The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog

Friday, February 13, 2026

The 2026 #Mextasy Tour!

BRING ¡MEXTASY! — A TRAVELING CIRCUS OF DESMADRE, DESIRE & DECONSTRUCTION

⚡️ 2025–2026 Tour | Booking Now

Tired of beige art shows where nothing bleeds, sweats, or argues back? ¡Mextasy! is your antidote — a border-born carnival of images and ideas that refuses to behave. Curated and conjured by William “Memo” Nericcio — author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America — ¡Mextasy! turns the museum wall into a bilingual hallucination. It’s a mash-up of racist Americana, pop-art remix, and Chicano/x visual thunder — part seminar, part stand-up, part séance.

Born in Laredo, raised on Mad magazine, Derrida, and Mexican TV static, Nericcio drags the archive out of the ivory tower and into your gallery, library, or dive bar.

🔥 See it to believe it: Photo gallery + past shows

Denver 2024 installation

Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle

Boise State Pop-Up

What You Get (Besides Goosebumps)

Visual detonations: 100+ years of Mexican caricature turned inside-out.

Hybrid happenings: lectures that slip into comedy, gallery talks that break into confessionals. Collaborative chaos: workshops, film nights, and bilingual brain spasms that leave people buzzing.

How It Works

Full circus install — Nericcio + crew transform your space.

Pop-up guerrilla show — we hit and run, no damage deposit required.

Zoom / hybrid setups for the cautious or cash-strapped.

💰 Price? Negotiable. Art first, spreadsheets later.

Who’s Survived It So Far University of Denver • UCLA • UC Riverside • Iowa State • Nepantla Arts (Seattle) • Casa Familiar (San Ysidro) • San Antonio College

If your gallery’s got walls that can take a punch — or an audience that’s hungry for something that bites back — we should talk.

📩 Contact: memo@sdsu.edu | textmex@me.com 🌐 More proof, madness, and mirth: mextasy.blogspot.com

Wishing for more details, pictures, and streaming media? Go here:

➡️ https://bit.ly/circusMEX2026

Yikes! Just Around the Corner, Mextasy @ UMASS Amherst!

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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 ...

provenance

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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Sunday, February 08, 2026

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

Sunday, January 25, 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

Friday, January 16, 2026

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

Monday, December 29, 2025

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:

Saturday, December 27, 2025

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.

Sunday, December 21, 2025

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.