The Rewards of Mexican-bashing: Lou Dobbs' 8 Million Dollar Buyout

Read it to believe it!

Mark Dery on "2012" and Disaster Porn in Hplus Magazine

Eyegiene Notes

Viagra Commercials, Mexican Style...

source

Doroteo Arango, aka Pancho Villa, with his Kids

follow-up posting

San Diego State University Outreach

Last Friday I was lucky enough to be tapped by Berenice Gil (EOP) at SDSU to be one of the professors talking to local area high school students in their Freshman for a Day program--I had a blast working with the 35 or so students who were SDSU undergraduates for one afternoon on Montezuma Mesa! I hope that ALL of them decide to try to get to SDSU, or, if that does not work out, Harvard! The program is to your left; one group of Hoover High geniuses appears below:




update:

SDSU Marketing and Communications has posted a video and story on Freshman for a Day program:

Xicanosmosis: Cuban-style

More Spanish-Speaking "Hilarity" from Texas

Thanks once again to our ace East Coast agent Daphne Strassmann for the link--a follow-up on this prior posting.

Erase the Black Couple! I SAID ERASE THE BLACK COUPLE: More Photoshopping Hijinks and the History of Race

Ace Boston gumshoe journalist Daphne Strassmann writes in with a link to the latest tale of photoshopping and race in cinema. Hit the image above for the story!

Wow! One of the Most Striking Mexican Stereotypes I Have Found in Ages: Sanka Coffee and the Sleeping Mexican

More on it here from the contexts.org page.

More on the Traces of Africa in Mexico

More Video Game "Literature" at the Border!

My thanks to my friend and amazing artist Izel Vargas for bringing this came to my attention--I can add it to the work I am doing on Borderlands.

Tex[t]-Mextian Sightings in the Village Voice!

On the Verge: Borderlands From Gearbox

In an article published years ago entitled "Artif[r]acture" with MELUS, I argued that literary critics had to update their tools to deal with a literary realm that was increasingly visual and semiotic--if anything the mild jeremiads of that piece need a turboboost in our world today with Kindle, nook (pictured above), and their ilk changing the way folks read and libraries increasingly becoming gold mines of picture/word assemblages.

In that piece (a revised, update version of which appears in Eyegiene, my forthcoming picture-filled tome with UT Press), I wrote about video games being the next form of "the novel."

I wrote that, and I still believe it to be true, but I have never tried it--until now....

Gearbox software just came out with a new game called Borderlands--you can watch a review of it here from Gametime Trailers:

You can get the game specs here or by hitting the image there to your left.

I have written about the demonization and sexualization and the militarization of the border between the US and Mexico for years; I am very curious to see how this TROPE-ic Verge plays out in ultra violent games for the kiddies and others...

Lou Dobbs Deported!