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  • Hangover? Nah. Headache. – Spanglish Cover – Risk Tonight

    I woke up early with a sharp headache. I couldn’t concentrate. Water, aspirin, shrimp tacos, coffee, more water… nothing helps it. It’s almost gone now, but it’s still there. I didn’t even drink much yesterday (4 beers and an especial). But it’s like all that I drank on Sunday hit me like a train way…

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  • Baby Face Gringo Face – Cover Tomorrow, Risk Tomorrow – RIP Carrie Fisher

    “Hey man! Where do you get your art?” Random dude in Avenida Revolución. “Venice Beach brother!” I replied. “Yes, but where at? I know a tattoo artist over there with that style. Look I’m from LA too.” He proceeded to show me his LA tattoo. “Cool man, I just lived there, I’m from Querétaro.” I…

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  • 2017 Undecided – Great Xmas to Spiraling Out of TJ Control – Fergie and Josh Duhamel

    Xmas was great. My mom’s Carne en Su Jugo is fantastic and I have tons of it in the fridge. I also have the prosciutto wrapped salmon from the night before. And a bunch of cookies and brownies. Also. Success in my mom’s presents! She liked them both. It was a good xmas day/dinner. Family…

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  • 2 Great Days in A Row – Three Birds Stoned at Once – Bye Visitors!

    I had two great days in a row! And I want to continue that luck so I’ll be heading out to meet my roommate for some beers and fried chicken soon. On Wednesday I got three birds stoned at once. That’s a Rickyism, from TPBs. What I really mean is I got three birds with…

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  • Oh Hai New Visitors – Stats Are Booming – Year Ends SOON!

    YOUR STATS ARE BOOMING! My iPad tells me every 2 hours after I post a blog thingy. Then I look at my stats and it’s like “17 people visited your webpage.” Yep. It exaggerates by a lot. That’s not booming stats. But hey. The past two days without reddit gimmicks or anything, I’ve gotten over…

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  • Hibernation Nightmare – Soy un Pendejo Potencial – Sting

    I woke up from a nightmare in the wee hours of the morning. Like always, when I woke up, I remembered all the details. Instead of writing them, I told myself “yeah, you’ll remember them later.” Of course I don’t. All I remember is that I was sleeping in my apartment, except it was a…

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  • Early Aussie Tour – Especiales and a Great Conversation – Super Moon was Liked

    Yesterday I was not around at home at all because I had one of the earliest Tijuana Adventure tours ever…. I crossed the border around 9:30 am to meet with Ed and Eleanor from Melbourne, Australia. Ed has family in Los Angeles so apparently they visit frequently enough that a trip to Tijuana was due.…

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  • Reversed Age Technology – Cover Story! – Super Moon!

    I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t go back to bed until 6 am… but then I didn’t really sleep… Kinda just waited until it was my regular morning time. Now I feel oddish. And I have a call for some psychological survey for creatives that would pay me for a few hours of…

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  • Beard Gone – Theater Night – The Dude! Jeff Bridges

    I wasted my whole morning changing my appearance. I haven’t done any of the work that I said I was going to do. And I don’t have enough time to do a top 10 of music right now, so that will have to wait until next week. I uhh.. I got stuck writing an article.…

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  • Money, Money, Money – 2016, Music Forgotten – I Hate Theater

    Oh. Look. I made some decent money this bi-week and the payment just came in. It’s stupid that I get excited by so little money. But it’s more than I have made most of the year. I can pay rent comfortably. I can go out to eat comfortably. I bought a stove/oven from a friend…

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  • Smash Bros Morning – Sleeping Tons – Korean Tacos in Tijuana

    I came home early yesterday. I’m still emoish. I’ve been sleeping tons. Sleep is good. Had really odd dreams. For some reason, the city got flooded, and when I woke up, my room turned into a taco shop. I didn’t like it. I hated it. Also a different dream involved me saving a barrel of…

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  • Pizza Time – Don’t Disrespect Colbert – I Hate Everything

    I’m not emo. Well maybe I am a bit. But I’m hating everyone and everything. Not sure why. Just feels like that. Whisky might fix that. It doesn’t feel like a Friday either. Feels like a Wednesday. And I’ll treat it as such. I have some work to finish and I’m still avoiding the fuck…

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  • Woo Accepted! – On The Trolley OMW to a Cruise – Happy? Not Really

    Yay! I got accepted for publication! Or so I think. I am getting paid, that’s what I know. When will I get published… Well… Time from now. Not sure how much. The story is pretty timeless, so there is no need to rush. Doubt much will change my to change the story. Not sure what…

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  • Victim of 4 Hour Nap – Excited About Tacos – That Block Button

    A few beers kick my ass now. This time it was just three IPAs. I mean, it’s not like a week without drinking lower my tolerance… or did it? Or maybe it’s the winter. Point is. I went out today at 3ish pm to meet up with a friend for an interview on an article,…

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  • Monday Blues, Sniffles, and Cough – Crazy Fast Year – Jessica Alba

    It’s Monday and I overslept this morning. Finally took a cold ass painful shower, and headed out to do my favorite thing… Laundry! /s I am typing this in the laundromat, headphones on my head, Hella playing, bored out of my mind and in a state of nothingness. I have work this week. I queried…

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  • Freelance Sick Days – Knocking on Doors – Inspiring Meeting

    Yesterday was another wasted day in which I accomplished nothing. I was too sick to work. All I did was watch Star Wars – Return of the Jedi, sleep, and then got depressed from my lack of productivity. Slept early. Way early. But I woke up feeling better, alas, still sick, but better. I remember…

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  • It Was Heartburn – Sober Thanksgiving – Weekend?

    That’s basically how I felt when I was feeling my supposedly “heart attack.” Yep. It was only heartburn. But I don’t feel as a fool for confusing them. Thing is, I had heartburn before. Each time was after Buffalo Wild Wings and that delicious spicy garlic. I felt it in my chest, I felt it…

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  • Heartbroken </3

    You know that feel when your heart seems to sink down to your stomach, creating a knot, and then you are not able to eat? I just got that. I was on my way out for fish tacos when I received a rejection email. It felt like that immediately. I’m completely disillusioned. I had high…

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  • Reddit Meet Success! – Great Saturday, NFL Lazy Sunday – Fergie, LiLo, Paris

    Saturday was great. After doing work, sending emails, and other stuff, I headed to the border to meetup with Reddit people. Reddit people. Reddit people. You never know what to expect with Reddit people. First guy was there before me. Brett was his name. He was cool. Basically what I expected. Someone around my age…

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  • Pepe Nacho Story Sent – Cross Border Redditor Meeting Soon

    Welp! I did it again. I pitched a story for the news section which limits me to less than 1,000 words (should be less than 800 or 500 normally). But… I wrote 2,300+ words. Sent it this morning to the editor that had no idea about the story, but that handles the larger sections (and the…

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  • Reddit Gold, Reddit Meeting, Much Delicious Karma mmm Yes – Stack of Covers

    I grabbed a big stack of covers. I’m not really sure what for. It is nice to see the cover outside 7-elevens and such, but it is also fruitless. I wanna be like “hey! look, that’s my picture,” but people would just be like… “uhh so?” Yesterday in San Diego was great though. I haven’t…

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  • Crappy Job Offer – Cover is Out!!! – Pepe Nacho Interviewed

    I received an email early  with the title “Blogging Opportunity.” They invited me to write for a webpage called “MyTrendingStories.” They complimented my blog, told me about their project, and invited me to be a part of it. If you type on a google search “my trending stories” the second option is “my trending stories…

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  • Tijuana Never Disappoints – Shooting Video for Cash – Marisa Tomei

    A friend from central Mexico said that “Tijuana nunca decepciona.” She’s been here for a few months and she is always amazed in how any night in Tijuana can turn into a crazy party. Tijuana never disappoints. There is always something to do. Something to see… eat.. drink… meet… listen…. Often I walk the streets…

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  • Tijuana on Fire – I am Handsome :D – Rent Paid

    Revolución was on fire Wednesday/Thursday midnight hours. I poke my head around, took shitty cellphone pics, and wrote a quick article without pitching it to my editor. I got rejected. “We don’t do fire stories,” was the answer. So no fire stories. I guess they are too mainstream and happen way too often. But this…

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  • Busy Week, Elections and Crap – Perfect Saturday – Jeff Goldblum

    I had one of the best Saturdays I had in a long long time. I was productive, I got material, I got photos, I garnered all I needed for this next week. Now this week I have to shape all that material into articles, work my ass off and get $$$. And I basically have…

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