Latbear4blk

I do agree, but I think your last line is an over statement.

The logging in has been acting up since he site was revamped. It is working for me right now, but I am not confident it is going to stay that way the next time I do it.

Dismissed? If you think this is a dismissive statement, I do not think you understand existentialism.

One of the very interesting to me things in her essay was her beautiful argumentation for the inherent meaninglessness and fruitlessness of life, to knock you out with a sudden and absolutely unexpected punch of superstition. It is a kind of intellectually dishonest and untalented trick that contradicts the beauty of 90% of the article. I think it even weakens her ultimate goal, because her ultimate argument is that we must believe not because God exists and is good, but because we need Him.

I was absolutely loving this article until she brought the need for God to the table. She is wrong there, projecting her own need. But everything else is very well thought and articulated. Thank you for sharing this.

It should be limitless, or several days long. My problem is not editing the posts to change or improve the content, but my horrible grammar and spelling. When people like my post or quote it, I reread what I wrote and I am often ashamed. Perhaps 7 days would make me happy.

And I am miraculously reinstated 5 days earlier.

Is that worse than the USA? Are you counting the cost of war crimes?

I love that quote. I will make it my motto.

Yep, he is not a trans, but a muscular drag queen. I also wanted to see more. It was too crowded.

Please, remember this thread is about Bourdain.

Well, I cannot speak for @RockHardNYC, but when I read his post, it seems to me he is using his personal experience to discredit Anthony's. That is what I am arguing against in the post you quoted.

Look at this beauty I found in the DC Pride Festival today. IMG_0479.MOV

I do not think this is a competition to declare the winner in the race for the most Racist country. I thought we were discussing Race to better understand the different ways than Racism take in different socio-cultural-political contexts. I appreciate @Latindude contribution for many reasons, but specially because I was thinking the same when I was reading other posters, but I was not sure because I do not know Brazil as well. Look at the success of Racism in Argentina, where there is an official history and a mainstream self image that does not correlate with reality. Many if not most Argentines would be offended if you point out to racist discrimination in the national culture. I agree that like in Brazil classism is more important, however it is often so intertwined with racism that is hard to tell what predominates.

Perhaps you should make a harder effort to step out of your shoes and your fabulous NY apartment, and get in Bourdain's skin. He was a chef and a professional traveler. He may have been suffering from clinical depression. He brings the bad burger example in the episode I was referring. It is not about what we can or cannot imagine we would do. It is about trying to connect with his way of experiencing life. I would not get depressed because a bad burger either. However I do relate to the experience of letting one little thing to paint the whole universe in one color.

I watched Buenos Aires (my mother-home) episode last night and I loved it. During the episode it is highlighted Buenos Aires' (they misguidedly say Argentina's) fondness for psychotherapy, and a role playing situation is chopped throughout the chapter where Anthony and a local woman play the analyzed/analyst roles. I cannot know how much of the role play script is coming from Anthony's pen, but it could be a clue on guessing some of what may have been going on in his mind. I feel very much identified with this. Anthony, in his character from the divan, shares how sometimes something completely minuscule and insignificant like a bad burger in an airport triggers days of depression, and how similarly but oppositely, a few seconds of happiness give meaning to his life for weeks.

The log in issue is back as I described it above.

I have already done that but unsuccessful. I am too lazy to proof ready carefully. Back to topic. I followed Bourdain yeas ago, when he was in the food channel. Then I abandoned cable and his show. When I returned to cable last year I did not return to him and I am sorry. My way of honoring his life is watching Parts Unknown. I just watched the first episode of the last season, about West Virginia. It is so good, he can connect and show how alike the human experience is, even in places that seem antipodal. I am right now watching the episode about Uruguay, which is almost home to me. It is such a pleasure to listen to a foreigner non self centered vision of my own culture.

I think what I like the least in Boytoy is our inability to edit our posts.

I am (was?) specially fond of him since my first years living in the USA, because of non American centered vision of culture, society, and politics. It is not a quality shared by many Americans.

I should have said "I am sure there is more to it that we do not know" instead of "Perhaps.." It does not make sense to us, but perhaps it did make sense to him. That is the mystery, and I do agree we'll possibly never know.