February 2012
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Hollywood's Best Character Actors →
There came a time when Steve Buscemi would’ve headlined this lineup. But cheers for the unsung heroes of the film industry, character actors.
and tonight, I learned.
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weeds
You know, every morning, I get up and clear the driveway of weeds. Every morning, I fill the weed-whacker with its pink fuel; I wear these khakis covered in grass stains from the collective days of work. After I clear the driveway of weeds, I work the edges of the lawn. I put away the weed-whacker and pull out the Round-Up. I accidentally crushed it partially with the car. Somehow the bottle,...
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I'm not lonely for Valentine's Day
I might not have a romantic partner, I still have all the love to keep me happy. I have the love of my dear friends—the few close ones that I really need. I have the love of a family—albeit dysfunctional. But I have all the love from the people I care about. It’s a different kind of fulfillment. It’s a kind of full where the heart fills with a happy kind of love. ...
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honesty
I’ve always had a problem with dealing with the pretensions of writing. I suppose I’ve looked at prose and poetry in a completely wrong perspective. Instead of framing what I write in the conventions of what is considered good writing, I’ve been doing it wrong. Starting with two spoken word pieces for an open mic night, I’m going to start writing honestly. I’ll...
open mic night in two weeks?
trying to get back into spoken word can’t help but be an anxious wreck
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40 Days
It’s been 40 days since the funeral. For a long time, I couldn’t even think of a moment where I could come home and not tell you, “I’m home.” But everyday, that’s how it is. Today, I remembered. I remembered so vividly how it felt to rub your bald head in the morning and kiss it as I tell you I love you and I walk out of the door. I remembered so vividly...
January 2012
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I'll be honest
I’m a Filipino man that can’t sing nor dance. I am not smooth, I am clumsy (clumsy in life). I am constantly at war with acne (with scars to show for) and I have stretch marks. I have a slight lisp and I over think way too much. I have a tendency to half ass things. I have an unhealthy obsession over broth-based noodle dishes (ie ramen and pho). The same goes for my overly-dorky...
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"In our economic stagnation and indebtedness, we...
-Republican Response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, as delivered by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels
alarmist much?
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Burma is Crucial
Burma is going to be crucial to the future.
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coming home from backpacking Big Sur
physically sore, mentally clear, spiritually restored.
orgullo
is a beautiful word
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re:fragment
The young man looks the old man square in the eyes, with the tip of the shotgun barrel barely touching the young man’s nose. The young man breathes in, absorbing in the smell of warm steel and of the iron-filled blood floating in the air. “I have bestowed upon your friend the divine grace of the Lord,” said the old man.
The young man looks to the right with his eyes. The...
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Love Story on Reddit →
I’m a hopeless romantic, I’ll be the first to say so. But for every self-described hopeless romantic, there always comes a period of cynicism that leaves them jaded. And sometimes, it’s a cycle of belief and disbelief while for others it’s one large dip in belief followed by some mind-changing experience that forever cements their faith in true love. I think it’s...
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December 2011
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re:Haiku for my Grandfather
No shame, still proud In, though, passing quietly, Still screams ever loud
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re:granddad
I’m writing this after taking a shot of my granddad’s Canadian whiskey—thing is like the devil’s piss. There’s about two more shots in the bottle, but it’s not like anybody else is going to drink it. There was the off-chance that my granddad had enough in him to drink something as strong, but that off-chance is gone. In about 3 hours, it’d be a complete...
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Thoughts:
There’s an odd tendency in my fate, that just so happens when months worth of thoughts and internal meanderings culminate into a singular moment. At any given point and time, there’s multiple lines of thoughts going on simultaneously; where each line of thought ends in a thesis defined by something, be it a movie or a song or a simple life event or a conversation. In that defining...
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That's why I can't say enough times, whatever love...
-Larry David, from Woody Allen’s Whatever Works
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To All The Collegians Done With Their Finals...
raise your drinks up and cheers—one semester, or quarter, done.
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Watchandrewkletzien:
Why homosexuality should be BANNED.
Just look at the notes on this video and read some of the comments of the people. This video is brilliant, but I cry for those that don’t get the sarcasm. Just plain tears. Just sad, like sad Samuel L. Jackson who couldn’t get a sandwich from his saucy wife Sally-sad.
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Gravity by John Mayer
Gravity is working against...
music phases
So far I’ve gone through three: rock-hip hop-indie.
oh Fortuna’s wheels!
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Kurt Sutter: You cheap, brilliant fuck
Pull the CIA card, the automatic deus ex machina. There’s a sense of cop-out cheapness, but damn if it isn’t brilliant. The look on Potter’s face is brilliant
I fucks with Wham!'s Last Christmas
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anybody else out there go to LBCC?
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drinking whiskey is like drinking the devil's piss
hard to live at home with such backward-minded parents.
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Berkeley during the Summer
So I might be living up at Berkeley for summer of 2012. Kind of stoked. No, actually, very stoked. But so many things have to go right, although there’s an incredibly high chance of it coming through. Just another thought to keep me going through the days.
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WatchAn interview with San Jose poet Lorenz Mazon Damuk, also featuring him performing his piece Fat—exploring themes of confidence, self-awareness, manhood, and image.
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Posted up at the ICU, checking up on my grandaddy every hour and a half. His condition seemed to be going well until the infection spread. My grandaddy is a fighter. He’ll pull through though. If there’s ever a time to be stubborn, now would be it. Too stubborn to die, too stubborn to just give up like that.