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A Pink Floyd tale in Rio de Janeiro
Daniel wanted to remove the bad impression he had left after hooking me up with Marcos; although it was undeniable that his deep and powerful voice blended well with my songs, things had ended badly....
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Adventures in the time of the Cruzado – part 01
In1987, right after I left University, it was time to begin the “serious” life and climb up the tree. I left the fun job as a teacher and began as a trainee in a prestigious international bank on Rio...
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Adventures in the time of the Cruzado – part 02
Divine Justice touched the ex-director as well as the bank a few years later. Before anything, we must know that the Cruzado plan, as many others before and after it, was not successful and that a few...
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Adventures in the Favela – Part 01 – The Body
From far away it looked like a drunkard who had stumbled and fallen asleep on the dried up football field but as we got closer it became obvious that this wasn’t the case.The body was still fresh in...
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Adventures in the Favela – Part 02 – Tania became a prostitute.
My girlfriend was from Florianopolis in the south of Brazil, a city known for good waves and beautiful women. She had come to Rio together with a friend, Tania. To be honest the night we met I fancied...
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Adventures in the Hotel Santa Teresa – Part 01
The first time I went there was in the sequence of a party at the Casa de Santa Teresa, a venue next to the Morro dos Prazeres Favela. This was one of the best places in Rio for parties, it was like a...
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Adventures in the Hotel Santa Teresa – Part 02
The Hotel Santa Teresa became a mixture of home, club and circus; most of us stopped going to the beach on weekends and spent them by the pool chatting and making music while appreciating the view of...
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The Chimpa
I knew Herbert from before Uni, we had both studied at the Colegio Andrews and belonged to the same group of friends. In our freshmen’s class, as we started to meet new friends we ended up belonging to...
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The early gangster days of Computer Graphics in Rio de Janeiro – part 01
This was already in the nineties. I had come back from Europe after the storm of the Fernando Collor years to begin my career as a computer graphics artist. In my luggage was the strange experience of...
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The First Chicken in Copacabana
My parents emigrated from the UK to Rio de Janeiro in the late 50′s. If the countries are different now imagine back then; it was a completely different world. A good illustration of this was their...
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