Dec 4, 2019So the Freelancers’s portal for the New York Times is a bit old school.So the Freelancers’s portal for the New York Times is a bit old school. Super useful and better than pretty much every other freelancers system, but yeah, a touch dated. One of the ways it’s dated, it doesn’t allow mobile browsers to log in. Which, idk about y’all, but I’m…Freelance1 min readFreelance1 min read
Oct 24, 2017Bad Mouth Hootie; I’ll sock youBad Mouth Hootie; I’ll sock you Rucker took a risk or came to Jesus. I don’t know the real whys, you probably don’t either. The what is easy though: Hootie & The Blowfish dissolved. We all expected them to fade away, maybe get back together and play some casino circuits…Music2 min readMusic2 min read
Nov 15, 2016Done with Devil’s AdvocatesIn 1983, Pope John Paul II effectively abolished the office of the Promotor fidei aka the Advocatus diaboli aka the Devil’s advocate, and ever since, we’ve had a lot more saints. While I don’t expect everyone to follow along with good old Pope Saint JayPeeTwo the Great Electric Boogaloo, I bet lots of folks agree with the old codger. Hell, the Devil seems to be speaking for himself plenty these days.Pope Francis1 min readPope Francis1 min read
Nov 3, 2016On Buried Seeds: The history of ‘They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.’Quisieron enterrarnos, pero se les olvido que somos semillas. I first encountered this Mexican dicho in the mid-90’s reading poems and graffiti from Zapatistas. …Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jul 5, 2015It’s a common story.My parents are taking me, or I just finished school, I am marrying a man I do not love, or I got a visa after ten years, we are trying to buy plane tickets, or we are paying a ship captain to bear towards lampedusa, I am crossing on foot…Immigration2 min readImmigration2 min read
