barriomulas.com - My Red Desk

Many many years ago my grandmother built a tiny little table for miscellaneous usage. Shortly after moving to Puerto Rico I quickly confistated the table (which was an escombro at the time) and quickly hogged it up with broken computer screens, books, lamps, and whatever my needs called for throughout the years. But there was one problem: grandma was a very tiny woman and she made the table to accommodate her tiny little legs. The table was so short that the top was at the same level as my knees while sitting. Quite uncomfortable. Thus, the table was only had short-term and temporary uses.

That was until I acquired a new computer to accompany my new home recording studio and thus needed a place to accommodate my "play" PC. (The "new" computer is actually my reincarnation of a computer my father just tossed out.) So what better place to put a computer than in my own bedroom? (Crystal would shoot me just as much as I'd shoot her for putting at television in the room). I've had that short grandma desk stuffed in the corner for quite some time now, and decided that the computer would fit nicely.

Facil. I just hammered out the old legs, cut some longer ones, and utilized my God-given male memes to "implant" them into the old table. Viola! But yet another problem: the color of the table (a terracotta brown) didn't really match the legs (a light brown). Going through the trouble of matching the colors would be a pain in the ass, not to mention the original color wasn't that magnificent to begin with. Thus I dished out some left-over supplies from my Primitive Man mural and coated the table with three layers of red paint I watched Jessica Alba's "The Eye" (which sucked pretty bad, actually).

Bam.

By the way, the books on my built-in shelf are actually in sections. Once upon a time they were actually in Dewey Decimal system (thanks mom, for obligating me to remember catalog numbers whenever you took me to the library as a child) but it was a pain in the ass to keep them organized. Your currently viewing the geography, reference, international politics, colonialism, and religion sections. Those books stacked on the right compose my "to read" list. Books include those referred to me by readers, books acquired on recent trips, and those given to me as gifts.