Monthly Archives: September 2007

Marcos’ guide to dating

Date 1: Casual coffee, good conversation.
Date 2: Dinner, drinks, laughter.
Date 3: Star Wars marathon.
Date 4: I don’t know. Never made it past Date 3.

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Tecate

Just received this image of Ziv Erlich, drinking a Tecate. It’s his first Tecate in eleven years. He bought it in Barcelona and carried it to Tel-Aviv. Look how happy he looks. Ziv is a fine man.

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My mom in the news

This is the today’s cover of the Edición Cumbres weekly supplement of the largest newspaper in Monterrey:

The article inside is about the Monologues 2007 contest run by CONARTE (Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León), which my mom (a.k.a. Thelma Sandler) won. The play will be presented at the Teatro de La [...]

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Bad Medicine

I’ve been fighting this nagging throat infection/cough/cold for a while now. This morning, the doctor upgraded me to some stronger antibiotics. Listed side effect: Sore throat - which is what started it all. Go figure.
This also means no fast for me for the first time since I’m 13 (which was like ten years ago). For [...]

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Conga

This short video from Saturday’s Mexico Independence Day + Jeronimo Mota’s birthday. Being the only sober person in the premises (damn you antibiotics!) I ended up documenting the wedding-like conga line.

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Shana Tova

The friendly staff of The MKX® want to wish you an excellent 5768. We thank you for your continued readership and support.
But we want to be more specific, yet we cannot make up our mind. Please select from the following options:

What do you want on this 5768?

Lots of peace

Lots of love

Lots of money

Lots of sex

All [...]

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The strange case of the missing oats: Poll

My oatmeal has dissappeared! At my age, my body needs the fiber to keep myself regular. What, oh what, should I do?

What to do about the missing oats?

Replace the big thing, pretend it never happened.

Post a sign offering a reward.

Place a booby trapped oatmeal thing, see who falls for it.

Stop eating oatmeal, get some human [...]

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The strange case of the missing oats

For years I’ve kept a big thing of Old Fashioned Quaker Oats in the kitchen on my floor, at work. Some people take the liberty of taking some oatmeal, sure. That’s ok with me. They sell this huge box at Costco for $5 dollars that will last me for months. It’s so cheap I’m seriously [...]

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The OC

I spent the last weekend in California (pronounced: Kahliforrniah by the Governator himself), more specifically in Orange County (and the surrounding areas).
I did not go to Disneyland or to the Chinese Theater, because I saw that already, you know… twenty two years ago, back when KITT was the big attraction in Universal Studios and the [...]

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