In honor of the next three days and for the purpose of this writing, I am combining November 9, 10, and 11 into a giant jambalaya of spirit. I am stewing up an anniversary of escape, my brother Jeff’s and … Continue reading Our America

On Monday, November 2, 2020, on Dia de los Muertos in La Mision, we buried the dead, the spirit of that Loved One, Mauricio Orellanas, killed in the suspicious negligent fire on 22nd Street and Mission on January 28, 2015. … Continue reading “Every Day is Both an Apocalypse and a Resurrection: 2020 Version”

It didn’t get that cold, but it sure was San Fran Frisco Lowrider Love for Cold Frisco Nights 2020 🙂 On Saturday, October 17, approximately 700 lowriders and classic cars bounced in ballet-style down the Mission blocks. Amor Action builds … Continue reading Lowrider Love: An SF GATE News Article and Photoshoot about SFM Cold Frisco Nights Cruise 2020

Check me out singing, dancing, playing the payaso and the poet with Pura Neta! Live at the Dragon Theater Zoom version, recorded on Sunday, September 27, 2020. Enjoy 🙂 Pura Neta Live at the Dragon! Pure-ay Neeta Pura Neta song … Continue reading Pura Neta Live at the Dragon! Ben Bac Sierra Plays the Payaso and Poet 🙂

If you missed the book launch, here it is, with a special introduction by yours truly 🙂 Click the link to view: Celebrate Pura Neta Power with us! Pura Neta, published by Pochino Press, is the long awaited sequel to … Continue reading Pura Neta Power! Book Launch Video

Share with joy for our accomplishment: Today is the day: Pura Neta, my new novel, is officially released! Please join us for the virtual book release tonight, Wednesday, September 30 from 7-8 p.m. In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latinx Heritage Month, … Continue reading Pura Neta Power!

Share Lots of Love: From the grassroots. Vida Loca. Pura Neta. It’s here, Homes. My new book just for you and all our Loved Ones 🙂 I guarantee you will never have read a book like this. Thank you Pochino … Continue reading Pura Neta is Here!

You know how we do it 🙂 Lots of love! Giving you only the best of me: in the coming weeks I will be performing some unforgettable vida loca art and amor at different venues through ZOOM. If you would … Continue reading Pura Neta Events of Amor

Mi Padre, Eduardo, El Indio, un Hombre de Honor. My Father, Eduardo, El Indio, an Old-school Man of Honor. I do not really remember him. I just know that I automatically respected him. Once he died when I was nine, … Continue reading Books and Burdens: Irrational Man, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Always Running: La Vida Loca

First of all I give it up to all of you who put in work in your own way. This that follows is my story, my work: To be active is to action, not to be simply theoretical, but to actually action out Praxis, testing out your theories into the world. You action out your true beliefs and know there is no control to what you will find. No one has ever done it before, yet you do it anyway. Basically, you say, “Fuck it, Homes. I am going to live while I am alive. I’m gonna put in work, … Continue reading Putting in Work: a Timeline