MEMORIES......of the times when we use to play.

Oh yes, the memories...Staying up late with friends, stressing out, laughing, the excitement of playing those Nintendo games...now those days are some what gone, better yet...replaced with hi-tech gaming consoles. Gone are the days of A and B buttons, and that simple cross pad, replaced with X Y Z, circle, square, triangle and god knows what else! Well, time to stop blabbing about the good ol days. Saturday night I ended up at a birthday party in Denton,TX, of all places. The party was chill, bunch of young kids hanging out, drinking, there was a bonfire in the backyard, you know...chill, some kids were playing wii, others were remembering those good ol nintendo game days when this fellow, no idea his name, started playing themes from those classics! On acoustic! It was great...his "sidekick" on the right...no idea what he was doing...I believe he was singing or adding some verbal direction of where the song was going within the game...or something? But it all made for some good fun, laughs and great memories.

  Copyright Ben Torres 2009

Up down left right A B select start..

Here's some more video of this dude playing Contra, TMNT and Zelda...good stuff.

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a shadow of fear

Here's a pic just for the sake of keeping this pinche güey blog updated. I took it last year around July while covering a lame event outside of City Hall in Farmers Branch. After thinking about the photo a bit more, this shadow reminds me of how a lot of undocumented Latino immigrants might feel here in the U.S., as if they have this shadow looking over them, scared to be caught and deported. No wonder a lot of them are terrified of having their photograph taken for a newspaper.

  Copyright Ben Torres 2009

log time no long...what!?

Okay, im pissed off right now...weird part..it's numbing. I don't know if that makes any sense, but I just spent about 30 minutes writing a damn "blog" about the photo below. I know, you might ask, 30 minutes on a blog? Well that's what happens when you mix a crap writer and a analist. Is that a word? I think I saw it on urbandictionary. Let me look it up. --------------------------------------- those lines are me looking it up. ------------------------------------------- okay, dumb definition. Any how, I'm gonna re type what I said in the first blog in as little words as possible about the picture below, yet try to make sense...eeeeeeeshh, here I go. Old pic. summer '08.

I'm back...I think.
 

Copyright Ben Torres 2009