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Week 45 (2025) – Dark Times – Getting Busier – Selfie with Ruben Albarran
I’m writing on a Friday. I don’t write here on Fridays. I’ll publish it on Monday. It’s been a weird couple of days. Lonely days. It’s been a weird week. Time change. I fucking hate the time change. Winter approaches. The sun rises earlier, and it gets dark by 5 pm. Stop changing time. The…
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Week 44 (2025) – Halloween 2025 A Flash That Flashes – Low Season to End the Year – First Paycheck… and It’s Gone
First Monday of the month. I paid rent. It makes me sad. It should make me happy. I have shelter for another month… but it just gives me big sad. Money comes, money goes. I got my first paycheck from my new job managing social media for two restaurants… and it’s gone. Rent and the…
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Week 43 (2025) – One Month in New Gig – Busy Social Media Weeks – Halloween 2025 Thwarted Plans
I rarely write my blog at night. It’s usually on Monday mornings with my second cup of coffee after reading emails and social media notifications. I’ve been busy this week, and it’s only Tuesday. I wasn’t that busy last week. But today I was (still am, hence writing at night). And yesterday I was busy.…
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Week 40 (2025) – New Gig: Social Media Strategist – Full Moon #25 – Two New TJ Bars
I had the interview for the gig. It went well. More than well. The gig is mine. It doesn’t pay much, but it also doesn’t require me to do much. I’ll be crossing the border once a week to take pictures and videos and to get a free meal. Then I get to edit and…
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Week 39 (2025) – New York City Part 2: Gigi Hadid and Book of Mormon – Tour Italiano – Spooky Season is Here, Photos Over at Patreon
I have a tour today, so I can’t write a lot. It’s with three Italians. It’s the first time I’m touring Italians. They didn’t want the full tour, so they are paying me by the hour, which is fine. I need to get more tours going. I need to get more gigs. I have an…
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Week 37 and 38 (2025) – New York City Part 1 – Content Galore – Back to TJ and Broke
We got back from New York City last week, and I’m still processing it. I am broke, but worth it. I loved New York… I didn’t think I would. But I did. Seattle is a city that seems to be for me. Nerdy and millennial. New York is a city built for anyone… including me.…
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Week 36 (2025) – ABC Australia Podcast and all Podcast – 25 Full Moons and Off to New York – TJ Deserto and Social Animals
What a rollercoaster. My girlfriend rarely calls me. If she does, it must be something important. I was in the middle of a game of DotA and saw the call. I had to take it in the middle of the game. We still won. But that’s besides the point (it’s been a good win streak).…
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Week 34 (2025) – End of Bad August and Bizarre Dreams – Fantasy Football Season Draft – Forastero and New Revu
I had the craziest of dreams. Too bizarre to even process. It had LAX, but they were apartments, and also a weird intergalactic brothel where you could switch bodies with other beings. And like always in my dreams. Very large bathrooms with a ton of showers. A lot of rooms with showers. It’s always in…
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Week 33 (2025) – Welcome to Matingas Substack – La Ballena Legend and Okay Week – TJ Top 5 Burgers, Top 5 Cocktail Bars
This last week was sort of shit. No tours. I would like to have two tours a week, please, so I can be happy with my finances. Not only that, but I also received several messages and emails requesting a tour. A bunch of follow-up questions. Even agreeing on a meeting time. And then… nothing.…
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Week 32 (2025) – Big Apple, 3 AM – Matingas Now on Substack – Bad Burger, Great Beer, and New Bar
New York in exactly a month. I’m excited. We’re excited. My girlfriend sends me dozens of TikToks about New York almost daily. I watch MOST of them. But there are too many. Many influencers have a whispery voice that I find annoying. I want to create my own content, not consume others. I have friends.…
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Week 31 (2025) – McMorris Burger Viral Success – 10k Followers on Insta, 20k on TikTok – I eat, I drink, I write, I am
At the beginning of last month, I was pretty depressed. A mixture of birthdays, sadness, life going by, and also finances. It seems like I do great, then the month ends, I gotta pay my bills and more… and it’s like I didn’t make any money. I drink too much and eat outside too often.…
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Week 30 (2025) – TJ News Food and Drink Review (Innato and Club Ocampo)- Toros de Tijuana Tours – Store Fantasy, Books, and Bookings
I don’t have any upcoming tours. A few emails requesting September or October… but nothing for August. Although I don’t have tours, I still have a lot of work to do. The Tijuana Newsletter is a self-proclaimed success. I enjoy writing it. It gives me an outlet to voice my opinion the way I want.…
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Week 29 (2025) – Ozzy Gone, Lens Sold – Viral Video Work, Sushi, and Tours – New Yorkjuana Plane Tickets Bought
Two tours in a row last weekend. And what a week I had. What a week for 2025. What a week for Trump. All the Epstein shit! Millenials! The world seems to end again. And I’m here doing tours and having fun times in Tijuana and getting paid to do it. July ends more than…
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Week 28 (2025) – Changed Website and New About Me – San Diego Date Day – Tijuana Adventure Newsletters
I changed my website. I changed my attitude. How does it look? Let me know. The start of July was slow. Well… it started with a great tour that paid me double, but then it slowed down. It was my girlfriend’s birthday, and I did nothing but make sure she was happy. And then I…
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Week 1 (2025) – Houston Brewery Reviews and Family Xmas Love – Year Starts with a ton of Tours
It’s the first Monday of the year. I said I would write every Monday. The year started heavy with work. Four tours in a row. I’ve never done four tours in a row… However, I’ve done tours for three or four days straight (bachelor parties). People are hitting me up for bachelor parties this year.…
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May 2024: Tijuana Beer Guide 2025 – Haters and Fans – More Gigs, More Jobs, More Merch
I’m going to be 38 in a month. I’ve been writing my blog a couple of weeks before the month in the title, no idea why. I write when I feel like writing and when I have the time. I got published twice this week. First article I got some nasty comments. But hey. At…
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December 2023: Mexicali Beer Fest (Photo Album) – SD Mag Published – No Real Job, Just a Lot of Work for 2024
AHH!! It’s December already! I’ve been wanting to write my blog since weeks ago, yet I didn’t. I’ve been wanting to write to my tía in Houston since September, yet I haven’t. I’m leaving to Houston soon! December is here! I miraculously made it all work! I don’t like using the word miraculously or using…
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October 2023: CDMX Beers – Depeche Mode Shirtless – Support Me on Patreon!
I have a new patron and I’m not sure who he is. That’s new. Thank you, stranger. I should believe in myself. Jackie Bryant’s blog is back after maternity leave. She is a fantastic cannabis writer and now, a motherhood writer. I miss my mom. Jackie inspired me. Not only is her blog fantastic, but…
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August 2023: Power Tripping Fucking Pig – Benito the New Roommate – Drinking Beers in Hell with Little Satan
Well… It happened again. It’s been almost a decade since it happened. But it happened. I was thrown into the cell of Zona Norte for committing no crime except standing up for my rights. Cop fucked up and he knew it, but he doubled down. He wanted me to apologize. He then told me a…
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Nothing but Waiting – Sad, Sadder, Yet Okay – LA Trip for Job Opportunity, LA Beers
I’m doing nothing but waiting and I hate it. It was a busy weekend of work training and I liked it. I rather be busy. I’m waiting on the e-mail with the job offer. Or the job rejection. They paid me to drive up to LA, they paid for my hotel, and they paid me…
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2023: Weird Start and a New Job – Of Houston and Houston Beer – Still a Writer, 50 Copies of Book in Español
I need to write and I still don’t. I finished a Hunter S. Thompson book during my break. It inspired me to write. He repeats himself so much. I repeat myself so much. He made it seem easy. Just write. And that’s what I will do. But I have my new job in my mind.…
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Print Giveaway – Rock Cover, Rock Show – Ensenada Aches
Owwww. Fuck. This the third morning I woke up to a sharp pain in my stomach. I want to puke. There’s nothing to vomit. I’ve been sick since Saturday night… It’s Wednesday morning. The pain renders me useless for periods of time. I don’t know how women do it. It’s just a stomach ache. I…
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Playa Cocodrilo: Camping Adventure – Empty September – Social Media Blockade
I have 0 gigs for September. September already starts tomorrow. I need to book photoshoots, tours, or write articles to be published. Or I’ll starve. I need to write. So write I will. My editor asked me to write about stuff. It’s stuff that I already wrote in my blog. I feel more flexible in…
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Long Exposure Selfie on the Cover (Again) -July is Over – OnlyFans Photoshoot
I feel the need to be productive because it’s Monday, so I type and type. Otherwise, I would be playing DotA or Fall Guys. I just lost a ranked match. Waste of time. I just won a crown. Waste of time. Same thing. Win or lose. Waste of time. But hey, it’s entertainment. This week…
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Romantic Ensenada Getaway – Cover Shoots, Tons of Shoots – New Website (Still Under Construction)
I did an awesome tennis photo shoot yesterday with a tennis professional and professor. My friend Yesenia took some of me playing tennis as she fervently gazed at the tennis pro. Here are some shots she took of me on my main Instagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matingas (@matingas_) The…
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