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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 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 42 (2025) – Back to Food Photography – No Tours, No Money – 12K Followers on Insta
Instagram, as a photo application, is dead. It’s mostly video now (it has been for a while). Photos don’t look high-def. There is a need for a new platform that showcases high-quality pictures. What will it be? Patreon? Subscribe to my Patreon! I’ve been uploading A TON of photos for free. Spooky Season is here,…
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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 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 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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No Niche Photography – Drone, Journalism, Nalgas, Food & Drinks, Landscapes, Fantasies, Etc. – Best Thing I’ve Ever Written
I don’t know what to do with my day. I don’t know what to do with my life. I say that a lot. This girl that I like and she likes me back always says the same “start writing.” I don’t know what to write anymore. I’m not a writer. I just have stories to…
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Whole Lot of Nothing and Everything – Cover Picture Out Today (Cover Love Story Out Soon) – NFL Fantasy Güiching Auer
I sold one book all of November. And it wasn’t even my new book, it was the Tijuana Adventure book. You can buy that HERE. Or my new book, here! The Amazon rating for my books is the lowest it has ever been. Neither of them are on the top #100 of their category. How…
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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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Chapter 24: Tecate Virus – Uncertainty for All – Tits Out at Dandy’s
Chapter 24. Fucking Tijuana. I woke up feeling sick. My head hurts. It feels hollow. I have a bit of a cough. Not much mucus though I am spitting more often than normal. I got that Tecate Virus. Except, I didn’t drink Tecate yesterday. It might be the Corona, but I really doubt it. I…
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My Book is Getting Great Reviews – 50 Copies in Pasaje Rodríguez – I Lost a Gig, Goodbye Delivery Boy
I woke up today to a 5-star review in my book. The review is quick and simple, but it is 5-stars and that’s good. “adriana preciado 5.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for beer and food places Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2020 Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase Very entertaining make me wanna to…
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Chapter 23: CPT Canadian Progressive Tour – Digital Book is LIVE! – Print Version Soon
It’s Monday after a crazy week and weekend that absorbed me and spat me out destroyed and more of an alcoholic than when I started… It’s Monday. I’m doing laundry and setting up my week. I only have one photo job this Wednesday. I have a writing gig that I need to deliver in a…
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49 Weeks, 2 Days: Texas Xmas and MJ of TJ- Fuck You 2019! – NFL Fantasy Champion at Least
49 Weeks, 2 Days. It’s dumb to count because I really lost count forever ago. But I miss my mom so much… I can’t believe it’s going to be a full year without her. It still feels like I’m going to see her on a holiday thing. But no. 2020 is around the corner. I…
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47 Weeks, 2 Days: Hibernating Like Every Winter – Final Gigs for the End of the Year – Finals in NFL Fantasy and the End of the TJ Adventure Book
47 Weeks, 2 Days. I made it to the fantasy finals!!! Woo!!! Besides that, I’m going to say it again. It’s been weird days. And the year, just like that, it’s over. I have three gigs before the year ends, and that’s before basically next week because next week I fly to Houston for Xmas.…
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43 Weeks, 3 Days: Acid Microdosing for Depression – Judging Salsa Fest (edible salsa) with I Wanna Beer with You – NFL Fantasía Near it’s End
43 Weeks, 3 Days. I was depressed yesterday. For the usual reasons. And because I suffer from writer’s block in stuff that actually pays me (not this shit). I have half a dozen articles that I started and go nowhere. I want to keep it simple. Start with a simple article, send it, get it…
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42 Weeks, 2 Days: Eternal Sunshine the Toxicity – Frank West Halloween and Day of the Dead – Guest Room and Studio and Work
42 Weeks, 2 Days. I’ve been busy. Or so I tell myself. And that’s why I didn’t blog last week or did my NFL summary in Spanish, but I’m not sure what I’ve been doing. Just feels like I’ve been busy. So much happens in two weeks. Halloween. My aunt’s visit. A lot of work.…
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32 Weeks, 5 Days: It Got Worse, But I am Better – Dwelling on the Past and Moving On – Slow Down September, Plus NFL and more Work!
32 Weeks, 5 Days. Welp. That was short-lived. And painful. It still sucks to wake up. It’s the worst part of the day. I just yell at my cats and they don’t come. So I just stay there feeling like shit. Today… I woke up to a message from my ex. My tiny ex from…
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