Yonder Lies It

Category: Aztlan

  • Pocho tijuanense o un nativo de Tijuana un tanto agabachado

    “Sus modos de vida ya no son los mismos de las normas mexicanas y no están asimilados por completo a los patrones angloamericanos ” Sor Juana. II Aaaah! La inspiración, el chicanismo es uno de esos tópicos que dan como una veta de oro en sudáfrica, siempre pa’bajo. Hay dos tipos de pochos en nuestra…

  • “Sus modos de vida ya no son los mismos de las normas mexicanas y no están asimilados por completo a los patrones angloamericanos ” copiado de un post que comenta sobre un libro en el blog Sor Juana. Empezemos por eso de que Sus modos [la de los Chicanos] de vida ya no son los…

  • 1977 Estando en los EEUU siempre fui lo que los gabachos llaman un illegal alien. Esa es una composición netamente legal, nada que ver con la gente y la cultura que compone nuestra sociedad. Me llevaron de escuincle a Los, tendrí­a algo así­ como 8 años cuando cruce la frontera de manera ilegal, por primera…

  • California, Bustamante and MeCHA

    Citizens against citizens, a view of the blog world led me to interesting commentary on this as they avalanched Cruz Bustamante on his allegiances to MeCHA. There was a conserted effort to question Bustamantes real intentions to get to power as if becoming governor of California would entail the power to return California back to…

  • Proto-spanglish

    Curiously, as we drove down from Sweden’s Highlands to Paris back in July of this year, I noticed along the German Autobahn and other less known roads to Liege to Paris, that trailers from Portugal carried a legend in their back of their trucks that said: VEHICULO LONGO. I loved it, and I would have…

  • Raza Cosmica

    It has occurred to me that Xicanos are a new sort of mestizo, a raza in itself. While our ancestors are for the most part mestizo in as far as they are of two races, one combining aspects of the more European traits and another one and perhaps the raison de etre for the most…

  • Hipotéticamente hablando es un necessery evil … Si Blancornelas fuera causa de un estudio sexual se encontrarí­a que es un masturbador incontrolable. Su fantasia serí­a el narcotrafico. Lo digo porque de repente para acá lanzo su ponzoñosa tinta en contra de los Tucanes de Tijuana. No es que sea una de mis bandas favoritas, tienen…

  • Pochismo

    It seems as though Pochismo is hailing a revival unprecedented in the history of our young culture. Just as chicano was once a denigrating term and later spoused as a badge of honor so is pochismo doing that as well and with what a bang! Curiously enough, pochismo is embracing that which many chicanos are…

  • Such a decade ago

    Yesterday I was such the decade ago, I swear to god, I was deep in a contorted repressed laughter and in awe at the things I did. So what did I ever do that threw me back not only a decade but nearly a decade and a half back? Well for the first I peeled…

  • England o England

    I lived in England once in 1998, Bournemouth, in Dorset, and while that coast town brought nice memories, far more than Paris ever did, believe me, the biggest impression left on me wasn’t the quaint seaside lifestyles nor the fact that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is buried there but rather England’s immigration and customs services. At…

  • Xicano

    There is a discussion going on between those who share spanish as one of their tongues. Some say Hispanic should be the all representative word and other Latinas/os. I say that if you are to represent spanish speakers from America then it is Latinos, if they are from Iberia Hispanics. There isn’t a doubt that…

  • Exercise

    I’ve noticed that my admiration of the natural elements such as the clouds, the air, the atmosphere, the day in itself, requires of me new forms of expression. I tire of the same old description quite easily. I hope though I come up with new forms of description since what my eyes see and what…