Love you darling

IMAS - Immigrant Mutual Aid Society

IMAS GETTING-YOUR-DNI SEMINAR

Tuesday, September 22, 7pm

areatres, Malabia 1720, Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires

Collaboration on living-skills for immigrants in Argentina

The Immigrant Mutual Aid Society will hold its first seminar on September 22, 2009 at areatres, Malabia 1720 (behind Starbucks), Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires.

This first seminar, conducted by Argentine immigration lawyer, Solange Verón, will begin at 7:00pm and will deal with DNI and legal residency with an emphasis on citizens of countries outside Argentina's Patria Grande.

Ms. Verón is a graduate of the University of Law at UBA and currently performs politics and government studies in a joint degree program with UN de San Martín and Georgetown University of Washington, DC. She has worked with city and national government for 10 years.

The presentation will focus on obtaining legal residency in the most general terms and will be conducted in English. After the presentation the audience will be encouraged to participate in a question and answer session regarding their legal residency experiences and plans. No questions regarding DNI will be considered too general.

Future seminars concerning DNI and legal residency are planned with specific emphasis on the various stages of the process. All instruction will be directed toward both do-it-yourself efforts and those represented by legal counsel.

IMAS is grateful for the generous support of areatres in providing its flexible workplace solutions and work environments for this seminar. (www.areatresworkplace.com)

IMAS is a non-profit, self-help immigrant mutual aid net in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Providing open-source collaboration on living-skills, personal help, and instruction to those making Argentina their home; IMAS seeks to fill an English language void among similar societies in Argentina's great history as a magnet for those seeking a better life. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

Contact IMAS at:

info@immigrantmutualaid.com.ar

IMAS is a non-profit, self-help immigrant mutual aid net in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Providing open-source collaboration on living-skills, personal help, and instruction to those making Argentina their home; IMAS seeks to fill an English language void among similar societies in Argentina's great history as a magnet for those seeking a better life. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

SEMINARIO IMAS: COMO OBTENER SU DNI

Martes, Septiembre 22, 19 hs
areatres, Malabia 1720, Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires

Colaboración para inmigrantes en Argentina

La red Immigrant Mutual Aid Society llevará a cabo su primer seminario el día 22 de Septiembre del corriente en areatres, Malabia 1720, en el barrio de Palermo de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Este primer seminario será conducido por la abogada argentina especialista en inmigración, Dra. Solange Verón, comenzará a las 19 hs y tratará acerca de cómo obtener DNI y residencia legal, en esta ocasión, con énfasis en la situación de ciudadanos de países más allá de Sudamérica.

La Dra. Verón es graduada de la Facultad de Derecho de la UBA, actualmente especializándose en política y gobierno en el programa conjunto de la Universidad de San Martín y Georgetown University of Washington, DC; habiendo a su vez trabajado por más de 10 años en posiciones a nivel gubernamental tanto en la ciudad como a nivel nacional.

Esta presentación se enfocará en la obtención de residencia legal en general y se llevará a cabo en inglés. Luego de la misma, la audiencia podrá participar en una sesión de preguntas y respuestas en lo referente a sus experiencias y planes en cuanto a su residencia legal. Serán consideradas todas las preguntas relacionadas con la obtención de documento nacional de identidad.

Asimismo se han previsto futuros seminarios para cada etapa del proceso de obtención de residencia legal. Las sugerencias estarán orientadas tanto en el sentido del hágalo-usted-mismo como para aquellos casos que requieran representación legal.

IMAS agradece profundamente el generoso aporte de areatres al proveer su espacio de trabajo flexible, así como sus soluciones y ambiente de trabajo totalmente novedosos para este seminario. (www.areatresworkplace.com)

IMAS es una red de mutua ayuda y sin fines de lucro para la comunidad de inmigrantes angloparlantes en Argentina, que provee colaboraciones abiertas en experiencias y conocimientos cotidianos, ayuda personal y guía para aquellos que eligieron Argentina como su nuevo hogar. IMAS busca crear un espacio para la comunidad angloparlante en el ámbito de las organizaciones de ayuda mutua, dentro de las ya establecidas históricamente por otras comunidades en Argentina. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

Contacto IMAS:
info@immigrantmutualaid.com.ar

IMAS es una red de ayuda mutua, sin fines de lucro en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Provee colaboraciones abiertas en experiencias y conocimientos cotidianos, ayuda personal y guía para aquellos que eligieron Argentina como su nuevo hogar. IMAS busca crear un espacio para la comunidad angloparlante en el ámbito de las organizaciones de ayuda mutua, dentro de las ya establecidas históricamente por otras comunidades en Argentina. (www.immigrantmutualaid.com.ar)

I see you too

Cuando camino por la calle
y del brazo vas conmigo,
me vuelves loca,
y cuando siento el sonido de tu risa
que me envuelve de alegría,
me vuelves loca.

Me vuelves loca
cuando empiezo a ver que el día
se comienza a despedir
porque al llegar a nuestro cuarto,
la de cosas tan hermosas
que me empiezas a decir,
me vuelves loca.

Cuando me pides por favor,
que nuestra lámpara se apague,
me vuelves loca,
cuando transmites el calor
que hay en tus manos en las mías,
me vuelves loca.

The Progressive Ticket

THE PROGRESSIVE TICKET

for Democrats Abroad Argentina

Chairman: Mike Skowronek
Vice- Chair: Deby Novitz
Secretary: Marta Motta
Treasurer: Frank Almeida
Counsel: Matthew Johnson

Please support these truly progressive people with your vote before January 31st.

If you´re not already a member you can join at

http://www.democratsabroad.org/user/register

Fiesta!

My light

A brillar mi amor, vamos a brillar mi amor...

You can only shine when there´s a light.
I found my personal light in Havana, Cuba a couple of centuries ago. We met half way in the planet and I have to admit that it was a very wise idea from our teethless Angel Amber (I might bother you with her story another day). She was smart because otherwise we would have been walking upside down for the rest of our lives.

Yep, my light came from the other side of the world. An unexpected, impossible, magic encounter at a time in which I was just a sketch. A good old project.

He came to my life floating on a stream of soft music but I didn´t recognize him at first. It took me two or three mojitos and a strange request at the Malecón :
- Buy me a love song...

I´ve never done any of those things before but the night had been weird enough up to that moment so I did. I bought him a bolero. While the singers were playing bésame, bésame mucho, and as I was listening to his stories I realized that I was beginning to glow.
Me and the singers were pale phosphorus green glowing!

He told me he was the first of a bunch in a baby boomer family and that he grew up as a dirty road boy in a black neighborhood. I never knew until then that there was something called Midwest the size of my own country, Argentina. He smiled at my accent when I told him I was very "yurban" but he was kind enough not to laugh out loud when I took Chicago as a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere.

Then when he mimicked the way he used to call for buyers as a popcorn seller at the circus, Northern Lights of an unknown Aurora Borealis slowly bathed every single being around.
I think the singers vanished because they were just scared after that.

He went on softly speaking about his life as a traveler and as a blues band leader. I had to come closer to him because the more I shined the more he lowered his voice. He whispered things about his times as an air force secret language interpreter, as a political sciences researcher, as a director of some big company, as a cats lover.
It was passed midnight when he tried to reach for his sun glasses. He couldn´t find them so he closed his eyes and I had to grab his hand. And he kissed me.

I realized that we needed a shelter when a fluorescent Cuban passing by shouted at us:
- Hey you, get a room!I don´t know if he heard it or not. With his eyes still shut he said:
- Marry me...

I didn´t say yes immediately but I looked up and there were no more stars or moon. Instead, diamonds were hanging on our heads. I took that as a good sign.
And we married.

Time passed and we run many adventures together although much less that the ones awaiting. The stream of brilliant plasma around me never fades away when I´m with him. Well, in fact it happens to everybody near him. What reminds me,

Hey baby, tomorrow is your birthday
so what do you say if we go out and shine out the city my love?
Vamos?

Happy birthday baby!

The family

Yellow up!

A rose and a taco

Sweet Home Chicago,
and what the thought of old Maxwell Street reminds me of
- long title, sorry -

The Little Prince,
because it is invisible and still essential

That a rose is a rose is a rose,
because things, streets and people are what they are no matter how you call them, where they come from, how long they stay

Aretha Franklin,
because a "Rose is still a rose" no matter how much time passes

The Jewish market,

and a lost battle to save the heritage

Corn tortillas, chilies and tacos,
On a typical visit to the old market, for example, we might feast on freshly roasted corn (50 cents), wonderful freshly grilled steak tacos ($1.00), and freshly peeled mangoes on a stick. We could also listen to free live blues, buy funky old china or clothes, locate a good used book, find interesting spices, and buy fresh roasted unsalted peanuts and inexpensive Islamic baked goods. Among our most memorable purchases were a beautiful Revlon 'glamour' doll from the 1950's, with her complete original outfit ($2.00); a pair of slightly battered but very serviceable high-top roller skates; colorful plastic picnicware from the 1940's - service for six, in it's original box - for $4.00, photographs of blues musicians, and many other interesting paper items such as old Elvis magazines... (more by Barbara Balkin,95)

and

"Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, brothers, on their mission from God
(and Ray too, of course)

I´m a Chicagoan now,
thanks to my husband who made me love Chicago through his own soul

YEAH! I feel good...