February 2010
33 posts
“That’s right: “love”. This magazine has heart, and balls.”
– R.Calderon
January 2010
29 posts
End of the Month Challenge Updates, Kablaam!
Two things:
First: January’s challenge of eliminating facebook and 100 minutes of drawing and design per day didn’t go so well. On one hand, I did one better than just cutting FB out for a month… ‘cause I completely abolished it from my life altogether. But on the other hand, the drawing challenge didn’t last longer than a week.
Hopefully I’ll do better in...
Best Recent Text Message:
Dude thank you so much for letting me pass out at your house. I had a good time last night. Sorry I disappeared at one point. I was fucked up, but don’t worry, I didn’t sleep with David or pee on him, so your studio remains clean. ;)
Ewww.
www.Rodriginals.com
Oh my sweet, sweet, fetus:
There is no content on you, yet you make me oh-so-happy.
con amor, R.Calderon
So...
I’ve got a stack of books for inspiration, a notebook rapidly being filled with ideas, a kick-ass domain name, a web page and magazine to work on, and all I need is _________.
A) a good, strong kick in the ass B) a good, strong cup of coffee C) a good, rejuvenating night’s sleep D) both A & B E) C, followed by B, then A
“In general, I don’t think it’s a bad thing that the world is full of...”
– David Haskell
A.S.I. B.O.D. Denies Panhellenic Council's Appeal...
Hot news travels fast.
Yesterday, at our first Board of Directors meeting of the semester, there was an action item on the agenda from the Vice President of Finance: CSUF’s Panhellenic Council seeks appeal from the Board, in order to overturn a decision made by the VP of F himself.
At around 6 o’clock, earlier this evening, I receive a call from a friend of mine, asking if I...
“Manovich borrows arguments made in William Mitchell’s The Reconfigured Eye that...”
– R.Calderon
Its a Double-Socks Kind of Cold Tonight
Everything is cold.
My feet are cold.
My hands: cold.
The toilet seat, sofa cushion, pen, and my cell phone: cold.
Yet, despite the coldness of the night, today radiated a lot of heat:
Warmth from the inside, stemming from a hot cup of veggie chili shared with a good friend; fire, in the form of calories being burned as a result of Frank’s Spin-class, and heat from a hot topic addressed...
“I will protect education funding in this budget. And we can no longer afford to...”
– The Governator, State of the State Address, Jan 6th, 2010.
“Concept is King.”
– Theron Moore
Spring SeMEster
M. Young, a poet and good friend of mine, told me something during a sushi session a few years ago. Tuna nigiri, kirin ichiban, sake, and conversation flowed freely… He said something like: in your thirties, well, you have to worry about a spouse or kids, and you’ve got obligations… (then he rose his sake glass, nodding his head down, signaling me to do the same), but,...
Fuck! "We" Should Have Been in that Game/ Geaux...
C’mon Jets! Way to let the Colts waltz into the Super Bowl.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Chargers would’ve given the Colts a run for their money. They’re a better match-up! But now, thanks to Nate “you-gotta-be-Kaeding-me” Kaeding and his back-to-back-to-back choke-jobs against the Jets, I get to watch more of Peyton Manning. Well, fuck that! I’m sick...
Advice from Taiwan
“This girl does not deserve your energy.
It would be sand instead of stone. You deserve the stones. You deserve a girl who wants you and can flat out say, I want you now and no one else. I want you now and I want you all the time. I want you consistently and I want you genuinely. No baggage. No lies. No 3rd parties involved.
I love ya kid. I’m sorry you’re hurting. At least...
Puddles...
When I was a kid: a mischievous, tree-climbing, nose-picking kid,
I loved to stomp on puddles.
Now, I’m older, but when I spot a good one;
I’m talking ‘bout a miniature ocean,
I swerve.
I jerk the steering wheel if I have to,
‘cause I
MUST
DRIVE
over it.
SPLASH! and water goes everywhere;
SPLASH! taller than my own car;
SPLASH!
The kid inside of me falls onto...
A Quarter-life Cleanse.
I do realize that it is ambitious of me to refer to this time in my adulthood as my quarter-life. I do not expect to live past 100, nor would I like to, but let’s pretend.
It all came together by coincidence and chance, like a perfect storm:
The ocean’s temperature had risen. I began to watch what I eat; and dropped meat all-together.
An infuriated sky unleashed an assault of...
How's Your Break Going?
Well friend, since you asked…
My break has been like blindfolding yourself and running; you run far, and you run until you work up a heavy sweat.
Then after it seems like you can’t run any further…
You take the blindfold off just to realize that you’re standing in the same spot you were at the beginning. Confused, but nonetheless entertained at the notion that perhaps,...
“Wanna go on an acid trip? Eat the bottom left corner of the flyer.”
– Flyer Distributor at LA Art Walk
“You can put a chef’s hat on a rat, but that doesn’t make him...”
– R. Calderon
WatchI thought my dad might have a heart attack from laughing so hard while he tells the story of how his brother shat his pants on an elevator.
con amor, R.Calderon
What the Farkas?!
I doubt that many (if any) of you know who Leonardo Farkas is. If you don’t, it’s fine. Please don’t waste your time wiki-ing or google-ing him. I only know of him because my family is Chilean, and they tune into TV Chile during dinner.
All you need to know is that he is an absolute character. He’s finer than fiction.
Look at him: his curly golden locks and finely...
“It isn’t where you sleep, but how you sleep.”
– R. Calderon
Hello, Twenty-Ten./ Defining Moments.
Oh twenty-ten, I’m glad you’re here. But before we can begin to fool around, I have to give a proper farewell to oh-nine… after all, she was an important year for me.
Before I started tumblng, I kept a journal. Most of my favorite memories from 2009 were captured, stream of consciousness, a la pen on those pages, including:
an entry I wrote from the top of Kaveh’s...
“I’m not your man; I’m not your dude; I’m not your bro. Got it,...”
– C.H.P. Officer that pulled me over 2 nights ago