Tag: writing
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Voltamos: A Brief Interlude
I walked into the Padaria trying to hunt down some primo corn juice, or suco de milho. I have come to love all things corn as a dessert: corn juice, corn popsicles, corn ice cream, corn liqueur, which coincidentally, you can put on ice cream – it’s all delicious. The local corn store was closed…
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What Bob Dylan taught me about Portuguese, ChatGPT, and the future of creativity
“Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.” This lyric from Blonde on Blonde has been bouncing around my head over the last week. No, minha esposa and I are not going through a crisis, nor am I feeling existential in my musings, but rather I’ve been thinking about the…
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Superb Owl & The Globalization of American Culture
“Voce gosta dos Bengals?!” I said to the man in a Bengals hat. “Go 49ers!” He replied, leaving me perplexed. This is a perfect example of NFL culture in Brasil & South America. No allegiance, no knowledge, simply wearing whatever colors you think are cool, and making this author feel like John Madden. ‘Go Team!’…
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Slowly But Surely
“O-bri-ga-do!” “O-bri-ga-da!” At dinner with her parents, Marilia was mimicking the Brazilian and Quebecois women sitting behind us on our flight from Bogota to Sao Paulo who decided that a seven-hour flight that landed at 2:00am was a great place for an impromptu language exchange. Marilia contined – “As mulheres falaram por cinco horas –…
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