Saturday, April 13, 2013






When we were kids, we fought the way we were taught to fight on The USS Enterprise.

My older brothers, Julio and Victor, did the famous James T Kirk drop kick on each other while I tried to paralyze them with the Vulcan Nerve Pinch! 

This ‘vast wasteland’ called Television took us where no one has ever gone before in the wasteland that was The South Bronx as it was a millennium ago.

After an episode in the Star Trek series, call this chapter in our childhood Omega Glory.

This TV ship of fools and children includes comic genius Jonathan Winters who took us to a better place where crazy dreams spring to life and LOL!

Saturday, February 23, 2013


 Once upon a time, a bespectacled boy made a wish to live life like a Great American Novel, one that would read like the sci-fi of a great comic book worthy of The Public Library, his childhood Fortress of Solitude.  Just write what you know, advised Ms Raesade, beloved sixth grade English teacher at P.S 161 in The South Bronx.

There are no great stories without heartache and no refunds for answered prayers.

I’ve become the prisoner of a kid’s dream aided and abetted by other dreamers. 

So be it.

How can I be of service to Planet Earth?

I can imagine a lot, you know.

Super Man sung by REM






                 
Ode To Joy And Higher Education by Daniel Angel Aponte and Adobe 5.0
“This one goes out to the one I love/This one goes out to the one I left behind…”

Saturday, February 16, 2013


Female scientists got together to create The Perfect Man.

They died.

This is what happens when no one made you a Valentine.

Still, they died with a smile as you would if you ever met him.

Stay away and eat chocolate.

You’ll live longer.

Take Another Piece Of My Heart sung & howled by Janis Joplin