the great kate
Two years ago today…Kate Simko at Cocoliche in Buenos Aires.
Posts Tagged ‘buenos aires’
let it rain
The night of the floods in Buenos Aires, February 2010.
dreams and nightmares
I miss Buenos Aires. Last night I was having trouble sleeping and ended up trying to remember the name of the main artery that I lived off of. I was sure it started with an R, M, or C. I was wrong. Can you believe people actually buy meat from this place?
burnouts
In addition to sleepers and trees, I also like to shoot rustbuckets. A million questions descend on me whenever I come across a completely burned out car, particularly in the middle of nowhere, and I want to address them all to this husk of a vehicle. Where did you come from? Where have you been? [...]
publicite
An ever-vacant billboard in my old neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
remembering the blackouts
Last week, we lost power for 24 hours here in San Francisco. We’d somehow neglected to pay PG&E for oh, say, five months. Sheesh! Also this month I recovered this old photo of my roommate Saeed smoking a cigarette out the window during the blackouts in Villa Crespo after Buenos Aires was flooded. It is [...]
anniversaries
A year ago yesterday, I woke up in Buenos Aires for the first time. It was an afternoon nap. This was the view from my balcony on Lavalle.
the red door
I can’t believe I left Buenos Aires more than two months ago. And that I’m moving back to San Francisco tomorrow.