Author Archives: Joel Shuler

Free Coffee Question: Random Encounter

By Joel Shuler | Published: August 19, 2010

Upon returning the rental car to the Pampulha Aiport in Belo Horizonte, I had a chance encounter. For a free half pound of freshly roasted, hand-selected Brazilian coffee, with whom was this encounter?

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Birthday Excuse – Parabéns pra Você Caetano Veloso

By Joel Shuler | Published: August 7, 2010

Another “birthday excuse” to share with you some Caetano videos:

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Free Coffee Question: Mr. Waylon Jennings on Life

By Joel Shuler | Published: July 25, 2010

My victory against the google via my last question proved to be quite hollow, so I will make this one considerably less cryptic. Here we go: According to Mr. Waylon Jennings, what are life’s two necessary elements?

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The Plight of Brasiguaios

By Joel Shuler | Published: July 18, 2010

A very interesting and touching Globo Rural edition this morning about Brazilians that were forced out of Paraguay with threats and acts of violence by rural gangs associated with the Landless Workers Movement in Paraguay. They have returned to Brazil, and landless and penniless they have formed a tenement settlement along the highway in Mato [...]

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Birthday Excuse – Parabéns pra Você João Bosco

By Joel Shuler | Published: July 13, 2010
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