Por San Antón, Echa Cueros el Lechón

Wepa!  I was really excited when the Jayhawk first told me that Giovanna Huyke* (the Julia Child of Puerto Rico) was coming to DC to take over the kitchen at Mio.  Reading Tom Sietsema's latest review of the restaurant (which is truly one our favorite spots in town -- I mean, really, the pig alone is reason enough to go and like it there) made me giggle and just about shed a tear of joy.  Welcome to Guasington, Giovanna! And congratulations to you and to Mio for the great review.  Looks like 2012 will be a good (and yummy) year, indeed.

(*Site en español.)

Wee for Me!!!

Santa brought me a Wii for Christmas!  I see some bowling matches in my near future.  Hopefully I won't fling the controller into the TV screen.  That's the Jayhawk's biggest fear.  Who, PS and BTW, must have been very good this year because Santa brought him a Galaxy Tab.  He just about cried when he unwrapped the box.  And his face light up once he powered the thing up and started playing with it.  I have to admit that I'm a tad jealous.  But, that's okay because the Three Kings are set to pay us a visit in a couple of weeks (with Bosox Siobhan and BKDM in tow!).  I can get my own Tab then.  Oh, the joys of being a Rican and celebrating 2 gift-giving holidays...I'm thankful for that.

And I'm thankful for being able to share our Christmas Eve dinner with Shatterproof.  It was a good time.  Beef stroganoff (with bacon), green beans (with bacon), corn with poblano peppers (with bacon), and biscuits (not with bacon but yes with lots of butter).  Yum!  And then there was the 18-pack of Bud Heavies, the bottle of wine, and the coquito (Liz Taylor's recipe, of course).  Can't have a proper Christmas without the booze.  Or without watching "A Christmas Story," which we did and almost watched twice.  But drunky sleep beckoned.  Shatterproof left around 2:30AM and took a jug of coquito for his sister-in-law's family dinner tonight (them peoples are gonna have the sobriety knocked out of them real good).  I finally made it to bed around 3AM; exhausted, but again, thankful.  And thankful that it's still just Sunday and tomorrow I get the day off.  Score for being a Gub'ment worker!

¡Feliz Navidad, mis bonitos!

Music Makes the People Come Together, Yeah...

Sorry for the silence, mis bonitos.  I've been busy gathering up some tunes for the latest Mango Mix.  And I'm happy to announce that it's finally here!  The Mango Is Falling...!  And the tracks are:

Hyde & Beast - You Will Be Lonely
Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
San Cisco - Awkward
Tinpan Orange - Barcelona
Dead Letter Chorus - Run, Wild
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
Wooden Shjips - Lazy Bones
Hooray for Earth - True Loves
Hanni El Khatib - Fuck It, You Win
Jagwar Ma - Come Save Me
Theophilus London - Wine and Chocolates
SBTRKT - Hold On (feat. Sampha)
Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons
The Dø - Gonna Be Sick!
Nive Nielsen & The Deer Children - Good for You
Piney Gir - The Gift
Cocoon - Sushi
Baxter Dury - Trellic
Cub Scouts - Evie
Nantes - Fly
MuteMath - Allies
Real Estate - It's Real

And the link to access all of these good tunes is: http://(Oops...Pas de link.  Go search through the Webs to acquire them and enjoy.)


Muchos besos, mis amores.