It’s so hot a cactus exploded in my front yard. Now it looks like an empty alien egg sac, rotting in the heat, giving off an awful st...

  We got tonk and ICE in Chicanonautica , over at La Bloga . Couldn't find any video on the new tonk usage,but ICE is making the news: A...

I’m in the middle of Ru Marshall’s American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda and it’s got my brain buzzing. I’m going to hav...

  Chicanonautica is all about the heat, over at La Bloga . The heat's on all over America: In Arizona, we've got a monsoon with mas...

I hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this one. Sometimes, if you wait a bit, the problem fixes itself, but not this time. So now I have to ...

  Its raining little apocalypses in Chicanonautica , at La Bloga . What is that smell? And it's everywhere: Could be coming from the Whi...

  Once again, Chicanonautica goes looking for America, in Aztlán, at La Bloga . What a better thing to do on the 250th 4th of July? And of c...

  I like to cherchez la weird while on the road. And sometimes the weird is literally on the road.   As in weird vehicles.   Not just the o...

When this goes up, Emily and I will be off on another getaway. Yeah, I know we just did one a couple of weeks ago, but you gotta do what y...

You can read it in Chicanonautica , over at La Bloga . In the gonzo traditon, I write on a road trip: Because I'm teaching how to write ...