Tropical Life

Back To La Chorrera

Lord knows, Maribel Ortiz has never asked much of this world. Yet here she is, back in La Chorrera, back where it all started. It’s all so dirty, so low, so final. So many gringos have passed through her bed. So many promises. Every morning Mari leaves the room she shares with her sisters, takes [...]

One Day At A Time

Peering through the locked windows of the Arizona Addiction and Recovery Center while rolling a fat blunt and waiting for a call back from one of my favorite phone sex operators, it hits me that if I’m going to start fresh there are some things for which I need to atone. Once, while sitting in [...]

When Tapirs Attack!

Costa Rica 4/23: Search parties found Costa Rica’s missing energy minister Saturday suffering from a nasty bite by a wild tapir after he got lost in a jungle reserve two days earlier. – Rueters While no one’s willing to go on record and talk openly about the smug tapir in our living room, there appears [...]

Got Wood?

Every year the “miss reef international” competition is held in panama, and every year the smart money is on a sexy Colombiana. not so much because Colombians are hotter, or because they do so much better in the fellatio talent part of the the competition, but because they are the only bikini models known to [...]

all the spanish you’ll ever need

finally, a man that puts his high school Spanish to good use; the romantic pick up. i envy him. i studied latin. latin sucks. try working Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.* into a song and see if you score. *If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar.