OK, pretend you’re at my house. And then I’m all, “Hey! Do you want to see the super-sweet stuff I got in Argentina?” And you’re all, “Yeah!”
And then we braid each other’s hair! Unless you’re a guy. In which case, I totally love guys like you.
Famous among dozens
Mate is Argentina’s afternoon drink of choice. It’s kind of like tea, but you fill the special cup 3/4 full of herbs, then stick in a straw with a filter at the bottom so you can drink it.
It tastes like a cup of sweet clover steeped in warm, slightly diluted bile. I would ingest something like it again only if a pleasant hallucinatory experience were to follow.

Bryan and Charlie Brown
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This is Bryan celebrating his 37th birthday with Lt. Colonel Charlie Brown, who is running for Congress in California’s 4th District. Charlie Brown is, I shit you not, running against a guy named Doolittle.

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Last Thursday, I spent several hours making an enormous taco mural out of Post-It notes. And still, no world peace. People, what is it gonna take?

Bad Girls by Subcategory
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Biker Babes, Teen Sluts, Hookers, Ball Breakers, Bad Seeds…

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I already miss 2005.

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Later that night, I dreamt that, no matter how many times I asked, the waitress would not bring my iced tea and large orange juice.

Tara Reid Boob Slip Costumes
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Halloween is my favorite holiday, but this year I was out of country. Some friends of mine were looking for a funny topical costume, and I suggested that they go as Boob-Slip Tara Reid. Lori just sent me the photos.

Uhhhh.
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Pensive or hung over? You be the judge.
I’m sorry for the silence in my absence. My substitute poster thought I was sending a word file, but I had saved the entries as drafts. Anyway, that means extra-bonus entries for the next few days.
Belize and Guatemala were amazing.If you want to see the trip photos, you’ll find them on my Flickr stream, and you’ll even get to see many of them twice! (I’m having trouble mastering the Uploadr.)
I don’t seem to have come down with Malaria, and my digestive system is returning to normal, so back to our regularly scheduled programming. Thanks for your patience.