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Beast Oakland Raiders. New Orleans

Like thousands of immigrants, or should I say  millions, my parents sacrificed a whole lot for a better life for my sister, brother and I. They left their homeland, and family behind.I have a great job now,I have my own business too. I like to think that all that is evidence of my parents sacrifices … Continue reading

Puerto Rico 2016

After 11+ hours rides on trains and planes, we got on a car and drove to a small port in Fajardo to hop on a boat for a hour and a half ride to Vieques island. Two words that I describe Vieques as when I talk about this trip are Third Worldish. Tons of abandoned … Continue reading

Beast Oakland Raiders @ Broncos

Grew up around these dudes, we’ve had mutual friends for over 15 years. They set up a Raiders  away game with destination to Denver. I was hesitant at first but then I convinced myself. Fuck it, why not? It was 17 of us total, 14 on the flight there and then met up 3 more … Continue reading

The Great American West

Hey, that’s Maria, I’m Chuy. We’ve been good friends since high school, and we decided to take a pretty epic road-trip. Armed with a map and a sense of adventure, we got a cheap rental and hit the road. What proceeds is a recounting of our travels across The Great American West. I hope you … Continue reading

Aceso: Always Crushing East Side Oakland

I arrived at the meet up destination a few minutes before him. I was sitting in my car in a parking lot in deep east Oakland, In a space where normally a woman sells Pupusas and a few spaces aways from where a man sells BBQ. There were lots of activity was going on as … Continue reading

Oahu, HI 2014

I mast$%&$@#$ in the plane’s restroom on our flight back home from this trip. It just occurred to me  while peeing, (fuck it, why not right?)  It helped me sleep for about 30 minutes through the bit of turbulence and babies crying on board. I hit the big 31 this year and celebrated in Oahu. … Continue reading

West side road tripping!

It took Coach Manda and I over 30 hours to drive to Universal studios from Oakland California. Why? well we took a detour to the Four corners monument, aka the Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Arizona meet. Driving through Vegas, we had to stop for a drink and food. We had to. … Continue reading

Miami Florida, 2013

An Airplane crash landed today,7-06-2013 at SFO, It was coming from Seoul South Korea with over 300 passengers. Two of them died. I haven’t flown too many times, I hate flying. Going and coming to Miami I could not help to think about an air plane accident. I managed though, I kept thinking happy things. … Continue reading

3rd annual Hyena BBQ

First off sorry for the delay on this post and the lack of updates on here period. This year’s been filled with all kinds of events, Beastoakland is popping and keeping me real busy. R.i.p. The Hyena Noe Garcia a.k.a Snoe Woods! He was another victim of this senseless life style in Oakland. Also R.i.p. … Continue reading

Toast, Joogs TWT 640

One thing that I hate is graffiti, it’s everywhere now days and it distracts me. It keeps my eyes off the road while I drive, putting my life along with others at risk. I lie, I love graffiti, the other day I ran into a writer who I see around Oakland very often. Chillin at … Continue reading

In to the wild.

I got my first 100+ likes on Instagram the other day,  a picture of some tacos and on a blurry ass picture of the Beast Oakland sticker at the Warriors game, the thing is I’m on my way to being an internet celebrity. Also, one of my hyenas’ birthday was this weekend and to celebrate, … Continue reading

Oakland Graffiti. More!

Hanging with the youngsters the other day and they were talking to me about Ceiver a little bit. They was like, that nigga Ceiver got a story for every street, in every city”. That nigga be like “oh on this street back in the days so and so happened, and oh on this street so … Continue reading

Raiders vs. Jaguars 2012

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. I’m an Oakland fan. I want my city to shine. Being a Raider fan is hard though, It’s like going fishing all the time and never catching any fish. Like having a fish bite on your bait, fighting it for a while, reeling it in and … Continue reading

Southern California weekend

First off I apologize for taking so long to update. Your boy be out here drinking too much, selling shirts and what not. You ever feel like just going somewhere out of town for the weekend? For no reason? with no plans? My Hyenas and I sure do. This weekend we just decided to hit … Continue reading

Pajaretes

I don’t know what or how Mexicans  got the idea for these things. I don’t know how many people get ideas about plenty other things for that matter but, a lot of these weird things catch my attention. If they involve some kind of food, then I’m on it. Except spiders. Fuck spiders. I’m not … Continue reading

Oakland graffiti

I haven’t done graffiti in years. But I still have a special place for it in my heart, I drive around my city every day and notice how much the graffiti scene has changed. I like it. During my era , late 90s and early 2000s, we were focused more on the fat caps and … Continue reading

Bay to Breakers 2012

Oh how time flies. Seems like just a few months ago I was out here with White Boy Freddie and them harassing girls. Here we are a year later, this time we cholo’d out.  We met up at BART ,La Green eyes,  La Shorty , El Rush loc, Lil D, Sad girl, Shy Girl. Thrill … Continue reading

How weird is it faire.

I heard about this thing this same day.  Best NSC hit me up, he’s one of my Hyenas that be with the shit. We tend to like a lot of the same things , we want to hit up every fun event possible. I got swooped up and Wuero Pemex was driving. (Look out for … Continue reading

2nd annual Hyena BBQ

It’s been a year since the last Hyena BBQ, time flies right? Here we are again at Lake Temescal in Oakland.With the biggest thunder storm  this year(probably only one too)  out of the way, it was meant for us to shine. Saturday was clearer than the faces of those Proactive models on t.v. Young Must … Continue reading

New York city

If it’s one thing I’m scared of, its’ spiders, and heights (I know that’s actually two but, FUCK SPIDERS). so how do you think I felt with my Labtec headphones on and my Ipod playing hella shit like this: “Staring out the window of this plane, thinking if it crash I’ll never see your ass … Continue reading