Sunday, February 22, 2009

misty images of wild babies and their cohorts

A few passing images:
-the accidental ordering of fat steak aka vacio. it sounded a bit gnarly. it was. i am glad i didn't accidentally slice myself with the knife i was drunkenly wielding.
-it is easy to be drunk after 4 glasses of wine. i suppose that they do fill up their glasses very high so it is beginning to make sense.
-each of the bathrooms have very distinct toilets. in my drunken bumbling upstairs, having the courage to ask where they were located properly, i landed myself in a stall that had a toilet with extra parts and metal intestines. i missed the button on the top of the toilet and started fumbling around with one of the wind-a-bobs on the intestine and the toilet starting spraying me. i squealed, fixed it, and saw the button right where it should be.
-there are lots of art shows and pretty people talking about pretty things under the paaale moonlight.
-the children here, that is the ones who are not below the poverty line, appear to have very happy childhoods. i'm surprised i didn't mention this earlier. i haven't seen a single parent yelling at their kid nor kids being bratty. i have seen little girls in their little skirts carting toy strollers with baby dolls, little girls playing the accordion, little boys with rat tails on their parent's shoulders, little kids making wild little kid noises through open car windows and disappearing when someone sees them, and little kids with straps this way and that all around them for the sole purpose of carrying around their favorite stuffed animal of the day on their backs. they have very unique fashion senses, and some are extremely outspoken.
-the craft fair a few blocks away has a booth that is selling knives and machetes and something i thought was a flute before i noticed the weaponry and didn't stand around long enough to get another look.
-i am in love with this city, and it is making my emotions all wonky so much so that i almost burst into tears when i saw a storefront with these beautiful antique slips and artifacts a la the very beginning of titanic.
-there is to be a rather enormous downpour later, and i came inside so i didn't fall on my rear in the midst of it. mostly because i didn't have any cigarettes, and my tum is so full of wok vegetales y camarones. i just discovered i could stand in my window and be outside. i might just play i spy and name all of the produce i see at the little market across the street.

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