Sympathy for De Selby – Part One
I That no true Paddy would ever cut a tree into a rectangle has long been one of the axioms by which pegamequemegusta has led its increasingly obtuse life. The Paddy is after all a raggle-taggle...
View ArticleSympathy for De Selby – Part Two
As we stood sucking pebbles peering at a map on a trip to Sabella's La Plata last July, we were told to "stay within the triangle". To our horror, we noticed that the city, far from the tolerable grid...
View ArticleSympathy for De Selby – Parts One & Two
I That no true Paddy would ever cut a tree into a rectangle has long been one of the axioms by which pegamequemegusta has led its increasingly obtuse life. The Paddy is after all a raggle-taggle...
View ArticleCelui-ci n’est plus un pibe – Higuaín, Messi & Santiago Solari
Someone who can tell you far more about Higuaín, about contingency, about football and beauty, however, is the subject of our newest man crush, Santiago Solari. He has a new blog in El País called El...
View ArticleOur Man in the Ukraine – Oleg Yaroslavsky
Olé have a correspondent in the Ukraine at the moment. Martín Macchiavello is his name. This is quite unusual and pegamequemegusta is not sure what prompted such a change in strategy. Nonetheless,...
View ArticleYer Man in the Ukraine – José Sosa
Midst all the underpants ads, the carefully placed bottles of water – logo out – and exhortations to love those little plastic cards offering mastery and freedom; midst all the conflicting emotions...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Football Fish
Football players are men, after all, and we suspect that heretofore not enough attention – or at least the wrong kind of attention - has been paid to the lovemaking techniques of the men we pay to...
View ArticleBring Back Maradona
Maradona was rightly Tombstoned for his selection policy in the World Cup qualifiers. Some of the players Diego called up he would then treat like embarrassing mementos of late-night tv shopping...
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