The Foods of Puerto Rico

One of the great joys of Modern Digital Blogging is the ability to see exactly how many people are reading each blog entry, and, if they followed a link or a search result to get there, what that link or search result was.

Every day people are driven to my blog by the single post in which I made passing mention of Puerto Rican food (Nachos With Moses).

In an effort to take advantage of this phenomenon, I offer the following short essay:

MONDONGO!

by Morgan Phillips

Some men can live on arroz con habichuelas.  Arroz con pollo.  Not I.  No, when my stomach rumbles, I understand its rumble-talk clearly:  Give me mondongo!  Give me mofongo!  Give me a slab of albondigon, with a generous side of bacalaitos!

The rumble specifically demands a tray of arepas de coco and canoas and guanimes, which I will wash down with a hearty rabo encendido (with a chaser of sancocho de patitas)!

For dessert — yes, dessert — a bucket of barriguitas de vieja and a mountain of buñuelos de viento.  Only then will my hunger be sated; my hunger for the foods of Puerto Rico, for Puerto Rican cuisine, for Puerto Rican food!

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By the way, I updated the “upcoming shows” page — a bunch of NYC improv stuff, and a singing show in MA on 12/13…

Problem Solved

Per the helpful suggestion, I’ve attached the keyboard from my old, half-dead iMac DV — I knew there was a reason I was keeping it around.

Because the resulting configuration takes up so much vertical desk space, I’m considering a Rube Goldbergian setup where I will trigger the “h” on the (remotely located) iMac keyboard via a system of pulleys, but will use the iBook keyboard for everything else.

I realize that this is a terrible idea, and I probably won’t do it.

Mostly because I can’t figure out how to hold down the “shift” key via pulley system.

(Do the kids of today know who Rube Goldberg was?  I’ve included an example of his work below.)

A machine that involves a confused football player, a cabbage, and paint.

elp

Te letter between “g” and “i” in te alpabet as died on te keyboard of my iBook.  I’ve been reduced to copying and pasting it from oter sources every time I want to use common words like “te” or “tis” or to write my last name (Pillips).

I’ve ad tis laptop for tree years now, and oter tan te battery slowly dying (a problem I’ve cosen to ignore, since I rarely use it away from ome anyway), it as been 100% problem-free.  Even if I could afford anoter computer rigt now (wic I can’t), it would be ard to justify ditcing it just because of tis one little problem.

I even tried taking te keyboard apart and cleaning it.  No dice.  Te key is really and truly dead.

I’m not going to boter going back and pasting te missing letters into tis post.  It almost reads like I’m writing wit a strange accent, wic I tink is kind of cool.  Rigt?

Anybody ave a dead iBook tat I migt be able to salvage from?  Or any miracle cures to suggest?

Tanks in advance for your elp!

Unforgivable

Now is a time for post-partisanship and coming together.  That being said… this video is a must-watch.

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