Put More PEP and Latina Stereotypes in Your Life! Pep, May 1937, #124

A warm thanks to frequent contributor, Sergei Hasenecz, for his latest contribution to the #textmex #mextasy chamber of delights ...

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Pep Stories #124 May 1937 (D. M. Publishing Co.) Condition: VG/FN. Earle K. Bergey "good girl" cover. Eight pages of black and white photos. Bookery's notes as "uncommon". Bookery's Guide to Pulps Second Edition 2020 VG 4.0 value = $30.
From the Dr. Richard Meli Collection.

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From 2013, Free PDF for the Original Galleys of "Text]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the ‘Mexican’ in America, 2.0 or ‘Narcissus Mexicanus’: A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Mexican American's Neurosis from Psyche t o Book to Museum and on to the Internet"

 

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Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the 

‘Mexican’ in America 2.0 or ‘Narcissus Mexicanus’

A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Mexican American's 

Neurosis from Psyche to Book to Museum and on to the Internet"

Bibliographical reference: Nericcio, William Anthony. “Tex[t]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America, 2.0 or “Narcissus Mexicanus”: A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Mexican American’s Neurosis from Psyche to Book to Museum and on to the Internet.” Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 91–109. 

click here to download or view:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ekyVriXSINeNYe_BpEvsoEw2xhSZnCG/view?usp=share_link

Mextasy at UMass Amherst! February 26, 2026

 

Mextasy, Curiosity, A Bizarre AI Coyote and More ...

Just a quick link to a podcast/YouTube channel focused on creativity and curiosity --> youtu.be/XCmfvgkHvgo?... Click and watch and then go here, to the MA in Curiosity at SDSU, malas.sdsu.edu -- and apply to pursue an advanced degree that YOU design!

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— Bill Nericcio (@mextasy.bsky.social) January 25, 2026 at 11:47 AM

What’s Old Again is New Again: Dos Equis’s Most Interesting Man in the World

 

He’s back … everybody’s favorite ersatz “Latino”! ➡️ https://youtu.be/QhNWMHbltBY?si=QtYIaU0tonIfDS3X The backstory...

Posted by William Nericcio on Friday, January 16, 2026

How did I never hear about or run across Lupe Velez in DW Griffith's Lady of the Pavements, Pure #textmex Cinema!

What kind of researcher am I!? How did I never hear about or run across Lupe Velez in DW Griffith's Lady of the Pavements, an artifact of pure #textmex cinema!

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.^[3]

Here is the full movie:

Tex[t]-Mex Update: A Very Retail Christmas, 1990 ... #textmex #speedygonzales

Very excited to see this morning that the Christmas special that opens my piece on Speedy Gonzales in Tex[t]-Mex is back on the internets!

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISSGtY9-gE

The streaming version appears below and my essay on Speedy and other manufactured "Mexicans" in American mass culture can be read free here; or, not so free, in Tex[t]-Mex here.

Photography at the Heart of my Spring 2026 Class at SDSU #americansubterranean26 : Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman, and Palahniuk, Vonnegut, Gaitskill, Lynch, Welles, ...

 

 

If the link above is broken, here you go: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10164653866268653&set=a.10150661484513653&type=3&ref=embed_post

And to save you a trip to Zuckerberg's increasingly enshittified surveillance machine:

A little Christmas time "cheer" from Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman, two photographers whose haunting traces--born of genius, chemicals, and light--inform my Spring #americansubterranean25 experiments.

More on Arbus and Woodman:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/design/francesca-woodman-photographs-gagosian.html

The Spring '26 experiment: https://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2026/spring/

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Historias Radicales Comference at the Huntington

 

MALAS @ SDSU: The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Blog: SDSU MALAS LECTURE | Carlos Fuentes’s AURA | Profe...

MALAS @ SDSU: The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program Blog: SDSU MALAS LECTURE | Carlos Fuentes’s AURA | Profe...:  

Rita Hayworth, Virtually Yours #mextasy #textmex #ritahayworth

 Jump to the original post on Facebook here!

Jump to the original post on Facebook here!

Coming September 16, 2025 from Amatl Comix & SDSU Press, the Worldwide Release of SNAPSHOTS: TEACHING LOS BROS HERNANDEZ, Edited by Profes Fede Aldama and Memo Nericcio

Wow! Check Out The Wulfeater, more EXPERIENCE than Theatre‼️👊🏽

 

UC Riverside Lecture on the Horizon! #mexmachina {M}ex-Machina!

 

SDSU Press Illustrator Jules Feiffer Has Passed ...