Jack Barrios is an American combat veteran of the Iraq War; and, according to the L.A. Times, “[his] wife, 23-year-old Frances, was illegally brought to the United States by her mother at age 6, learned of her status in high school and discovered just last year that removal proceedings hav… Read full post »

Jack Barrios is an American combat veteran of the Iraq War; and, according to the L.A. Times, “[his] wife, 23-year-old Frances, was illegally brought to the United States by her mother at age 6, learned of her status in high school and discovered just last year that removal proceedings hav… Read full post »

I fondly and vividly recall my last breakfast ingredient run to the tomato Arab’s side shop between Edgware Road and Cato Street in Marylebone.*  I’d begun the habit of eating a tomato on a day in September during my first steps central London.   Back then, the tomato Arab… Read full post »

Forget for a moment the content on a website. Ignore whether or not the site is handsome. Focus on the actual site itself. whether or not the site is handsome. Inand instead focus on the site itself. How does it respond to your click?… Read full post »

I'm proud to see that my generation is getting really, really good at respecting the Fair Use provisions of  Intellectual Property Law to remix the tasteless & bizarre ludicrousness of what passed for "culture" in the 1980s & 90s to produce hilarious satire.  As… Read full post »

I'd like to start posting the photos I take whilst making the rounds in Our Nation's Brothel in this here OS blog. Unfortunately, I find Google's Picasaweb an unreliable host from which to embed photographs; and I cannot presently afford a "PRO" account on Flickr.  Additiona… Read full post »

These folks remind me (interchangeably) of my friends and me:

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via Robert Edward Auctions

Photo taken yesterday at the Gallery Pl-Chinatown METRO Station in Washington, D.C. by Pablo Manriquez

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Paul Cezanne's Boy in a Red Vest
Photographed yesterday at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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By Mark Twain:  As concerns tobacco, there are many superstitions. And the chiefest is this--that there is a STANDARD governing the matter, whereas there is nothing of the kind. Each man's own preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can/…

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Starbucks; K-Street & 16th; Washington D.C.
Friday, 7 August 2009; 9:26AM

Just spent my last $2 on a cup of joe. No fandango. Just black coffee. The attendant was astonished. “Is that all?” she asks.
“Of course,” I reply. “Why? Do you not get many of me in an average mo… Read full post »

On a cigarette run to CVS last weekend, I heard Tracy Chapman's Fast Cars in the queue. At the time I was with my friend Ken Bemmy and we were both irrefutably hammered. I hadn't been crunk since July of 2008--not by choice or necessity, but more out of a general/…

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This morning, I stumbled--or rather, Tumbl'd--across this incredible piece of digital Dylan that I can't help but share with y'all. Read full post »

On Tuesday, I ducked out of the Potomac rain into a Mexican burrito dive on 14th Street where fine food is served warm sans plates, but snugly wrapped in aluminum foil; and the decor is true Americana:  wobbly plastic lawn furniture, tissue-paper flowers, and crayon-drawn effigies… Read full post »

On the night before I left for nine months in London, in August of 2004, an old hippie whispered into my inbox the location of what he claimed was the only place in London that (illicitly) sold black absinthe. And so on my first day in sweet Londontown, I walked/…

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David was lanky, acned, and autistic; and The Bulls were manufactured to win the 1998 district basketball championship for Zumwalt South Middle School.  And so David got put on The Bulls, my team. 

The move made things less unfair to the other South Middle School teams during the Regular Se… Read full post »

Here's the Republican plan: If you like what you have, you can keep it; access to an affordable basic coverage.

 This video is posted on House Minority Whip Eric Cantor's YouTube Channel.  For any morons who might happen upon this post, or for those of you still… Read full post »

She don't remember shit! Just the two hits! 
Her hittin the floor, and me hittin the clits! 
Suckin on the tits! Had the hooker beggin for the dick 
And your moms ain't ugly love; my dick got rock quick 
I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown 
I was "H… Read full post »

My comments sometimes outnumber my "thumbs".  Why?  Thumbs inspire confidence.  Isn't nice to have your confidence inspired?  Well, do unto others, no?  But even if you're a dick, thumb anyway.  Karl Rove would.  It's free, fast, & effortless self-publicity/… Read full post »

By Pablo Manriquez:*  No one I've met from the Walter Cronkite era of broadcast journalism has claimed to me that they did not trust his reporting to be accurate and significant.  And at the heart of the public's confidence in Mr. Cronkite's reporting, I'm told, was that his name, his… Read full post »

Dear Congressman Akin,

It's good to see you've returned to Twitter.  Be advised that your opportunity to better-serve me through disruptive technologies coexists alongside a world onforseen liabilities.  That said, on Twitter, the best example I've observed of a Beltway politico optimizing… Read full post »

By Pablo Manriquez: Two young black women walked by the streetside stoop of my newly-adopted domicile in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C. where I sat enthralled, frustrated, and horrified by the great Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize winning book A Problem From Hell. &nbs… Read full post »