December 2004 Archives

Holiday Singalong!

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I am now obsessed. So it's not alpacas, but llamas are cool too. And just in time for the new year. Check it out!

The LLama Song


Christmas Eve's Eve

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Anyone interested in a little Christmas Eve Eve cheer? Meet us this Thursday at Allegro Ballroom in Emeryville. We will rueda our tootsies off before we hang our smelly stockings on the mantle.

http://www.allegroballroom.com/

Learn to speak Cuban

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In my never-ending quest to learn the language that has no consonants, I ran across this link:
Proteus Newsletter Article
Even if you're not interested in linguistics or learning Spanish, or Cuban for that matter, it's worth the read. Maybe I haven't read a lot of linguistic and dialectic texts, but I've never seen examples like these in a professional journal:

Carmen y Carlitos se curdean con chispa'e tren.
[kám-men-i-kal-lí-to-se-kud-dé-an-kon-chíh-pa-e-trén]
"Carmen and Carlitos get high on home-brew."

Friday nite Casino Rueda

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And the winner for tomorrow nite? DancEasy in El Cerrito. Meet us there around 9:30pm.