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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 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 35 (2025) – Second Anniversary – The Critic – September is Here!
This last week went by fast. And I don’t even remember what I did. I didn’t have a tour. I wasn’t that busy… but it went fast. I wrote this blog. I wrote my newsletter over at TijuanaAdventure.com, posted a couple of videos, went bowling, hung out with my friend’s dad, who is also a…
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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 17 (2025) – Chicagoans Bachelor Party Tour Featuring Rick Bayless – TikTok Live and New Books (coming) and New Mouse – Busy May and I’m 39
Ooooeee! What a Tijuana Adventure bachelor party tour! It was… legendary! Fucking Rick Bayless. What are the odds? What are the odds that a celebrity chef based in Chicago would be in a bar in Tijuana when I was touring Chicago boys around?! Seriously… the fucking odds… It was the cherry on the pie from…
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October 2024: Shirts Sold Out (Aloha and Ballena) – NFL Parlay and Xolos Soccer Game Influencer – Six Flags
I was so close. It felt so euphoric. All I needed was for Tucker to make it. The line was -2.5. It went to overtime. And the fucking Ravens did it! They won the fucking game. I was on my to convert 200 pesos to 34,000 pesos on my parlay bet. I was so excited.…
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July 2024: Happy Birthday Cancer Women – Half a Million Views and more Tours – Free Paparazzi Book En Español
Happy birthday Cancer women! Happy birthday mom! Your birthday is tomorrow. You would’ve been 66. I miss you daily. I can’t believe it’s been five years. It’s a new life. Barely learning how to adult at 38. Happy birthday girlfriend! Your birthday was three days ago and it went great. We had a lovely dinner.…
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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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New Year, New Job (I Hope) – Houston for the Holidays – Chase money, Not Love
I’m dipping into what little savings I have. I don’t like it. Broke as fuck. But I’ll be alright. Heartbroken as hell. But I’ll be alright. It’s Christmas time. December disappeared like I said it would. The first week didn’t count. I was sick the whole time and the weather was shit. The second week…
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Fun Issue Cover – Tijuana Beer Tours – Not Fun: Missing Girl
(Monday) I want to write… but it’s difficult at the moment. I think my girl is missing… I had a great tour on Saturday. It was a bachelor party tour. College-educated people from all over the US. Childhood friends. College friends. Beer drinking friends. Vacation to San Diego and bachelor party for a day in…
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Empty April Schedule, Hire Me! – 19 Photoshoots Forever March – Hoppy Daze
It’s still fucking March. It’s the last day of March. But it’s still March. February went fast, March seemed like it lasted forever. I woke up early today. I got interviewed by Amelia, a journalism student from City, University of London. She found my Reddit Ask Me Anything about being a paparazzi. This Reddit post.…
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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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I’m Fucking 35, Camping Adventure Time – Matingas the Character – Kim Shantal
This new wordpress layout still sucks. Perhaps that’s the reason I haven’t felt like writing anything here. Perhaps is because I’ve been busy as fuck (or so it feels, but then I realize I’m not). Perhaps I don’t have much to write… I’m fucking 35 now. I feel old as shit. Bahahaha! For a while,…
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Goth Kids Photoshoot and Puppies – Nett Nett Radio and Space – Upcoming Eater Contributor
Pain fucking Mondays. But I feel alright. I cleaned the cats litter box. That was disgusting. Because I’m a lazy POS, I let it accumulate. Not the shit… the empty litter bags. There were over a dozen empty litter bags piled up. I crushed them all and put them inside one litter bag so I…
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Bfsalfas -Fuck Everything, I’ve Got Work To Do – April Photoshoots
I FUCKING HATE LIFE TODAY! Starting with a fuck you to you fucking WordPress, my website host. I’m frustrated about other shit and now I can’t access the classic editor like I used too. I remember how frustrating last post was because I was forced to use this new blogging system, and somehow, I went…
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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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March 2021: Haircute and a Busted Lip – Bars Reopened in TJ – Future Photo Showroom
AHH!! I skipped my blog last week. And today… I was thinking of skipping today as well. There are too many things in my mind. Work things. Many work things. I think I just book a wedding. A paid wedding. A nicely priced wedding (at a discount because she’s a friend). And trying to do…
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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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Super Bowl Shit – Steady Cover Photo Life – Prints Are Expensive As F
Well… That Super Bowl game was shit. I wanted the Bills to win it since I got Diggs as my wide receiver and I was loving what I saw from the team. I never really liked the Bills or their fans, but I was digging this team. And my cousin Dennis is a huge fan…
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2 Years of Afterlife – Where Am I Headed? – All Sorts of Photoshoots
I don’t know where I’m headed, but I’m going straight there. It’s my niece’s birthday tomorrow. It’s been exactly two years since my mom died. It feels like it was forever ago. Maybe it was because of the non-existent 2020. The eternal bond of mother and child broke. My mom and I had a strong…
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Paparazzi Podcast with StillVinSane – Portrait Portfolio and Discounted Photoshoots – Am I Balding?!
Hey! Look at me! I woke up to a message that someone is interested in my drone photography! An architect working on a new project in Tijuana! The only issue… this is for several months from now. Hey! Look at me! I appeared in a podcast yesterday with my brother’s college friend Vinson aka StillVinSane!…
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