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Written by Matt Landau
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Friday, February 22 2008 |
"Don't look right now" my friend Liz whispered in my ear. "But Steven Seagal. He just walked into the restaurant. Oh, my gosh. I just saw his latest movie. He's so amazing. How's my hair look?" I would probably have been more tempted to look at a team of elderly women in bikinis. "Seagull?" I asked as I turned around, against her request. "How the heck did a seagull fly through that revolving door?"
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Last Updated ( Monday, August 11 2008 )
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Written by Matt Landau
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Wednesday, December 06 2006 |
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There are a lot of Chinese immigrants in Panama and their hard work ethic manifests itself on nearly every corner of the country in the form of small grocery stores selling anything from sliced pineapple to salt-encrusted honey nuggets. These shops, or chinitos as they're called, top my list of guilty pleasures in Panama: shopping in them an experience that, like Jell-O wrestling, is about as gross as it is gratifying.
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Last Updated ( Monday, August 11 2008 )
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Written by Matt Landau
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Tuesday, November 14 2006 |
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I was recently in a not-so-good part of town where I met a small boy selling bars of soap on a street corner and his fat fingers reminded me of baby carrots. The street corner was grimy: stray dogs infected with the mange roamed in and out of ramshackle buildings and off in the distance a man took, what can appropriately be described as a massive bowel movement in the street. The bars of soap which the boy was selling were handmade and they seemed to be laced with some sort of sand or abrasive, making for a terrifically exfoliating massage. It's unfortunate that Panama's sketchy neighborhoods can't be scrubbed using traditional cleaning supplies.
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Last Updated ( Monday, August 11 2008 )
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Written by Matt Landau
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Saturday, October 28 2006 |
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If you are up to date on your Panama current events, you know that we recently had a nation-wide vote to expand our Canal. But from the voter turn out (for an issue of such national pride and potential reward) it appears that most of Panama's population spent their Sunday instead searching for illegal booze. CNN probably captured a photo or two of Panamanians and their sisters lined up in ecstatic lines to cast their “Yes” vote, but what they missed were the millions of Panamanians, trying to fight the weekend's ‘no drinking' mandate, huddled in circles concocting moonshine in their bathtubs. “Who needs a Canal” they'd say “when you've got a fresh hootch of firewater brewing?”
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Last Updated ( Monday, August 11 2008 )
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