ED MORALES

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 […]

I’ve been considering the possibility that to show face in this world means your are in tacit complicity with what is being done in the name of the ruling class. That didn’t used to be true, or maybe claiming so is a convenient way to rationalize an earlier life of preaching to the Downtown choir […]

Update, 5/22 early afternoon: Here’s a nice video from El País. The Spaniards definitely get class struggle, or at least are normalizing the discourse. While way too much attention was given to the End of the World nonsense from the California bible numerologist, the Spanish have apparently taken it upon themselves to kick off “the […]

A week or so ago, on Cinco de Mayo, of course, the Tequila Party was officially launched, and this is its logo. I’m not entirely sure, but it looks like a lime, ripe for use as a chaser, with an American flag painted on it. On the home page, right there on its banner logo, next […]

This is the aerial view of a targeted assassination, one that took inexplicably long to carry out, and one apparently completely unconnected to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. After 10 years of death and suffering of mostly non-Americans in a clumsily prosecuted War on Terror, we get the death of a very high profile […]

I met Robi around ’94-’95 at the Mayflower Hotel near Columbus Circle; he was working with a prolific manager of Mexican rock bands who were also staying there, but he was a man apart, his mind and field of perception racing past me yet still allowing me to speak to him. Instead of the hotel […]