the dumbing of America
I have been in Europe long, really long. Though most scandinavians would wonder that thing about Europe. In fact, most scandinavians, were one to trust my infallible judgement, seem not to consider themselves all that European. I notice this when I watch…
Read MoreAdj New Year
Oh, this is just damn dandy, hilarious and outrages. Another year, as if. You know that saying about a hole and a head, you get the drift. Am on my second day of it and am already feeling old and tired of it. Where is my mojo? Who knows. On the first of…
Read MoreLa comercialización de la Causa?
Pocho extraordinary and a real spanglish speaker and writer at that, (Recycled) Cholo Knows …, has in his blog directed us to an abomination of sorts. No entiendo. What is it gonna take to convince the commercial aspect of the consuming world that…
Read MoreCaló people
Teens rounded up in “gang crackdown”, 1942 Los Angeles Daily News Negatives Collection http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/slwar9.htm http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/slwar10.htm…
Read Moremetalinguistic privacy
I have come to realize that monolinguals and bilinguals aproach language in various manners. Monolinguals just don’t feel the sting of language as much as we bilinguals do. Language hurts. Bilinguals feel language and we are more sensitive to it.…
Read MoreExtreme Casual
Alright, I’ll spill the frijoles de la olla. I have always desired to look more gentlemanly like. You know, GQ like. Tux, cigarr, style and all that. Sometimes I feel I was born into it, damn if I don’t feel like a mill bucks on any damn…
Read MoreSomething the Lord Made
Even the title of the movie is ambiguous: Something the Lord Made, with Alan Rickman and Mos Def, both, without doubt, astounding actors who contribute to their art in many ways. The movie is set in the Jim Crow era when blacks had to seat at the back of…
Read MoreThe Woman by the Laguna de Chicabal
Este gabacho gives the Maya Culture a new cultural twist In fact, I liked the story so much that I hijacked the entire narrative and placed it here, where it might get a chance to stand on itself through your Xican@ eyes. … A young Mayan woman…
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Can you see a smile in my face? It’s right here, next to my dimple … Tijuana is a city that goes above “violent & chaotic”. Is volatile like the souls that utilize it as a springboard to jump accross to the other side, thru…
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