Or maybe he modeled it after the skull of the drifter with deformational plagiocephaly that he buried in his basement.

My wife pours milk on Teddy Grahams and eats them as if they were cereal. Spanish people are weird.

I don’t usually comment here (disclosure, I’m not a gear head but I stripped and rebuilt a 55 Willy’s Wagon and 63 Lincoln with my dad in high school), but I wanted to give a Y2k anecdote about people who didn’t understand computers. My high school sophomore class went to DC to visit colleges. We ultimately had a meet…

“Belgian Bay Quality”

Does the Springs have Wingers? Man, as someone who waited tables in one at 14 but lives in Europe, I miss Wingers. I'm getting the shakes just thinking about it.

Did you know that, in most cases, you can open the drop down and simply start to type the name, which will take you to the item on the list?

Especially ski-jumping!

ABSOLUTELY! And fuck all those David Cameron supporters who think missed bicycle kicks are worthy of accolades. And fuck all those Jean-Marie Le Pen fans who think that straight sets are of any importance. And fuck all those Fidel Castro aficionados who think that walk off grand slams are cool. And fuck all those…

Those are literally the two worst places in Spain for pick pockets. And if you stay in one place you’re obviously going to see it. El Rastro on Sunday and Las Ramblas anytime (I lived in Zona Franca, which is not a nice neighborhood, but somewhere you won’t get picked- like Vallecas in Madrid) If you go to those…

Well, this also happened three years ago: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/0…

Ha! You saw 10 pick pockets in Spain in a week? I’ve lived in Madrid more than 15 years (and have also lived in Barcelona), am a permanent Spanish resident with a Spanish wife and a Spanish/American daughter and, of the three of us, only I’ve experienced one attempt to pick my pocket (and my wide stopped someone from…

What crime did you see in Spain?

I personally know someone who was held up at gunpoint in SP and whose friend was murdered when the latter didn’t hand over his watch. This was about three years ago.

I can think of 50, actual disasters, worse than this in the past five years. I know what you mean, but let's not dilute the terrible things that happen daily around the world to not-rich people. This is a terrible event, but it's not a "disaster of the biggest kind". The Nanjing Massacre it isn't.

As an American who lives in Europe and travels with his Spanish wife around the world extensively, that's just patently contrary to my experience. It's one thing to be in Marrakesh and have people try to entice you into something you don't want. I only know one person who has been nearly murdered abroad. And it was in…

Merkin’s a big ol’ pussy with something to hide.

An acquaintance of mine was on secondment to our SP office. He was in the company car with a friend and was stopped by a dude with a gun. Something went wrong when they demanded his watch and it ended with his friend dead and him running for his life. It was front page news here in Spain because he was the son of a…

I try to respect other people’s opinions, but this Chicano-ry has gone too far! The only thing you should be consuming with a margarita is another margarita in your other hand.

Jurgis Rudkus.

The walls are clearly to deflect blowing sand.