ABOUT ME
The guy you see in front of you is holding two books: Plato and Aristotle (complete works, of course). He keeps them slightly askew for effect; yet making sure that the names are in clear frame within the cropped photo he ardently tweaked maybe six times.
He scaffolds his face with a hand resembling an inverted semi-colon cursed with an extra tail. This placement is meant to imbue some passive intellectualism he hopes contrasts keenly with the ruggedness of his three-day-old beard (if we can agree on that moniker). Maybe it accentuates instead; he still isn't quite sure.
His skinny tie with angled silver stripes betrays his desire to return to academia yet remain veneered in the techno-urban-hipster-minority mentality he worked so hard to absorb, yet publicly rejects.
He'll deny this, of course, every word. He may even suggest that what you see in not a fabrication or bloggaluted persona, but rather a representation of the lie we all tell ourselves to convince ourselves whom it is we want to be, separate from other's impressions.
He thinks he is right. So do I.
ABOUT SITE
A critical look at culture, news, and the self through the filter of a Latino forty-something gen-Xer who hates labels.
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