I like travelling alone. Somehow, I’m really relaxed when it comes to climbing aboard a 50-ton apparatus that lifts through the air and lands (hopefully) somewhere else, where “somewhere else” does not equal “on a nearby river” or “on somebody’s roof, while in flames”. Last week, I was assigned seat 14-B. I thought that it […]

“You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You’re faking a smile with the coffee to go”
Those were the latest lyrics that came out of mTV and kicked me in the nuts. My gag reflex prompted me to reach for the remote and change, to which a work colleague replied:
-”Aw, but that song […]

I’d already seen this, but this is as good a moment as any to toss the question to you:
How many 5-year-olds could you take out?
The rules:

You’re in a basketball court-sized area
There are no foreign objects
You are not allowed to touch a wall
You lose if knocked out. You win if you knock them all out
The pool […]

I’m not an arena-band fan. I prefer my concerts dark, small and seedy, but last Sunday I shared a stadium with 80,00 of my close friends to watch U2. I still feel it was totally worth it, though: I’ve never bought into the “biggest rock show on Earth” hype, but I can’t imagine a bigger […]

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It’s audience appreciation day here at alvarete’s Big Top o’ Fun, and we’re going to try something new: in the spirit of top ten lists, today’s question is:
What movie you thought could’ve been great but missed the boat, and what would you do to make it great?
My answer:
Saving Private Ryan.
I remember watching it in theaters, […]

August rocks. Specifically, August in Madrid rocks. August is officially “vacation month”, so the city is half empty, you can actually sit down in the subway, and the people in the streets are almost exclusively of the tourist kind. While on the subject, when I win the lottery I intend to pay off the people […]