salinas te corazon (amo)
The police German shepherds first, camo, balaclavas, the whole state apparatus arranged in a darq and straggling rectangle like a photo op. The audience named without being present: cartels, mensajes […]
memoir
a blog about tomatoes? aren't they a nightshade?
The meaning of the universe is 42, and the placeholder answer, offered up while the real one loaded. Run the numbers on my life, though, carry the one across four decades of unpaid backyard labor, and what prints is tomatoes. […]
the time i went to new jersey and was accidentally cool
The first toll booth I ever saw, I threw money at. Not metaphorically. There was a basket, and you were supposed to lob your coins into it at speed, and my cousin did this with the wrist-flick of a te […]
as always, he was
I did not accept the offer, of course. I accepted the premise. To run. To Colombia, or country X, with a her -- not that her, different her entirely. That is the inheritance nobody reads from the will […]
our man in lagos
I am not going to explain it. Explaining it would make it sound like an epiphany, and it was no thunderclap, it was a slowing. The traffic was not moving and I stopped wanting it to move. […]
meeting your heroes
The first thing I noticed was the money. […]
a paean to a series of paeans
Every fourteenth of February, something arrived. […]
hr-approved
Delivered casually over the lip of a glass of pinot noir, fittingly known as the Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove. […]
the 880
There's a particular shudder that comes with "The Nimitz," nothing to do with the Admiral, everything to do with knowing exactly which stretch of concrete it names and what it means to be on it at 5pm on a Friday. If you felt that shudder just now, you and I are probably from the same place. The Town. Oaktown […]
how helicopters work
So. Helicopters. The main rotor generates lift by spinning aerofoils through the air, creating a pressure differential between the upper and lower surfaces. The tilted rotor allows vectoring of lift for forward flight, and the tail rotor counteracts torque to prevent fuselage rotation. Collective pitch controls altitude while cyclic pitch controls attitude. ... and she […]
long road from hollister
The Hollister logo was emblazoned across the chest of a guy sitting on a rock in the middle of the end of a dirt road. It took us 4 hours by 4x4 to find the one (in)voluntary toll road. The toll gate was really his rock, in the middle of a deer […]