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How to Break a Toilet With Your…

October 7th, 2008 Eric

Butthole! Dude, are you at home?”

I didn’t know where I was. I had been fast asleep when the phone rang. Instinctively, I had answered the ringing phone and it took me a second to figure out that yes, I was in my apartment. “Yeah I am. Why?”

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Brazilian Hospitals. Yuck.

September 28th, 2008 Eric

Wow! Here is an experience for you. I spent the last nine days in a public hospital in Brazil – three of those nine days in ICU.

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A Classic Brazilian Encounter

September 11th, 2008 Eric

It was a beautiful sunny day in Santos, Brazil. With over a million people, Santos is not a small place by Canadian standards but I was renting a place less than a block from the beach. And after an extended stay in the absolute chaos that is Sao Paulo, this particular part of Santos felt like an oasis of tranquility.

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