A guiri walks into a hair salon… the dangers of getting a haircut in Madrid

Getting a haircut in a second language is a game of roulette:  either your head is miraculously left intact, or you leave looking like an anime character. During Spanish

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Mr Daniel Welsch and his Interview on The Local

Hey everyone, The hard-working and occasionally-handsome Mr Daniel was recently interviewed in The Local, an online newspaper here in Spain. You can check out the interview here: Daniel

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Guest hosting a new episode of the Magnetic Memory Method podcast

Well, hey, chorizophiles! Just a quick note: the hard-working and eternally handsome Mr Daniel was invited to guest host a recent episode of the Magnetic Memory Method podcast.

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Site scrapers get a taste of Mr Chorizo

What’s beef? Beef is when you need two gats to go to sleep. Beef is when you make your enemies start your Jeep. And, as The Notorious B.I.G.

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The lonely troll

I’ve been blogging for about 5 years at this point, and in all that time, I’ve received mostly positive, intelligent comments. I’m really happy about that, in fact,

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Mr Chorizo goes to Amsterdam – adventures in Europe’s frozen north

Well, I’m back from Amsterdam! Didn’t even notice I was gone? Ha! That’s what happens when you’re at the bottom of the blogosphere. You can go on vacation

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Obscene conversations with my English students

Spaniards often have little concept of political correctness or puritanical politeness, and they’re accustomed to using all sorts of colorful expressions wherever they go. Even in English class.

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The glamorous life of a (semi) professional blogger

Yeah, I’m a semi-professional blogger, and here’s a typical day in my life… 7:28 AM — My eyes pop open a full hour before my alarm is supposed

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Dreaming in Spanglish

Last night I dreamed that my normal students had turned into characters from The Wire. Marlo Stanfield was there in person, but the rest were sort of versions

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Big Pimpin, the Expurgated Version

Poetry has been around for millennia, but, of course, not all poetry is created equal. There are, even today, serious sonneteers who can knock out 14 lines of iambic

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