hello all of el oso. Currently sitting on the amazing beach village of Palolem in south Goa. It is easily one of the most amazing beaches I have seen or will likely ever see. After a hellish night in Bombay, I met up with a very cool potpourri of Europeans representing Portugal, England, France, Germany [...]

Not too much to say today. I’m trying to add some features to the blog and forum. Mostly useless things that take up too much time to do. Like a weather display for San Diego. No one really cares about that. And if they do they can go to a weather page. But whatever, now [...]

Below are excerpts of Samuel Huntington’s new essay entitled, The Hispanic Challenge, which first appeared in Foreign Policy’s March/April 2004 edition and my reflections to those excerpts. Huntington - long regarded one of America’s greatest (and most contraversial) political scientists - purports that the American identity was founded by what he calls “Anglo-Protestant” culture, language, [...]

Congratulations to good friend Andy Graham who has become the new Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Law, a law-review publication out of Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland. Will see you in a few weeks Andy.

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While I’ve been screaming at my computer monitor trying to make this website do exactly what I want it to, Laura has been on a painting and writing rampage. Prolific to say the least. Besides finishing her drawings from our trip to Mexico (which will be posted on the travels page soon), she has also [...]

I’m very excited about two upcoming San Diego shows: the first is Friday, March 12th at the Casbah where Elefant will be playing with local band Channing Cope as well as a band from my high school, Roots of Orchis.
Big ups to Revaz for introducing me to Elefant. Their 2003 self-entitled album was my [...]

I have a bad habit. Once I start a book I have to finish it. I can’t move on to a new one until I finish what I was reading, which in this case is The Sound and the Fury. Randomhouse lists it as the six greatest novel of the 20th century. I, however, am [...]

I’m sure all of you have already heard this story, but no matter how many times I hear it, I can’t get over it:
Luz Aida Cuevas took one look at the dimpled, dark-haired little girl at a birthday party and instantly knew two things: she was watching her own daughter - presumed killed as a [...]

I have this strange complex with certain words. I mean phonetically speaking … like, certain words just kinda get to me. Most of my close friends already know this about me. They know I detest the sound of “loaf” and “moist.”
Just now I was helping my sister study for her “Romeo and Juliet Vocab Quiz” [...]