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Week 49 (2025) – Bugonia and Back to the Movie Theater Review – NYC Tips – End the Year and Social Media Gig
I’m going to the movies for the first time in almost a decade. My girlfriend likes to go to the movie theater. I don’t. We’ve been dating for two plus years. And this is my first time going with her. The last movie I saw in the theaters was Deadpool. Or The Great Wall with…
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Week 46 (2025) – New Adult Bed – More Photography Gigs and a Dutch Tour – Cold Laundry Days
It was a busy week. Social media gig keeps me busy for a couple of days a week. It should be fewer hours. But I don’t complain. It’s okay money and I get to eat for free. And I’m back in the photography game. I need more photo gigs. The circle of photography. Do it…
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Week 41 (2025) – Real Influencer Oxymoron – Diane Keaton Another RIP – Not Much 2025, Not Much Progress
My Instagram following inches towards 12k. I woke up to a lot of people adding me. It’s normal now. Same on TikTok. It’s inching towards my favorite number. 22.5k. Twenty-two and a half is my favorite number. I don’t think that number of followers is that amazing. But it is. And it’s only going to…
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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 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 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 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 10 (2025) – Rainy Party Tours – Ensenada Baby Shower Photoshoot
It’s rainy and shitty again. It seems to be like that every time I write. The street still smells like shit. I wonder if Tijuana will ever fix it. A river of sewer water is running four floors beneath me. My downstairs neighbor has it worse. The people that live near street level… Yeah. The…
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Week 9 (2025) – Sick Kitty and Dumb Comments – More Tours and Mochomos Review
Chimba is sick. She started puking on Friday. That’s normal. She pukes often. Like twice or so every two weeks. But the second puke looked different. Too much fluid. Then she puked again. Saturday, she did the same. Puked four or five times during the course of the day. Sunday I took her to the…
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June 2024: Seattle Romantics – Tourists, Pinballs, Food, and Beer – Halfway through 2024 and More Tours
It didn’t rain one single day we were in Seattle. It drizzled one morning but we were snoozing. We slept until late and still manage to squeeze so many things in our Seattle visit. It went great. I’ve been video blogging it on all my medias. It barely gets views. But that’s okay. I like…
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Mid-September Already – Food Photography Is Life – New Roommate, Blast from the Past
And holy shit! Just like that, it’s September. I didn’t post shit in August, and already halfway through the month and I haven’t written much. I had another cover in the San Diego Reader, here: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2021/aug/25/cover-unintended-baja-med-escapade/ In the beginning of the story, I tout myself as a food photographer. And that’s what I want to…
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Ensenada Adventure: Finding Vicmar the Shipwreck – DotA All the Time – Kim Shantal and Fame
It feels like all I do is play DotA and nothing else. But I saw the last blog and it reminded me that I did a shit ton that week. And looking back… I did a shit ton last week as well. I wish I made money doing all I did… but it was an…
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Bills, Taxes, Adulting – More Shoots, More Covers – Pop-up Store, Showroom, Photo Sessions (at Nett Nett)
Holy fuck… I’m exhausted. And I haven’t even had breakfast. I just filed my 2020 taxes. And fuck. Taxes are scary. Especially when you are not sure what you are doing and you have to file freelance taxes from three different sources. And I paid for my car insurance. And I paid for some more…
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Shooting from the Air, Shooting from the Ground – Moody Monday – Babe + Sunset + Studio Lights
Dark have been my dreams of late. Not really dark. Weird. Weird dreams. Weird days. This last dream involved my friend Mora and Pablo. Not sure why those two were there. But they were. And in that dream, we were trekking a snowy mountainside that had ocean waves crashing on the side. A mix of…
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6.5% of the Dream on Patreon – Day Drinking for a Week – Droning the City
Woo!!! I was playing Dota 2 last night with my friends Edu and Sanchez and I received an email. Emails late on a Sunday night are rare and they usually mean crap. It wasn’t crap. I got a new Patron! I just checked my Patreon managing site and he isn’t even new! He was one…
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Saraby and Abril – Prints and Sexy Shoots – Tijuana Beer Tours 2021
My therapist says that I am doing better. I guess I only told her all the good shit that has been happening and skipped all the horrible shit. Horrible shit. I’ve spent two days sober this whole year. And not completely sober. I mean just no alcohol. Those nights, I couldn’t sleep and had suicidal…
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Letter to Mom – Farewell 2020 and Hi To The Uncertain 2021 – Flying to Texas
Hi Mom, What a shit year. You would have hated it. Even though Trump is voted out and you would have loved that… it would have been a weird and confusing year. You hate hospitals. If your last year was this year… you would have hated it more. I miss you like crazy. That’s a…
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Story Sold, Books Not So Much – Baja Adventure Travels – NFL and Other Fantasías
I sold the story. Fear and Loathing in La Baja sold to the regular bidder and the only place I submit my stories, the San Diego Reader. It should be a cover or a feature story in the near future. There are only 10 weeks left to 2020. It should be one of those 10 weeks.…
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My Fan Died, Need Thousands More – Paperback and Digital Download Available – Buy the Book!
My best and only fan died this morning. I woke up early to the smell of something burning. I drunkenly kicked the fan before going to bed. That kick might have killed the engine. The fan gets kicked around often and it’s filthy with cat hair. Maybe that also did it. It’s hot in my…
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Paparazzi Daze / Celebrity Encounters – Corona is Over? – Buy Buy BUY My Book(s)
IT HAS BEEN DONE!!! My book about my paparazzi times is complete (sort of). This is not the official cover but one done by a friend of mine: The official cover will be similar, but different font and other different details. The back cover needs to be designed as well… and I’m not sure what…
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Donatella Died, Valle de Guadalupe Trip – Sex Change – “Paparazzi Daze” Book 63.7% Done
The longer I go without writing, the harder it gets to get back to it. It has happened to me before. It is happening to me again. You forget just how you do it. How do I just sit here and word vomit so much? How did I write a book about Tijuana in a…
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It’s Mom’s Birthday and 2020 Still Sucks – More Covers, More Word Vomit – Unboxing a Case of Mystery Beer
It’s my mom’s birthday. She would’ve been 63. And she would have been hating this year. This year fucking sucks. She would have enjoyed yesterday though. Yesterday was a good day. And if she was around, she would be with us. I went with my brother, his wife, and his kids to pick strawberries in…
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Post 556: Paparazzo Daze Book – Looking For Roommate (Again) – I’m Getting Older and Drunker
Post 556. That’s a lot of posts. Been blogging for almost 10 years now. I wish I thought about book writing through Amazon years ago… My really old blog posts still get a ton of visitors, like the Britney Spears one. I just wrote that chapter for my second book. Turns out, I didn’t need…
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