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Posts by Al Carbon

Oct. 27, 2010

This is the second He Said/She Said Movie Review, wherein #3 and I caught Agora at the Fine Arts Cafe. It is still showing there, or can be caught on video. Al Carbon: What did you think about Agora? #3:…

Aug. 27, 2010

I had spent thirty-three years alive without ever having been kicked out of a place.  I guess there is always a first time. But, since I don’t go where I’m not wanted I’m never going back. Recently Al Carbon and…

Jul. 29, 2010

Sometimes it is necessary for someone to take a hit for the team.  This time it was my turn, since even my movie companion, Al Carbon, fell soundly asleep.  Watching Salt was a thoroughly painful experience that included a ridiculous…

Jul. 10, 2010

From the accounts coming out of Cleveland you would think that half of the city burned down and an earthquake destroyed the other half.  According to Ohio natives Lebron James is a cross between Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, and Satan. …

Jun. 21, 2010

Yesterday was Father’s Day.  I became a father back in 2003 and have a had an awkward relationship with its celebration ever since.  On that first year of fatherhood I had been a father for barely two months when Fathers…

Jun. 13, 2010

In a previous column, I discussed the stupefying lack of any real production in the Puerto Rican economy.  There, I stressed the need to think about how we could produce, because construction and distribution are simply not industries that can…

Jun. 6, 2010

Through a complicated set of circumstances, which I will not recount here, I graduated from high school one year early but had not applied to college.  So, I found myself seventeen and out of high school with not much to…

May. 30, 2010

It is late May, which means that I am paying attention to one thing only: Roger Federer at Roland Garros. I will be upfront about this: I am a HUGE Federer fan and have been one since the summer of…

May. 23, 2010

As a general rule I detest driving in Puerto Rico.  The only times I enjoy it are when no one else is on the streets.  Maybe that makes me a misanthrope, but maybe that misanthropy has been earned.  After all,…

May. 16, 2010

La Acera is an infant; it is barely six months old.  This youth is exhilarating.  It infuses everything we do with a certain charm similar to that of every new experience related to the maturing process of adolescence.   Everything is…