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student randomness
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 050807 ::
i know, this is cheating, but i
thought i would just quick add a
note to say this site still
lives, but i'm on a journey to
canned-design blogland at
Blogger and
Vox. but, i am still
addicted to
Flickr and still need to
finish a rhetoric paper. |
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| 040205 ::
i have a rhetoric paper to
finalize, a journal to write,
but no, i have to become
addicted to
flickr.com! |
120604
:: just in time for the
holidays. as before (in 2002) i think i made
headway towards finding a
certain recipe
that this family certainly
loves. but, i wouldn't use the
stated temp. |
11292004 ::
don't even
get me started on proposed
changes to the humanities (wch)
sequence.
ok...if it ain't broke dunna try
ta' fix eet! |
| 11112004 ::
Discovery Channel's
Great Biker Build-Off
was filming in
Ysleta. The bikers (Trotta
and Johnson) will be riding the
whole breadth of this
state--from El Paso to Houston.
(longer distance than from here
to L.A.) EPTimes
pre-publication article.
Here is
the published article from
11112004 |
| 11102004 ::
congratulations to cinco puntos!
their book,
walking the choctaw road
has just been named
the
2005 oklahoma book of the year. |
11092004 ::
wow. school and other adventures
have kept me away from this
page. now that's just too damn
long!
it's been so long that
www.newspapertree.com was
black for a time and now is
functioning again.
congratulations! we need another
voice in this town besides the
one so-called unbiased source in
this town. |
03282004 ::
elena's site
because of aol's link police, i
have to use this venue to call
attention to an interesting
website on angelfire. when i
tried to email this link to an
aol subscriber, the email was
rejected. big deal, the site
shows a woman's journey to
chernobyl on her kawasaki ninja.
how subversive is that? she's
not naked and she doesn't curse!
anyway,
here is the site, please
check it out. although since she
is using angelfire, the site may
have gone over her bandwidth
transfer limit. be sure to try
again.
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03202004 ::
so here, on this last day of
spring break, i find this fun
site. lo and behold, who did i
turn out to be? and i
wasn't even trying. must be a
compulsive control freak thing.
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:: Which
West
Wing
character
are you?
::
Jed
Bartlett
Powerful.
Intimidating.
Trivia
Nazi.
President
Bartlet
is all
of these
and
more. A
super-nerd
who's
into
chess,
National
Parks,
and
rambling
off
things
in
Latin,
POTUS is
the
'real
thing.'
Not
being
completely
upfront
with the
American
people
may
cause
him
re-election
headaches,
though...
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now i know it has been
over a month, but i did
have a
massive humanities exam
(and now getting ready
for another), read
love in the time of
cholera, the koran
(well, sort of), el
cid, yvain knight
of the lion, plus
being in the middle of
trying to write a series
of poems for a final
project. to top this
spring break glass of
fine whine, i've been
writing several essays
on 20th c. american
poets (cheers for lowell
and frank o'hara), and a
12 page paper about
pedro paramo's
susana, all within one
months time.
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02152004 ::
for a good overview about all
this "breast beating" about a
certain entertainer's barred
anatomy, frank rich in his essay
entitled, "my
hero, janet jackson", has
put all this commotion together
in his essay in the nytimes.
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"[. .
.]As
Laura
Bush put
it,
'Parents
wouldn't
know to
turn
their
television
off
before
that
happened.'
They
wouldn't?
In the
two-plus
hours
'before
that
happened,'
parents
saw not
only the
commercials
featuring
a
crotch-biting
dog, a
flatulent
horse
and a
potty-mouthed
child
but also
the
number
in which
the
crotch-grabbing
Nelly
successfully
commanded
a gaggle
of
cheerleaders
to rip
off
their
skirts.
What
signal
were
these
poor,
helpless
adults
waiting
for
before
pulling
their
children
away
from the
set?
Apparently
nothing
short of
a
simulated
rape
would
do."
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thank you! for a great
piece which explains this is
not about lost morals and
exposing children to things
left unripped. no, this is
all about money, ratings,
the power of mega
broadcasting corps., and oh,
more money. ahh, life is
good online again as i work on
several projects all at once
including a comparison of anne
sexton's "the abortion" and
lucille clifton's "the lost baby
poem." and, the race is on to
complete the
infamous humanities essays
by next tuesday's first exam.
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| 02142004 :
talk about being unable to
fathom how quickly time can
pass. if your computer goes
down, you rebuild, then switch
to laptop, go to school,
throw in a bunch of family
holidays, and a trip, then you
get the idea. "will try to do
better" is the order of this
day and here's hoping the V-day
events go smoothly. check out
all the events here:
codepink
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08092003
:: i cannot believe it
has been a month. school is
over and we were able to get
up to colorado and santa fe
for a couple of days.
more on that later...
in the meantime, i received
something from a new online
'zine 'bout all things
WEST EL. (West El Paso)
Check out www.Newspapertree.com
also, we bid a sad goodbye to
segundobarrio.com. it bit the
dust sometime within the past
month. hopefully, their
archives will turn up on the
newspapertree.
keep the faith!
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07042003
:: and, here is ye olde
college try: ![]() a
concrete poem. |
0702003 :: wow. why
does it take them soooo long
to complete a fix on this
server? anyway 1/2 through the
summer session and it is hot,
hot, hot.
completed brit lit II and now
into creative writing II.
first up: writing our
obituaries.
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051303 ::
leave it to the onion to put a
swift
spin in
this piece about a former
POW, now sick of his family.
what is it with the people
in this crazy, so-called
laid-back town? is it because
they don't have mamás
telling them what foolish
behavior is? or is it the
heat?
first, we have someone
shooting up, oops, trying
to shoot up the walgreens
across from FHS with a
rifle because of a late Rx.
now, i grant you, i've waited
for Rx's too, but at least i
have a journal with me to past
the time.
next, we
get this one, throwing
molotovs at the BestBuy.
Doesn't say what the bottles
originally contained. wonder
if it had anything to do with
the aforementioned action.
and finally, as if kids
cutting the electricity at morehead
weren't enough, we now have to
contend with nasty hazing at EPHS
and Tornillo.
this is going to be one hot
long summer. glad i will be in
school, as will babyGoth.
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050503 :
one wonders what will make a
better el paso / juarez
metroplex.
seems the new administration
just "voted
in" must think new
clean industries will flock to
this arid area because he
declares, "real
quality of life, (does not
include a) 'Central Park' and
a light-rail project."
give me a break.
should i look for a job now,
will i get one? i doubt it.
give me a call mr.
wardy and i'll send
you a resume upon request.
btw, i did vote, as did mjd.
we know what your priorities
are: more development into
desert areas owned by the
developers who more than
willingly gave you money for
your campaign. this means more
sprawl and more ignorance to
the fact that we are Running
Out of Water here!
Excuse me, sir, but what can
we learn from san
angelo's problems of hiding
their heads in their stinky
yellow dirt?
personally, i'll be
watching from the sidelines as
i'll be slogging though humanities
soon. (watch out, loud
.wav)
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050403 : i'm
never ceased to be amazed that
Bill Cosby will always be one
personne that will be
collected via mp3 conduits,
and that is a good thing.
working toward the end of
the semester. more to follow.
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042003 :: now
i can breathe a big sigh of
relief as our
MIAs from ft. bliss have
been found; and although
injured, they are now safe.
now i wonder if there be just
as much hoopla over this
melting pot of a group of
brave service personnel as
there was given to the
bright eyed, spunky girl from
palastine. sad to say, i doubt
it very seriously, but who
knows.
in other news, skool is going
well and i participated in
another reading sponsored by
the bordersenses.com
project.
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for
the 1 1/2
pro
military,
there were
4 or 5
against
the
conflict.
the 1/2 is
given to
the rapper
who says
he got his
inspiration
from the 'shrooms
he had
partaken.
sorry, but
drug
induced
diatribes
only get
.5 a point
in my
book.
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as
you will see, if you read my
entry, i am still in the
navel-gazing phase of writing
and here is the proof.
thanks to amit
for all his support of our
efforts to be heard.
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| 033103 :: we
caught this documentary on krwg
the other night called Mixed
Feelings: San Diego/ Tijuana.
it was
good to hear something i've
thought about
before: while you may not
like seeing the housing at it
appears across from utep in
juarez/anapra, it is in fact
more spontaneous, organic,
with lower impact to
the land than the slice and
dice land usage seen on this
side of the border. |
030803 :: (note:
with an university education
underway again, a certain
amount of bohemianism is
likely to seep into my little
world. as you can see by this
review of and participation in
a poetry reading)
here is my
contribution
A fine
time was had by all at the BorderSenses
poetry reading event held last
night at the Bridge Center.
Readings in general
ran the gamut from sublime
elegies to sweet musings about
a garden to venom, applied
vigorously.
Venom,
vigorously spat,
signified the deaths of
several relationships as were
a few sexy sirens' songs and a
couple of boy-angst verses
about love thrown in for good
measure.
Other topics
included the evils of war, the
bravery of the young going off
to fight battles, and a few
history lessons set to blank
verse that verged on
performance art.
It all ended with a
rousing condemnation about the
border metroplex lambasting,
with:
the
universidad and politicos,
the posers, the movers,
the shakers, the quakers,
the bakers, the candlestick
makers. the putas, the vatos,
the abuelos and mandos.
(with
apologies to m. izzard here,
and here,
and of course, here.)
The
poet finished with a rousing
rant, suffering the reader
himself, with flagellation by
words and especially the all
important F*#%.
All in
all, quite an amazing group of
people assembled.
so get this people,
poetry is alive here, people
and don't you forget it, ese. |
| 022003
:: well, we've been
skewered again by the
onion. this time it's a 15
ft. high wall made of...well,
at least it's not bovine
excrement... |
| 021803
:: you know, this
is just plain weird,
probably something angelina
jolie would have been
interested in a while back.
seems the county clerk's
office is a mess and old
evidence was found, complete
with dried blood in vials. ick. |
021003
:: O'Reilly, here's your
TOMA for today!
ok, now am i the only one out
there who thinks bill o'reilly
is a nasty sleaze for what
he said when interviewing
our representative?
in any event, i was so glad to
hear sylvestre reyes on KTEP
today. talk about taking the
high road on that one.
supposedly, he has been asked
back to hear an apology the
limbaugh-wannabe. time will
tell.
as for dame edna, i'll get
back to that after i've
refried mis frijoles. |
020203
:: i think this
entry by william gibson,
author of neuromancer, is
the most eloquently reflective
blog entry i have read over
the past two days.
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"Broken
up and
vanished.
In the sky
over
Nacogdoches
County.
And I’m
sad all
the way
back to
the little
boy with
his stiff
black book
and his
Bonestell
rockets."
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for a more grounded version
of reality, stop by the homeless
guy's blog, written k
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012403
:: another week gone
into thin air. quizzes, poems,
papers, grendel,
a green knight, and the white
knights.
may i never have to sit
through "boan"
again.
did enjoy the smashing
pumpkin's video for "tonight,
tonight", the group's
homage to méliès
"voyage to the
moon". |
011303
:: i actually made it
through my first day back at
school. 2 classes today and 2
tomorrow.
today's schedule featured such
opposite ends of the
university spectrum.
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on
the one
side,
there was
the
creative
writing
workshop,
lead by a
young
xicano who
favors
poetry
over
fiction.
on the
other, the
technical
writing
instructor,
who
commands
the class
with a no
nonsense,
business-like
style.
the
creative
writing
class has
a mixture
of genders
and ages,
and we are
a little
on the shy
side. our
leader
plans on
drawing us
out of our
shells by
having us
Read
(Recite)
our
scrawls to
the
class.
both
classes, i
might add,
are packed
with all
sorts of
individuals.
so many in
fact, the
creative
writing
class
includes
an old
classmate
from
Loretto.
we quickly
caught up
on the
why-are-you-here
and
what-have-you-been-doing-
all-these-years
kinds of
questions
flew. in
the end,
we both
agreed we
were
exactly
where we
should be
right now.
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to les archives |
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the
textured world-chacal la chaise |
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while chacal
is no
mr. bones, she does all
she can to entertain in her
own subversive way:
11102004 ::
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Local
publishing
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locally produced literary
journal
home of award winning,
locally published books.
great to see you
back in the saddle again!
www.newspapertree.com
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MEDIA |
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9.30.01 :: Webarchivist
is asking for volunteers to
help identify any web sites or
pages that have information or
content about the Sep11
attack. They are especially
interested in finding sites by
individuals -- that record
their feelings, experiences or
opinions. They are also
especially interested in
finding non-American sites.
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FILM
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el paso mountains
video
ON FILM
interviews local documentarian
and producer jackson polk |
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trolleys!
El
Paso Street Cars Homepage
El
Paso City Lines - Ken
Josephson Collection / R. Hill
Photography from March 1964
Online
Journals
the
best part was...
march 20, 1922--this is an
excerpt from doretta's
diary. on that date, they
made their way to el paso. see
additional postcards. |
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PROGNOSTICATIONS
and time travel |
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11.27.01
:: skepdic.com
(sic, well,
domains do have a tendency to
dissappear) has
a nice wrap-up about all the
who-ha surrounding our
favorite source for online
confusion, nostradamus.
oooo, and one about numerology!
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ART |
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urban art |
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8.29.01
:: hmmm, it's all in how
you spell it. wanted to send a
link to graffiti.org.
i misspelled the website and
found this one instead.
8.24.01 ::
chicano park article on
stanton street with
slideshow.
culture
and media ::
border culture links via utep
borderlands encyclopedia
art
crimes lives! |
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community
art |
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Art vs
commerce |
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7.09.01 ::
"While
we appreciate its importance
in the art community, it just
doesn't work for us anymore..."
Kevin Foley, spokesman for
MetLife.
josef
albers's 1933 homage to the
metropolis in "manhattan"
will be mothballed the
company.
related
links:
josef albers: artcylopededia,
p22's
font
documentation
and conservation
of buildings, sites and
neighbourhoods of the
modern movement - | |
