poker pro arrives in panama city
normally i play poker over at fulltilt. i prefer the online experience. the games are faster, cheaper, safer, and most importantly, i win more than i lose. the downside is that i’m sitting at home alone in my shorts and funky guayabera. win or lose that doesn’t leave me with much to write about.
jorge and the 14 yr old
another hard-working teacher is facing media scrutiny this week. this time it’s professor jorge enrique tapia who’s getting his salchicha lopped off. crap pay, underfunded schools, a curious media, it’s not easy being a teacher in panama. you really have to love kids to do the job. and you might think a life spent loving [...]
the big sticky
al gore won the Nobel prize yesterday. i admit i didn’t see that coming. i had cast my vote for Jenna Jameson. really, who’s done more for the world than jenna? still, if she was tied up, or on a shoot, then al’s a decent pick. i haven’t seen his flick, “an inconvenient truth”, but [...]
strange doings in chiriqui
MANACA, Barú – a bizarre story is being reported in the local papers about a professor at the Professional and Technical Institute of Barú, who urged students to kidnap live animals for a class experiment. the animals were to be stripped of their flesh in celebration of serial killer science week.
attack of the killer bees
9/30 – a local man and his dog were attacked over in chorerra today. the man, ricardo perez, 67, died after being stung repeatedly by a gang of africanized honeybees. if you caught this sad story on the tv news you might have noticed the camera pan, not so subtly, over to a tree full [...]
