Culture Clash Set to Invade San Diego y La Jolla SOON! SOON! SOON!

....this feature profile JUST IN from the NC Times...




More info? Here! or hit the San Diego Rep logo to your right...

Chikle: Xicanosmosis, San Diego Style

...just time today for a quick link to the xicanosmotic work of San Diego-based artist "Chikle," aka Enrique Lugo--his main site is here; his myspace digs are here, and here is a link with info for a benefit event today featuring his art.

A Big Thank You to LA SANBE...

Thanks for the posting--direct embed video below...

Memographics Designcasa Online Portfolio Now Re-launched

I have been tinkering with the design for the blog that focuses on my design work for SDSU Press, the infamous Memogr@phics Designcasa--hit the blue image to your right and see what you think!

Save Austin, Texas' CACTUS CAFE!

Save the Cactus! Act NOW!

UCSD's Progressive Racial(ized) Atmosphere

 

HYBRIDITY Call for Submissions from THE LATINO MUSEUM

more info? here!

CHILI and JALAPEÑO Root Out Mexicans and Terrorists (Same Difference) Along the US/MEXICO Border

hit the image for the link! a huge dip of the proverbial sombrero to ace artist IZEL VARGAS for bringing this desmadre to my attention....

"CHILI" may well deserve a chapter of its own in Eyegiene.

Another Chapter in the History of Race in America: Ku Klux Klan, San Diego Style Edition

a huge tip of the sombrero to Mark Dery for the reminder about this disturbing piece, a miasmatic page from San Diego's history! hit the graphic for the story...

Nelson Algren and Studs Terkel

I am teaching Nelson Algren's THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM in my Drugs, Sex, and Rock & Roll class at SDSU right now, Spring 2010--I am in debt to regular correspondent here, Michael Wyatt Harper, for bringing this noir jewel of a novel onto my radar; in any event, Matthew Swanson, one of my Engl 563 students tipped me to this cool conversation between Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren I thought I would share with my class:

The Dog Whisperer! Cesar Milan! America's New Favorite "Mexican" (Sorry Gustavo!)

Kudos the Ask-A-Mexican's singular hack, Gustavo Arellano, for tipping this piece, hit the doggies above, to my eyes via his Facebook channel!

Mark Dery on Pre-historic Email, aka Picture Postcards and Luc Sante's FOLK PHOTOGRAPHY

That prolix wizard of the syntactic baroque, Mark Dery, is at it again with a cool review of Luc Sante's new book on "real" photo postcards. Check it out!

Remembering Ray Aragon, RIP 2009; Layout Animator on Spiderman, The Yellow Submarine, 101 Dalmations and More...

Cherrie Moraga @ SDSU Thursday, February 18, 2010!

Original Incarnation of the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog Back Up and Running

After weeks of technical difficulties caused by my less-than-html-savvy (and somewhat cyberly incontinent) colleagues at literature.sdsu.edu, I am happy to announce that the old-school, first version of this blog is alive and well; most of the links have been updated/fixed as well! Hit El Santo above to be teleported there instantly!

http://sdsupress.sdsu.edu/textmexARCHIVE/textmex.html

Banksy Film! via The Wooster Collective! thanks....

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Eyegiene: John Baldessari on Found Images

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{Felt} Eyegiene Camera

Amazing New Auction of La Soif du Mal poster {TOUCH OF EVIL}

More on the auction, here.

Happy Valentine's Day