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I hardly ever drink, so when I ordered champagne at La Calesita, a great outdoor milonga on Saturdays from 11 PM til 4 AM, I practically had to give it away.  Three glasses, and I was pretty well toasted, and making fun of my dance.  Here's a couple of pictures with a new friend Erica (who's about to join the ranks as a working psychologist) in my slightly drunken glory:   [gallery link="file" order="DESC"]   For coincedence watch 2009: I ran into Tyrone and his wife (non tango dancers) in Palermo (while shopping) a few days prior to taking this picture, at a tango practice at Villa Malcolm.  This city is crazy small.   [caption id="attachment_80"… Read More

I woke up around 4:30 in the evening today, what a New Years.  I sent out a mass text trying to figure out what to do for New Years, and one of my favorite dancers got back to me with an invitation to the Dinzel studio. It has a nice little open air passage, and two rooms to dance in. [gallery] Afterwards, I headed to La Viruta (this would be around 3:30 AM or so).  Despite being close, it took me a while to find a cash machine that actually worked.  Viruta was pretty good this year, surprisingly.  Last year, it was 85% party music, and the quality of dancers was pretty abysmal, with a really mixed up line of dance full of collisions.  This… Read More

Enough already, just ... stop, my brain can't take it any more. Coincedence watch 2008: I was at La Viruta last night, where I met a girl who has this in common with me:

• Tall
• Jewish
• Lives within half a block of Medrano and Humahuaca

I hit Salon Canning, and then went to La Viruta around 4:30 in the morning.  After hanging out there for an hour, things wound down, me and some new friends hit the nearby gas station for some pretty decent coffe and media lunas.  I met El Gato, violinist of El Afronte, as well as Paola, who teaches at Viruta and performs a bunch.  The pace is picking up. Read More