Notes from El Valle part 2, Electric Boogaloo October 20, 2009

Hey! Wahoo! Yippie! I just got internet back at the house!  Never would I have thought that such a mundane occasion (my reinstatement as a drone in the info-tech beehive) would be such a source of joy.  Though I shouldn’t be surprised.  Such is life in this, our 21st century… First things first, I should [...]

there’s too much paranoias February 5, 2009

Last night before bed I was watching the beginning of the news en La 2, and was appalled to see the story about the new Google Latitude, which apparently allows folks to know where you are at any given moment by tracing your location via your cellphone, mobile, etc.

Nitpicking with “gentilicios” January 27, 2009

This one belongs in a very distinct, probably well-nigh universal category of expatriate anecdotes: the “Small Talk in Elevator Leads to Humorous or Poignant or Socially Significant Reflection” anecdote.  If you know someone who lives overseas (and has an elevator, of course), or if you are that someone, you know what I’m referring to, those [...]

Fuck all them celery-eatin’-ass motherfuckers December 11, 2008

I. So the other day I was looking at The Onion looking for potential material when I ran across an interview with Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt. And I was like, “Damn, I had forgotten all about this Kool Keith motherfucker.”

They are believed that my nuts are eggs of a sturgeon October 23, 2008

It’s been a stressful couple of weeks here. Last Monday they began the Herculean project of reinforcing the beams in the ceiling of our apartment, as well as in that of two of our neighbors. They started on the 7th floor (where we live) and will work their way down, 6th, 5th, 4th, etc. Awesome, [...]

A nauseating cocktail of fear, hilarity and morbid fascination, or “What is up Satan’s ass?” September 25, 2008

I feel like I just went to Sam’s Club, bought an entire 24-pack of canned Worms and opened all 24 cans. See, I told y’all I was having problems getting unstuck from the goddamn computer. A look at The Huffington Post for some good ol’ “liberal bias” (just how I like it) led me to [...]

Crossing the galactic equator, or “What’s so great about hookers and blow?” July 26, 2008

Last weekend on two separate occasions I had two very similar conversations with two friends about the same topic: the Mayan Calendar and the end of the world in 2012. I should note that I’m not surprised. Although these two friends of mine have never been introduced and don’t know each other, they do have [...]