Food and Drink
Mi Ranchito
I spend most of my time drunk writing in el cangrejo, and sometimes i forget how beautiful panama can be. all it takes is a 5 or 10 minute cab ride and you’re ready to rejoin the wild. this weekend my girl friend, her sis and i got a chance to do balboa and isla [...]
get out the vote
here’s a chance to be heard. sound off, and maybe we’ll change things for the better. like the panama canal proposal, you are encouraged to vote early and often, and to use any means necessary to win.
what the hell is guaro?
my friends say they’re bringing me guaro from central america – what the hell is guaro? well, they could be returning with a very talkative parrot. but it’s more likely your friends are bringing you the industrial strength beverage enjoyed by alcoholic peasants from all over central america. guaro, aka aguardiente, or burning water, is [...]
the spoils of semana santa
last weekend, while i was sipping abuelo, and awaiting final judgment on my balcony, alex returned to her family in arrijan to celebrate semana santa (easter week). traditionally, all work stops at this time of year. panama city becomes a ghost town. churches fill up with the faithful. there are even painful reenactments of christ’s [...]
sometimes it’s too much
people think i make this stuff up. so i’ve decided to take more photos to document my daily horror. i tell ya, there’s some freaky shit going down in panama city. for example, this morning i caught my girlfriend drinking coffee at the dining table as if she owned the place. if that wasn’t bad [...]
