January 2012
12 posts
That sense of relief..
after doing something you had dreaded, and being able to say, “done.”
(I wish I were talking about something more important or more epic.. but actually I’m just referring to getting the mail)
“It’s the Harold and Kumar of Pulp Fictions.”
– My brother.
What?
“But the rockets! The rockets and the Hamas because the rockets and the rockets!...”
– How zionists justify the systematic oppression, occupation, brutalization and apartheid israel subjects the Palestinians to. (via miseengarde)
“Pancakes are a handheld food.”
– My mom. Having too much fun in #southernnevada.
“Wikipedia exists in Spanish, but it’s very small compared to the size of...”
– Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration | Video on TED.com (via soxiam)
2012 so far
has been awesome. Highlights of the past 48 hours:
-Most delicious $11 champagne and homemade coquito, Puerto Rican style eggnog.
-After an unusual, unexplainable and Steinbeck-ian series of events after midnight, ended up partying at the home of esteemed Colombian journalist Hollman Morris, documentarian of human rights abuse and civil war in Colombia and controversial Nieman Fellow denied...
“Was 2011 a bad year? Maybe. Was it a great year? Probably.”
– My friend JR perfectly summing things up. 2012 vamos!!
December 2011
48 posts
Decided to cook with six-month-old white wine.
It didn’t seem bad. At first. But my tongue is like fizzling a little. It’s probably all in my head.
Thank goodness I have a wine expert on call these days.
Perry sues to get on Virginia ballet
How I read the Washington Post headline, “Perry sues to get on Virginia ballot.”
I think my option would have been a more interesting story.
“If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart”-...”
– (via arabswagger)
subliminal messaging
You know like when you get dumped for a girl from St. Louis then suddenly you start getting bombarded by things from St. Louis evvverywhere.. the truck next to you in traffic is from St. Louis, the radio reminds you the Cardinals are coming to play, every movie trailer in set in a St. Louis suburb, your friends start talking about how much they’d love to see that damn arch and your plane...
on the universe's good side today.. let's hope it...
-decided to try burgertap&shake out of laziness/resignation to paying too much for a quick. hot, greasy and filling meal. waiter dude gives me a shake. for free.
-get in the elevator of my building. “pierre,” who got in ahead of me, recognized and remembered me from my job at da hostel a year ago when he was just moving to the city from france.. felt kinda bad i didn’t...
Did you know 12 years ago today the U.S. invaded...
“the operation served as a testing ground for tactics to be used in the persian gulf war one year later”
-the panama deception
suddenly when there is all this legit free time to...
IT COMPLETELY LOSES ITS APPEAL.
One last thing to get off my mind..
The last relationship I was in that lasted like, longer than two weeks, ended more than a year ago.
After everything was said and done and taking almost another full year to get over it, putting myself through a comical series of first dates, hookups and the like, I started trying to think of it as having been this free extended spanish immersion course with an emotional aspect not found in most...
last one
randomly want to make a super soulful acoustic rendition of sean kingston’s “fire burnin” to match that feelin i got inside, shawty is cool like da fire / cool like fire
(this is preemptive)
SO FREE! SO DONE! SO FREE! FELIIIIZ!
ok now finish 4real.. 12 hours go
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AHHH
AHHHH
“Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in 2005 is now able to vote. What...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org (via soxiam)
working minds need nutrition!
rice!
chicken!
pebre! (think chunky guacamole)
sparkling lemonade!
cheese and crackers! and hummus!
red wine! (wait.. i said workking minds right?)
8 hours on the floor later..
ahhhhhhhhhh!
(but actually not panicked at all)
I log into fb chat just to see what this kid will...
BK: i once got attacked in polisci
BK: then i woke up
BK: bc i got attacked in my dream lmao
Inconsequential but randomly mexicanly thematic...
-Shushed the kid sitting next to me during a lecture on water shortages in Mexico City. Felt so damn good, cuz he was an a$$hole.
-125th birthday of Diego Rivera (thx Google doodle). Reminds me that Moma is doing a Rivera exhibit and I haaave to see it (never really felt like going to the Moma otherwise)
-Just found out about Project Ambulante, as in literally just found out so I can’t...
“I was born intelligent, but living makes me dumber!”
– Cab driver today (it was POURING + WINDY). He was actually full of great stuff, and actually turned off the meter about 3/4 of the way “cause he liked to chat” #coolattitude
Escribir
The essay I’m working on (or I guess technically at this moment, not working on) pertains to a course taught by the author of this short text. Long before, I found this article in a bout of late-night reading, subsequently found out the author taught at Georgetown, and from that moment made it my goal to take any course of his that I could. And now here I am, writing (or not writing) the...
making progress!
as in, after quoting him for 10 pages, finally spelled “Ricoeur” correctly without looking
caballo mistico (silvio rodriguez) -- my loose...
you’re a horse with wings
that flies and flies
on mystic love that makes you rise
you’ve got a horn on your nose
and in the spring
you gallop higher than anything
you’re a man and a horse
maybe an archer too
they all share a heart inside of you
you’re a kiss on olympus
you’re an april afternoon
you’re my favorite flavor plus a spoon
and your...
and now for a bit of poetry?
ode to fb newsfeed
it’s funny to see
who goes growing older first
even though
we will all always be
the same age
the art of reply
this little dance
receive, wait, respond
wait, read, wait
write, revise, send
receive, write, erase
wait, hope, receive,
respond too fast,
this is stupid
and adolescent, perhaps.
old man sweater
look at that man
not so old
maybe not even...