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The wind slides under the asphalt, and then mixes dirt with guiltiness everyday. The news gets taken in like a rug dried by sunshine. The wind takes the wheel as gravity pulls cars towards the ocean or the high desert. Pets in backyards get worn out looking for lesser evils:
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The wind is a blanket. The sun shines on the houses in the valley as if they were a floor of TVs. When it rains, trails turn into streams, and water trickles off ledges. A hawk spreads its yellow feathers. Clutching the straps to his backpack, He continues to the
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After the bell rang, Rey Romero went to the shade to get out of reach of the hot afternoon. Students on the sunny blacktop stared, talked and stared as he played with gelled and spiky hair. A slim frame with brown skin, he sometimes rubbed his brown eyes, nose and
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This would be easier if I shed data, sought torture or was looking for love along the way. Doing the 9-5, the rattlesnake on the sandstone gets nicked by everything churning in the wind. The July sun tunnels overhead. My van rusts where the paint’s chipped. Steel, the desert must
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A city of working faucets. My parents took me to the foot of the mountain and fed me until the hills took me in. In the dream, TV shows freeze over completely, and whatever happens happens around them. You’re not going to grow up unless I say, the loving father
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Cartoon Sunrise A kid walking barefoot to Los Angeles rarely moves faster than traffic. The wind comes, and is like students rushing to class. Silence is swiftly abandoned. In winter, the hissing and fangs on the low-slung rails can only be the electrical towers, their turf doubling as soccer fields
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During my freshman year, I felt as lost and lonely as an astronaut stuck on Earth. I had dropped out of my engineering courses by week two. After hanging out with my floormates all night in the fire escape, I would go to bed still feeling dizzy and lonely. Then
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Nintendo’s favorite green dinosaur lets gamers down in “Yoshi’s New Island,” though some may still love this simple and happy creature. In the game, Yoshi hurls eggs, swallows enemies and hums while kicking his cute red feet in midair. A popular misconception — there is not just one Yoshi, but
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Though the new documentary by Steve Fisher and Jason Jaacks investigates the effect of NAFTA on the Santiago River in Mexico, the film “Silent River” really investigates a monster. In North Gate Hall on Wednesday, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Latin American Studies premiered
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Though the “The Unknown Known” tries to compose a meaningful portrait of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld through an interview between him and director Errol Morris, the documentary unfolds at Rumsfeld’s leisure. In the film, Rumsfeld claims to be a simple and virtuous man whose amazing career merely
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