Canada gets the last laugh

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Not only did the national team avenge themselves to win the gold medal in hockey but they won the whole damn Winter Olympics. Oh those crafty Canucks!! Who knew?

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Mexican gunmen kill 13 people (Oaxaca)

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Hot damn! maybe I shant travel to Oaxaca after all.

I know this much: people who deal in drug cartels are barbaric, evil, corrupt sonsofbitches

Was planning to go there after next month but now I read that gun slinging bad guys just massacred thirteen people in the picturesque state, which lies in southern Mexico. Unlike northern states along the border Oaxaca is not known to be a hotbed of violence but, unbeknownst to me before today, it is a drug trafficking route. And I know this much already: people who deal in drug cartels are barbaric, evil, corrupt sonsofbitches. The lust for body counts is there, not that anyone would admit it. The natives are restless for bloodshed.

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But it does make the black people in this country [America] who are jobless and unemployed and standing in the welfare line very much discouraged to see a government that can't solve our problem, can't provide job opportunities for us, and at the some time not only Cubans but Hungarians and every other type of white refugee imaginable can come to this country and get everything this government has to offer

Malcolm X 

 

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US defeats Canada...in hockey?!

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What, what eh? The American hockey team of  relative unknown athletes beat the Canadian dream team 5-3 for the first time in half a century! In Canada before a pro-Canada crowd (naturally) and being watched by the world community...on the Olympic stage.

Oh but it gets better.


This upset comes one day shy of Canada's most glorious monumental victory over then-powerhouse Russia thirty years ago. Reversal of fortune is a bitch.


So much for all those suckers who placed their bets on the no-brainer Canada. Oh well if these American govt bailouts has taught me one thing it's easy come, easy go. Although the host country isn't out of the running and still has opportunity to win Olympic gold, which I find confusing, but, honestly I don't get most of winter sports, tonight all of Canuckistan will be drinking aplenty to drown out the unbelievably victorious chants of USA! USA! USA!

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Coconut water...not just for Robinson Crusoe

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Coconut water is pretty damn good. 

Drank it for the first time yesterday. I love coconut (shredded coconut, toasted coconut!, dark chocolate covered coconut, coconut cake, German chocolate cake, coconut gelato, coconut cooking oil, coconut body oil, even coconut incense) but always avoided the water for fear that it would taste like coconut. I am a complicated man of simple tastes: I like my socks white, sky blue, and my water to taste like water and nothing else. The thought of actually drinking coconut makes me wince.


But it does taste like water! Aside from a subtle trace of flavor which is more olfactory than taste the liquid is plain and, to my wonderment, refreshingly cool almost cold straight from the nut. 

I am a complicated man of simple tastes: I like my water to taste like water and nothing else

I was finally intrigued to give it a try after reading a blip in, of all places, the latest issue of Details magazine (a pity the publication has evolved into such a fag rag), which I pilfered from the book exchange last week. Here is the tip in its entirety:

"Coconut water is what Gatorade wishes it was," says Oz Garcia, New York nutritionist. It has the potassium and the sugar you need to feel restored after a workout but none of the artificial ingredients or the food coloring

Hmmm. Cheaper and just as beneficial a sports drink as what's on the market? Okay.... It just so happens the gym owner's father sits outside with his makeshift coconut water stand. So I paid him $15pesos and gave it a shot. The old man calmly sat aside his book, pulled out the machete (these fruits are hard ass nuts to crack), and bore a whole in the top. Then he popped a straw into it and handed me the green, slightly pointed bowling ball. It takes two hands to hold it. Inside was more water than I

imagined. Afterwards, if you like, he'll hack up the green outer shell to get to the more familiar looking brown nut and then cut out the white meat for one to nibble on later. I tried the coconut but it wasn't sweet to the taste so I passed on it. Maybe next time.  


You might be able to find the following products in a market near your neck of the woods.

Zico Pure Premium Coconut Water

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A big homemade Sunday breakfast

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The morning looks gorgeous. Am eager to get out and down to the beach before two today. But first things, first: food.

I just made myself a big breakfast befitting a hotel's bill of fare:
pancakes with maple syrup and butter, bacon----I loves me some bacon!----whole milk (is there really any other kind?), Chai black tea, orange juice and sliced fresh grapefruit. As the Nazi in Inglourious Basterds squeals, Oooooh! I smiled the whole while. What a beautiful start to what I hope remains a beautiful Sunday.

Oh, I loooooove my life.

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Striking a pose III (Judith Ewing Morlan opening)

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Friday night's opening at Galeria Uno was just as swell as the art preview two weeks ago. I didn't get the chance to see more than one of Mrs Morlan's new works during the preview so it was extra nice seeing them at last. And, to my wonderful surprise, wine was served! 

Judith Ewing Morlan studio

jemcontempart@prodigy.net.mx

Galeria Uno 561 Morelos (Downtown centro)
Phone: +52 222-0908

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