URGENT UPDATE: I think people are reading this site, for between posting this piece this morning and coming back from lunch, Amazon has nearly sold out of my favorite jam: only 13 jars of Tiptree Little Scarlet Conserve are left. Buy yours now! It may, like Twinkies, become extinct! _______________ In my life I’ve spent many […]
I have returned from Mexico, and I have elebenty gazillion photos. I hope to do separate posts on Trotsky’s house, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Mexican woo, pre-Columbian stuff, and food, but all that will take a while. (I haven’t even posted some nice snaps I took in Portugal). In the meantime, here’s a sampling from […]
I arrived back from the ruins of Teotihuacan impressed but famished: climbing two big pyramids stokes the appetite. After an evening return to Mexico City, I scoured the streets near the hotel, hoping to score some tacos al pastor, but the fast-food joints close early. Fortunately, I found a store purveying tortas, the Mexican sandwich. […]
As expected, our morning and afternoon involved a lot of sightseeing and a lot of food. Our hosts from the local atheist organization picked up Annie Laurie Gaylor and me from our hotel this morning (Michael Shermer was flying back to the U.S. this afternoon), and took us to breakfast. Since it was at El […]
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Michael Shermer’s talk, and later in the afternoon there were talks by Marcelino Cereijido, a Mexican doctor who made a biting attack on religion (using much profanity, which flummoxed the simultaneous translators a bit!), and by Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. But first, there was […]
I’ve run around like a crazy person in Mexico City this a.m., with a gazillion impressions (it’s All Souls Day, and everyone is celebrating and dancing and eating and in costume), and 185 photos, but I’ll just put up some fudz and a few other things for now. Breakfast was suggested by a Mexican reader […]
I am in Mexico City, only two blocks from the “Centro Histórico,” the historical center of the city and a World Heritage site. The plaza (Zócalo), which I passed last night, is the world’s second largest, after Red Square. Yesterday, it turned out, was the Day of the Dead, (Dia de los Muertos), and last […]
A day in bed and a good night’s sleep have worked wonders, and I’m ready to travel again. I’m also fortified by a breakfast foisted on me by one of my genial hosts, Andrew Berry. Now at Harvard as an instructor and advisor, Berry did his undergraduate degree at Oxford, where he ate Weetabix three […]
It’s fall in New England! And what would be nicer than a ROAD TRIP across Massachusetts? Three bad boys, all heathens, took off from Cambridge, Massachusetts bound for the Moving Naturalism Forward conference in Stockbridge. Sadly, unlike “Sweet Baby James,” the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston was covered not with snow, but with leaves. (Click […]
Lunch yesterday was a schnitzel about the size of a Frisbee, accompanied by a warm potato and watercress salad, all washed down with a bottle of the house Grüner Veltliner. Note that you can’t see the plate. The restaurant was the famous (and a bit touristy) Figlmüller, near the Cathedral. You can also see the […]
