Freaky cold weather in America

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It's official (and surreal): forty-nine of the fifty states of America have snow right now. Only Hawaii remains free of the freaky weather. How's that song go?

Oh the weather outside is frightful;

 Pto Vallarta, it's delightful

so if you've no place to go

c'mon down and get out of the snow

Booyah!

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I missed vermouth on the rocks

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It's been months since I've sipped vermouth bianco. Hadn't had the elixir since my first taste of it in Austria. Today I finally went down and bought a bottle of Cinzano! I drink it on the rocks like most Italians.


Speaking of Italians, there is much of my travels in Europe which I've yet to include here. The new entries will be among my Memories of Europe series. There are oodles of back entries to post! I blame it on writer's block and plain old procrastination...and northern Italy. What a sour experience that place was! But more on that soon. Now, it's time to sweep the floor and have a glass of vermouth. Booyah!

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Striking a pose II (Judith Ewing Morlan preview)

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Last Friday I attended the preview for artist Judith Ewing Morlan's latest works entitled Paintings just for the fun of it. Simple. Sublime. The preview was held at the rather posh fine dining TRIO in downtown Vallarta. Mrs Morlan organizes one of the art groups for which I model and seeing each other on Friday was a bit of a shock: her, all dolled up and me, with my clothes on!  I swear I walked by the lady twice without recognizing her.

The paintings, waterfall and exotic landscapes in vibrant colors and texture, were not only on preview at our rooftop soiree but, what I thought was a nice touch, on display throughout the restaurant which remained open for regular business.  

The lot of people who go to these things always make for worthwhile people-watching; like caffeine for the imagination. And what anyone may have lacked in interesting-ness the free cocktails obfuscated. I enjoyed two glasses of red and a gin martini on the rocks (stirred, not shaken) and found everyone interesting. But this was just the preview. The opening will take place next week, February 19th, at Galeria Uno. The gallery often has live music but, for some reason or another, tends to limit refreshments to lemonade.

Galeria Uno561 Morelos Downtown
Phone: 222-0908

Judith Ewing Morlan studio
jemcontempart@prodigy.net.mx

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Freaky wet weather in Pto Vallarta

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A mighty fierce rain storm blew through town some three nights ago. The gusts pushed open my window before I thought to latch them shut. Nevertheless, water seeped through the metal window frames and nearly flooded my whole apartment. And I had just swept and mopped the place on Sunday morning! Took me two days to mop it all dry----again.


From Tuesday night until today----Friday----the Internet was down in my building.

Rain, let alone a storm, is very atypical for this time of year. But, of course, there's no such thing as global warming. The Republican Party is so full of shit.

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Chinese activist leaves airport after 3 months

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And I thought I have trouble crossing borders!


Chinese activist Feng Zhenghu lived inside of Tokyo's International  some three months. Read the full story here.

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Heard the one about the racist war?

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A Spanish traveller I met last year in Germany sent me the following video today (Spanish subtitles) of a war veteran speaking about the ongoing Iraq War. I believe in war but I no longer believe in this war; I believe in peace and I believe this war will not bring it. I lost faith after "Mission accomplished".


 

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The job is never done. So long as we live, we must work on ourselves.

Jack Lalanne

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