El Mas Chingón has an excellent post on being young and poor which has inspired some pretty excellent comments … as well as this series:
This past Christmas my grandmother gave me the book The Brothers K by David James Duncan. I haven’t written about it on here yet, but were it not for Tom Robbins [...]

I’ve been meaning to write something with meaning, but these past few days have just been too hectic. Global Voices is taking up a lot more time than I thought it would, but it’s always more than enjoyable. In fact, it’s almost eerie … I set up shop at my usual cafe (HP will be [...]

Sorry y’all, still alive. But just barely.
Actually, that’s not true at all. Today I’m invincible. Exhibit A: listening to the Essential Clash album - specifically, as I type, Rudie Can’t Fail. And that’s me, Rudy, indestructible, drinking booze for breakfast. It’s important to keep this in mind as you read on. Or if you’re as [...]

so i got me a friend. no need to start cheering, i’m not looking for feigned support. anyway, my friend Inder Comar wrote a book, its called Restoring the Community. Its a dark tale that takes place in the future, where humans are robots and robots are humans. the main character is named Zydego and [...]

I’m on my road to recovery after a nasty day of regurgitation, gastro-intestical going ons, fever, and a lot of sweating. Laura stayed home and took care of me which was more than nice since there’s nothing quite as miserable as being sick all by oneself. So today’s post is simply what I posted a [...]

This morning, after my morning class and before dropping my girlfriend off at her work, we went to pay the phone bill at Telmex (who according to Om Malik has tried blocking Skype). This is still a process that amazes me. It shouldn’t. I should be used to it. But the idea of actually going [...]

Here’s Moreno, your trusted news correspondent, coming back at you in full effect, boyeeee!.
ok, sorry about that. anyway, did you hear the news?! of course you didn’t, because you hear the news from ME! anyway, Michael Jackson, affectionately known by his fans as Jacko, got off! In fact, his getting off was so public [...]

If I could go anywhere today, digo manaña, there is no doubt, it would be Eastern Europe. In fact, I would start on the coast. In whatever that meaningless country just north of Greece is called. Yes, that’s exactly where I’d start. It seems so silly to me that I only speak two languages. How could it be. At least 10. I’ll have to learn at least 10.

Oh how I have missed you all! I can tell by the flowers and cards that you have missed me as well – please just keep in mind I live in a very small studio and I am running out of room for all the stuffed animals and chocolates. Cash, on the other hand, folds [...]

On the front page of today’s El Norte is a photograph of Mexico State governor, Arturo Montiel and his nearly naked wife at a lavish seaside mansion in Acapulco. What sets this photograph apart from the typical daily digest of National Enquirer-like snapshots of politicians and their entourages here in Mexico is its source, which [...]