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Canto XLVIII: Ask a Mexican with Glasses ANYTHING!
Gentle cabrones:
The biggest transition I've had to make so far in my professional career is that I'm not a professional columnist anymore.
From 2002 until the end of 2018, I had to do at least...
Canto XLVII: This is 40 (Going on 85)
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Another canto missed -- I know! I don't plan to make it a habit, but couldn't do it last week due to a trip in New Mexico doing..something for the Los Angeles Times....
Canto XLVI: The Valle is Lovely, Dark and Deep…
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Apologies for skipping last week -- deep in the salt mines. I've got three long stories lined up for the Los Angeles Times, about to go on a plane for another one, and...
Canto XLV: Who’s Gus?
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Sending this two days late because I'm still recovering from New Orleans, where I got a new nickname from White Power Randy: Category 6, for the uncontrollable cackling force I become when I...
Canto XLIV: Gracias to the Real Chingones of 2018!
My 2018 was different than yours.
It began on Oct. 14, 2017, the day after I left my dream job at OC Weekly.
It ends on January 6, 2019, the Sunday before all the various lines...
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