Hoy cuplí un pequeño sueño… me metí a una rampa de patinetas y subí casi un metro de “pared” sin caerme. Siempre lo quise hacer. Lo intenté en olas cuando surfeaba en Venezuela, pero aunque lo disfrutaba como pocas cosas, nunca se me dió el surf. La ola de concreto es más dura, pero al [...]
El otro día en un restaurant creí ver a Julieta Venegas en la mesa de al lado. Pero en seguida la vi cargar un bebé y pense no, que yo sepa no tiene hijos. Disimuladamente vi con quien estaba y descubrí a otra Julueta Venegas que tenía que ser Julieta Venegas. Pensé, que yo sepa [...]
The first TV commercial written and directed (and half-edited) by yours truly was approved today by my client. I still don’t have the go to post it here yet, but stay tuned. Those living in Mexico City, from this friday on and for the next two weeks, you’re bound to see it channels 5 and [...]
This is the first post written and uploaded from my iPod. Let’s see how it goes.
PS: It went well. This is now the first post edited from my iPod.
…then it’s the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb that will keep us together.
The Smiths, Ask
Also, listen to the background voices around second 48, when Morrissey sings “coyness can stop you from saying all the things in life you’d like to”.
Roberto Bolaño is a Chilean writer. When he won the Rómulo Gallegos award he gave this acceptance speech in Caracas (excerpt):
It was then that I had the first conscious inkling of my dyslexia. I shot with my left leg but wrote with my right hand. That was a fact. I would have liked to write [...]
Sony’s Cybershot series and a bunch of other cameras promise to
Automatically capture smiles with Smile Shutter™ technology and focus easily with Steady Shot mode.
I imagine a commercial for these cameras soundtracked by an REM mashup: Bad Day vs. Shiny Happy People.
After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service. With stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination. The Postmaster General quickly issued a regulation forbidding the sending of children in the mail after hearing of those examples.
The quote [...]
My last post got me thinking about non-places. By non-places I mean either places that once were and now cease to exist or places that only exist in the imagination but are somehow very real.
Of the real places that ceased to exist, I think of the last scene in the amazing film Underground. There is [...]
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