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  • Fantasizing About Airbnb Exclusive Penthouse – Karla’s Friend From Monterrey Arrives Today – Who Wants to Team Up and Find the Giant Baby At the Border?!?!

    Good morning thing I write on every day! Coffee coffee coffee. Today, a friend of my girlfriend’s from Monterrey arrives in Tijuana to party. She’s coming with a friend that neither of us knows. So yep. A stranger and a friend of my girlfriend are coming. They arrive late in the afternoon. Girlfriend cleaned the…

    Matingas
    September 7, 2017

  • OB Cover Shot (and Inside Pictures) – Looking for Apartments or Houses (Moving this November) – Tijuana Chad is No More

    This is post 395. I’m close to posting 400 entries. Crazy stuff. It has been confirmed. Chad is no longer Tijuana Chad. His stint in this city has come to an end. I’m sure he would still visit. But it will never be the same. The Rumble Fest kids are all married. Well, not technically.…

    Matingas
    September 6, 2017

  • From Tacotopia in Del Mar to Las Pulgas Till 3 AM – A Lot of Tacos, Betting Horse Races, and Hanging Out with Friends – Long Chapter (and No Celebrity)

    ALRIGHTY HERE! It’s fucking 3:23 pm on a Monday. I didn’t do the Sunday word vomit and this one is really late. And no celebrity. No time. First… I did write a Sunday vomit. I wrote it in the trolley before Tacotopia. The plan was to finish it after Tacotopia…. It went something like this.…

    Matingas
    September 4, 2017

  • Bryan Got Fuego(d), So We Pounded 20+ Beers – Show Tonight: Wand and Dream Burglar! – Tacotopia by the Track Mañana!

    Well….!!! That was a lot of day drinking with el Pinche Brallan. He got here with a 12 pack of Indio beer. I got a shrimp cocktail and mixed two beers in. That was breakfast. We watched Rick & Morty, but didn’t pay attention, and just started catching up. He’s been gone three months. It’s…

    Matingas
    September 2, 2017

  • Working on Burger Research and Pictures – Random Hang Out at Mamut with Andy and Carlos – Random Late Hang Out with The Neighbors Video Games and Beer

    Oh man! I’m suffering a case of writer’s block! Great! Writing about writer’s block is supposed to help…. Right? For starters, I don’t even want to do the word vomit. It’s already 1:10 pm and I have wasted my morning avoiding the word vomit. I went on Reddit for hours, then played PES for a…

    Matingas
    August 26, 2017

  • Touring a Canadian Journalist (Reason I Skipped Yesterday) – I Didn’t Know About the Redbeard Cover – So Much Going On (And I Don’t Know What to Do)

    I’m conflicted about today. And yes. I skipped the blog yesterday for a good reason. Right now, I wait for a journalist from NYC to call me to talk about a story she is looking to work on in late September. Let’s see what that is about. I fucking hate the phone. Alright. Emailed her…

    Matingas
    August 25, 2017

  • A Great Sunday of Bowling, Beisbol, and David the Neighbor Going Away Party (sad!) – Eclipse Vomit – Throwback Celebrity Monday is Zooey Deschanel!

    The eclipse is supposed to be going on right now. I already looked at the sun twice and my eyes hurt. So fuck doing it again. Nope. I didn’t buy them special glasses. If I’m blinded. You know why it was. Because I’m dumb. Coffee coffee coffee. David, the neighbor, just showered in the apartment…

    Matingas
    August 21, 2017

  • Different Shots for Different Folks – Dozens of Pictures of a Sunset Under the Pier of Ocean Beach – Commercial Photography Failed (Client Unhappy), Exposure Porn Accomplished

    Alright! I’m tired and I got to work later today. Yesterday was long. And it started wrong. Photography. I’m good at the difficult one, horrible at the easy one. I’m actually not that bad, but now there is a second person in a row that is unsatisfied with my product photography. I never charged either of…

    Matingas
    August 19, 2017

  • Girlfriend Gets a Second Birthday – So Many Upcoming Gigs and Work To Do – San Diego Red Is Looking Great (and my article looks pretty there)

    Coffee Coffee Coffee. Gigs Gigs Gigs. Emails Emails Emails. Workout. Coffee. Coffee. Much work. Good thing. There’s a cheesecake in the fridge. My girlfriend had a second birthday last night at Caesar’s. Coffee coffee coffee. In an hour or so, some dude that makes shirts is coming over because he wanted some product photography. I…

    Matingas
    August 18, 2017

  • Taking Tons of Burger Pictures for a Cover – Good Productive Photo Day and More to Come – Brewers Can Pay Me With Beer

    Alrighty! I’m in a good mood despite being almost broke. It’s because I’m finally being productive. On Monday I did one thing that perhaps will make me some money… and not much. Shit. On Tuesday I did another thing that could have made good money but got rejected so I didn’t make any money…. Shit.…

    Matingas
    August 17, 2017

  • Procrastinated For a Year: Road Trip Story Part 1 (Minneapolis) Done – Photo Shoots And Forcing Myself to Write – Gloomy Work Days

    Coffee coffee coffee! Emails emails emails. That’s how my morning started. JOB OFFER from Indeed.com Check this shit out. “This will be an ongoing project; therefore, our budget is $6 per 500 words. All content will be expected to be original with no issues in passing CopyScape.” HAH! $6 for every 500 words. That means I…

    Matingas
    August 15, 2017

  • Tijuana Adventure with Kosovo/Morocco-Canadians Success – Food Porn for Feast Part 2 – Yes. Get Hungry. I am.

    1:00 pm. Barely recovering from yesterday. Yes. The Tijuana Adventure did materialize. Yes. It was awesome. Repeated customers are the best. I didn’t even know he was a repeat customer until like 10 minutes after meeting. I knew he looked familiar. Then I couldn’t remember how our tour went or who were the other people.…

    Matingas
    August 11, 2017

  • Best Birthday Meal by Chef Oso at Tras/Horizonte and Festive Flower Apartment – FEAST Cover and Food Porn – Tijuana Adventure Outside Article and Plotagraph App

    Unleash the food porn! New cover for the San Diego Reader: That’s what I worked really hard two days in a row, almost three weeks ago. The results don’t show my effort, well, at least not on the online version. I have no idea how it looks on print. I have no idea how many…

    Matingas
    August 9, 2017

  • Lightworks Gets Robbed of Shoes and Tequila, Now They Nap in my Living Room – Zigtebra Will Be Here Soon – Published About Border and Taxis

    Lightworks is already here. Fucker called me at 1:30 am to let me know he was coming from Ensenada. I was way asleep. I told him at around 4 am I’ll be up because my girlfriend gets up at that hour and I can let him in. Fucker didn’t come until 8:30 am. I spent…

    Matingas
    August 5, 2017

  • Zigtebra and Lightworks Double Show at Mous Tache!!! – Party Time with Friends from El Paso and Chicago – Weekend Looks Promising as Fuck

    Woo! Friday pay day! And I got paid a bit more than I was excepting! Now, this should be my pay every two weeks and I’ll be happy. And it’s not enough. I wouldn’t be able to live in San Diego with this paycheck. But it is good in Tijuana and a good paycheck to…

    Matingas
    August 4, 2017

  • Mazunte in 2 Months, Girlfriend’s Birthday Soon, Weekend Now – Boring Post and Random Visitor Spike – Lethargic and Fighting It

    My blog spiked with viewers yesterday. Actually, a single viewer. Well, more like 25 visitors and 156 clicks. One of those visitors read through a lot of my crap. And this morning it’s been 14 visitors and 47 views. Who is reading this crap? I’m not inspired at all. I was tired all of yesterday…

    Matingas
    August 3, 2017

  • New Border Same $5 Taxi – New Border and Paparazzing Tijuana Friends – Hungover from Beer and Bourbon (Bulleit Review)

    I woke up early feeling horrible. Hungover. I didn’t drink that much yesterday… Okay… okay. Maybe I did. It was Tap Tuesday and it started early. After finishing the word vomit, the article, emails, working out, and other work. I went out to do some more work with my camera. Right away bumped into friends.…

    Matingas
    August 2, 2017

  • Forced to Word Vomit by Choice – Marc’s Airbnb Pool Party – Getting Busier, Doing Nothing, Forcing Myself to Work

    It’s a gray day. And Bisho has a flea. He doesn’t have fleas. He has a single flea. A week ago I saw one and killed it. Didn’t see any fleas again. I just saw one and the fucker escaped my clutches. I checked Bisho’s stomach and couldn’t find more fleas (which is where they usually…

    Matingas
    August 1, 2017

  • Lunch with a Millionaire – Hanging Out with my Cousin from Guadalajara – CThM Anne Hathaway

    Alright! Monday! YEAH!! Time to work. It seems like Sundays of skipping the blog has become the norm. I wanted to change that. I thought about writing the blog post on the trolley but opted to read a book by Palahniuk (Lullaby). It’s an okay book so far. The least addicting from the few Palahniuk books…

    Matingas
    July 31, 2017

  • Taco Porn and Random Craft Beer Encounter – Pictures of Vicu Products in Casa Duhagón – Relax Today, Sunday Early Work

    1 pm! And I’m just starting the word vomit. AHH!!! It’s a nice AHHHH…. I haven’t been this relaxed in quite some time. Coffee coffee coffee. Workout. I’m on my fourth cup. I already did some workout but need more. And I need to shower. Pictures are uploading. That’s all I’ve done this morning. Went…

    Matingas
    July 29, 2017

  • 200 Pictures of Fancy Food (That Is In My Fridge) – Tons of Food and Flies, Awkward Moment, Dude I Know Offers Me Pizza, Super Nice Vietnamese Lady – Music with Brozo

    Hey! It’s noon! And I’m doing absolutely nothing as if it was my Saturday. It sort of is. I am done taking tons of pictures of food. And oddly enough, I sort of got burnt out. It’s an awesome gig, don’t get me wrong. They serve me food. I take pictures. Then I get to…

    Matingas
    July 28, 2017

  • Tons of Food Porn CHERMOULA – Word Vomiting Late at Night – Rob $tone Cover

    It’s 13 minutes before midnight. I just finished an edit of 417 photos drop down to 135, and edit the fuck out all of those. 4 restaurants. One afternoon. Holy shit. I can’t wait till I can share some pics. It has to wait. Until August 9th. The day after my girlfriend’s birthday. She sleeps…

    Matingas
    July 27, 2017

  • Morning Car Crash and Car Drama – Finally Got a Haircute and Applying for Jobs – Time to Work on Food Pictures (Bisho for Warm-Up)

    There was a car crash outside the apartment before 4 a.m. It was really loud that I woke up immediately and thought someone or something had broken the large balcony windows in our room. A black truck and a taxi were stopped on the corner. A smaller car was on top of the sidewalk. The…

    Matingas
    July 26, 2017

  • We Going to Oaxaca CONFIRMED – Zigtebra, Lightworks, and Girlfriend’s Birthday – July Ends with Freelance Dullness and Desire for an Office Life

    Alright!!! YAWNNNNNNN Again I wake up super stupid early. 6 am. 30 minutes after I heard my girlfriend slam the door on her way to work. And I tried to go back to bed, but by 7 am I gave up and got up and went to buy some shitty coffee. Yep. Expensive shitty coffee…

    Matingas
    July 25, 2017

  • Week 30 of 52, Post 355 Total – Chester Suicide, Missing Yowie – Celebrity Monday = Caca Fun

    Oh god. What a horrible choice I made this morning. I was looking for a celebrity to post on this celebrity Monday and started reading about Chester Bennington. I decided to “fuck it, I hate Linkin Park, but let’s listen to their latest album.” It’s seriously worse than I could have imagined. I would have never…

    Matingas
    July 24, 2017

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