Category: Personal

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Good eats; new glasses

Add Tito Puente’s to my short list of favorite restaurants; top of the list on City Island. Went last night for Salomé’s birthday and I am still full! We both had these monster seafood dishes – lobster, snow crab, scallops, clams, mussels, oh my!; her’s with pasta, mine with mofongo, both in an amazing red

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And these are the people that want to manage the Iraqi’s assets to reconstruct their country?!?! Indian rights still ignored More than a century ago, the U.S. government took control of [American] Indian assets, including grazing fees, oil royalties and the like. The government promised to manage the assets in the Indians’ best interests but

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Most of Sunday was just me and the kids and I kept reminding myself that the two-year spread between them will be a good thing when they’re a little older. Right now, though, at 3 and 1, they expend enough energy to decrease our dependence on foreign oil tenfold. Forget hydrogen cells and solar power,

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Nickel and Dimed; Tainos

This has felt like an unusually long week that I managed to make feel even longer by taking an early lunch. The minutes they are a’ticking slowly… I’m simultaneously reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America and Irving Rouse’s The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus.

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Comic Book Wednesday

Nothing like the joys of Comic Book Wednesday to take the edge off of a tough hangover. Even better is when your Midtown Comics $20 rebate kicks in the same week 75% of the comics you usually buy unexpectedly come out at once. Yay! Tuesday’s Acentos was another great one with Willie Perdomo doing what

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Pumpkin Seeds: 11/10/03

1. Finished The Glass Mountain on Friday. Rydill’s hit another home run with this one. Where Children of the Shaman was a line drive over the left field fence, Mountain‘s more of a moonshot into the farthest reaches of McCovey Cove! Totally worth the lopsided exchange rate of the pound:dollar. 2. NaNoWriMo is kicking my

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Teaching in the Bronx, but no MFA!

Had the pleasure of doing a reading/Q&A at the Riverdale Neighborhood House last night for a group of teens from a workshop run by Corie Feiner (fka Corie Herman) as part of a residency she’s had since 2000, thanks to Poets & Writers. One of the coolest gigs I could imagine, teaching kids writing in

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Everyone’s waiting for someone else to stand up…

I can’t believe how pissed I am over this whole political thing! Like throw-your-hands-in-the-air kind of fed up and I can’t get it off my mind! While I can understand the apathy to some degree, I can’t understand how people don’t see that apathy is the very reason nothing will change. It’s like everyone’s waiting

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On your mark, get set…

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. -Gene Fowler If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. -Kingsley Amis

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NaNoWriMo 2003: Oniat

To help me commit to NaNoWriMo, I’m going public with it: http://loudpoet.com/tags/oniat/ Disclaimer: I will be cheating a little bit by including the couple of pages I’ve already written of my previously mentioned “fantasy” project.

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