Showing posts with label David Lida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Lida. Show all posts

Cyberflanerie: Mexico City, Patzcuaro, Tijuana & Tulum Edition

You're Eating Fake Tacos and Diana Kennedy is Pissed About It  by Daniel Hernandez
P.S. Diana Kennedy is a true treasure: teacher, caretaker, visionary. Her name may not be hispanic, but she knows Mexican cuisine better than anyone, including, yes, the Mexicans.

The always excellent and informative Exploring Colonial Mexico, lately on Enrique Luft Pávlata.

Sam Quinones doesn't like Tijuana, he loves it! (Yes, Yours Truly has visited and had quite a bit to say about it, too. But I didn't get to the opera.)

Victor: Artes Populares Mexicanas, now in new digs near the Claustro Sor Juana, upstairs from Librería Madero. I was about to blog about this charming rinconcito, but my amigo, artist and travel writer, Jim Johnston, beat me to it in his blog, Mexico City: An Opinionated Guide for the Curious Traveler. 

Speaking of rinconcitos, Mexico Cooks! has another bodacious post about the new market in Col. Roma. Nicholas Gilman chimes in on his blog, Good Food in Mexico City.


My amiga the ever adventurous DC-based writer Judy Leaver is learning Spanish in Tulum.

David Lida says Federico Gama is the best photojournalist working in Mexico City today.


Burro Hall is still reporting on the usual wackiness. (Hey, karma police, the guy has an elderly pug.)

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Cyberflanerie: Others Did It So I Don't Have To Edition

(But did she ever get to Alaska?)
Live through an Alaskan Winter in an RV
(via David Lida. David, Did you actually watch this?)

Figure Out in Crunchy Techno-Industrial Detail What Happened to Tom Cruise

P.S. As for things I get to do and that I recommend: I am reading an advance copy of Tom Christensen's River of Ink and it is beyond splendid. Stay tuned.

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Cyberflanerie: Cleverly Icelandic & More Random Clevernesses Edition

Cleverly Icelandic: Besti Flokkurin, mayoral campaign song video. Via Seth Roberts, on We Need Only One Santa. (More from this ray of shiva guy, I mean Seth Roberts, here and here and here and here.)

Totally clever! Watch about 1:30 minutes in: How to remove a ring from a swollen finger.

For Mexico City newbies: my amigo David Lida gives the thumbs up to Taste of Polanco.

Mr Money Mustache on Hater's Gonna Hate (But Not Mate) and How to Start a Blog. Mr Money Mustache also advises us that Safety is an Expensive Illusion.

Umbra's vertical book display.

For those low on wax: Benjamin Shine's rekindle candle.

For those low on windows: Adam Frank's Reveal.

Passive solar water heater.

Get Human.

More anon.

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