Welcome
I started this online journal to share my creative efforts and other obsessions with my friends and the rest of the world.
The results, so far, are cataloged in the 80+ items listed under the Cubitopics header. There you'll find posts on Current Events, Art and Literature, Music, Politics (from a progressive POV), Baseball, Parenting, Architecture and Design, Media, Technology, plus some Political Cartoons and links to internet goodies for all.
My name is Jesus Maria Alvarez. I'm a late-blooming novelist, an ex-architect and enthusiastic blogger.
I was born on the Western end of Cuba but I've lived 72.2 % of my days north of the Mason-Dixon Line feeling surprisingly at home, I should add. This may have to do with my long held suspicion -- confirmed by a dream many years ago -- that I had been a New Englander in a previous life.
Thanks for reading and please tell others about Cubiyanqui.
I hope that you come back soon!
Post Sampling
My Bird Feed
- The Enemies of the Internet 2010: http://wp.me/pyLPG-1bw March 12 is Anti-Cyber Censorship Day #cuba 13 minutes ago
- RT&Transl @NotiCuba @antunezcuba EFE news in Havana & others worried about FariƱas but not a word on Zapata for 83 days! hypocrites! #Cuba 54 minutes ago
- RT&Transl @antunezcuba: Opposition leader Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina was arrested. His whereabouts r unknown. We fear 4 his life #Cuba 1 hour ago
- RT& Transl @yoanisanchez Highway at night. I don't know if it's darker inside or outside the car. I so want "all of this" to be over! #cuba 2 hours ago
- RT&Transl @yoanisanchez (cont) The pain has brought us together like "silver in the roots of the Andes" #cuba 2 hours ago
Blogroll
- America's Voice
- Andrew Sullivan
- Backspace
- Baracutey Cubano
- Booman Tribune
- Care 2
- Claudia Cadelo | Octavo Cerco
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- CubaEncuentro
- Daily Kos
- Ecstatic Days
- English With an Accent
- Ezra Klein
- Faceout Books
- FactCheck.org
- Fiction Daily
- FiveThirtyEight
- Gastronomer's Guide
- GoodGuide
- Greg Sargent
- Hatewatch
- Heavy Backpack
- Human Rights Now
- Hysterical Raisins
- Jonathan Cohn
- Josh Marshall
- Juan Cole
- kottke
- Kyra Anderson
- Marcy Wheeler
- Mashable
- Media Matters' County Fair
- Miriam Celaya | sin EVAsion
- Mr. Verb
- No More Mr. Nice Blog
- Obsidian Wings
- Orlando Luis Pardo | Lunes de post-revolucion
- Passive Aggressive Notes
- Pew Hispanic Center
- PolitiFact
- Presente
- Refugees International
- Reinaldo Escobar | Desde Aqui
- Reporters Without Borders
- Roll Call
- Seth Godin
- Shoq Value
- Steve Benen
- Sue Costello
- TED
- Ted Henken | El Yuma
- The Millions
- The Mudflats
- The Sunlight Foundation
- The Twitter Blog
- Think Progress
- TPUTH
- Tree Hugger
- Voto Latino
- Yoani Sanchez
- Zoe Valdes
Cubitopics
- Advertising (4)
- Animal World (2)
- Attempts at Humor (20)
- Attempts at Poetry (1)
- Automotive (1)
- Baseball (15)
- Books (3)
- Brief Entries (6)
- Cartoons (23)
- Censorship (4)
- Charity (4)
- Civil Rights (2)
- Comedy (3)
- Congress (15)
- Consumer Protection (2)
- Cuba (32)
- Cuban-American (13)
- Current Events (24)
- Cyber-Security (2)
- Design & Architecture (17)
- Diplomacy (11)
- Drawing (1)
- Ecology (5)
- Economy (16)
- Education (3)
- Employment (7)
- Energy (4)
- Entertainment (9)
- Entrepreneurship (1)
- Environment (4)
- Ethics (1)
- Exhibitions (1)
- Family (8)
- Festivals and Celebrations (12)
- Food (6)
- Friendship (2)
- Furniture Design (1)
- Hate Groups (1)
- Health (19)
- Health Care (22)
- Health Insurance Reform (53)
- Human Rights (29)
- Ignorance in Politics (2)
- Immigration (15)
- Inspiration (4)
- Interview (6)
- Journalism (5)
- Justice (12)
- Kids with Special Needs (1)
- Language (1)
- Literature (13)
- Lobbying (2)
- Marketing (5)
- Media (38)
- MSM (13)
- Music (43)
- Music Video (44)
- New Media (9)
- Opinion (5)
- Original Video (1)
- Parenting (18)
- Personal Essay (35)
- Personal Finances (6)
- Photography (26)
- Poetry (28)
- Political Cartoons (11)
- Politics (42)
- Polling & Data (12)
- Progressive Politics (9)
- Psychology (9)
- Publishing (10)
- Quote (29)
- Race Relations (18)
- Radical Right (48)
- Refugee Issues (2)
- Relief Efforts (2)
- Religion (6)
- Review (3)
- Romance (1)
- Science (27)
- Self-Help (3)
- Social Media (5)
- Spirituality (2)
- Sports (3)
- Tech News (10)
- Technology (30)
- The Arts (17)
- The Movies (3)
- Video (4)
- Website Design (1)
- White House (2)
- Work in Progress (4)
- World Affairs (20)
- Writing (10)
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CUBIYANQUI by Jesus Maria Alvarez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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