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About Me

quiero dejar/ las palabras/ ir y despertar/ los sentidos/ no quier/ la memoria/ sino abrazar/ cada instante/ hasta la locura/ quiero pensar/ con los pies/ quiero llorar/ con los hombros/ quiero prender/ fuego al cuerpo.I want to abandon/ words/ go and awaken/ the senses/ I want no/ memory/ rather to embrace/ every instant/ to a frenzy/ I want to think/ with my feet I want to cry/ with my shoulders/ I want to set/ my body on fire.Francisco X. Alarcon, Cuerpo en llamas/Body in Flames

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

“What I sell is myself. I am an adventurer. I engage in violence and madness. But with style. I am not a kook. I am an scoundrel and an outlaw. And I am dead serious.” Oscar Zeta Acosta, 1973.

My Blog

Encuentro Xican@ II: Call for papers

please send far and wide. the new due date is friday March 20. Javier.encuentro xican@ 2,or, xican@ love and the new familia: gender, sexuality, and allianceUniversity of California, BerkeleyApril 24,...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:07:00 GMT

Alfred Arteaga Poetry Prize (UC Berkeley)

CALL FORSUBMISSIONS3rd AnnualXWGFlorYCanto& AlfredArteagaPoetryPrize  TheXican@ Working Group* (XWG) is proud to announce the 2009 Alfred Arteaga PoetryPrize, open to all UC Berkeley Xican@ undergradu...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:53:00 GMT

a good mechanic is hard to find (berkeley/oakland)

My alternator killed my battery, the guy at autozone said, like video killed the radio star. I laughed, but winced at the same time. Bad jokes! Like the kind I make!Still, I have to get my alternator ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:28:00 GMT

Cumbias in the Mission + Other Hijinks!

Hey gente, It's my jesus year birthday next week and to celebrate I'm getting a group together to head out to the Mission (SF) Saturday for a night of cumbia dancing and other assorted hijinks. Let me...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:44:00 GMT

good ol’ "suppress" news...

This is old news for all my folks in Tejas, but I just read that the San Antonio Express ("Suppress") News endorsed McCain.You can read their rousing and convincing arguments right here:http://www.mys...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:53:00 GMT

Free beer and dog tags

July 18, 2008Commentary:Obama and McCain in San DiegoFree Beer and Dog Tags at the NCLR ExpoLa Prensa de San DiegoBy Jorge MariscalStrolling across the convention center with her granddaughter, Dolore...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:08:00 GMT

Patzin: Wombs and Land

Patzin: Wombs and LandBy Patrisia GonzalesColumn of the Americas (c) July 16, 2008; Patzin, "respect-worthymedicine" in Nahuatl, is a monthly feature on Indigenous medicine Miriam Aviles-Reyes was p...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:54:00 GMT

in l.a. and off line

to all my s. califas gente---i'll be in l.a. starting july 1 and off line, most likely. you know what to do. that is all.
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Raiz de Maiz

COLUMN OF THE AMERICASMAY 31, 2008RAZA STUDIES: A CEREMONIAL DISCOURSEBY ROBERTO DR. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ Atop the hills of the Nahuatl-speaking village of Ocotepec, Morelos,Mexico, while a colony of red ...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 23:39:00 GMT

in heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here!

To celebrate the end of school/passing exams/the arrival of warm weather to the bay/and all things good in life I wanted to send out this mass invitation to come out beer drinking THIS FRIDAY, May 16t...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 16:21:00 GMT