Propaganda
I am listening to Borghesia, an old industrial genre band from the old Yugolasvia country of Slovenia. Incredibly enough, some bands from that place landed on the shores of capitalistic America, exactly to the Bay Area, a hub ripe with music of that…
Read MoreLirios de Flandes
Este libro me ha traído infinidad de memorias a la mente. De tan sólo 146 páginas su carga no pudo ser más potente para una persona como la mía. Las personas que no son de mi generación quizá no captarán aunque tampoco es certero que las nuevas…
Read MoreJovita Gonzáles Comment 2
In Dew on the Thorn by Jovita Gonzáles1, the Anglo plays a rather significant roll not because we are not familiar with the eternal binomial in Chicano narrative between gringos and Chicanos but because it is an early ground we have walked upon before.…
Read Morelove is a pain
I wonder how aztec and maya loving chicanos will react to this. Specially La Voz de Aztlán. My, my indeed. Moctezuma was gay. He loved to gorgle the mayonesa; le gustaba el arroz con popote. Well, you get the picture. I personally don’t subscribe…
Read Moreliberty of the press?
Boy, one can’t really go by all the propaganda that spews out from the internet. Worst of all is that I use mostly official mouthspeaks as a news source. Dang, do they tend to be lopsided; everything to fit their customer: government and their…
Read MoreHaven’t just
I seem to recall Bartleby, that old Melville character that so baffles many of us in this so called modern world, whenever I cherish the idea of entertaining thoughts on Chicanismo. I feel am so way beyond that that the mere thought entails and automatic…
Read MoreThe little migra in every US Xicano
I have always had trouble believing am a Xicano. No matter that the evidence points to the fact that I am just that. This has become even more apparent for me here in Europe. the Nordic corner, isolated from Aztlán. Being away from the motherland has…
Read MoreOdd in a kind of freakish way
Pre-destination. I recall this worm in my belly. It used to be that I felt predestined to be a writer and it often permeated a great deal of my everyday life more oft than not in my love affairs. This is quite intrinsic to Americans, specially the WASP…
Read MoreMexican elections 2006
Well, let’s git to the knilly willy of the ninny lilly. Elections in México, el suspenso is killing me. I wrote in my spanish blog that Calderón was already a winner, ooops, it’s a cultural thing would say this guy who contradicted the…
Read MoreThe Secret Politicians
Wish the Kos gang would have been around the turn of the 19th century, heck, what am I saying, just a few decades ago. History here. I have never liked the terms latino nor hispanic though I advocate latino more than I will ever do Hispanic. It seems…
Read MoreMexican elections
Alright, alright already ese! So I’ve been recycling news yet there are less folk out there concentrating on the mexican elections than there are concentrating on it. Erhm, did that make sense? Either way, these elections matter. Lots. Beyond lots.…
Read MoreWilliam Lamport
Pinches Irish, there’s always something to learn outta them … The backgrounds to Mexico’s struggle against Spain for its independence have been argued to have taken root as early as 1650, when an Irishman, William Lamport, attempted to…
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