credit to Jake Halpren

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I just finished The Road by Cormac Mccarthy. It was excellent. I had a little trouble getting into it initially because of the pace, but once I hit page 60, I was flying. I am really looking forward to the movie. The director, John Hillcoat, is a favorite, and Viggo Mortensen is obviously a crazy man in the best way possible.

After I finished the book, I still didn't want to put it down. I had a physical attachment to it. It felt like we'd grown together. When I originally got the book, it was crisp and new, and now only a few weeks later, a page was falling out, the corners were bent, the book had softened, etc...
I feel like this is getting personal.

Anyways, this isn't Buenos Aires related, except for the fact that I finished it on my trip to Punta del Este in Uruguay, which is near Buenos Aires.

Pictures from the beach to come. For now, here is a video I deem appropriate for this post.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32I-Nx0hdTw

(won't let me embed)

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Ben

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Hola amigos,

So, I pulled my first all nighter in Buenos Aires. It was a good one. The night started off with some bomb Vietnamese food made at this restaurant, "Vietnam", where the wives at the Vietnam embassy make the food, or something like that.
From there, friends and I went to a party at an apartment and kept it going until the crack of dawn, which turned out to be later than we thought. The ability to put on some American music kept us/me going. Just wanted to report on this momentous occasion.

Above is a picture of me and my buddy, Mike, dancing.

:-)