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Barcelona #62 - Chopsocky cinema and that Ghanaian proverb

That Ghanaian proverb quoted in the book is a classic that has long vexed me since Ananse first told me of it years ago.

“It requires a lot of carefulness to kill the fly that perches on the scrotum.”




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Westport #94 - Subprime made easy for all

Around the time of that mid September 2007 affair for Bob and Natasha, rumblings were emerging from the financial markets about all that global money crammed inside the US subprime mortgage market that was making financial institutions and hedge funds alike a fortune up until then.



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Santiago #30 - 43-Man Squamish

MAD Magazine was a big favorite of mine back when I was a kid, and its sense of humor has a longstanding impression on me to this day, and my writing style. The piece on 43-Man Squamish from MAD #095 (June 1965) was definitely one of the more memorable pieces for me.



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Los Angeles #70 - Canuckistan (be it Soviet or not)

Yo, whaddup with that Canuckistan label for ‘The True North strong and free'? At least until some day when it becomes overrun militarily or economically “integrated” by its steadfast friends and drinking amigos south of the 49th parallel (north).



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London #15 - Theakston Old Peculier

No, “Peculier” ain’t spelled wrong and it wasn’t a typo slip-up by some prat pounding on the keyboard. But I betcha some readers will think so at first glance.

In fact I had to porpoisefully make sure the spell check function kept it that way too. That is the correct spelling for the fabled brew out of Masham, North Yorkshire that Bobby Bo and Cory McCracken were knocking back that day before the wedding ceremony in Shepperton.



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Bob N. Boguslavski - An Author Interview

Guest Posts & Interviews with Tina Marie Says

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

In summary, I have been fortunate to be able to have done a lot of different jobs across multiple industries, in many places around the world, and that has provided the basis for my style and all the material for this book and future ones. It has given me a bit of a unique perspective.

Expressed mathematically, it might be something like this:
(Live + Think) x Different = Write Different

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Prologue - Saint(e)-François(e)

One might think that a simple name like Saint François (Saint Francis) and its companion feminine derivative, Sainte Françoise, would be a straightforward matter.

No, no, no … because we are talking Catholic Church in Quebec. Lulu knew this stuff dead cold, and went on a lot about it to me back when I was working together with him as a teenager.

In fact, there are so many places of the same base name, that the omniscient “ they” (i.e. the Church) had to put a lot of descriptive extensions thereafter to keep them all straight.

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Amman #52 - Super-Secret Squirrel Stuff

So yeah, since this puppy was set in the Middle East (or Middle Crease as I referred to it), you just know there is a lot of stuff going on in those parts that is not front and center in the media. It’s not just some casual wedding backdrop for a single guy’s comedic adventures, although it may seem that way on the surface.



It was pretty early on when this “CIA, Mossad, IIS Directorate 9, Mukhabarat, and MISIRI-cum-VEVAK” string got thrown out there.

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Amazon Reader on Wedding Chronicles

CIA meets Peter Pan
22-DEC-13

Bob is an engineer cum storywriter. The result is Wedding Chronicles, a really different, inspiring and fun read.

Basically this book is about a sequence of very diverse weddings all over the world. You get to know the highlights of each ceremony (which is not necessarily the wedding dress) and become witness of conversations related to the region or to important events at the time of each wedding.

Lots of witty wording (not by “coink-e-dink”), naming and conversations like the one where a friend (himself married three times already) talks about the greatness of marriage and asks Bob when he finally thinks to get settled … this book makes you laugh!

Bob’s initial and final musings about weddings give the reader the chance to reflect on his own experiences, while Peter Pan ignores that his time for decision making won’t last forever. But hey, if you work for the CIA – as most of his friends apparently believe – your priorities must be set somewhere. Or maybe the sheer number of weddings equals a decent vaccination against marriage.

This is also a book about a friend of his friends, where Bob is the big gatherer of his friends’ weddings, while forgetting about hunting down his own.
It is hard to believe – as the author claims - that there were no notes taken for all the detailed descriptions. In any case Bob mastered a serious issue of data gathering.

The format makes it possible to put the book aside … you don’t lose track if you leave time between reading the chapters. And if you want to completely immerse, with each chapter Bob has created a fine set of music playlists, which will put you in the right mood while reading.

Extraordinary.

5/5 *

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Cancun #25 - That Gusano de Oro character

You just know when you have had a deep and meaningful, long-term impactful life experience after one brief encounter that comes back to haunt you some 11 years later. What I am squawking about here is that chipper looking Gusano de Oro character (or Golden Worm in English) from the mezcal brand of the same name.



See what I mean? He sure looks all warm and fuzzy, but let me tell you, that sucker knows how to pack a punch.

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