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Only in Miami Stories from The Miami Creation Myth
Navy Blows Up Miami Influencer Boat Carrying Three Grams of Cocaine
The USS Lyndon B. Johnson launched a Tomahawk cruise missile that sank a 45-foot yacht anchored just off Downtown Miami.
MDC Donates Entire Campus for Trump Library
Given Trump’s infamous aversion to reading, all the volumes in the library’s 15-acre campus will be coloring books or 1980s Playboy foldouts.
Trump Announces Cafecito Causes Impotence
The sheer unbridled cognitive dissonance made a dozen men around a Miami ventanita collapse into frothing comas.
The Cure for Male Loneliness is Having Women Friends
Men need more meaningful social connections, and we can’t achieve that if we write off half the world’s population.
Things Are Not OK
Charlie Kirk was a hate monger who profited from peddling bigotry to millions. But I didn’t want to open a link that documented his murder.
Florida to Replace Alligator Alcatraz with Anaconda Azkaban
ICE is now accepting any bigot able to fog a mirror, shred a copy of the Constitution, and sign a loyalty oath to their Dear Leader.
ICE Now Hiring All Qualified Racists
ICE is now accepting any bigot able to fog a mirror, shred a copy of the Constitution, and sign a loyalty oath to their Dear Leader.
Miami Spends $840 Million on Thing No One Wants
Miamians declared they would gladly take the $840 million as direct payments to help with the city’s crushing affordability crisis.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 5: Reorgy Week
My parents were shocked when they saw me remerge from the barracks. I was pallid, rail-thin, and wobbly.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 4: The Field
The Army takes everything you loved as a child and makes it awful. That's how it turns hiking into its dirty, brutish cousin: rucking.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 3: Food & Sleep
And we’ve come to starvation. Healthy, athletic male college freshmen in industrialized countries tend not to weigh 113 pounds.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 2: Hazing & Marching
Forget whatever bullshit frat boy version of hazing you have in your head. West Point hazing circa 2005 was a creature completely apart.
How I Didn’t Starve to Death at West Point, Part 1: R-Day
“You’re not starving to death,” explained the 22-year-old medic gripping my ankle. “You’re just starving.”
Cuban Americans Heroically Fight for Kidnapped Mom by Doing Nothing
When a Cuban immigrant was kidnapped and separated from her nursing child, her community rose in righteous anger to do absolutely nothing.
The Difficulty of Satirizing MAGA
When they go low, we satirists must wantonly slam our heads into the ground until we tunnel to the other side of the planet.
Why I Removed 30,000 Pounds of Trash from the Mangroves
I made it, everyone! The Dirty Thirty. The Double Quinceañera. 30,000 pounds of trash.
The Miami Creation Myth Sells Out
Even when injured, dehydrated, moments from heat stroke, one wish kept me from collapsing into the mud forever: selling shirts to papi chulos.
ICE Deports Marco Rubio
“I’m the Secretary of State!” yelled a short, tubby man with a Miami accent. He shook his bars as the dozen other people in his cell grinned.
Every Bro You’ll Meet in a Miami Club
A comprehensive guide of the many types of Miami bros one is liable to encounter in da clurb.
The Joy of Selling My 1,000th Book
Two years ago, when I self-published a silly little book titled The Miami Creation Myth, I set the goal of selling 1,000 copies.
Cubans’ Shift to MAGA is Rooted in Trauma & Anger
Many elements contributed to Cuban Americans’ recent rightward shift but I want to focus on two particularly salient factors: trauma and anger.
Take the Miami Gentrification Tour!
Let’s embark on a tour of some of Miami’s most gentrified neighborhoods that’ll serve as your next post’s perfect prop.
I Really Don’t Want to Be a Climate Refugee
I and many of my fellow Miamians could be left unmoored—culturally adrift, unable to find purchase in our long-lost motherland or newfound home.
What It Means to Write Miami Satire in Trump’s Miami
How do I proceed as a satirist and champion of Miami when well more than half the county fundamentally and sometimes violently disagrees with me?
Why I Clean Miami’s Mangroves
I do my work because of its intrinsic pain, anger, frustration, and cathartic release. I do it for the mangroves, but I also do it for myself.
How to Spot a Communist in Miami
How can one differentiate between communists and patriots in Miami? Luckily, there are several tell-tale signs.
How to Play Cuban Dominoes
Cuban dominoes is a vehicle para hablar mierda, a psychological battle whose objective is to invade, occupy, and destroy your rivals’ minds.
Hispanics Must Support Our Haitian Neighbors
We Hispanics owe Haitians our support, not just because they helped us in our times of need, but because it’s the right thing to do.
Trump Bullies DeSantis into Letting Felons Vote in Florida
Former President and Presently Convicted Felon Donald Trump, shoved a branch into an underground burrow occupied by Governor Ron DeSantis.
Brightline CEO: Pay Up or Something Unfortunate Might Happen to Your Car
Quit your whining, quit your complaining, and just be glad I don’t send the nearest train to ram right through your front door! You got me!?
Trump Turned America into Venezuela
The Vatican officially announced that San Gibin would be canonized as the patron saint of gluttons, food comas, and heartburn.
Latinos Celebrate San Gibin Feast Day
The Vatican officially announced that San Gibin would be canonized as the patron saint of gluttons, food comas, and heartburn.
My Complicated Experience with Racism at West Point
It would be easy to claim that West Point was simply an intolerant environment that forced me out because I failed to conform. But doing so would paint an incomplete portrait.
Communitis Pandemic Devastates Miam
“They’re under the bed! They’re under the bed!” yelled Alejandro Gomez. The middle-aged Cuban-American man rocked his gurney so violently that three burly nurses had to restrain him.
Gov. Ron DeSantis Opens Florida’s Nuclear Waste Sites to Partygoers
“I’m one with the universe!” yelled DeSantis, arms and face to the sky as a truly banging remix of Endor’s “Sexiest Man in Jamaica” rocked the crowd.
Not Everything You Dislike Is Communist
This piece is directed to those who believe demands for racial justice, equal pay, climate action, LQBTQ rights, voting access, government accountability, immigration reform, and addressing other systemic societal ills are inherently communist.
COVID Vector Visits Miami
A virulent COVID vector arrived in Miami this morning to yell at people in enclosed spaces.
I Have a Business Admin Degree from Barry and Here’s Why Wearing a Mask is Stupid
Everyone who dies from COVID is old, and brown, and socialist, and there’s no way MY parents get it because they’re CUBAN and vote REPUBLICAN.
Miami-Dade County Completes Invisible Metrorail to Miami Beach
The Transparent Line will connect to Metrorail’s Ethereal Line, which runs from Brickell to FIU, and the Intangible Line uniting Downtown Miami with Fort Lauderdale.








