Here it is. The object of my obsession for the last two weeks. This is a four minute compilation of nearly every foto and all of the video I took in Cuba last spring, put to the music of Sur Caribe, a band from Santiago de Cuba that was super popular in those months. It [...]

A live image of Popocatépetl, the volcano just up the way, visible on clear days on my daily walk to the bus stop at dawn.

More on Popocatépetl, from Wikipedia:

Popocatépetl (commonly referred to as El Popo or Don Goyo) is an active volcano and the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba (5,610m). [...]

The fifth in my series of articles for The Noise.

“Everything cool, chico?” he asks me in Spanish with a heavy Arabic accent, his dark face poking out from under the shade of his umbrella. I’ve been eavesdropping on him for the last couple hours, understanding nothing, his voice blending with the sound of the small [...]

I’ve decided to post some older poems online finally. Most people who have seen me perform over the last couple years are probably familiar with these, but I haven’t ever posted them here because I was saving them for my third chapbook. That chapbook never went to press before I ended up heading for Mexico [...]

First of a new series of videos I am doing. A kind of “hyper slideshow” set to music. This one follows us from Cuernavaca to Teopotzlán, a fairly well-known pueblito just up the way. Music by the Nortec Collective. Inspiration (1, 2) by my friend Bart Pogoda (who else?). And yes, I’m on YouTube now. [...]

Hello internet world. Regular readers of the site will notice that I’ve tweaked a few things in the layout, especially in the sidebar on the left. I haven’t been adding much writing lately, but I’ve done some major upgrades to the site in the background. I’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, the [...]