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Week 47-48 (2025) – Family Visits Baja – Bucket List Life – 2026 Coming at Me Fast
This is post 700 in my blog. That’s some sort of an achievement. The rest of my life is about getting achievements. Finishing projects. Bucket list. I need to finish three books: Tijuana Adventure 2, The Best of my Work on the Reader, and the Tijuana photo print book. Excerpts of that are exclusively for…
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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 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 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 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 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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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 19 + 20 (2025) – Coffee Shrooms for 40th Birthday and GF Vacation – Viral Tours and Videos – Viral Virus, I’m Still Sick
It’s my birthday this week. In three days. I’m turning 39 but I tell people I’m turning 40. I don’t feel like I look forty. I got a haircute yesterday. The dude before me said he was turning 35. Fucker looked much older than me. Or perhaps I look much older and I just don’t…
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October 2023: CDMX Beers – Depeche Mode Shirtless – Support Me on Patreon!
I have a new patron and I’m not sure who he is. That’s new. Thank you, stranger. I should believe in myself. Jackie Bryant’s blog is back after maternity leave. She is a fantastic cannabis writer and now, a motherhood writer. I miss my mom. Jackie inspired me. Not only is her blog fantastic, but…
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May 2023: Shirtless in Zona Norte (tour) – Baba Commandant and The Manding Band Concert (and tour) – Bisho has Diabetes, I’m Doing a Reality Show
I walked shirtless at 3 a.m. from the Zona Norte clubs to my apartment. Her fake name was Arianna and she was a Zelda fanatic. She came from Monterrey to make money as she finished her Master’s in nursing, or so she told me. I was wearing my triforce shirt, matching my triforce tattoo. She…
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Beer Cover 2022 Sent – Now We Wait – Gigs and Tours
You get a landing page! And you get a landing page! And I’m still missing so many landing pages. Landing pages for all my photography. Landing pages for my books. Landing pages for all! And people still view my Britney post and the one with the Beauty and the Geek the most. Also, the one…
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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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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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February 2021: María’s Cover Story – Patreon is Activated – Prints for Sale
I don’t have hot water, so fuck showering today. It’s cold and cloudy out anyway. I just came back from a long walk. It was fruitless. Yesterday I walked for a long ass time as well. It was good. I did some drone photography and printed my most popular picture as of yet, the Tormenta…
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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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Drone Adventures – Flying is my New Favorite Thing – NFL Fantasía Semana #8
I want to fly!!! That’s all I want to do. My friend Danny, a guy I toured a few years ago, lent me his DJI Mavic Mini. A nifty little drone that weighs 249 grams, making it legal to fly in most places in the United States. In Mexico, drone laws are a bit confusing…
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The Final Point, Astro Photos in La Baja – Five-Star Reviews on Paparazzi Daze – Not Many Book Sales…
I applied for a job this morning. I am not certain if it’s for me, but it might be. A few people ask me to do a podcast. It’s a podcast related type of job. If I get it, it will be a new life. It’s a serious job. And one that would benefit my…
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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 Book Comes Out in a Week!!! – September is almost over – NFL Fantasy Football Season 3!
Ugh… Amazon is taking forever. I’m trying to upload the latest cover design for my book but it’s not going through. Just stays in “processing your files…” I need to update the manuscript as well… The latest revision is being done by the sensei master himself, Chad. His book is also coming out soon! And…
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Sneks and Cover Shots – Job Offer and Interview – Halfway Done with the Paparazzi Book
I woke up at 7:17 a.m. I was waiting for an email for the one gig I have. Two emails really. A gig I wanted to take care of last week but the people in the story are not making it easy to meet them. It’s set for tomorrow. One gig. Three photo things. It…
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Donatella is in Danger – Did Some Gigs, Reviewed Some Beers – Sexy / Nerdy Photoshoot
My car didn’t pass smog on the first attempt. I went to a place called “Smog Centro” in National City after a gig taking pictures of a chef who was delivering craft meals to senior citizens. It was late afternoon and a quick google search told me most smog places were closing, so I went…
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