the Nonsense in Between

A picture's worth a thousand words

Wonder, excitement, chance, childhood, adoration, clarity, endless, serenity, reverence, innocence...

This picture was taken two nights ago from our balcony with our new Canon Digital Rebel XT. (click the picture to enlarge)

Not So Little Brother

I cant begin to express how proud I am of my little brother this week. Last year when he graduated highschool I begged him to leave Roswell. If even just to go to Albuquerque or even Las Cruces, I urged him to do anything but stay in Roswell. He weighed his options and chose to remain in that god forsaken place. It broke my heart. During our last visit to Roswell the situation weighed on Dominic's heart too, he wrote about it here.

Well, some time has passed and apparently my brother decided to grow balls the size of watermelons. This weekend he threw Roswell the proverbial finger and moved to San Antonio, Texas. Why San Antonio? We have a cousin out there who's his age and they're planning on getting a place together. I genuinely dont care how or why I'm just elated about his decision. San Antonio (though it is in Texas) is a city full of opportunity, diversity, and well, people. I think it will give him the tools he needs to grow and use his talent to its fullest.

Even more shocking is that my brother's big move has sparked a fire in my parents too. They've finally realized what I've been saying since I could speak: ROSWELL SUCKS! Sucks so much they too have decided to move to San Antonio. They're fixing up the house to get it sold. My dad has already told his employers that by this time next year they'll be gone. I've waited my whole life to see my parents leave that awful place.

I'm excited for them all to see what the world has to offer and how beautiful change can be.

April Showers Bring May Flowers

After what seemed like a storm that would never end the clouds have finally parted and the sun shines brighter than ever before. Yes, I am proud to announce that things are looking up these days. And with a recent visit from my best friends Sean and Penny we celebrated appropriately. Thank you Sean and Penny for driving six hours to smell my dog's farts all weekend. We miss you already and Oni misses you so much he stopped farting.

In other good news: I'm employed again, Dominic got a raise, Oni's pneumonia is gone, we have a digital SLR (thanks Gary and Dave), and with summer on its way I'm sure there are more good things to come.

Bidi bidi bom bom

Me: "Bidi bidi bom bom. That's how little latin girls' hearts beat when we're in love" (in reference to a Selena song). "how do little Swedish boys' hearts beat?"

Dominic: "Yorgen, Bjorgen, Shmorgen"

Anti-immigration is just plain ignorant

I am in agreement with the general public that there is no definitive answer to our immigration issues. What I can't seem to grasp is how anyone in this country can be "anti" immigration. Unless of course you are a Native-American you are either an immigrant or a decendant of immigrants, yes even you Mr. George W. So why can't we create a system in which our friends from the South have the opportunity to legally work themselves into citizenship of the country they are helping. In case you didnt notice they are helping us. Mexican immigrants support our economy especially in areas such as agriculture and construction where there is a need for hardworking manual laborers. I hope that the protests yesterday proved this.

Why hasn't anyone taken note of the fact that our government justifies spending a billion dollars a day on the war in Iraq to "promote democracy" and in essence help Iraqi citizens and at the same time our government wants to spend billions more to fight a war against illegal immigrants? Illegal immigrants who come here for opportunity and in turn give back to our economy. What has any Iraqi citizen done to deserve the "support" of our government? Of course those of us who are the least bit educated on the issue know the real reasons for the war but someone needs to call the Bush administration out on their hypocritical propaganda. How can our Government be so blatantly hypocritical and get away with it? Because America is full of feeble minded morons who eat spoonfulls of shit the Government serves us. Especially the growing anti-immigration groups who are using the immigration debate to spread racism and hate.

I saw on the news today that a group of rednecks in Arizona and Texas is taking the immigration issue into their own hands. They call themselves border guardians and have begun patrolling the border and even started erecting barbedwire fences to keep immigrants from crossing over (if only the American Indians had been as active). Their methods are fueled by racism, hate and just plain ignorance. The group's website connects illegal-immigration to communism (quite a leap of ignorance I'd say) and to protest this they "burn[ed] the flags of several Communist nations and deface[ed] the flag of Mexico". That sounds more like an act of hate than an approach to a solution. I respect any intelligent arguments about the immigration issue but have zero tolerance for ignorant people and groups such as this one.