Asymmetric
Blog URL http://www.nelsonguirado.com
Located Pico Rivera, California USA
Tags republican, conservative, cuban, latin, hispanic, music, movies, technology, religion
38 years in the making, my blogs. I have sections for movie, book, and television reviews; political commentary from a moderate perspective; Catholicism and religion; Cuban music; tech reviews; and some things I think are funny.
Latest Blog Posts
- Review: 2012 (dos mil doce) Cheap thrills from an expensive movie on Nov 19, 2009 in Now playing at a theater near you
"Some people want to fill the world with [manipulative, melodramatic, derivative, exploitive, lowest-common-denominator hackery]. And, what’s wrong with that? I’d like to know." -Paul McCartney Before I start, I’d like to say that...
- Upscale check cashing service opens in Beverly Hills on Nov 14, 2009 in Funny blogs
Bucking the trend towards discounted services, a new chain of upscale check cashing stores has opened locations in major cities throughout the nation. Walk into an Espèces Chalet and you're greeted by one of the long-legged "cash attendants."...
- Latin Grammys winner: Best Tropical Album: Omara Portuondo- Gracias on Nov 12, 2009 in Post-1959 Cuban Music Contains video
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/media/10Gracias.mp3Without knowing her by name, I became familiar with Omara Portuondo during my semi-obsessive Cuban music days, when I spent much of my last couple of years of college acquiring and learning about Cuban...
- Fox News anti-Catholic bias on Nov 11, 2009 in Catholicism Apologetics
Can Fox report something about the Vatican and science without mentioning Galileo in the first sentence or Giordano Bruno, who was not burned at the stake for being a scientist, in the middle of the report. Really, the article needs two anti-Catholic...
- BSA: Obama incomprehensible shootings and Brookstone lesbian-initiated firing on Nov 11, 2009 in American Politics Culture Bite-sized Asymmetric
1. Obama said that the Fort Hood massacre is "incomprehensible." Let me help him: The killer thought that the God in which he believes would like that he murder those who, according to him this time, is harming Muslims. At least that's what he said.
- Vaughn Monroe: Old Soldiers never die on Nov 11, 2009 in Rock and Roll Contains Video
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/media/(Ghost)_Riders_In_The_Sky.mp3Most of the Veterans Day tributes on youtube have music that I don't like as much as the standards or oldies. The new ones seem a little melodramatic. Vaughn Monroe sings "Old Soldiers N...
- Catholic Answers Radio Club Membership on Nov 10, 2009 in Catholicism Apologetics
I may have a mini-obsession at any one time (the last being 40s music), but I'm pretty moderate about any one thing over time and somewhat of a dilettante in breadth of interests- from the physical like cars and technology to the metaphysical to thos...
