Yonder Lies It

Kategori: Aztlan

  • La Virgen de Guadalupe

    Well, I went and did it, not planned, not anything, just out of the clear blue sky, there we go. Would you believe that of all the places in the world for me to find another Xicano would be there? Well, I did, I was minding my own business looking around at the construction of…

  • Ya tenemos un Tijuanense en la legislatura Californiana, damn were good! Via el Grito SACRAMENTO – When he was just a skinny kid in mismatched clothes, Fabian Núñez brokered his first deals: He helped his Spanish-speaking father negotiate landscaping jobs with English-speaking employers. Twenty-five years later, Assemblyman Núñez favors subtle silk ties and well-tailored suits…

  • Saludos a todos los diseñadores mexicanos, espero poder compartir trucos y tecnicas de diseño con todos.

  • Bill Richardson, Ruben Salazar, Pedro J. Gonzales, & Henry Gonzales

    Curiosly enough I had built high expectations regards these past few days. I was particularly enthused by the announcement of the Democratic party declaring that the response to President Bush State of the Union address would be retorted in spanish by the Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson, he is Mexican American I’ll have you…

  • Leyendo La Prensa-San Diego me doy cuenta que por fin uno de los sueños de la region se cumplira. Según Mitch Beauchamp quién escribió una carta al foro público de esa publicación: ” Things are going to change very fast in México[meaning Tijuana off course] when the rail line through eastern San Diego County is…

  • 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…