Mexican Masquerade: A Proto-Tex[t]-Mextian Rumination/Allegory on Latina/o Figuration

...and from Zurich, a Scooby-Doo in Mexico Sighting

Classic Cantinflas Bolero

As I while away the days here in sunny London, a chance encounter with Cantinflas suddenly gave me over to a bout of homesickness!

El Bolero de Raquel - Cantinflas 1957

Chicano Art: Phantom Sightings Exhibit Now in Phoenix, Arizona

Cool New Animation via Drawn.ca

Africans in Mexico

warm thanks to Evalina Fernandez whose facebook update tipped my eyes to this; like all pictures on the galleryblog, click the picture--it will either blow up to a high-res image or take you to a key site:

"Truth" at/on/within the Border: Dasein on the Verge

and, en español, also!

Even Latina Mannequins Are Divorcée Strumpets

update | June 12, 2009

What happens when flaneur semioticians get into fights with strumpet "Latina" simulacra and...

...ersatz "Latino?" puppy dogs!




original posting 3/13/09

My thanks to Anabel Lima who mailed me this amazing update to my earlier posting regarding the ethnic mannequins that Old Navy is parading about these days. No surprise that "Eva," the Latina, is a hot to trot, divorcée harlot! Click to enlarge!



update, June 5, 2009

These bizarre videos, fusing multicultural focus group ethnic manneqins with the shilling of cheap cottons have some mesmerizing power about them! You can't look; you can't look away:



Of course, pregnancy chisme is the order of the day. The surprise, gringoesque Josh is the perp instead of swarthy Enrique!



and, this JUST IN!

Cool Photographer | Eyegiene Project

I am incorporating her great work into a cover design for NEA-award winning poet Maggie Jaffe, a cool colleague of mine at SDSU.

More on Rising Fascism in the Americas via Pilar Marrero's Site

Nuns, Meditation, and Labyrinths in the Barrio

KPFK Fundraising Drive with Gustavo Arellano!

Listen in on my KPFK interview tonight with Ask-A-Mexican's infamous Gustavo Arellano! Click the image below to listen; right-click here to download!

Mexican Cinema in LA at the Arc Light

David Carrasco! Chicano Renaissance Man

Luchador Pin-up Shot!

Does anyone know the original source for this; I found it online here.