Editor’s Note: go here for Parts 1-3 and here for Parts 4-5. 6 Harvey’s book doesn’t just give relationship advice, but it also provides insights into men and to what men are about. His contention is that men express their love three ways: they profess, they protect…
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Gabacho– according to the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy– is derived from an old Provençal word “gavach,” meaning a person from the foothills of the Pyrenees who spoke incorrectly. These days, it means “outsider,” somebody who just doesn’t fit in.
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Editor’s Note: go here for Parts 1-3. 4 And, now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming So, when I picked up Steve Harvey’s book I did so because I needed some ammo to fight off the onslaught of Neanderthals that show up at the house….
Jimmy Gabacho
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If you didn’t catch my earlier post, entitled “Lockdown on Campus,” you can find it here. In a nutshell, Tuesday, Feb. 12, we received reports of a “man with a weapon on campus” and were informed to “seek shelter.” While we faculty and students shit our pants…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Well, finally happened: we got taste of what is probably everyone’s worst fear. Tuesday afternoon a report came across the early-warning system on campus, telling us that a man had been seen with a weapon. I was sitting in my office getting ready for…
Jimmy Gabacho
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My wife and I have been hitting the cinema almost every weekend and this week’s choice was a little on the complicated side. We had already seen The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Zero Dark 30, The Silver Linings Playbook, Django, and The Hobbit, so this week’s choice was…
Jimmy Gabacho
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1 It was our annual family vacation and we were heading through O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on our way to Punta Mita, a place just North, up the coast from Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. The whole trip started wrong: my daughter and her best…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Or, where the hell did the Australians come from? Back in 1977, a film about the Allied invasion of Europe came out. The title was “A Bridge too Far.” I have no recollection about how the movie fared at the box office. By all accounts…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Despite the violence, I have always liked the dialogue in Tarantino’s films. In this sense, the excess distracts from the intense conversations that deal with everything from the name of the Quarter Pounder and the Big Mac in France to the rumors involving Antwan Rockamora’s…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier once wrote that there were three world cuisines: French, Chinese and Mexican. To some extent the high end Mexican cuisine, not the antojitos that are considered strictly working-class fare, begs, borrows and steals a number of its techniques from classical French cooking. Mexican…
Jimmy Gabacho
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I was working a short piece about David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” when the news from Connecticut came over the server. It was one of those moments in which time, memory and multiple experiences transfer and superimpose themselves onto one another. Initially, the piece was just…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Back in a 2011 interview with Esquire, Catalonian chef, restaurateur and the cooking world’s resident mad scientist Ferran Adrià asked, “Could you imagine people eating a painting — if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It’s probably the artist’s dream, and we have the…
Jimmy Gabacho
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Patricia Wells, author of Trattoria: Simple and Robust Fare Inspired by Small Family Restaurants of Italy, writes, “Homey, unpretentious, honest, and homemade, that’s the heart and soul of Italian trattoria cooking. Robust food–served without frills or fuss–makes up the body and substance of small family…
Jimmy Gabacho
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What can be troubling is that open discussions like these don’t always happen, because faculty has followed the PAC model of politics: they lobby chairs, deans and provosts privately so that these questions never see the light of day. However, if the question ever made…