30 de Abril, 2007

Say My Name.

Categorized under Raza , The Skin of My Soul | Tags: español, My Life, The Skin of my Soul

I MAY HAVE MENTIONED how burdensome my LegalWhiteFather's last name has become over the last couple of years. I've carried the Irish sur-misnomer since I was legally adopted by him at eight years old, and that was back when I informally changed my own first name to "Jack." All...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 5:48 PM.
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3 de Abril, 2007

The Skin of My Soul Pt. 7 (A Silence of 19 Days)

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AS MY PAST ADVENTURES ILLUSTRATE, I learned young that a verbal strength is a great power in society. But better than a single power, it is an enhancer type of power. Like having a pretty face. It is not one skill, but an augmentation to countless skills. Almost everything...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:00 AM.
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19 de Febrero, 2007

The Skin of My Soul [intermission]

Categorized under Blogando , Hipnotismo , The Skin of My Soul | Tags: assimilation, brown pride, Format, racism, The Skin of my Soul

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...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:25 AM.
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11 de Febrero, 2007

The Skin of My Soul, Part 6.

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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...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 1:04 PM.
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9 de Enero, 2007

The Skin of My Soul, Part 5

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I BEGAN THIS SERIES, The Skin of My Soul, to explore language, my relationship to it, the relationship between language and my identity; the presence and then lack of Spanish in my life and how that felt to me, what it means to me; the way I grabbed English...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:45 AM.
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10 de Diciembre, 2006

The Skin of My Soul, Part 4

Categorized under The Skin of My Soul | Tags: Adoption, The Haunted Land, The Skin of my Soul

IN ALL OF MY CELEBRATION AND EXAMINATION of language and my relationship to it, I give in to the seductive flow and paint myself as a wizard. That is, of course, the words running away from me. They have a way of doing that. Perhaps for a time, and...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:02 AM.
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27 de Noviembre, 2006

The Skin of My Soul (Pt 3 of 2)

Categorized under Español , The Skin of My Soul | Tags: familia, Gearheart, Language, My Life, The Skin of my Soul

SHE DIDN'T LOOK BEHIND HER, only grabbed the small blue box of tampons from the shelf and kept moving. She was angling for the cash registers, and trying to put distance between herself and the three friends who were traveling up the aisle behind her. "DONNA!" the closest one...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 1:18 PM.
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10 de Septiembre, 2006

The Skin of my Soul (2 of 2)

Categorized under Hipnotismo , The Skin of My Soul | Tags: Adoption, The Skin of my Soul

IT WAS ON MY WAY TO COLLEGE that I reclaimed my first name, my birth name, my Spanish name. It felt like a new time, and I was leaving the mire of high school far behind. It wasn't the first time I had changed my name. If you look...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:46 AM.
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6 de Septiembre, 2006

The Skin of My Soul (Pt 1 of 2)

Categorized under The Skin of My Soul | Tags: Adoption, The Skin of my Soul

As one of the driving forces behind this written record of The Unapologetic Mexican's thoughts and feelings is to wrestle his heart-cart up against the blood-brown wheel in the sky, to wind his relój back-forward in time, to move to the unceasing Xicano pulse undulating low and wide like...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:53 AM.
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