Urban/Global Politics

Frankly I’m not sure how to react to the news. I’m down here en la isla trying to figure out some things about what it means to be Boricua in difficult times, when people are getting their patio furniture ripped off while the old lady downstairs sleeps through the whole thing, or maybe she was […]

Rupert Murdoch is a bad guy. A really, really bad guy. Of course, many of us have been saying this for years. The utter evil embodied by his media enterprises was so complete and neatly tied up into a big, garish booby prize for tabloid trash consumers that many of them actually felt he was […]

I’m as guilty as anybody else for continually re-hashing the aftermath of the Latin pop explosion, but there was something about that moment that transcends the understandable “that wasn’t Latin music anyway” argument. This time I was asked to frame the debate using 9-11 as a kind of symbolic end of the optimism many of […]

With this post I’m going to straight up tell you that it is completely borrowed from an entry I found here, a blog or website called qiibo.com, which professes to be about technology, cinema, and Puerto Rico. What they did was post a photo of a glass (half full, half empty) and then two videos […]

This is a fruit that’s called a corazón. Got it from my backyard, both literally and figuratively.  I found it to be useful to convey something about my homeland. At this point, it’s an afterthought, but for what it’s worth, a recent op ed published by Progressive Media Project: Obama’s visit to Puerto Rico lacked […]

I know I’m a little late on this, but maybe Lebron should consider rehabilitating his image by reviving this classic New York salsa band. Speaking of brothas in the tropics, how about that classic moment when POTUS removed his suit jacket in a 90-degree aircraft hangar in San Juan? Then proceeded to butcher the pronunciation […]

So John Leguízamo isn’t really Puerto Rican. Big ups to Gonzalo Aburto for finally getting this on record but what is the proverbial takeaway? I remember asking his mom, who is a really cool lady, about this specific question about 10 years ago and she said something about his great-great-great-grandmother being Boricua. I was of […]

In case you’re wondering, this would be baked salmon with a mustard sauce and saffron risotto, plus leeks. Re: the current climate of distracto-scandal overload: I found a few interesting things about World War Sexting that don’t necessarily have to do with a picture of “junk” (curious about how that word entered the lexicon, maybe […]

In the hopes of reaching a wider audience (foodies), I’d like to start with something I had for breakfast 7 years ago. All that fruit got me to thinking, this connection between Spitzer, Assange, and Strauss (and the NYC Cop Rape Case) that has been gnawing at me lately was already posited by the daring […]

This is fun Wednesday morning viewing. It doesn’t really matter if it’s “real” or not, although I guess serious hackers probably feel insulted by the amateurishness of the prank. The important thing here is the content, not the form. Gil Scott-Heron I didn’t know the detail about his life involving going to Fieldston, which makes […]