Posts Tagged ‘Rob-Rivera’
Articles / Memoirs / Panama Tourist Guide
Tags: 2000, 2010, ASEP, clubbing, love, Oxford International School, Panama, Porto Diao and Friends, Rob-Rivera, writing
January 15, 2010
Over the past few weeks I have found myself in a rather introspective mood; the bloody remains of 2009 already becoming the birthplace of one “twenty ten,” I felt nostalgia’s hand slap me from both palm and back… both a year’s and decade’s end. As it is with every end of every journey, most of us look back at the road traveled with the hope of feeling like it was worth trekking despite its ups and downs and this year it was no different. In fact, for me it held double importance as the last year of this decade was, in many forms, a trial by fire for me. Once I had come to terms to that I unexpectedly went back to how things were ten years prior exercising my Eagle Eye and, lo and behold, the changes from how things were to how things are now are absolutely drastic.
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I’m sure you can relate; for as long as there’s been people on this Earth, there has always been a power struggle for social dominance and, more often than not, the trenches are red-hot with the efforts of two recurring characters who I’m sure you’ve encountered before or currently enjoy their company: The Asshole and The Douchebag. You can find these two anywhere in the world, at any time and at any place no matter what sector of society you find yourself in because these concepts, dear reader, are sadly universal. Why am I writing about these two, you ask? Why waste my prose in such a topic when I could be talking about peaches, LSD, the mythology of Star Wars or something just as trivial but arguably far more interesting? Because I’m an asshole and will do what I want anyway.
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When you live in a cramped, hectic city where it seems that there’s always something happening and there’s not a moment to rest, the yearning for slower, calmer days slithers in unknowingly, creeping up behind you until it’s all you can think of. When there’s an opportunity to let it all go away, to pause and bask in the tranquility of days that appear to be standing still, after dealing with the noise of city life for so long, the only option is “go.” Whether you’re in Tokyo, Paris, New York or any other metropolis, the feeling of being eaten alive by the freight train of modern life is universal. But when you’re in Panama City, unlike other great modern cities, there are affordable and nearby options that will take it all away. For that purpose, let’s talk about Pedasí, deep in the Azuero Peninsula of the Republic of Panama.
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Hello, boys and girls. So, it would seem that both me and the cats at Porto Diao took an improvised sabbatical of sorts during the month of January. We went out, lived, loved, got into great adventures, got drunk, got high, got depressed, got delirious, people came and went, some for good, others, for a little while, others got together forever in the sanctity of marriage, people grew apart, people came together, others still are.
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Blog / Español / Memoirs / Music / Rants / Video
Tags: 2009, crooks, hellboy, juan_carlos_navarro, Panamanians, personal_opinion, political_ads, PRD, rap_sheets, Rob-Rivera, Video, youtube
August 30, 2008
This is the set-up: a man that’s known both online and off as Rob Rivera is lying down in bed thinking about the things people like Rob Rivera think about when they’re lying in bed (answer: chocolate) perusing the TV channels of his basic cable service. Mind you, my TV set has been busted for months.
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Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: art_music, assorted_crap, Blog, canadians, chunk, commotion, crazy_pills, different_reasons, earth_man, europeans, friday_morning, good_man, google, music_scene, myspace, Panama, Panama Travel, panama_travel, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, post_coital, real_estate_boom, Rob-Rivera, señor-loop, social_discomfort, sonic_blast, top_dogs, workload
March 31, 2008
At least that’s what the folks at Panama Travel News are saying. It was Friday morning, sort of excited about going to the Guildstock ‘08 for reasons I will not discuss here (ask me though. I love ranting) but even more excited because I scored a copy of Señor Loop’s new album in 4 years [...]
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Blog / Music / Panama Tourist Guide / Video
Tags: atlapa, colon, dave samuels, eternal-geek, fuller, jazz festival, jazz world, led zeppelin, mp3, Music, Panama, panama jazz festival, Panama Tourist Guide, quartet, Rob-Rivera, stairway to heaven, stanley jordan, tia, tia fuller, Video, wikipedia, youtube
January 30, 2008
I was at the production office of the 2008 Panama Jazz Festival on a sunny Friday morning getting stuff done with Yamile, putting out fires that often came throughout the course of the week we worked there, when a gentle young man, tall as a lamp post and seemingly fragile, sat down next to me [...]
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Articles / Español / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: ADEP, Articles, creative writing courses, cultural awareness, driving force, enrique jaramillo levi, Español, faction, la prensa panama, laundry list, mastermind, minitextos, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panamanian culture, perseverance, Porto Diao and Friends, Rants, relevance, repressed anger, retos, Rob-Rivera, short essay, slant, technological university, william wallace, writers association
January 15, 2008
In December of 2007, an article by legendary Panamanian author Enrique Jaramillo Levi graced the Opinion section of La Prensa, Panama’s highest-circulated newspaper. The short essay, titled “Escritores Ante Nuevos Retos” or “Writers Facing New Challenges” was placed on my desk after a long day on the streets, being charming and trying to earn my [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: Articles, Culture, delusion, juega-vivo, men-in-panama, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Panamanians, Rants, Rob-Rivera, society, women-in-panama
August 15, 2007
I’ve been called a megalomaniac before. A “pathological egotist.” I wonder why that is, but then again, if I didn’t have to wonder then it wouldn’t make me much of a megalomaniac because they have delusions of grandeur. Keyword here being “delusion.” People who are delusional usually don’t know it because they’re so into their [...]
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I found PostSecret in 2005, mostly by accident. I wasn’t the person I am now but I was on my way, as in I didn’t yet know why people and their struggles fascinated me so much. In some cases, I didn’t know how attracted I was to the subject of human behavior and, in that [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: Articles, bathroom-etiquette, Culture, etiquette, how-to-guide, Panama Tourist Guide, public-bathrooms, Rants, Rob-Rivera, society
July 27, 2007
There are certain things in a society that, no matter in what part of the world you are, will always be considered universal. Certain concepts like courtesy, contempt, class and other words that start with “c” are inherent to every individual; that is why most of us can watch videos on YouTube of crazy Japanese [...]
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So, the site has been having some linking problems for the past few days. I could go ahead and write a whole story on how it happened exactly but it all narrows down to me playing too much in the site’s sandbox for too long. As a result, you might have been having a several [...]
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Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: jaywalking, juega-vivo, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-city, panama-history, Panamanians, public-transportation-in-panama, Rants, Rob-Rivera, transportation
July 11, 2007
I was with my dad doing the morning commute to the office and while he rambled on about the topics he likes to angrily rant about I kept prying into other cars, trying to tune out the noise. We were in Via España, a 5-lane, one way avenue that is one of the main arteries [...]
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The new Queens of the Stone Age album, entitled “Era Vulgaris,” is like a targeted cruise missile: it comes in hard and fast, unavoidable and precise in its desire to destroy it all. Unapologetic. The album is a lot of this, and a “greatest hits” of rhythms found in their previous albums from the band, [...]
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Articles / Movies
Tags: 616, Articles, comic-books, devourer-of-worlds, fanboys, fantastic-four, fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer, Galactus, Marvel, Marvel-Comics, Matador, movie-reviews, Movies, Norrin-Radd, Porto Diao and Friends, power-cosmic, Rants, Rob-Rivera, Silver-Surfer
June 27, 2007
Since writing is cathartic, I’m going to sound off on the Fantastic Four movie sequel. I saw “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” the other night and now the mere thought of it makes me angry like you have no idea. I know I shouldn’t feel that way considering that the first Fantastic Four [...]
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