I’m always burdened with some sort of unidentifiable, profound guilt whenever I leave Rio and line up outside the bus with my bottle of Jagermeister to begin the 6 hour ride back home. It’s a strange, frothy mix of regret and upset stomach, both in the direct line of descent of the proud grandparents Heavy Drinking and Guilty Conscience. I never ( Read more... )

Evening, bitches.

The well-rooted tradition for classes in Brazilian universities involves the professor placing photocopies of the week’s readings into a folder located in the copy room, allowing the students to go there and make copies of said copies, and then reading that week’s said copies by the as-to-yet unsaid coming week. All well and good, except for the ( Read more... )

The transportation system in Curitiba reminds me of "The Jetsons." There are tunnels that act basically as wormholes, because they are the hubs for the buses that carry you to any part of the city in an instant. And I just had my first apple milkshake, thanks to Bob's Big Burgers ( Read more... )

Today I bought a lot of glass bottles of beer in a grocery store and I dropped the whole bag on the floor and it went BOOM SHATTER WOE and a lot of noises besides and I was like OH SHIT OH SHIT WHAT I'M GONNA DRINK NOW and errbody was all OH YOU CLUMSY DOLT THAT WAS REALLY LOUD AND INCONSIDERATE and the bag boy was like OH DAMN HERE YOU CAN HAVE ( Read more... )

I’d like to call last night’s “birthday” party a success, but I find the word “success” somehow lacking. The short version of events is that I stayed in the bar until closing time, and the night ended with me doing the gentlemanly thing and safely walking a piss-drunk prostitute back to her house in Liberdade. But since every story is less about ( Read more... )

This is what I get to do all day in the Museum of Japanese Immigration.


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A sport I've never heard of. Found on that greasy sheet of informative paper that they put on the bottom of every McDonald's tray:

"Box-chess (Boxadrez) is a sport in which one boxes for two minutes and then switches to playing chess for four, in rapid alternation. Whoever knocks out or checkmates his opponent wins ( Read more... )

I started learning Japanese. I'm not sure why, but I got two course books. I'm terrible at it. That could be because they both are written in Portuguese and hence offer pronunciation that's geared toward Portuguese speakers ( Read more... )

UUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK.

Thank you, AJ. Jagermeister is good.