Disclaimer (August 28, 2012): The characters and situations portrayed in this series are purely fictional. They are not based on actual events or people.
Learn English with Andy 9/13: “Wheelchair”
Happy Thanksgiving
From the perspective of a foreigner living in the U.S., Thanksgiving is a strange holiday.
Strange because despite of its religious origins and history, it is celebrated by every single person in the country. Strange because it’s larger than any other holiday, including Christmas, and everyone goes home with almost no exception. Strange because the most anticipated things about it are the football game and the shopping. Strange because in any email received around this date, people write “Gobble Gobble“, imitating the sound a turkey makes. Strange because the sound a turkey makes does not even remotely resemble “Gobble Gobble“.
I like Thanksgiving food a lot; but since I get a couple days off from work, I will be spending this Thanksgiving in Monterrey eating barbacoa, mole, machacado, and arrachera. Gobble Gobble indeed. Go learn some useful facts about turkeys.
The MKX® is very thankful for our good looking readers. Thank you for your loyalty!
East Austin Studio Tour
Embarrassingly, for the first time since I moved to Austin, I attended the East Austin Studio Tour (I didn’t even know about it!).
Last weekend, artists who live or have a studio, in the huge area between I-35, Town Lake (a few just south of it), Highway 183, and E. Martin Luther King; opened up their studios for people to visit, check out their work, and purchase whatever they like. This is a lot of terrain to cover in just two days! Check out the map if you don’t beleive me. I had no idea there were over 150 art studios in town, much less just in the East Austin area. Amazing.
Read more for more, including some photos.
Learn English with Andy 8/13: “Chicken”
Disclaimer (August 28, 2012): The characters and situations portrayed in this series are purely fictional. They are not based on actual events or people.
Note: Once again the above example is merely academic. Andrés is single. Ladies: if you want to meet Andrés, feel free to let us know through the comments and we’ll arrange something.
Café Tacvba
One of my favorite bands and by far the band I’ve seen live the most (either seven or eight times) played at Stubb’s last Sunday. Almost three hours of high energy music including many songs from their latest albumSiNo.
Good times. I have posted a few photos at The MKX® Photo Gallery and of course you can see the obligatory crappy YouTube webcam videos below (follow the Read More link). Enjoy!
Piss a Colombian off
In order to commemorate the first “Piss a Colombian off” day, I am wearing this t-shirt to work:
Learn English with Andy 7/13: “Rectum”
Disclaimer (August 28, 2012): The characters and situations portrayed in this series are purely fictional. They are not based on actual events or people.
Learn English with Andy 6/13: “July”
Disclaimer (August 28, 2012): The characters and situations portrayed in this series are purely fictional. They are not based on actual events or people.
Learn English with Andy 5/13: “Herpes”
Disclaimer (August 28, 2012): The characters and situations portrayed in this series are purely fictional. They are not based on actual events or people.
Photo of the day #22
Courtesy of Google and TIME Magazine (Google recently put all of TIME’s photo archive online) comes this beautiful photo of a two year old kid having a cigarette. I guess back in 1959 it was O.K. for kids to smoke. Some things should never change.