Just when you think things can't even get any worse in the stubbornly heartless Bush Administration, they do ( Read more... )

there are many large doors in arequipa adorned with metal knobby things that look frighteningly/comfortingly like nipples. the ones on the large cathedral doors are daily clutched by old women and men trying to get in and out of this sanctuary.

It’s the night of my birthday party. It is now 3:35 in the morning. Everyone except fabiana has left. I love fabiana ( Read more... )

So it’s the night before my birthday ( Read more... )

11:00 am: Read the BBC News about terrorist attacks on London ( Read more... )

I get home from dropping mom off at the airport and I look around for remnants of her visit, for clues of her. She did a pretty good job of getting rid of all the evidence. I look for patterns of movement in the way she left the bed upon leaving it. It looks like she just flew out of bed, which is probably true. She did leave me a grocery list ( Read more... )

i have many different brands of loneliness right now ( Read more... )

HIV. This might be my fate. The doctor told me not to worry. But how can I not rewind and replay over and over the “risky behaviors” in which we engaged? The harsh butt-fucking and the front-end pulling out, with definite exchange of bodily fluids. How stupid! I don’t know how I could have been so stupid ( Read more... )

I realized that one of the reasons Americans are so stupid and/or ignorant, is because we’re so fucking guilty. Deep down, we know that we are implicated, we know that we are responsible, and so for those of us who are intelligent enough to understand our country’s role in the rest of the world, we know that we should be ashamed. And it’s hard to ( Read more... )

I'm freaking out. We just ate lunch and one of the guys who works for Racimos, Roberto, offhandedly mentioned that there is a Peruvian/Bolivian team making a documentary on Camisea. I feel like no matter what I do, it's not going to be that big, it's not going to make a big splash, or someone else will beat me to it ( Read more... )