Argentina’s first game in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is about to begin.  They play Nigeria.  It’s very exciting to be outside the US during World Cup. Robert was in Italy in 1990 and Japan in 1998 (and in LA for the final in 1994).  He has little more than an anthropological interest in the event, but it reminds him that the “rest of the world” finds the World Cup to be extremely important.  Extremely.  Argentina has not won the World Cup for 24 years and Robert can tell you that it would be a tremendous uplift for the country if they did it this year, and a huge letdown if they don’t do well. 

It’s  fun to see so much of South Africa on television.

Anyway, Robert’s lying low, watching the game on TV.  He does not want to be standing around when they start to beat up foreigners and burn cars!

1930 Details	Uruguay	Uruguay	4–2	Argentina	United States	[note 1]	Yugoslavia
1934 Details	Italy	Italy	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Czechoslovakia	Germany	3–2	Austria
1938 Details	France	Italy	4–2	Hungary	Brazil	4–2	Sweden
1950 Details	Brazil	Uruguay	[note 2]	Brazil	Sweden	[note 2]	Spain
1954 Details	Switzerland	West Germany	3–2	Hungary	Austria	3–1	Uruguay
1958 Details	Sweden	Brazil	5–2	Sweden	France	6–3	West Germany
1962 Details	Chile	Brazil	3–1	Czechoslovakia	Chile	1–0	Yugoslavia
1966 Details	England	England	4–2 (a.e.t.)	West Germany	Portugal	2–1	Soviet Union
1970 Details	Mexico	Brazil	4–1	Italy	West Germany	1–0	Uruguay
1974 Details	West Germany	West Germany	2–1	Netherlands	Poland	1–0	Brazil
1978 Details	Argentina	Argentina	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands	Brazil	2–1	Italy
1982 Details	Spain	Italy	3–1	West Germany	Poland	3–2	France
1986 Details	Mexico	Argentina	3–2	West Germany	France	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Belgium
1990 Details	Italy	West Germany	1–0	Argentina	Italy	2–1	England
1994 Details	United States	Brazil	0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–2 pens.)	Italy	Sweden	4–0	Bulgaria
1998 Details	France	France	3–0	Brazil	Croatia	2–1	Netherlands
2002 Details	Korea Republic & Japan	Brazil	2–0	Germany	Turkey	3–2	Korea Republic
2006 Details	Germany	Italy	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–3 pens.)	France	Germany	3–1	Portugal

Wikipedia entry of the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

Wikipedia entry of the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

That’s a bummer.

Have you heard that Cadie can sit up now, and with a little help she also stands on her own? Supergirl!

Robert is spending five days in Peru. He’s staying in the Lima, in the Miraflores neighborhood, which is a collection of high-rise apartment buildings, hotels and shopping centers on a sea-cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He had not been in Lima for over ten years. The Miraflores area was beginning to be built out then, but it is now very packed with Marriots and Tony Roma’s, Starbucks, Radio Shacks and Chili’s. All very “tastfully” done. He’s sure that the rest of Peru, the Andes, smaller cities and the rest of Lima are not as changed. Perhaps he’ll go to Arequipa this weekend. While in Lima he is staying at the large ocean-view apartment of his friends the Cardenases.

Robert is spending five days in Peru. He’s staying in the Lima, in the Miraflores neighborhood, which is a collection of high-rise apartment buildings, hotels and shopping centers on a sea-cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He had not been in Lima for over ten years. The Miraflores area was beginning to be built out then, but it is now very packed with Marriots and Tony Roma’s, Starbucks, Radio Shacks and Chili’s. All very “tastfully” done. He’s sure that the rest of Peru, the Andes, smaller cities and the rest of Lima are not as changed. Perhaps he’ll go to Arequipa this weekend. While in Lima he is staying at the large ocean-view apartment of his friends the Cardenases.

Nothing soothes a bad case of pink-eye like strapping on a pair of patent leather pumps. Actually, his strut may be better than Mira’s. Plus, what’s going on with that 1976 David Bowie haircut?  Robert II doesn’t know whether to cry or to . . . cry.

Robert took a plane to Peru today.