Tag Archives: Love

A MOTHER’S DAY THING

Posted on May 10, 2014 by xaviertrevino

    I did some work for a friend in Crown Heights today, and riding the bus back from St. Marks Avenue I saw an interesting thing. Somewhere right before Fulton Street a very pretty late-middle aged woman got on … Continue reading →

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CINCO DE MAYO

Posted on May 4, 2014 by xaviertrevino

  Tomorrow would have been my dad’s 102nd birthday. He died August 10th, 2009 at the age of 97. I remember thinking year after year how when he reached 100 I was going to send his picture in to Willard … Continue reading →

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WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT

Posted on April 22, 2014 by xaviertrevino

              I was going to call this post psychotherapy but there’s already a Ramones song called that. Then I remembered an incident in the lobby at the building I got fired from, where there … Continue reading →

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GOODBY COLUMBUS AVENUE

Posted on April 5, 2014 by xaviertrevino

  OK, it’s official now; the union rep called and said the company had settled on a severance offer, 8 weeks pay plus a “neutral” letter of recommendation. So that comes out to less than a half a weeks pay … Continue reading →

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  HOW TO COOK BEANS (Not meant to be a food blog)

Posted on April 1, 2014 by xaviertrevino

               Being Mexican, one of the staples of my mother’s dinner table was beans. She liked pinto beans, and as a child I was required to sift through the dried beans and remove the … Continue reading →

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 WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

Posted on March 29, 2014 by xaviertrevino

  I finally heard from my union rep on Wednesday, after leaving a nasty message on his answering service that morning. He told me to go ahead and file for unemployment, a little bit of advice I could have used … Continue reading →

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LOOKING FOR GOD (in all the wrong places)

Posted on March 22, 2014 by xaviertrevino

  Last Tuesday night I went to an event called “Bughouse Spin,” at a place actually called the “Bughouse” in Bushwick. It’s basically people telling stories, “Spinning,” as denoted in the name of the event, and the theme for the … Continue reading →

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TOUCH ME

Posted on March 1, 2014 by xaviertrevino

              Fire eater at Maggie’s memorial.               I wrote this last week the morning of my suspension, I still thought I had a job. But I don’t want it to get lost, and … Continue reading →

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GOODBYE TO THING 2

Posted on February 13, 2014 by xaviertrevino

                        I usually post on Tuesdays and Saturdays, but this Saturday I will be at Maggie Estep’s funeral in Hudson, New York; so I am posting this today and will see you all next Tuesday. This blogpost is dedicated … Continue reading →

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Jesus’ Son

Posted on October 28, 2013 by xaviertrevino

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