and it goes a li’l something like this:
Before I lived in my current apartment, I subletted a room in a tiny apartment in Williamsburg where i paid too much money and shared space with young activists who may or may not have liked me. Things got a little complicated shortly after i moved in; [...]

Airlines have yet to figure out what the buses already did long ago. And that is this: if your seatbelt ever becomes of any use to you, it is already too late.
Especially when they tell me it is recommended that I keep my seatbelt fastened at cruising altitude; that especially pisses me off. I don’t [...]

Remember this feeling?:
It’s a completely emotional experience, not rational at all, but you trick yourself into thinking that you’ve rationalized your life, that you’ve come up with the answer, that it all makes sense now. A cruel illusion, because once the feeling is gone, so is the sensibility and you end up pecking away on [...]

I wanted this to be my first post in Spanish … but, before I start writing in Spanish, there are a few things I want to clarify.
In one sentence, it is this: ethnicity, nationality, and language are three very different things.1
“Cutting Through the Bullshit”
So no. I am not a Latino. Though plenty have been deceived. [...]

Let’s take a one day break from the minority conservative series to give a round of applause to “independent” music and film for making its way into the mainstream. Those of us who appreciated indie before Modest Mouse was crooning for Nissan or even before Common was rapping for Sprite (and that was all of [...]

My grandmother is fond of reminding me that each person has a fight or flight reaction to conflict. Some immediately want to get it all out in the air. They don’t mind the yelling and screaming and name calling so long as a conflict is dealt with as soon as it comes up. Then there’s [...]

… is progressivism. Call this an aboslutism versus relativism redux. I didn’t intend to get into this mess again. I didn’t intend to post my thoughts on the movie Los Diarios Motocicletas. I didn’t intend to talk about utopias or ideals or equality or nihilism. That’s Abogado’s department.
But in the end I lost. The impetus [...]

Note: This post is continued from this one.
Like it or not there are some assumptions you have to make in life. Most, for example, assume that what you see out of your eyes is really there, not some Matrix inspired image created by a computer hooked up to your brain.
One of the assumptions that I [...]

I don’t know where I am. I mean … I do … I’m at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf inside of a mall. I’m drinking a double Americano with that vanilla powder stuff I like so much. But I don’t know if the world still exists. Could be that it blew up. I think [...]

It seems that I have started a small avalance of toilet themed posts with my recent post about shitting in Thailand. First Elena reflects and then Woojay adds his own insightful commentary which in turn inspires this on the Turkish toilet. The climax was this very offensive picture which was emailed to Woojay in response [...]