#439
[Relative, looking over my shoulder at pictures of Harvard students I was looking through]: ¿Quienes son tus amigos? Who are your friends?
[Me]: No sé. I don’t know.
This is my Twitter
I despise Twitter. I see it as nothing more than glorified text messages/Facebook status updates. I do have a Twitter account, but I got it because I have a personal policy of registering accounts in different websites to prevent someone else to use “soledadenmasa.” I have not logged into Twitter since I registered my account and have no updates.
I am following no one and no one is following me. All your attempts to follow me/add me as a friend/whatever it’s called in Twitter will be ignored.
If you want me to annoy you with irregular status updates or you even care to know what I am thinking, you can find me on Facebook (if I don’t know you, I won’t accept you) or you can subscribe/read this site. When I choose to write something short, really short and I don’t want to come up with a title, you’ll see a number as the title of the post. That’s my Twitter. Look at two recent posts. Those are “updates,” if you so hunger for them.
On another note, I don’t know how I feel about adding this site’s feed to my Facebook page. I’ve never been anonymous because it would have been impossible for me to be anonymous on the Internet. I’ve always linked from my Facebook page to this site, but recently, I added this site’s feed to my page. While it might mean that more people read what I write, I won’t know unless they comment on it at Facebook or they click and come through to this site and their visit is logged in my Statistics page. It doesn’t log individual visits, I’d just like to know how many visits I have
The posts I have advertised via my Facebook status updates received a lot of visits, so I know that Facebook is an effective tool to advertise what I write, but at least like that I know they click through (if they read, that’s another story). I just don’t like writing status update every time I write something to make sure others read it. The feed is on my Facebook page and it should come up in people’s News Feeds. Can’t do more.
Can’t do more.
Drinko de Mayo
I suggested one of the songs Gustavo Arellano highlights in his Drinko de Mayo columns this week. Can you guess which one?
Here are the links:
- Whipped Whiteys and Other Delights: Seven Gabacho-Hating Mexican Songs from the O.C. Weekly
- April 30, 2009, Ask A Mexican column at the O.C. Weekly
- April 28, 2009, Ask A Mexican column at the Village Voice
The three columns have differences in what songs are included and descriptions of the songs. My suggested song is in at least one of the three columns. Include your answers in the comments below. Good luck!
Is this the 428th post/draft? Or is it 428 because I have 427 comments? I don’t know
I need to destroy something, anything. Hack it into pieces. Get something and leave it disfigured, unrecognizable, different.
426
Two months since my last post. I guess it’s time for me to come back. I’m not at Harvard this semester and I don’t plan to go back until, at the earliest, January 2010. I can’t say much more, other than I am looking for jobs. Jobs jobs jobs jobs! So, um, yeah, I guess I’ll be posting more often at the sites I contribute.
Felíz cumpleaños, Chente
As you can tell, things on my part have been quiet because of classes. I’m working on a series of posts for L.A. Eastside and here that will probably take me another month to complete. I need myself to get down and write or expand the current drafts. I want to make sure they’re complete before I schedule them to be published because I think they will be something of interest to readers of L.A. Eastside, including those blogs that just link to other blogs.
Today is Vicente Fernández’s 69th birthday! Here’s a video of Chente singing “A mi manera” at a sold out plaza de toros.
I think this video is from a performance at Mexico City’s Plaza de Toros. It was a free show and he announced that if he was not able to fill la Plaza de Toros (it’s the largest in the world), he would retire. It was full to the brim.
‘Cuz I’m bored: 25 things about me
It’s been going around Facebook for so long that it finally reached me. These are fun, I’m bored, and I’m willing to share the following facts.
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Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose up to 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you.
(To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag up to 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.) Read the rest of this entry »
