superfacilmente

Originally, when I started to realize that my time in BsAs had to come to an end, I wanted to try to exact a clever and somewhat fantastic deception, namely to never say that I was going. I, had, and unfortunately still have, a backlog of nearly 70 unpublished beginnings of posts about the fair city and my hope was to publish them before my return to the U.S., where I would at least be staying for a year. In an ideal world, I would slowly phase back some of merely BsAs production to tell stories from around South American World, not dissimilar to my other, rarely posted on, Media Masher blog and would be able to use the relationships I had developed as a means of producing fresh and interesting material at the same rate that I had in BsAs.

Sadly, of course, this did not come to be. Instead, I came to my new job, teaching 13 year olds, and have had it, until very recently, take up not just my regular 8-3:30 day but often hours before and after it. Sadly this has put writing of all kinds on hold, and would be something I would like to remedy.

A while ago, in Buenos Aires, I got into a fight with a friend over the nature of blogs like this and his. My friend argued that blogs should act as portals to the reader, a means of understanding a singular point of view about subjects, something that I wonder if the other bloggers in BsAs agree with. I at the time was thinking of putting all my ideas, and blogs, into one source, a website where those of interest could see not just a travel blog, but a blog on media, a blog on writing, and a blog of personal exposition.

However, priorities have changed. My camera has been replaced and I find myself once again in a new city, attempting to still go out and explore while not working. My writing as a general has stagnated and I need to keep it going. So, with deference to my friend, I have chosen to employ his theory in practice.

Hence “Superfacilmente” will now be at least somewhat changed. In addition to providing the 70 or so blog entries on Argentina that I had initially intended, and hopefully will keep those of you in Argentina connected and interested, I will be posting rather extensive entries of my adventures in New York City, which is, arguably, a city at least on par with that of BsAs. Expect new New York City graffiti sections and extensive writing on that subject, from rest ‘raunt reviews to museum reviews to just talking about our first day of snow (today!). In addition, I am going to incorporate my music/media interests, writing (fictional and not) and opinions into this. Do not worry. I will do my best to separate each of these into Categories/Sections on the blog, so nobody gets weight down with too many of these rants. However, please feel free to comment on this change, blogs, or life in Argentina, in the future.

Thanks for listening

-M

In order to give something more valuable to my readership, I am going to expand my categories to start include some critical thoughts and information about certain subjects that are coming up in my daily goings on. You have already seen the result of this in yesterday’s post about Argentinian film Pizza, Birra, Faso. Here are some of the new categories I plan on entering into the site:

Más Peliculas will look at movies from Argentina, Buenos Aires, or movies playing in Buenos Aires currently. The reviews will include classics, modern films, etc. (Anything I can get my hands on)

Rest ‘Raunt Review I am starting mostly because I rarely cook at home and thus have a wealth of places that I can recommend to the Expat, Porteño, or Visitor. Hint: I use Saltshaker to get many of my references.

Study Abroad will be an occasional feature about my various travels outside of the city, including my musings on Uruguay, Tigre, etc.

Mus(eum)ings will provide valuable information, pictures, and thoughts about the many museums in and out of BA that I have visited from historical to art to whatever else.

For those who can’t get enough about my thoughts on various things around BA (including my much anticipated Zoo Review) fear not, I will try to still fill my page with the regular goings on, but this will give some outlet for those simply looking for information about the various things around BA.

I hope everyone will enjoy.

Blogs and html are new to all of us. I want, in the future, to try to put together links like this one above. Hopefully, that will allow the viewer access to nice full quality (or at least high quality) versions of my photography.