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Know and Not

Know and Not

During the latest episode of HBO’s The Newsroom, one of the journalists posed the question, “If God talks to you, what does His voice sound like?” The fact that I capitalized Him in the above sentence should tell the reader that yes, I do believe in God. I believe in a God that is as …

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Come Sail Away

Come Sail Away

Driving home, I blasted and sang along with Styx’s “Come Sail Away” on KLOS FM radio through my old car’s speakers. Then listened to the 2012 rerecorded version off my computer’s equalized speakers. Even though the new version is near identical to the original and uses more modern recording equipment, I still like the original …

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Easter Easter EASTER!!!

Easter Easter EASTER!!!

When my Mom was a little girl, they would celebrate Good Friday and the following Saturday by keeping quiet, no music except for prayer songs, spending the time to reflect on why Jesus sacrificed his life. Only on Easter Sunday would there be a celebration, beginning with mass, and then a family feast, always remembering …

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Thinking Outside the Pinata

Thinking Outside the Pinata

Somewhere in my parents’ attic is a two-minute movie of my 9th birthday party, shot on 8mm film. Part of that movie was a snippet of the pinata game, where blindfolded kids would take turns swinging a stick to try and break the pinata, a papier mache hollow donkey which was filled with candy and …

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Garden of Eden: A Cautionary Tale

Garden of Eden: A Cautionary Tale

I would have preferred not to have been born under the shadow of men whose self-worths are directly proportional to their legacies. I would have preferred that their legacies would have consisted of creative accomplishments like music, or architecture, or philosophical discoveries, or mathematical theorems, or timeless novels. I would have preferred that their legacies …

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Beatdown

Beatdown

I once saw somebody kill another person with kindness. It was the most brutal beatdown I’d ever seen, relentless, savage, uncompromising. After the attack, the victim was so beyond recognition that you couldn’t even tell who he used to be. He didn’t simply die, he was transformed.

The Revolution Over There

The Revolution Over There

Somewhere in the near future, a kid will come up to me and ask what happened back in 2011. I’ll think really hard and remember that Charlie Sheen got everybody at CBS pissed at him, that his boss made half a billion dollars creating a funny show that lasted about nine seasons, and if you …

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Out from Under Your Beds

Out from Under Your Beds

“If you have honor and dignity as a man, come and protect me, and other girls in the protest. If you stay home, you deserve what’s being done to you, and you will be guilty before your nation and your people. Go down to the street, send SMSes, post it on the internet, make people …

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Breaking the Spirit

Breaking the Spirit

“Sometimes they have to kill us. They have to kill us because they can’t break our spirit.” –Jimmy Looks Twice, Thunderheart   Perhaps I dreamt it, perhaps it actually happened, or perhaps a little of both. When I was very young, my mother took me aside during a party and told me something. She pointed …

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Lingua Franca

Lingua Franca

A man comes up to me and wants to talk about his neighbor’s house, how it needs to be repainted, how the grass needs to be restored, how ugly the decorations are, and how stupid that neighbor must be for not seeing this, or for being inconsiderate for seeing this and not doing anything about …

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Lost in Equation

Lost in Equation

“Dude,” this guy says to me, the point is to realize it’s a game and just let it happen without it bothering you so much the game is formatted so you’ll get all these distractions, like having to deal with irritating people, and waking up to an alarm clock, and deciding whether you’re gay or …

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Solstice

Solstice

I had spent a dozen years trying to obliterate my ego, trying to understand what it is that made me do what I did. I bought books that attempted to help me analyze every aspect of myself, paid people to listen to me and tell me what to do, spent countless days and nights at …

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Middle

Middle

The electrical system in my house is acting up again, and it’s bothersome. I’m not able to smoothly surf the Internet, watch my high definition television, and run the central air conditioning without a little bit of interruption every hour. Amazing how bothersome is a relative term. Until the age of eight, I lived in …

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gerardosandiego.com is live

gerardosandiego.com is live

I wanted the web site to be a blank canvas. I wanted the art, design and writing pieces to be the most prominent elements. I wanted the design to be stark and to the point and in your face and to get down to business as quickly and efficiently as possible. Stop screwing around with …

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Disarmament Treaties

Disarmament Treaties

I had this thought lately while watching a reality show. “How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath?” –Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Whenever I hear someone arguing to the point of shouting, three things come to mind: 1. This person has enough energy …

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Flesh for Fiction

Flesh for Fiction

As I was driving down Lakewood Blvd. today, I thought about fiction. Why do we read them when we have our own imaginations that can come up with our own stories? Why do we trust what we read when it’s fiction? Why do we get angry or happy or sad or crying about made-up stories, …

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A Thought About Ignorance

A Thought About Ignorance

I don’t know if somebody else has already said this just like this, but I had this thought while watching the news: “During times of bounty, ignorance is like heaven. During a crisis, it’s like the other place.” ;-)

Con Trail

Con Trail

It’s been a few months since I saw a live taping of the the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Watching his show on TV compared to seeing it live is like watching a major league pitcher throw a fastball on television compared to actually standing at the plate and watching it coming at you …

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