it's been a short-lived pleasant experience living with my folks so far, but it's time to move out once again. june 28th, once my class finishes i will go back to working full-time and looking for roomates. anyone else on the same timeline ( Read more... )

last night someone got shot on my block! not the block that i chill at, the block that i live at. where i keep it real at. sometimes, i feel that it's where i could get killed at. phew ( Read more... )

what a super long ass mission busting day. so this was the scene last night. a couple of evenly matched games of pool, followed by a reunion of friends at jose's new crib. the phone rings. jose mouths the words-"it's lauren." to me (our landlord). out of nowhere our walk-in-the-park, easy going landlord turns into a hardliner and wants to show the ( Read more... )

it's been a week since my attempt to shake up my life. i woke up last monday with a great loathing rising inside of me, having the weekend come and gone all to quickly without a fun-filled night to make the weekday tolerable. i began negotiating with myself, deciding it was time to end my job, but not sure when. then a greatly inspired moment of ' ( Read more... )

Fictionally written, but applies to today...

The letter stunned Jean. He had taken it out of the mailbox and read it walking slowly upstairs to his room. Now, in his room, he sat with the letter open on the desk, with the radio playing Coltrane. He stared blankly out the window.

"Well, that's that!" he thought immediately ( Read more... )

Zaireeka (a combination of the words 'Zaire' and 'Eureeka') is an experimental music album by The Flaming Lips. Released in 1997, it is composed of four CDs designed to be played simultaneously on four different systems. Of course, the discs may be played in combinations of two or three, thus excluding the music on whichever disc(s) are omitted ( Read more... )

oh man, what a delightfully active day after being strung out and out of it the entire weekend. nothing like the doldrums of work to smack the stupid intoxifications out of you. it's been a pretty good last couple of weeks. i think the flow of new people in my life is starting to ebb a little bit and things have started to plateau a bit, but they ( Read more... )

seeking to end the controversy over the acquisition of half a dozen US ports (including Miami) by state-owned UAE firm, Dubai Port World has scrapped it's hopes after GOP leadership in congress expressed their contention in the face of the president's veto threats. congress attached a provision to block the port deal onto a 'must-pass' piece of a ( Read more... )

nooooooooooooooooooo! i have to go to work tomorrow! in a littler over 8 hours i will be plucked from my rightful place in my bed having dreams where i lead filibusters effectively and promote the right kind of judicial activism; and instead be transplanted into the fourth floor of a building of drab modern-architecture blase design (in a world ( Read more... )

nooooooo, thomas...you've left my wing for what seems like forever. i hope you'll be ok out there. i know we had our falling outs here and there, but i tried to do my best by you, whatever you needed boy, father, brother, friend, a good challenge here or there. here's to you, thomas juan* rivas (i don't know what thomas' middle name is, if he has ( Read more... )