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28 de Febrero, 2007
Remembering that Which Is True (part.2)
MY FATHER TOLD ME a wise thing: the hardest part about [coming to this work, this journey, this exploration of self] is that everyone seems to know better than you who you are. This has turned out to be a very valuable piece of wisdom. Or rather, preparing for this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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27 de Febrero, 2007
Tuesday afternoon, Oregon.
Will this rainy winter never end? I miss the sun.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Overlords in Name and Deed
I SOMETIMES MENTION being one of the RNC 1800, and the 50+ hours I spent in jail behind protesting the Republican National Convention in NYC in August of 2004. This was when I was living in Kensington, Brooklyn and commuting through Manhattan to go to work each day in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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26 de Febrero, 2007
Our Hidden Hands [The White Lens III]
FOR THIS INSTALLATION of my The White Lens series, I give you algunas palabras de una private journal I've kept for a few years. This was written just as I was starting to surface from out of the White Magik Spell that had a hold of me for years.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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25 de Febrero, 2007
APPO on the rise!
AS THE CRUEL, HARD, HANDS OF OPPRESSION, deception, and greed cannot hope to be stronger than the heart, the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) is only gaining support and energy as a reaction to the fascist, violent tactics of installed governor Ulises Ruiz. Once again the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Support the Truth.
DEAR WORLD, Mother Nature, the Force that created me, and my fellow Americans: This is my public and formal declaration that I do not support murder, nor the lovely thoughts in the murderer's mind, nor the shiny steel weapon in his hand that he claims will help him reach... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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24 de Febrero, 2007
Smile and Say CHEEZE
FIFTEEN YEAR-OLD OSCAR GUTIERREZ is not smiling anymore. He died last weekend, addicted to a new, cheap drug called "Cheese," or "Cheeze," which is made of heroin and Tylenol PM. The drug, which sells at a very affordable $2 per hit, is sweeping through middle-schools and high schools in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Free Chip Fitzgerald
1969 WAS A TIME OF GREAT TURMOIL, and very much so for Black people in America. The hatred held for The Brown™ by mainstream society was much less disguised or sublimated than it is today, and oppression and violence was the life they were expected to take in stride. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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23 de Febrero, 2007
Desayuno con el Diablo
FRIDAY ONCE MORE and I swear the days are flying by. Wasn't it just Friday? Here's a spooky little ditty called Paciencia, by one of our favorites here at Nez's joint, Control Machete. A good video to watch late at night, when you can't sleep. Enjoy your evening, vat@s!... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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A Scabby, Rotted, Pale, Flaccid Dick
DICK CHENEY is of the Olde American School. The type that proudly justifies (or justifies at all) the massacres at Horseshoe Bend, Wounded Knee, and Sand Creek. The type that stole half of Mexico's land, lied about why, and then ignored provisions of the bullshit treaty signed afterward. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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22 de Febrero, 2007
Burning So Bright, Even at Night
NOW WE TAKE A MOMENT to honor Diane Burns, 1957 - 2006, Native American poet. Remembered by many with the strongest of affection and reverence, Diane was known as a dramatic, strong, creative, beautiful and troubled soul; a fiercely shining light that this world, with all its cruelty, fought... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Purpose
AND NOW, A SHORT INCESTUOUS talk about blogging. A short, self-evident, but perhaps important word about the online community. For those who come here to read the Dillio® and don't care one bit about the social aspects and drama of other blogs and how we all interact, first accept... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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21 de Febrero, 2007
Goodboy!
IN A RECENT COMMENT THREAD, a few amigos and myself were speaking of the Goodboy syndrome (as named by reader Pinche Daddio/HeyJoe), wherein a Person of Color feels this mighty and unspoken pressure to respond to the expectations / racism / ignorant thought patterns / fear of the dominant... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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George Takei Responds to Hardaway's Homophobia
OKAY, this is hilarious.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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19 de Febrero, 2007
Happy Hellmaker Day
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America Fails its Children
OH UH! It's report card time. UNICEF has done a study on 21 industrialized nations which they sum up in the report as "An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries." Looks like Murka should have spent more time doing homework instead of staying out late with the boys... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Chican@ Art Mag #3 [March Release]
IF YOU WANT TO READ UP on why I post about this mag, or how I am involved (writer), you can click here to find all the entries on this topic. If you've been reading a while, you already know. And you also know that the Winter issue is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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The Skin of My Soul [intermission]
WE LOVE TO TALK ABOUT what we ain't talkin' about. We love to argue symbols, and argue words, and most of all we love to argue. Maybe it makes us feel we are achieving something. Maybe it's only a game that we forget we are playing. Maybe bickering of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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18 de Febrero, 2007
Definition of Terms (Chapter 1)
BLOGS ARE FULL OF WORDS. And as owners of these blogs, we like to use these words. And sometimes we use them well. But sometimes, I think we end up on different pages, and aren't even thinking the same. What we think are arguments about substance, are in fact,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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17 de Febrero, 2007
Man's First Duty is to Humanity
"MY FIRST CONCERN IS LIBERATION; my first concern is justice and freedom, and it makes no difference what they call me; it makes no difference what they think because in the final analysis they are going to have to face reality, and the reality is that America is not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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La Pelicula del Amor Perdido
SOME OF YOU remember my first experiment with YouTube, a rather simple video put together from various images and set to the Ben Harper tune Oppression. Here is another project, which is titled La Pelicula del Amor Perdido. It is a tribute to my eldest daughter, whose 14th birthday... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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16 de Febrero, 2007
Gracias a la Vida
GIVE ME A CLASSICAL GUITAR, a beautiful voice, a strong heart and a song, and I need little else to find a place of unparalleled joy. Here is Mercedes Sosa singing Gracias a la Vida. Enjoy your evening, cool cats. She says a few words at the end, not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Waking from the Dream, Pt 4.
AMERICA, the land of the free...and the brave. The land of Democracy, the land of Free Speech, the land of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, the land where you can work hard and make your dreams come true. Are any of our old ad slogans valid anymore? Even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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White Man Crazy
"IN THE 1940's, a farm magazine had a contest for a 100 word analysis of a photo of a deserted farmhouse in a badly gullied feild. This was 1st prize:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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14 de Febrero, 2007
We've Got Your X'd Out Number.
I'M ACTUALLY BUSY editing a piece (editing this article for Chican@ Art Mag again AGH!!!) but this news item popped into my box and it completely turns my stomach. I thought I'd share that pleasant feeling with you on this most candyhearted of days! Brace for it: NASHVILLE, Tenn.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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You Only Draw Attention to Your Weakness
I HEAR DEMOCRATS COMPLAINING alllll the time about being called the "Democrat" party. Do they realize that this inside-the-beltway whine may feel righteous to them and to them makes sense to point out, but to the rest of America, all we hear is whining? Each time? The Right just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Cards for the Socially Inept [1]
CARDS FOR THE SOCIALLY INEPT. Part 1.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Twice as Brave
I'M GONNA PUT MYSELF OUT THERE and say that regardless of what the "Black Community®" or the "White Community®" thinks, I say that Barack Obama is one brave cabrón and I admire him for that. He's out there smiling and standing tall, and every single media publication and conversation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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13 de Febrero, 2007
Fatty Foods, Fisting, and the Catholic League
SADLY, the good name of the Catholic Church is once again being maligned by idolatrous whores, and of course, the children will suffer for it. I'm not sure why so many people feel the need to target their hate onto Organized Religion. After all, so many of us find... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Sickly Slaves for Sweet Spinach
THREE HIGHLY NEUROTOXIC POISONS are being used in planting and maintaining the crops that end up on your table. They are Azinphos-Methyl (AZM or "guthion"), phosmet and chlorpyrifos. The EPA itself acknowledges that all three of these pesticides are "highly neurotoxic organophosphate insecticides which can attack the human brain... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Play the Racestation
SONY really knows how to excite the children who buy their toys. Remind me never to vacation in the Netherlands. Not that it was on my list. I'm all about sun and sand. Isn't it awfully cold in the Netherlands? Or maybe that's just the feeling I get when... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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12 de Febrero, 2007
Siesta For Yourself!
THOSE DAMN LAZY MEXICANS were smarter than ya thought! In the largest study to date on the health effects of napping, researchers tracked 23,681 healthy Greek adults for an average of about six years. Those who napped for about half an hour at least three times weekly had a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Speech Rules or Beliefs and Attitudes?
UNCLAIMED TERRITORY (a much enjoyed part of my daily reading list) claims an insight on the current race as-it-relates-to-Obama issue. It is always preferable to have views and sentiments -- even ugly ones -- aired out in the open rather than forcing them into hiding through suppression. And part... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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11 de Febrero, 2007
Five Years Ago, Today
ON FEBRUARY 11, 2002, I had just arrived on the West Coast after a three-day Greyhound bus trip. I had been living in NYC for years, and then shortly after the planes crashed into the WTC, I had to leave. It was very hard, because I was deeply in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Sunday Skillet Blogging
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The Skin of My Soul, Part 6.
REWEAVING A LOOM, like re-remembering a room. I retrace these half-drawn shapes. Each orbit I am drawing slower. Focusing deeper. Shaving the pitch both calmer and steeper. Looking at how language came quick to my whip-hand, cloaked me from my enemy, or mired me in quicksand. Language is the skin... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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10 de Febrero, 2007
At the Movies With Nez - Pan's Labyrinth [i.]
THE AT THE MOVIES WITH NEZUA category allows for entries that exist simply to discuss one or two aspects of a film, or maybe just a passing moment. In the case of this entry, it is to note a creature from Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth [if you open... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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And the Funk Never Dies
NO MATTA HOW HARD YA TRY YOU CAN'T STOP US NOW! I'm (back) on a Rage Against the Machine kick with all this talk of a Califas reunion in the last comment thread on the subject. Either way, this vid is crazycool. When you can bang out an air drum... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Spoiled
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9 de Febrero, 2007
And Then Go Home
I'M NOT NECESSARILY PROUD that I used to live uptown in the nice, white Westchester County suburbs. But I did. And even though my job gave me a trophy labeled "IRVINGTON'S MUST UNLIKELY RESIDENT" at the Christmas party (which made it obvious how out of place I was with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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We Are the People. And We Are Pissed.
TO CONTINUE along the lines of what I was writing the other day about "BLOGGERZ" being some odd way of Oth'rin us gente who is making our feelings and thoughts known in this most American and unwelcome of ways, I say this: Isn't heaping undue focus upon the medium... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Killing in the Name of—
FRIDAY.... Okay, memes aren't always my thing, but I definitely enjoy the Friday custom of posting YouTube because it's nice to wander about the web and read your news or hit your regular sites, but also to be often picking and plucking little musical bits here and there. It's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Felipe Calderón, Puppet at the Gates of Davos
MEXICAN "PRESIDENT" FELIPE CALDERON, LIKE SOME SNICKERING BEGGAR desperate to hang from a Bush-y scepter, courts a cadre of global investors by showing what a Nice White Boy he can be, by showing how Down Wit' Murka he is; by showing how much he thinks Chavez is teh Yuk;... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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8 de Febrero, 2007
Surging the Bush Doctrine - Strafe From Hell
THE FIRST VICTORY in Bush's surge—the supposed foiling of the DOOMSDAY Shia Muslim CULT Soldiers in Heaven—was only a victory if your war plan states "gunning down fleeing Iraqi civilians" as its goal. (Which was part of the Iraq AUMF, correcto?) The occupation forces and their Iraqi allies last... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Anna Nicole Smith Dies
ANNA NICOLE SMITH died today, Thursday, after collapsing in her hotel. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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7 de Febrero, 2007
Gleam on the National Product
"BLOGGERS® ARE EDGY, Bloggers® are 'RAW,' Are bloggers® going too far?" And most importantly: can they be trusted near our National Product? What is all this nonsense? Bloggers are not a new species. They (WE) are nothing special, nothing strange, nothing unknown. BLOGGERS ARE PEOPLE. It's just been so long... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Watada Case A Mistrial
WATADA CASE ruled a mistrial. FORT LEWIS, United States - The court martial of a US army officer who refused to fight in Iraq was ruled a mistrial here after a dispute over a pre-trial agreement.Military judge Lieutenant Colonel John Head halted the case involving First Lieutenant Ehren Watada following... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Needed: Writer for Happy Hellbound Spammers
IN ALL HONESTY, I need the writing involved in my spams to remain amateur and full of broken English and fever-torqued praise. Because if they toned down those elements—if they hired a competent English-speaking writer—they would only make my life more hellish than it already is in those minutes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Mi Familia 5 [Mama's Memories]
MY CHILDHOOD LIFE was characterized by many things. One of them is how often we moved. I lived in a fair number of places over the course of my life. No, to preempt the persistent question—I was not a "military brat." I was in the care of some people... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Nezua Brings Palabra
OKAY I BETTER GET MY WORD ON before Skippy gets any more bright ideas and tries to coin my shit. Here are new words coined by Nezua that will now be entered in the 2007 Blogger Stylebook® and copyrighted so that nobody like the Wizards of Koz can destrip... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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6 de Febrero, 2007
Break the Chain
MAYBE IT'S A BENEFIT of being small in blogswampia (OOH OOH I COINED THAT OOH), but frankly, muh dear, I don't give a damn if you delink me or whatnot. I do appreciate those who have linked to me, don't get me wrong. Especially those few who were large... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Such as Cancers That Replicate
THE PRESSURE IS BROUGHT ON TO KNEEL. The pressure is brought on to pause and heel. The hateful forces of the fanatic ultra-Right are responding to the rise in Brown census numbers. The Neo-Nazis and the KKK are gaining in popularity, having far more success at recruiting than the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Down wit da Brown and ROY G. BIV
"WHEN YOU THINK OF LED ZEPPELIN, think of me," the boy wrote in my yearbook. It was 1984, and this is how he wanted to send me into such a grand Summer? There it was. Like an odd, unexpected gypsy curse. A very simple statement: a wish, an order,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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Feed the Head
I'D LOVE TO HEAR your suggestions on replacing a few magazine subscriptions. A friend has stopped ordering the local (rightwing-tinted) newspaper, as well as Newsweek®, and Art in America®, and a travel magazine. I can't be sure they cancelled them all due to the reasons I would have—propaganda for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
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