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Palabras Entries

12 de Abril, 2008

Let's Do This

Categorized under Blogando , Kevin , Literatura , Palabras , The CyberXicano | Tags: , , , , ,


Nezua and crew have graciously invited me to guest post here at the UMX blog. I figure that before I bust up in here with all sorts of shenanigans and hijinks I should introduce myself. Hey, Y'all! I'm Kevin. That was easy, but I suppose doesn't really say much, now...

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Foto , Historia , La Lente Blanca , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,


AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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18 de Marzo, 2008

onyxrainbackbeat

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MOST DAYS you are at peace with the knowledge that a moss-deep part of you is inextricably wed to the American 1980s. For a moment it is painful to contemplate, but then you turn up the UTFO and just shake it all out of your mind. Remember those lawndarts!...

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Bush Derangement Syndrome Survivor

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BUSH talks and I hear nothing. I scan his quoted words and I feel nothing, think nothing. Blur over, dispel out of hand. Clayman, plasticman, crazyman, smallman. Figurehead sickman. Maniac thief. Badtime gagtime. Puppetuptime. These are the Bush years, this was a sad time. Wartime. Decider smirking uglytime. Lame...

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3 de Marzo, 2008

The Giddy and Greasy Gatlin

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IT STRIKES ME that so many people who last year giddily lumped in all the Republicans under one ugly idea or umbrella of derision are just as ready to do it to people on their own "side," the moment there is a contest. That's a part of why I...

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29 de Febrero, 2008

Open Threadiness

Categorized under Palabras | Tags: ,


SO VERY BUSY this week that I've hardly time to eat and sleep. Bunch of deadlines piling up on me at once. Please gossip, chatter, whine, vent, rage, moan or remark upon whatever's stirrin ya esta semana, this weekend, this day. Soon to return with a review of my latest...

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27 de Febrero, 2008

Nostalgia

Categorized under Juegos , Palabras | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,


TECHNOLOGY has finally become useful! Play all the classic 8-bit Nintendo games right in your browser. Aw hell, go 'head. Take a break. There's Galaga, Donkey Kong Jr., The Legend of Zelda, Double Dragon, CastleVania, CastleVania 2, Contra, Contra Force, Skate or Die, Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Yoshi, Donkey...

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16 de Febrero, 2008

song of dawn

Categorized under Palabras , Poesía | Tags:


i meet the dawn head-on breathing half-lit silken vapor letting her comb through every feather both my lungs becoming silver and in the dawn i run feet weaving mist into song gentle staccato reminder grass tongues of frosted fire blades of night shivering alight stabbing crescendo as one...

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6 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence, Part 3 [MTV Mix]

Categorized under Gobierno , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión | Tags: , , , , , , ,


A BLOG POST exclusive to MTV (as it must be, contractually) can be read by clicking the image above. No video this week. But a specially-crafted Non-Super Wednesday message instead....

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31 de Diciembre, 2007

¡feliz año nuevo! y bienvenido 2008!

Categorized under Palabras , día festivo | Tags: ,


HERE WE ARE AGAIN! And like last year, I succumb to that urge to simulate order and suss out meaning from the ever-fluctuating and always-fluid weave and dance of many moments, as well as take up the ancient tradition of, well, maintaining tradition, and the telling of stories that...

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20 de Diciembre, 2007

Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Chronicles of Nezua , Medios , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , ,


SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I'm sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted...

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16 de Noviembre, 2007

Freshman Officers

Categorized under Foto , Palabras | Tags:


LET'S GO back to High School. Don't worry! I don't mean yours....

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4 de Noviembre, 2007

Notes on Manifesto, 7

Categorized under Artivism , Gobierno , Palabras | Tags: , , , , , ,


I'VE GONE BACK to putting a tiny bit of cream in my coffee. Maybe it will be easier on my stomach. My mother was here for a week. She flew out after my grandfather's funeral. She thinks I have an esophygeal sort of condition, some corrosive thing where my...

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20 de Octubre, 2007

Last notes

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YESTERDAY was the day of the funeral of my last living grandfather. I couldn't afford the cross-country plane trip on two days notice. So I didn't get to talk with my family about him, go over memories, or close the scene in any formal way. I'm sort of disappointed...

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8 de Octubre, 2007

In Which Nezua Wins Another Day

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THE BEGINNING OF MY DAY is a flow of many enjoyable moments, once I get the body in motion. It's really my favorite time. I love even feeling my body awaken, the whole of myself coming to consciousness. I feel utterly grateful that I wake free from pain (on...

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5 de Octubre, 2007

Sometimes I Skip the First Two

Categorized under Foto , Humor , Palabras | Tags:


I HAVE THREE REACTIONS, I've realized, to almost all articles online or emails I come across these days. It's as predictable as any set of impulses habituated to a chain reaction could ever hope to be....

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29 de Septiembre, 2007

Tus Mensajes [Sandra la Mexicana]

Categorized under Palabras , Tus Mensajes | Tags:


FROM THE MAIL: Hola, me llamo Sandra soy mexicana, y solo queria decirte que me gusta muchisimo tu blog, eres una persona muy inteligente y muchas de las veces concuerdo contigo al 100%, a pesar que tengo muchisimo tiempo viviendo en USA se me hace todavia muy dificil escribir en...

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24 de Septiembre, 2007

Lying in Wait

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I THINK I'VE TOLD YOU about my bone spur. (Great pickup line, by the way.) A bone spur is a fragment of bone outgrowth in an odd place, or a calcium growth on a bone. And I have one on my left fingertip, or rather the corner...that is, it is...

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23 de Septiembre, 2007

Del Diario, Entrada #092307 [Perspective of the B Minor]

Categorized under Música , Palabras | Tags: ,


From the Del Diario Series, entrada #092307:...

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19 de Septiembre, 2007

Hellcat Redux

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IT'S FUNNY. Since I flew out for the Chicago Voices project, and realized I didn't have the stuffing to go out on the town each and every night, like I used to as a teenager (and into my 20s no doubt), I've been using the word "Hellcat." For myself....

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15 de Septiembre, 2007

Harbinger of Mediocrity. Prophet of Flatulent Futures. Shill and Sham and Propped-Up Half-Man.

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Gobierno , Palabras , Poesía , Política Estados Unidos , Spoken | Tags:


NOW I KNOW by now so many of us hold such great and deep and far-reaching and sincere contempt, NAY revulsion (and rightly so) for the man now holing up in la Casa Blanca that we have phrases like "Bush Derangement" and "Bush Bashing," and with these phrases even...

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7 de Septiembre, 2007

Boxes : Space

Categorized under Once de Septiembre , Palabras | Tags: ,


IT WAS STAYING WITH ANITA, in Hollywood, Florida, that broken-up winter of 2001, after I left NYC post 9/11 (in my mind it's always when I fled nyc which is odd because I wanted to stay so bad I cried as the bus pulled away from Lady Liberty's view)...

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6 de Septiembre, 2007

Of Chiles, Silver, and September Eleven

Categorized under Once de Septiembre , Palabras | Tags: , , ,


EVEN THOUGH when I moved from the last place to here, I gave up my garden (and it hurt). I brought my plants here to my new apartment. La novia and I put them back in the ground, and I am happy to say that my most prized of...

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5 de Septiembre, 2007

No More Miasma Staid Static Fantazma

Categorized under Palabras , Poesía | Tags: ,


TODAY IS A DAY FOR RED GEL. And when I say that, of course I do not refer to you jumping up from your well-cushioned seat and reaching for the crimson hair product that you have been longing to wildly massage into your scalp, you rebel. I mean that...

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4 de Septiembre, 2007

Like Mango on the Edge of a Knife

Categorized under Palabras , Poesía | Tags:


SO WHAT SHALL IT BE THIS EVENING, my love? Shall we sip upon the News? Shall we touch upon this beaded thread of manufactured muse? Or shall it be time like wine, talk heady and sweet? Fingertips like sunbeams stirring honey in the deep? Pulse that flexes a submerged...

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5 de Agosto, 2007

Where the music's playing

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Back at la casa, and I need to rest. Más palabras pronto. Still utterly exhausted and half-unpacked. What a trip! I think I finally get some good rest, although I can't even imagine processing anything serious today. Quizas mañana seré justo en la cabeza. Until then....

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9 de Julio, 2007

The Hottest ______ Ever!

Categorized under Palabras , Planeta | Tags: ,


LOCAL NEWS is telling us that we here in Western Oregon are in a heat wave. Fire warnings. Triple digits. Thinking of going to the coast tomorrow. Normally, it's insanely windy and cold there, the frigid beach winds blasting an unrelenting series of sandy gales over your shivering, regret-ridden...

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25 de Junio, 2007

Transitions

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DOING A LOT of packing, chilling with Lil 'Nita, moving. Not really much reading of blogs or news, just no time. Hope all is well, and you people are getting a good amount of wind and sun. See you in a few....

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19 de Junio, 2007

Escaping the Frame

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A NOTE ON THEORY. I wrote, before, on how I was feeling tired of the dynamic that seems to have taken over some blog discourse. The reign of Theory—as in Privilege vs. Not-Privilege, "Internet Race Theory" as I jokingly called it, or Feminist theory, or whatever it happens to be....

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30 de Mayo, 2007

I'M RICH, MATE!

Categorized under Humor , Palabras | Tags:


HOLY CRAP, the God of capital letters and sweepstakes has informed me that I've won the "AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY"!!! Wow! Moreover, it seems I've done this three times today, already! I've half a mind to just hang out in my junkmail folder all day with this sort of fortune. Damn....

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21 de Mayo, 2007

Lull for your life

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BRIEF LULL in the usual ongoing stream of words. I do have a couple posts building up here and there. Right now very busy on web design junk. One job overlapping another. I'll tell you one thing, though. Go away for a day or so and you realize the...

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18 de Mayo, 2007

Fiebre Primaveral

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THE SUN IS RISING STRONG and it looks to be a beautiful day. Already the light strikes sideways the wooden shingles, plating each one with a polished bronze. There won't be much if any posting today. I will return soon. Accept my wishes that you have a joy-filled and...

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16 de Mayo, 2007

Las Flores de la Ciudad

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OKAY, the day is beginning to cool. I think I'm done with code for the day, you? I was going to suggest we crawl out onto the roof and finish this bottle of red, you know. Turn up that old Dylan groove, let To Ramona drift out over the...

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9 de Mayo, 2007

Flexible Mirrors

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I'm a "Human" because that's what we call ourselves. We even call all "Humans" Created Equal. If we called ourselves "Mojemba," that would still mean what "Human" does now. Mojemba would still mean "deserving of consideration I feel is mine by right of birth and existence." And I would want...

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5 de Mayo, 2007

Flags and What They Mean

Categorized under Cultura , Palabras , Raza , día festivo | Tags: , , ,


A WORD to anyone who doesn't understand it immediately: When you see brown people waving Mexican flags in the May Day marches? You are seeing a Chicano/Chicana (Mexican American, YES a citizen) show support for the land that birthed their blood. You are seeing a strong fist in the...

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4 de Mayo, 2007

Ahora

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THANK YOU to all who wrote or commented. I do appreciate the lift, and encouragement. I wasn't really expecting it, nor meaning to imply I would "give up." Sometimes you just need to stop and smell the moss. You did, actually, make me want to post sooner. Don't know if...

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3 de Mayo, 2007

Regroup

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Palabras , Violencia | Tags:


I look around and it seems it's okay with most, what happened in L.A. I am stunned. And between the vile comments I've seen and the justifications, the othering of Mexicans, and the silence of good people, I honestly feel a bit ill. I'm maybe gonna take a tiny...

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1 de Mayo, 2007

Government and Society and Person

Categorized under Gobierno , Palabras | Tags:


I WANT to thank all the people who emailed me a response to my sociological society/gov't-type questions. I'm going to chew on these and do some thinking for myself, and a bit more reading, probably. I may reply, and ask a follow-up question (which you are free to answer...

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27 de Abril, 2007

The Cheese-Hefting Footsoldier of Pollen Town

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HMMMM. I use "Truth" an awful lot. The front page of the blog becomes...extraordinarily pretentious. When every third entry has "truth" in the title. For crying out loud. I can't help but feel. Perhaps I will slip in some other words a bit more to help counter the balance. I...

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17 de Abril, 2007

The Perfect Ratio

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• Just because you have a name with which to denigrate or even properly "describe" a thing does not necessarily mean you properly understand it. • Just because you believe in a mythical land doesn't mean it will be there for you when you die. Live as if your balance...

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15 de Abril, 2007

Shortly After We Removed the Editorial Lobe

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IT IS AN AMBITIOUS LEAP, isn't it? From Self to All? I wonder what that thing is. That thing that fuels the jump from feeling I know what is best for me to what is best for others. True, we are sometimes called upon to assume as much. When...

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7 de Abril, 2007

Pretiendship

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HONESTY is more than a gift, it is as necessary to the relationship called "friendship" as hydrogen is to the compound called "water." If someone offends you, steps over your line, or acts in a way that hurts you or disappoints you but does not know it or see it...

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6 de Abril, 2007

La Luz

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THERE ARE, OF COURSE, those things we do not blog about. They either are not to be shared publicly, will not further the blog's purpose, are inappropriate, or just distracting to the flow. I'd say that most of this winter, my home life has been extremely stressed because of...

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4 de Abril, 2007

Greedom on the March

Categorized under Corazón , Palabras , Poesía , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags:


POTENTIAL PRESIDENTS are discussed like well-produced flicks making the circuit and the appraisal of their smashing box-office numbers leaves me just as cold. As with many other facts that aggravate my spirit, I am often told these realities are nothing to be overly-excited or angry about. This defaulted drool...

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