Good freaking grief
I’ve been speaking Swedish for the past 4 days due to my job and man, it oozes out of my ears as we speak. Most people who speak a third language will inevitably confirm the follwing: it is tiring to shift gears to a language one isn’t…
Read Morefrigging stoked
I am so frigging stoked, dang ese, this is HUGE. De Suecia, come mensajes de personas that just can’t do without their weekly TEZOZOMOC CHISME! Pues Julio Martinez de yonderlesit.org (de Suecia), Tezzy hasn’t forgotten all his cuates, not only from…
Read MoreFaith based Lectores
The power of the word never ceases to impress me. Especialmente cuando esas palabras conforman parte del lienzo donde se pinta al ser que supuestamente debería corresponder a la imagen que las palabras muestran. This becomes moreso a truth on the…
Read MoreThe Metrosex in me
When I go the market I look for fresh produce be it vegetables, fruits or, je! beer. Yet the brits somehow have a weird and twisted meaning to it that just baffles the living daylights out of my Xicano skull. Israel in fresh Lebanon strikes Fresh…
Read MoreQue vivan los muertos de la guerra
Listen: Los ABCs ¡Qué vivan los muertos! Sing Along Download the song! Los ABCs: is a five-minute Xicano docu-animation cataloguing the real-life testimony of skeletons who have returned to tell their stories of life and death at war. Do you remember…
Read MoreOdd in a kind of freakish way
Pre-destination. I recall this worm in my belly. It used to be that I felt predestined to be a writer and it often permeated a great deal of my everyday life more oft than not in my love affairs. This is quite intrinsic to Americans, specially the WASP…
Read MoreLieutenant Ehren Watada
I haven’t seen much clamoring on the American blogsphere regards Lieutenant Ehren Watada. In fact technorati gives a graphic whereby we can see its reader cause and effect. Some of the big honchos on the net and which tend to attract large crowds…
Read MoreAgonista me?
Am rather amused at the fact that I can post stuff at the Agonist. It just tickles my belly to no end. Off course, the fear that I might not do as expected haunts me like the Llorona does to every kid with mexican blood world over. Do I expect to be…
Read MoreOrdinary people like you and me in Israel-Palestine
Is ra el Nothing but Is-ra-el. Poor israeli citizens. They must have some kind of post traumatic disorder in full swing by now. They never rest. I don’t care how tough they are am telling you, keep it. I’d rather live in México or Sweden any…
Read Morede agentes secretos
RIP Agent 007s unlikely alter ego – Sir Peter Smithers He was a secret agent, diploment and scholar, but few knew of Sir Peter Smithers’ most exotice role: the likely model for Ian Fleming’s James Bond – reports The Canberra…
Read Morepatriarchism strikes again
Reading this sent revulsions of all sorts down my spine. The most famous record of slave life, Frederick Douglass’s “Narrative,” rendered vividly the vile mix of lust and domination practiced by slave owners. This is a bunch of poo in…
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