Category Archives: identity

few things I’ve learned

By ras | Published: 28.11.11
from my perspective situations are rarely what they seem most things we hold dear a trifles work done with my own hands is tangible the Interwebs is entertaining, and mostly a waste of time surfing is riding waves – nothing more family and personal relationships are more important than most other things over the last [...]
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#identity part VI: this is it

By ras | Published: 27.10.11
summer comes to an end and so does the time spent hanging off ladders with brush and paint helping Picasso work on his livable canvases. what now? there was a time when I was naively carefree. I would go about my days without any intentionality and never felt like something was amis. those days are [...]
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#identity: part V – the surfer/hipster

By ras | Published: 10.9.11
I’m going to skip around in the identity chronology because the topic of being a “surfer” has been circling around my noggin like buzzards over carrion. recently I had an email echange with a post doc student on the topic of identity. she is researching identity as it relates to the web. she had this [...]
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#identity part IV: Gringo Latino poem

By ras | Published: 10.8.11
this is a poem I wrote a while back. it continues along the thought tracks of identity that I’ve been working on lately. Gringo Latino I carried the sewing machine through Tampa International it was 1987 and we dressed like ‘79 my brother’s arms too were loaded with things that would not be left behind [...]
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#Identity part III: the break

By ras | Published: 25.7.11
this is a continuation of a series on identity I started a few weeks ago. 1999- 2000 from August of 1999 until December of 2000 I was completely lost inna haze of mal-prescribed psychopharmcalogy, high-grade trees, and booze. for several months I didn’t work and instead smoked a lot cigarettes, drank excessively, surfed little, smoked [...]
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identity: part II

By ras | Published: 5.7.11
I can claim 3 nationalities, all of which celebrate their respective independence in the first week of July. perhaps the hot days of June lead up to revolutions and war.
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identity: part I

By ras | Published: 4.7.11
1975 – 1987 I was born in a hospital room in Valera, a small hot and humid city in the state of Trujillo, Venezuela. my American mother was alone when I arrived, my father not allowed to be there. old school. my father was just recovering from a near death auto accident. t-boned by a [...]
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