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Through the Looking Glass: Road: Like Willie Nelson and Canned Heat
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Laquo; Been Back. Road: Like Willie Nelson and Canned Heat. I made a comment yesterday that came from taking stock of my activities over the last couple of weeks: I haven't devised, made, revised and crossed items off so many lists since Patricio and I planned our first big odyssey, namely, our big, fat, Mexican wedding. What is going on? What has happened to the Mexican Alisa who has become so comfortable with. I'll tell you. What's happened is. Http:/ ...
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Through the Looking Glass: History
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. The neighborhood had been quieter since last Thursday, since school was out to bridge the long weekend between Mother's Day on the 10th and Teacher's Day, yesterday, on the 15th. Today sounded more like a Monday than a Wednesday, with snare drums rattling in accompaniment to discordant bugle blasts, not too long after eight in the morning from the Margarita Maza de Juárez elementary school across the street. It might be more rigid, but it's certainly sti...
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Through the Looking Glass: barbacoa: meat, with some meat on the side
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Laquo; escuincles: hairless dogs and rugrats. Phoenix, big and small ». Barbacoa: meat, with some meat on the side. Tio jorge invited patricio and me to his birthday celebration this past weekend. it was going to be big. it promised to be a very good time. he was going to go the whole hog. actually, i should say whole sheep, because that's exactly what he cooked for the occasion. But they are now very different ways of preparing meat. both, however, ...
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Through the Looking Glass
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Road: Like Willie Nelson and Canned Heat. I made a comment yesterday that came from taking stock of my activities over the last couple of weeks: I haven't devised, made, revised and crossed items off so many lists since Patricio and I planned our first big odyssey, namely, our big, fat, Mexican wedding. What is going on? What has happened to the Mexican Alisa who has become so comfortable with. I'll tell you. What's happened is. July 18, 2007 in Music.
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Through the Looking Glass: Current Affairs
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Before Tunick, Sans Tunics. Patricio and I already had sentimental attachments to the Zócalo- the main plaza here in Mexico City, and once the very center of the Mexica. World It was often our nexus of special trips into the Centro, and became the glittering backdrop to our first New Year's Eve together, celebrated with good friends on the top floor of the Majestic. Just a couple of days after our wedding. This past Sunday, though, with. Up to the press ...
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Through the Looking Glass: Art
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Before Tunick, Sans Tunics. Patricio and I already had sentimental attachments to the Zócalo- the main plaza here in Mexico City, and once the very center of the Mexica. World It was often our nexus of special trips into the Centro, and became the glittering backdrop to our first New Year's Eve together, celebrated with good friends on the top floor of the Majestic. Just a couple of days after our wedding. This past Sunday, though, with. Up to the press ...
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Through the Looking Glass: Culture
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Either, or. This, that. Here, there. Yes, no? Sometimes, a decision just needs help. A push toward one or the other, all responsibility placed outside- though technically on- the hands of those who want to decide. Let a little random chance to the work. And how? Or at least that's how it used to be done, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Who flipped a metal coin. Stamped with the head of a monarch. But now here in Mexico, it's. The proverbial light bulb...
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Through the Looking Glass: Holidays
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. The sounds of hammers and mallets coming from the catty-corner house-in-progress have been replaced today by the boom of fireworks overhead. The. Día del Albañil,. This is serious business, as the continuous bursts of the. Can attest. Copious drinks are poured and lifted with toasts of. While plates are piled high from the various offerings on the table. Most often celebrated at the site of their current work, the day may also celebrate at home, and ...
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Through the Looking Glass: Lion and Lamb
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Through the Looking Glass. What Alisa Finds There. Laquo; Que Milagro. Blessed Wood ». Doesn't often take revenge on his own people, but every now and then, I suppose his spirit does come back to haunt the European genes in the mix. Patricio himself, who boasts a stomach of steel, is only now recovering from that old Aztec's wrath, after a week of frequent visits to the powder room. Originally placing the blame on a bad batch of. What's the occasion we're celebrating? Perhaps it wasn't Moctezuma after al...