Memoirs / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Rants
Tags: everything, fear, hate, labels, life, Life on Mars, love, non-relationship, Panama, Panamanians, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, sociology, the universe
July 7, 2009
To put it in lamest terms, lately I’ve found myself with an acute lack of inspiration to write anything worth reading. Looking back at it, I could attribute this resignation with being tired from taking care of Porto and all the wonderful things he does, or recent work troubles, or somewhat personal issues; maybe it’s all of the above. Of course, since it’s in my nature as a writer to be an observer of human behavior, I find myself more interested in how other people’s actions (or lack thereof) affect me. If you’re looking for an informative piece on Panama or Panamanians and how they operate, I guess you’ll find something worth taking with you in this piece. If you want to read the musings of a jaded columnist with some snark and hilariously bitter social commentary, you’ll get a kick out of this joint. If you’re looking for news, get the fuck out of my porch.
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I bet that, like me, It’s taken a lot of you some time to be aware of the problem happening to the Naso people, at the west end of Panama in Bocas del Toro, near the border with Costa Rica. Details are scarce (in English) so I’ll give you the Cliff Notes version to put you up to speed; time is precious for these people, so any help you can provide in the matter would be greatly appreciated by them.
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: bella_vista, crimson_ghost, halloween_costume, halloween_parties, internet_portals, midnight_fireworks, october_31st, Panama, panama_city, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, rebels_motorcycle_club, social_calendar, social_phenomena, Video, vimeo, zombie_horde, zombie_movies, zombie_walk
October 22, 2008
Looking for something different to do this Halloween? If you’re tired of the club scene and Halloween parties that appear in the social calendar every October 31st, then you are invited to participate in a special event that will make the “dead” rise and walk the earth for one night only.
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Memoirs / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: boom, burn_marks, discovery, entertainment_factor, homebrew, ironboy, karcamo, lucha extrema nacional, lucha libre, lxn, personal_experience, plot_twists, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, rxw, scars, Video, violence, wrestlers, wwe, xtrema, youtube
May 23, 2008
Like a folded chair to the face, sometimes things blindside us and knock us off our shoes when we least expect it. Many of us enjoy the thrill of a pleasant surprise, but in this day and age of the Internet where we can know everything everybody is doing every second of the day, spoil [...]
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Movies / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: ancon, anime_dragon_ball_z, best_man, big_boss, bruce_lee, challengers, chop_socky, cult_exploitation, dangerous_man, dragon_ball, dragon_ball_z, fellow_man, grainjaus, history_of_cinema, laws_of_gravity, martial-arts, martial_artists, mere_mortals, Movies, Porto Diao and Friends, tony_jaa, undisputed_champion, youtube
April 24, 2008
Porto Diao marches on with his ongoing cult/exploitation film festival at the Theatre guild of Ancon. This time, it’s a celebration of chop-socky, closed-fist destruction as two of the most incredible martial artists in the history of cinema square off in a battle where only the best man (and those most drunk) wins: Bruce Lee [...]
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It is with great pleasure that I present to you, dear reader, a Porto Diao project that’s close to my heart and has been on my constant watch list on things to resurrect for some time: “Grainjaus!”, Porto Diao’s exploitation and cult film festival. First started in La Casona with an awesome, gruesome zombie movie [...]
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Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: art_music, assorted_crap, Blog, canadians, chunk, commotion, crazy_pills, different_reasons, earth_man, europeans, friday_morning, good_man, google, music_scene, myspace, Panama, Panama Travel, panama_travel, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, post_coital, real_estate_boom, Rob-Rivera, señor-loop, social_discomfort, sonic_blast, top_dogs, workload
March 31, 2008
At least that’s what the folks at Panama Travel News are saying. It was Friday morning, sort of excited about going to the Guildstock ‘08 for reasons I will not discuss here (ask me though. I love ranting) but even more excited because I scored a copy of Señor Loop’s new album in 4 years [...]
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Blog / Music / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: adolfo, ancon theater guild, arias, bandas de rock, board of governors, booty, caravan, directores, el teatro, gastos, indie rock, jazz, jennifer aniston, john aniston, ladies and gents, last minute caravan, loggia, napolitan band, Panama, panama-city, pat quinn, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, ruben blades, sin embargo, tga, the vox, theater guild, theater guild of ancon, theaters
March 27, 2008
Just a quick heads-up for those of you in Panama City; as a member of the Theater Guild of Ancon Board of Governors, it’s my duty (to please that booty) and honor to humbly invite you to get to know one of the oldest theaters in Panama City, and the only one that mounts plays [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: Blog, crimson_ghost, jspotpanama, medcom, october_31st, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Panama-Riders, panamanian, Porto Diao and Friends, radicales_libres, rencilla, tv_outlets, urraca, Video, video_recap, wrestling_superstar, youtube, zombie_horde, zombie_walk
November 20, 2007
I have returned! After a short absence (alright, so I took a little more than a month… big whoop) I’m slowly taking back the reign of things. One of the reasons why I’ve been quiet this long is, in part, due to this year’s Zombie Walk, which was organized by the Porto Diao group. The [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: Blog, charming_man, current_marketing, facebook, girls, juan-carlos-navarro, landslide_victory, man_of_mystery, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panamanian, politics, Porto Diao and Friends, ricardo_martinelli, supermarket_chains, zombie-walk, zombie_walk
October 19, 2007
As an aside to this piece, I feel compelled to share this tidbit with you: I got to work this morning and after settling in and the like, I decided to peruse Facebook. The social netwroking website has been vital to Porto Diao’s current marketing ventures, especifically talking about the Zombie Walk and I’m the [...]
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Articles / Collaborators / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: action_figures, anime_action, Articles, bandwagon, certain_age, Collaborators, desire, forms_of_entertainment, freight_train, justice_league, ninja_turtles, nintendo_ds, Panama Tourist Guide, playing_video_games, play_video_games, Porto Diao and Friends, second_generation, social_aspects, ugly_heads, vaginas, wii, zeitgeist
October 8, 2007
As videogames continue their climb to become respected forms of art and entertainment, Panama doesn’t fall behind. I jumped in the video game bandwagon during its second generation (as of 2007, we’re on the 7th cycle) I can’t deny that stem of my roots even if I wanted to. More than two decades later, we’ve [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: american_forces, Articles, broken_hips, casual_reader, clueless, extracurricular_activities, facebook, flag_football, gems_of_wisdom, lowdown, mangled, nfl_players, Panama Tourist Guide, panama_flag, peruse, playing_field, porto, Porto Diao and Friends, raisin, shapes_sizes, social_networking, vets
October 3, 2007
Since both Porto Diao and myself peruse Facebook daily for both pertinent and extracurricular activities, I get a lot of invites to events of all shapes, sizes and topics. As great a tool as the social networking site is, sometimes it can become quite overwhelming and douched in its own particular brand of bullshit that, [...]
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Blog / Music / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Rants / Video
Tags: Blog, brainchild, business_ventures, butterfest, christmas_toy, food_manufacturing, gunpei_yokoi, Halo-3, hanafuda_cards, happening, japanese_businessman, long_story_short, love-motel, maintenance_engineer, manufacturing_business, Music, nintendo_company, noriega, Panama Tourist Guide, passage_of_time, playing_cards, Porto Diao and Friends, project_maintenance, push-button, pushes, Rants, Shigeru-Miyamoto, snark, something_positive, taxi_companies, Video, youtube
September 20, 2007
If this comes off as ranty then it is because I feel particularly touchy when it comes to the capacity for injustice in man. I’ve been preparing an article on Noriega and the 1989 invasion to Panama, labeled “Just Cause,” and that, tangled along with things happening at work and my personal life that I [...]
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Articles / Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: Articles, beer-and-blogs, Blog, Culture, cupido-must-die, grainjaus, grindhouse, Matador, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-tourism, Panamanians, Porto Diao and Friends, Rants, society, tourism, valentines-day, zombie-walk
July 17, 2007
Porto Diao continues to expand. Who would’ve thunk that a year ago the Little Portal That Could was nothing more than me playing around with a server, figuring out what to do with it? Now we have a gazillion things going on, and I’d like to take the time to showcase them because, modesty aside, [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: alternate-reality-game, Blog, butterfest, events, facebook, flip, Matador, NBK, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Porto Diao and Friends, Rob-Rivera, Video, youtube
June 12, 2007
Rejoice, dear fellows! Though fashionably late, Butter, Flip and other fine collaborators have finally finished what is the greatest video creation we’ve done yet: the video tutorial for PortoDiao.com’s MATADOR!: An alternate reality game created to make its participants soldiers of fortune, all of them set loose in the concrete jungle to hunt and [...]
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