I’m Too Sexy for My Blog

(noon. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

As my blogging goes through a weird and wild transformation, I have found myself attracted to many seemingly unrelated phenomena.

I found a Buddhist site that I have both attraction and aversion towards.  I’m not sure about the fellow who writes the blog, but he does have a great blogroll (if you’re into the Tibetan Buddhist lineages) and reprints some of the most treasured Tibetan Buddhist texts which were translated at great expense of time and money, not to mention the daring and courageous activities of those teachers who fled Tibet starting in the 1950s who were determined to help spread this 2,500 year old philosophy to the west (an amazing story in itself).

Anyway, that’s neither here nor there, except I found this picture and post so adorable:

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Winter is definitely here, everybody is making plans for the holidays, and the hearth is merry. But, what of the little stinkers? Do they just magically cope with freezing temperatures?

Now is the time to pay special attention to setting out food and water for the small creatures of the fields and air. This is their most difficult time of year, when they must fight for survival.

It doesn’t take much to begin the habit of tossing a couple of extra bags of seed on the cart when you’re in the supermarket. What can it cost? Ten or fifteen dollars? Stop buying the National Enquirer, back off the booze, and the Viagra, and you could feed a whole zoo.

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Here’s another phenomenon I’ve been observing that I simply don’t know how to describe in a way that will do it/him justice.

We have Nezua’s blog The Unapologetic Mexican on our blogroll and folks have quoted it here before.  But now Nezua has started “Vlogging” and he’s a real one-man-band – from costumes to music to editing to just about everything technological you can think of.

What I find interesting about this clip in particular is how Nezua uses costume and gesture to embody all the ethnic stereotypes that make white folks scared of  Latinos.  And the music, and the way he manages to accommodate our attention deficit ordered senses after years of blogging and teevee and such.

So without further ado, here’s News with Nezua – Crazy Old White Guys Edition:

THIS WEEK’S VLOG might best be called the “Crazy Old White Guys Edition,” and while it’s not a topic I’d want to visit too often, these cats be jumpin’ the rails and thrusting themselves into the news cycle with all the grace of a cry for psychiatric help on broken roller skates. So let’s focus our gaze on them for a brief moment. I dare you!

In this week’s video: The truth behind Rush Limbaugh’s Inter-Cranial Conflict of Half-Racism! The Brand New Green Shiny Hatestorm Map! Rep. Gutierrez drops the news of forthcoming immigration legislation! Nezua endorses the Drop Dobbs Campaign! And all those swooshy, swoopy, spinny, swirly special effects you love so much.

Headlining at La Frontera Times weekly (and it’s my fault they didn’t have this yesterday, I’ll be jotting notes on production later at my personal blog. It might be interesting for some to hear about what goes into making a little piece like this one, if so drop on by later).

As usual, if you prefer a dark viewing room, visit the XOLAGRAFIK Theater.

I tend to get a little lost at Nezua’s site as there’s so many links and buttons and features I am too technologically backward to appreciate.  But his message is as old as humanity.

So here are two ageless messages in modern form.  To me, that’s a clue as to the direction I want to move in, but mostly I’m still clueless.  Hee hee!