Thursday, March 15, 2007

"Seedy Gonzales" An On the Road Posting from Oberlin College


Here I am in lovely Oberlin, Ohio, a guest of the dynamic student organization, La Alianza Latina, on remote broadcast from the Mudd Library (rumored by local chismosas--can you say Marisól LeBron?--to be designed as an architecturally salacious, ersatz pudendum!). Esconsed from the elements in Mudd perusing emails, I've discovered that my Studio City, California correspondent Josie Nericcio, film-school, sound editor (Technicolor!) y mi hermana sent me the following link from the Daily Show entitled "Seedy Gonzales." As Tex[t]-Mex traffics in the universe of all things Speedy, it is fitting that these visual memes appear here:

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2 comments:

  1. Patrick O'ConnorFriday, March 16, 2007 at 8:40:00 AM PDT

    Hello from Oberlin and thanks again for the engaging talk, Memo.

    Concerning your use of César Romero in your talk, you collage and your book: I don't have a reliable source for the rumor that César Romero used to say that he was the bastard grandson of José Martí, I have the most unreliable source of them all, Wikipedia:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Romero

    You'll note that according to that Wikipedia "trivia section" at the bottom, the Simpsons made the César Romero/ César Chávez connection also. Did you steal it subconsciously from them, or did your sister go out to dinner with somebody on the staff of the show and leak your ideas? I smell a lucrative lawsuit....

    I myself read the rumor in an excellent novel by Guatemalan-American novelist Francisco Goldman, The Divine Husband (2004), sort of about José Martí, more about two girls in the Guatemala of the 1870s, one who becomes the wife of the Liberal Dictator, the other a novice before the dictator closes the convents, and then a bilingual secretary in Guatemala City, which José Martí visits while in exile; eventually both women emigrate to New York City. It is full of good stuff; the more direct and affecting novel about Guatemala and America is Goldman's first book, The Long Night of White Chickens (1992), in which a Guatemalan-American family in Boston gets a servant girl from a Guatemala orphanage; she grows up to attend Harvard and to return to Guatemala to start up her own orphanages, but is murdered during the guerrilla period. I like them both, in part because Goldman complicates the definition of "U.S.Latino" with his characters, without being an idiot like Rodríguez.

    Thanks again for the talk!

    Patrick O'Connor

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  2. William A. NericcioMonday, March 19, 2007 at 1:05:00 PM PDT

    Brilliant detective work there Professor O'Connor! for the record, I did NOT steal from the Simpsons! Bart would never let me rest if such a dastardly event went down--nor would Groening et al! Oberlin was amazing! thanx to all of you! Bill Nericcio

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