Well here I am, just as promised, with glory radiating off my fingers as I type these words. My name is Hari y soy El Moreno. I’m sure you’re all outraged at my being added to this blog, after all no one likes change. I’m also sure you’re all wondering how this change [...]

We are pleased to announce that Oso’s Blog is no longer Oso’s blog. It now belongs to El Oso (soy yo) and El Moreno who will be introducing himself soon. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought lately and feel relieved that I now have a partner in crime.
A blog by its very nature [...]

They say that Voltaire at times drank 15 cups of coffee in a single day. Beethoven, so the legend goes, often averaged 10. I, on the other hand, have been putting down a consistent 8 mugs of coffee every day for the past three or four months.

Raman is turning 24 years old today and promises that beginning tomorrow morning (he has a job interview … really) he will start acting at least 14. So leave the guy some love via comments or even better show up to the Silver Fox tonight and buy him a couple “Raman Cokes.” Laura made him [...]

I’ve been keeping an almost daily journal since 1998, but only started this blog in December of 2003. Wanting all of my journal entries in the same place though - and easily searchable - I’ve decided to transcribe the old ones. I just finished the first one - from September 1999 when I was studying [...]

My updated Reality Fuel list:

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
The Zapatista Reader edited by Tom Hayden
Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
The History of the United States of America by Philip Jenkins
The Sound and the Fury by Robert Faulkner
Spanglish: the making of a new american language by Ilan Stavans
Currently reading:
A Mind So Rare: The [...]

Mercy Among the Children is a stunning novel by David Adams Richards. It has nothing to do with international conflict, but a nation at war should stare into its flame … There’s light here for anyone who can stand the considerable heat he generates. Told with racing suspense and a style that swings between gritty realism and Old Testament myth, Mercy Among the Children is a bitter antidote to the proud slogans of war between neighbors or nations. Here is the reason to read fiction.

Sunrise Highway … is a legend. Sunrise Highway is the thick hair and luscious curves of a Greek Goddess delivering you from the numbness of your everyday reality to somewhere greater, to a pine and oak dotted haven where something deep down inside your chest will take wing and want to fly with the red-tailed hawks above.

But before all of that – before the stupid perma-grin on my face and the memories swimming around in my serotonin flooded head – I remembered that it costs $5 to park in paradise.

Earlier this morning I sent the following email a Ilan Stavans - un profe at Amherst y escritor de Spanglish: the making of a new american language. I’ll write a review sobre el libro pronto but what I want to know now is how many of you would help contribute to an online dictionary of [...]

I was once very convinced that being a liberal had something to do with intelligence. That liberals were actually more intellegent than conservatives. It wasn’t a bias so much as careful observation. Every Republican I met seemed a little … well, stupid. I remember reading an article from the UCSD Guardian while I was [...]