Just a BIG Thank You!

A huge WARM gracias to Gabriel Castillo, Martha y Adan Gonzalez, and the Board of Directors and patrons of the Laredo Center for the Arts for the amazing MEXTASY opening on December 29, 2010.  It was so cool to be home with some many friends, old and new.  GRACIAS!

Mextasy: The MEXTASY Show Opens Today in Laredo!

Mextasy: The MEXTASY Show Opens Today in Laredo!: "Thanks to LA SANBE for the love!"

Mextasy: Cool Preview Story on MEXTASY in the Laredo Mornin...

Mextasy: Cool Preview Story on MEXTASY in the Laredo Mornin...

Mextasy Opens Soon! Here in Laredo, Texas | December 29, 2010 at the Laredo Center for the Arts

Click the Chapulinified "Warhol" for more INFO

Chronicle of a Dance Foretold-watch... Gabriel Garcia Marquez Cutting some rug

And his lips don't lie either. Here he is at a Shakira concert. Seems the Premio Nobel doesn't weigh him down. Watch as he smooths the dance floor to some Colombian rhythms.

Sisters Torn Apart! Laredo, Texas, USA and Nuevo Laredo, EUM, in the Pages of the San Antonio Express

Harry Potter, Chicano: Xicanosmosis, Half-Blood Princes, and the Mestizaje

While I am not ready to publish a book on it, I do want it recorded in the annals of the internet the following hunch regarding the popularity of Harry Potter.  Our half-blood prince is Chicano--the winsome lad is a mestizo: half-blooded, mixed-breeded, mutt-formed Xicano.   Do I have the proof of this!? Yes.

Forthcoming in Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race with UT Press.


For those cannot wait, here's part of the script with mestizaje-laced passages:

Ben Katchor in METROPOLIS Magazine | Things, Memories, Souvenirs, and the Future

Dream Act or Nightmare Stasis! The Cowardly US Senate Turns its Back on Our American Tomorrow...

What the Progressive Are Giving (in Arizona) for Xmas

Chikle.com

Just a quick December link to Chikle.com--a San Diego graphics art phenom, Chikle's xicanosmotic semiotic wonders are a gift to the eyes; a chapter in my upcoming book Eyegiene, for UT Press, writes about artists including Chikle and Izel Vargas, next-generation Chicana/o arts shamans whose canvases pulse with a vibe that marries more traditional plastic arts like painting, illustration, and silk-screening with the vibrant and electric pace of itunes and youtube.  Click the image to hit Chikle's online gallery.

Mextasy! Laredo, Texas, December 29, 2010 @ 6pm! Be there or be square...

Hit this image for more info!

El Sol, Volume 1, Number 1; and El Sol, Volume 3, Number 1 | Pan American University, Edinburg, Texas

Mexican American Cultural History in South Texas
El Sol, Volume 1, Number 1; and El Sol, Volume 3, Number 1 (first 2 pages)
Pan American University, Edinburg, Texas

At the recent MEXTASY gallery show in McAllen, a visitor came up and handed me some old issues of El Sol--a Mexican American activist publication from the 1970s.

I promised to scan and distribute it online--help spread the word about this resource.

El Sol, Volume 1, Number 1

El Sol, Volume 3, Number 1 (first 2 pages)

Remembrance of Things Past or Chicana/o Snapshots: Harry Gamboa, Jr. on the Chicano Moratorium, Whittier Boulevard, and More

Cool Mextasy/TEXTmex Treasure Trove

Machete Action Figure! Fun-and Gore-laced Reconquista Toys for the Holidays, via Que Fregados

Eso! A gay Latina Judge

Thanks Jezebel and Colorado for giving us hope and taking our minds of Julian Assange for just a sweet moment. Read all about it (original story here).

Oh. BTW boingboing? Not cool. A Wikileaks story doesn't give you permission to make fun of iconic gorgeous Nicaraguan Latina ex-wife to Mick Jagger Bianca Jagger like that! Where were you in the 70's? Show some respect.

Rita Hayworth DVD Collection Out Just in Time for the Holidays

Thanks to Carla Mino for the link!

Have Yourself a Charo-laced Mexstatic, Textmextian Navidad!

source

Merry Xmas from Will Elder, Panic Magazine and the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog

What did you do for la Virgen de Guadalupe Day heathen?

Via the class-act gift-giving site: blingcheese.com

Let us examine the different ways los devotos honor a la Virgen Morena.
Exhibit A. From Kookita's Thoughts blog:



















Exhibit B.
A DYI crafty and talented hipster on Etsy, but the shop is now closed.

Smoldering and Glamorous Anchor Baby Womb

Claro Hijos! Thanks to los noticieros de Fox, la migra will be all over Penelope Cruz. According to Ms. Alexandra Gratereaux, the brooding and impossibly-handsome Javier Bardem and his talented, gorgeous and sensuous better half, Penelope Cruz, will be ensuring born in the USA proper citizenship for their future brooding and gorgeous bebito. Delight yourself in the insightful observation aquí


UPDATE

Thanks to My Readers! Tex[t]-Mex #3 Again in the Hispanic Category @ Amazon.com

ranking correct as of Monday, December 13, @ 12noon

White Girl Wings

Brown girl: Does your Santa-Clos list, or your Reyes Magos list include White Girls Fairy Princess Winter Sparkle White Costume Wings? Too bad! In this Amazon.com store, only white girls can get them.

xicanOSMOSIS, la cucaracha-style: Lalo Alcaraz Snowman Homage to Bill Waterson's CALVIN AND HOBBES

Click to enlarge; or visit la casa de LA CUCARACHA online

New Test Logo: MEXTASY, Chapulin Colorado Style...

https://www.laredoartcenter.org/MEXstacy_Exhibit.php

Mextasy: Experience MEXTASY! Laredo, Texas @ the LAREDO CENTER FOR THE ARTS! December 29, 2010 Gala Opening Fiesta!

Mextasy: Experience MEXTASY!


Direct info? Go to the homepage
for the Laredo Center for the Arts!

Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog Stocking Stuffer Suggestion | Selena Book Bag!

Cultural Studies: Tequila Edition | Mexico and Mexicans Through the Eyes of Gustavo Arellano

More Artifacts from the History of Racialized "Entertainment" in the United States

Amazing source blog, the golden age comics blog