Feliz Navidad and Merry Christmas to all my Readers! May Your 2016 End with a Bang and Your 2017 Be Off the Charts Amazing!

A Merry Christmas Treat from Team Mextasy! Classic US Horror Flick Lobby Cards Translated for the Mexican Marketplace | Plus a Bonus Rita Hayworth Print

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As Gustavo Arellano sez, BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!! 5 years? That long!? We have to have you back at SDSU this Spring! Abrazos! #mextasy

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#Repost @everydaylafrontera
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En esta serie, inmigrantes indocumentados o potenciales indocumentados optan por adoptar el personaje de Trump. El uso de la máscara asegura que su identidad está protegida de lo que viene en los próximos cuatro años y los posibles cambios (para revisar más información, visite el enlace: goo.gl/mFi4Lz). Foto: @veronica_g_cardenas. #everydaylafrontera #migración #migrantes #frontera #laraza #brownpride #performance #happening #máscara #mask #bergman #photography #everydayeverywhere #everydaymigration #art #augmentedreality #conceptart #fujifilm #immigrants #migration #migrants #trump #southtexas #border #resist

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Thanks to Rachael Freyman Brown, for the linkazo who adds: "So, for those of you who are from the Valley and moved away, and miss it, sometimes... And for those of you who wonder what life is like on the other side of the Checkpoint..."

I share the video for Alexandro José Gradilla who, no doubt, is wearing those pants today as he teaches his classes! Looking good, ese! ;-0

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Maria Carla Sanchez has sent in this story as a suggested #pendejosoftheminute #pendejooftheminute nominee!

winner winner, chicken dinner! #nomextasy

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Me and Eric Smigel at the Arts Alive SDSU rave/concert/acid text Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, Thursday December 8, 2016--part of the #psychedelicmirrors / Engl 220, Psychedelic Mirrors: Introducing Lit/Film/Art/Rock'n'Roll experiment!

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#wisdom #posture ➡️ repost

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Leon Lanzbom! I miss you!

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#ucsd #dawg #dawgundkat #grafitti

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#wallacethecat Monday

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What an amazing class Engl 220, Psychedelic Mirrors: Introducing Lit/Film/Art/Rock'n'Roll --the #psychedelicmirrors Arts Alive SDSU project with the four best TAs that a professor (and his 300 students) could have! Jennifer Carter Casey Hands Katie Sweeney and Lauren Luedtke!!!!!

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The meeting of the minds--#pendejosoftheminute edition! #pendejooftheminute

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#Repost @the.root
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After the #Trump administration's decision to rescind #DACA, protesters in NYC came together to rally against hate. #DefendDACA

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RT @printmag: We're still obsessing over @mrseaves's handlettering!
http://flip.it/GZgUxJ https://t.co/jom0EP2QRd

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#coronado post lecture existential cleansing with @latinxgraphix

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#mextasy

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All my friends in the house! #mextasy #dawgundkat @sketchpartysd #sketchparty #sketchparty @mchank

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#psychedelicmirrors

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#starwars #mextasy !!!

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My new Facebook profile pic-- an homage to @jr #mextasy

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#pendejooftheyear ...

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Felicidades @gustavo_arellano on your @newyorkermag piece‼️➡️ #Repost @gustavo_arellano
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My 1st-ever article for @newyorkermag—HWUT. About the importance of #tamales and #tamalada, especially in this rough year for raza. Link in bio--enjoy, and pass it on! #reconquista #mexicanwithglasses #desmadre #tamal #tamale #tamaleseason #tamaleten #partylikeajournalist #mexicanfood #comidamexicana #newyorker #tamalegram ➡️ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-comfort-of-tamales-at-the-end-of-2017/amp?__twitter_impression=true

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the perfect gift for the cineaste in your life #cinema #KrzysztofKieslowski Krzysztof Kieslowski

http://flavorwire.com/594613/25-must-have-gifts-for-the-movie-geek-in-your-life/16

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#mextasy #diegorivera #pablopicasso #picasso #rivera #mexico #mexicanart LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the move!

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#repost of @cory_doctorow "rare fossil" #eyegasm #eyegiene

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My new Facebook profile picture in honor of #chrischristie #beachhog

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I used to LOVE the animated Star Trek show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-EoyUtdLdc

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Help Support the Comics Archive at SDSU's LOVE LIBRARY!!!
Pamela Jackson and Anna Culbertson have been working hard to preserve nearly 40,000 comics donated to the SDSU Library's Special Collections and University Archives. The Alumni Association is helping the Library raise funds through their crowdfunding campaign to support our efforts! Demand is growing for this collection and lately we’ve been working with faculty and students in Africana Studies, Classics & Humanities, English & Comparative Literature, and History (to name a few) on research assignments that utilize the Comic Arts Collection. We often see students connecting comics with issues of race, gender, identity, and social justice explored in many of your classes! If you or anyone you know is looking to make a year-end, tax-deductible gift, we hope you’ll consider us! And finally, if you'd like to include comics or any of our other special collections in your classes next semester, please don't hesitate to contact us!

Sincerely,
Pamela Jackson and Anna Culbertson
Special Collections and University Archive

http://www.sdsualumni.org/s/997/funding/interior.aspx?sid=997&gid=1&pgid=5945

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Aztec #mextasy ➡️ #repost http://neomexicanismos.tumblr.com/post/95957235758/pictogramas-mexicas-con-sus-palabras

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#Repost @obeygiant
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Heading to the #WomensMarch this Saturday? Download, print, and share this twist on last year's iconic #WeThePeople poster for FREE at amplifier.org. Stand for humanity. Stand for dignity. Stand for the #DreamActNow. Thank you @amplifierart and @ari.mejorado. #PowerToThePolls #AmplifierArt

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Wow! The closing concert for our Engl 220, Psychedelic Mirrors: Introducing Lit/Film/Art/Rock'n'Roll class was out of this world #psychedelicmirrors

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#Repost @marmelgabe
・・・"Found on the street this morning in San Diego, but the jubilation was short lived, a buzzkill reported the vandalism and street workers came out to cover the cursed name in tar. Points for originality and taking the trouble to duplicate the typography of the word "Stop". Whoever did this, we feel you dude."

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🎶 Dropping that Selena “Como La Floor”🌹 remix on Friday like... #ElDJ #MillennialLoteria .
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#hispanic #latino #latina #art #illustration #beautiful #mexico #guatemala #mexican #latinx #instagood #creative #instaartist #instalike #swag #loteria #DJ #Party➡️ #mextasy

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#Repost @pochodotcom
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The Sivel War. By Donald Trump. #dumptrump #fucktrump

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ACID BRAIN FATHER

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Help Support the Comics Archive at SDSU's LOVE LIBRARY!!!

Pamela Jackson and Anna Culbertson have been working hard to preserve nearly 40,000 comics donated to the SDSU Library's Special Collections and University Archives. The Alumni Association is helping the Library raise funds through their crowdfunding campaign to support our efforts!

Demand is growing for this collection and lately we’ve been working with faculty and students in Africana Studies, Classics & Humanities, English & Comparative Literature, and History (to name a few) on research assignments that utilize the Comic Arts Collection. We often see students connecting comics with issues of race, gender, identity, and social justice explored in many of your classes!

If you or anyone you know is looking to make a year-end, tax-deductible gift, we hope you’ll consider us! And finally, if you'd like to include comics or any of our other special collections in your classes next semester, please don't hesitate to contact us!

Sincerely,
Pamela Jackson and Anna Culbertson
Special Collections and University Archives



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Thx to @pillchild for the link‼️ ➡️ #Repost @jr
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GIANT PICNIC at the border today in Tecate ... people eating the same food, sharing the same water, enjoying the same music (half of the band on each side) around the eye of a dreamer ... we forgot the wall for a minute ...

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@alt_myriam_gurba666 visited my crazy cultural studies lab/studio earlier today @sdsu #sdsumalas #mextasy

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William Nericcio

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#imageoftheyear from @jr ➡️ #Repost @jr
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NEW RELEASE : Special print (edition of 180) on @socialanimals « GIANTS, KIKITO AND THE BORDER PATROL, TECATE, MEXICO - USA , 2017 »

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Me w/ocean... Thx Sophia!

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#nostalgia #laredo #kindergarten 1966

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Very excited to be chairing the search committee for an Area of Excellence/ The Digital Humanities Initiative at SDSU hire focused on historical approaches to a nexus that includes technology, race, ethnicity, and gender. @SDSU on the move in the 21st century!

Applications are no longer being accepted, but the novel position is worth taking a peek at: https://apply.interfolio.com/36918

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The "Diego" video here--scroll right--has to be seen! http://diego.campose.co/diego/ #mextasy

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#barriologan

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@saludsd #mextasy #culinarymextasy

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#margaritacansino #ritahayworth #textmex #mextasy

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#2009 #flashbackfriday #repost

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Thx @mictlan_studios -- more on these new #loteria cards http://bit.ly/millennial_loteria ➡️ and in the bio link ‼️ cheers @millennialloteria

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Brian Behnken nominates Mitt "Janus" Romney as #pendejooftheminute! We say! YES --another winner!

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The young Billy Nericcio, Laredo, Texas, circa 1974--shhhhhhhhhh Knights de Laredo... don't blow my cover--yes, you Alfonso Lozano!!!! Jay Whitley!!! Debbie Jacaman!!!!

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#Repost @dianayanezshow
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Too many wonderful photos to post! Great crowd! Great feeling! There is hope! #WMLA #resisthate #savethedreAmers #blacklivesmatter #earth #losangeles

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John Glenn and the 'Last Plantation'

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So thrilled to hang with amazing #latinx artists @juncocanche ➕ @raulthethird.info @breadandsalt_sandiego with @athenaeumartcenter

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Check out DIEGO CAMPOSECO, the new guest blogger at Arrob@ at Duke! Awesome stuff! http://latinostudies.duke.edu/arroba/diego-camposeco #mextasy

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#repost from Facebook from a couple of weeks back featuring my #brushwithfame with #junotdiaz @sdsu ➡️ original post: It was an extraordinary evening with Junot Díaz @SDSU--a sincere thank you to Fernanda Vega Huerta, whose grant writing skills made the event happen, and to my amazing colleague and current Director of M.A.L.A.S. The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ricardo Vasconcelos, who started off the night with eloquence and grace. Diaz's words on combating the internalization of self-loathing, of saying no to Impostor Syndrome-itis, was one for the ages. An extraordinary night for #sdsumalas, its graduate students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends.

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Genius semiotic musings via @sammarlow27 & @newyorkermag @newyorkercartoons #nostalgia #mirrortext

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Jan 31 @4pm‼️#junotdiaz @SDSU brought to you by malas.sdsu.edu➡️ tickets here: http://bit.ly/malas_junotdiaz and in my bio link @william.nericcio

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The Only Case Where the Testimony of a Ghost Was Used to Convict a Murderer

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https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=bluevelvet2016&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

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Me, @mr_wentura, and his handmade surfboard #awesome ‼️ Paul is an awesome cultural studies #sdsumalas grad student malas.sdsu.edu

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Mexicanesque "Haitian" Manuel, giver of goat legs and voodoo nefariousness over at Pappy's fine blog! https://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2016/12/number-1980-curse-of-goat-legs.html #mextasy #textmex

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Yesterday I spent the day in Tijuana with a wonderful bunch of psychoanalysts, psychologists, graduate students and undergraduates, part of a binational border congress on adolescent psychology. I met some really amazing people—the intelligence was formidable but even more devastatingly beautiful was the compassion and empathy of these professionals. I am used to being around smart people at the university, but all to often there the norm is distance, affective disorders, and all-too-often sour dispositions.
Today I woke up and my neighbors are flying the Mexican flag—I don’t know what it means but I feel filled with the power and spirit of one of my motherlands this morning.
#mextasy #textmex #universityheights

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#Repost @time
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In a mass show of force in favor of gun control and school safety on March 24, thousands of supporters converged on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to listen to speeches from student advocates as well as performances by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Miley Cyrus, Common and others. This photographs were shot on a television lift by Gabriella Demczuk (@gdemczuk) for TIME.

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#Repost @mexiconsart
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Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino was born today, later know as Rita Hayworth 💃🏻 As part of the "Dancing Cansinos" she would perform with her dad Eduardo in Tijuana's Hotel Caliente in the 1930's until she was discovered [by Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn]. #ritahayworth #margaritacansino

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See you next Wednesday @sdsu--an event sponsored by @sdsulibrary & @sdsupress & #sdsumalas ... @juncocanche with @william.nericcio -- charlando about comics, satire, y mucho mas more. Help me spread the palabra @labodegagallery @gustavo_arellano @whistlestopbar @sketchpartysd #mextasy #comics #comix #chicano #xicano #latinx

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#bizarrecaucasianbestiary #bizarrecaucasian #textmex #mextasy

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Way back in the day--circa 1993? Me and my good friend Speedy Gonzales! #textmex/mextasy

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#psychedelicmirrors in the news!

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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/683106 a game a former student recommended to me--have not checked it out yet!
#eyegiene Eyegiene: The Televisual Age of Sex and Race CAT 125: I/Eyegasm #marshallmcluhan

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#repost of outstanding post by @richardtrodriguez #mextasy #chicanopower #speedygonzales

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Looking forward to my 2017 homecoming! Fiesta-time in Laredo, Texas ONLY IN LAREDO St Augustine HS - Class of 1980 - Laredo TX http://www.iasa8thworldconference.com/keynotespeakers.html

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"Sacrifice is not sacrifice when what is gained is more precious than what is lost." Lehi Neseem. Outstanding English Grad @SDSU

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Hanging with @loshollywoodpix at @artsalivesdsu @artfulassessment #artpop

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#Repost @laloalcaraz1
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Chain migration

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Via coco fusco via Maria Carla Sànchez

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This Is the First Step Toward Undoing Some Damage of the 2016 Election

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#breakingbad the last text of the semester for my wild mob of #psychedelicmirrors kids!

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@madisononpark does a rather attractive drink‼️😜➡️ #420 #cannabis

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Emily Dickinson’s Singular Scrap Poetry

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#repost https://chingona-y-chillona.tumblr.com/post/169201561393

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#Repost @juncocanche
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Barrio Watch. In these times, we not only have to look out for our families, but our communities, against these racist motherfuckers that have become more bold since Trump took office. No time for gang war, no time for racism among our gente, no time for levas. Time for self defense. Art by Junco Canché. #juncocanche #cpra #chicano #punk #rock #artesano #chicanoart #trump #fucktrump #fuckdonaldtrump #racism #neighborhoodwatch #barrio #selfdefense #antiracism #bashthefash #antifascista #califas #kkk #antikkk #decolonize #brownlivesmatter #goodnightwhitepride

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Thanks to all you locos that lit up my feed with love--it was a great birthday! now leave me alone Zuckerberg, I have a book to finish!

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Gracias Gustavo Arellano!!! Boom! #mextasy y Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucination of the "Mexican" in America

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Matt de la Peña

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Pixar’s Coco Is a “Love Letter to Mexico” When It’s Needed Most

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#bartenderlife #bartenderforlife Behind the bar with Luca at Harry's Bar, Roma, Italia -- @harrysbarroma #ladolcevita

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My former student, friend, and future star @melissa_b_ocampo channeling #mextasy ➡️ #Repost @melissa_b_ocampo
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Friday night with MACHETE & Donuts! Last night I got to act in a really funny shoot with my hero, Danny Trejo. Truly an amazing experience for me and I’ll share once the project is completed. 🍩🎬💯 @officialdannytrejo
#sisepuede #machete #dannytrejo #latino #mexicanamerican #dreamers #sketch #comedy #rolemodel #actor #behindthescenes #losangeles #hollywood #theyhavevegandonuts
#vegansofig #vegansofinstagram #vegano #whatveganslooklike #vegan #coffee #donuts #onlyinla

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#Repost @_brown_power_
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Selena girl you are my role model forever!

#MexicanPride #Chicano #VivaLaRaza #Mexico #MexicanFlag #MexicanAmerican #Latino #Mexican #BrownPride #LaRaza #aztlan #xicano #BrownBerets #growingupmexican

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Great gifts from old friends! #ritahayworth #mextasy

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#tejano #tejana wisdom ➡️ #mextasy ➡️ #Repost @ebitdada
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State of the neighborhood, on a fractured metal wall barely stitched together

#stateoftheunion #america #disunion #streetart #posterart #politicalposter #pendejo #austin #eastaustin #texas #borderzone

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#repost http://textmex.blogspot.com/2008/05/salma-hayek-and-seductive-hallucination.html

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#junotdiaz coming to sdsu--a guest of #sdsumalas ➡️ Mark the date on your calendars! January 31 @ 4pm ➡️ Junot Diaz @ SDSU. 🍾🍾 Felicidades to our MALAS (M.A.L.A.S. The Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences) graduate student Fernanda Vega Huerta who made this happen! More info or hit my biolink ... http://bit.ly/junotdiazATsdsu

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#semiotic #mextasy from @jakeprendez via http://www.jakeprendez.com/

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Just me and a "thrilled-to-be-with-me" @therealgza of #wutangclan #wutangisforthechildren @sdsu this past Tuesday. Thx to cool lensman @soloriofilm for the paparazzo assist‼ 👁🎙🎙🎙👁

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@Sdsu looking good #delcerro

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#caucasianbestiary #thecaucasianbestiary #bizarrecaucasianbestiary #caucasian Another mad desmadre from the #mextasy exhibition opening in the Library of Love (SDSU Library) early 2017

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#Repost @gringoregio y gracias to @pochodotcom for pointing me to this epic #pendejotrump posting

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Bonus 10nth Anniversary Posting "Treat"!!!???? Still More "Mexican" Stereotypes or More Semiotic Fun from the History of Race in the Americas

Bonus 10nth Anniversary Posting "Treat"!!!???? Still More "Mexican" Stereotypes or More Semiotic Fun from the History of Race in the Americas--this time from Spicy Western volume 5, number 3, from 1937!

Of course, Mexican and Native American stereotypes are not the only best bits to be found in Spicy Western magazine--salacious proto porn is also there for the masses!

October 30, 2006 Saw the First Textmex Galleryblog Posting...

Has it really been 10 years and 23 days? For a decade then, this site has been documenting the history of "Mexicans" in the American imagination in the 20th and, now, 21st centuries. And what a story it is. I knew when I started the Textmex Galleryblog that there were oodles of cultural artifacts that I could never stuff into the pages of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America.  First off, you would need a page-count akin to the old Encyclopedia Britannica, which UT Press would never go for, and second, you would need the patience of a Samuel Johnson to pull of such an epic project.I took the easy route of using the World Wide Web, and the rest, as they say, is history. In any event, I was scouring the internets for classic 20th century pulp western images of "Mexicans" and I found some new examples--more for the neo-fascists in Trump's camp to absorb as they mount their bid for temporary (I hope!) hegemony:

This last one below is the most curious--there is no "Mexican" in sight, rather the "Mexican Meeting" is a cipher / shorthand for illicit sexual potentiality--one of the chief theses stuffed into Tex[t]-Mex: the "Mexican" as synecdoche, as shorthand for the inauguration of a 'dark', 'hot' coupling.

You can read about the origins of the Textmex Galleryblog here: http://textmex.blogspot.com/2012/03/about-text-mex-galleryblog.html

... and see the original version of it here: http://sdsupress.sdsu.edu/textmexARCHIVE/textmex.htmlhttp://sdsupress.sdsu.edu/textmexARCHIVE/textmex.html

Gringos Disguised AS "Mexicans" in this Early Frank Frazetta Comic Book Classic from Pappy's Golden Age Comic Blogzine!

Just enough time to provide a link posted last year on my birthday on the one and only Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine--don't know how I missed it.  No big treasure chest of stereotypes, just a bizarre Western tale of hooligan caucasians run amuck in Mexico drawn by Frank Frazetta, hall of fame comic/pulp illustrator.

Here are some panels:

1950s Era Comic Book Meditations on Human Smuggling, Mexicans, the Border and More! Headline Comics #63 January-February 1954

Every now and then I get lucky. Meandering the back alleys of the internets can turn up some compelling artifacts--particularly where your interests are focused on all things Mexican.  It had not occurred to me until after finishing Tex[t]-Mex (better price here!) that some of the best materials on "Mexicans" in America would be in pulp fiction from the 1930s-1950s.  And that some of the "best" (most garish, most racist, most provocative) materials would appear in genre books--westerns, crime fiction, etc.

That's the case today with Headline Comics #63 from 1954--I am in debt the Bristol Board Tumblr site, a treasure trove of comic book artifacts, for the find. "Slave Peddlers" is a tale of Mexicans and Americans at the border/on the border--with n'ere-do'-wells, crooks, coyotes, "Mexicans" and more. According to Comic Books Plus, the artist credits for this issue are: "Pencils: Marvin Stein?; Inks: Marvin Stein?; Letters: Ben Oda."

Check out the whole story here--like most images on the Textmex Galleryblog, they get bigger when you hit them with your cursor or your finger.

William Nericcio's TEXTMEX: SEDUCTIVE HALLUCINATIONS OF THE "MEXICAN" IN AMERICA on sale!

Chihuahuas, though utterly high-strung, are easy to please!

Take Tex[t]-Mex's salesdog, perrito "Don Chepe" here: all you have to do to bring a smile to the little vato's face is to click him! What happens next is magical! You'll be instantly teleported to Amazon.com where you can buy William "Memo" Nericcio's desmadre-filled book on "Mexicans" in the United States and beyond: Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America.

If Amazon is too too corporate for you, then go here to the eyegiene/mextasy poster shoppe and snap up a much more reasonably priced, signed/autographed copy of Tex[t]-Mex (just email Bill Nericcio at memo@sdsu.edu and tell him who to make the book out to...).

When you buy the book via tictail.com you'll receive a gift poster and you will have made lil' Don Chepe tremendously happy!

Pedro the Radioactive Child!!! Weird Science (EC Comics) #4 | Magnificent Harvey Kurtman Story Set in Argentina | Heritage Auctions | #mextasy

I was spelunking online looking for Latin America/Mexico-focused classic comics--related to the Textmex Project, but a personal obsession also. And look what I found: a new Heritage online auction for a page of Mad-man Harvey Kurtzman's art:

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A little further digging online and I found the color version of the story--on a site with tons of popups, malware, and grief.  Here, sans trouble, is the story in living color! Wow!

Just a quick test reposting of half of my posts for the great folks at Arrob@, the must-read blog for Latino/a Studies in the Global South @ Duke!

Note! This blog posting was corrupt with dozens of mis-coded images! So I move the info, with most links and images corrected, here: 

https://textmex.blogspot.com/2016/10/second-posting-of-arrob-blog-pieces.html

Hey There! The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog is on the Move This Month! All New Postings Will Appear over at Duke's Arrob@ Site...

Mextasy for the Ages! Rita Alexander. Music: "Mama a Go Go" by Perez Prado (credited as Dario De Mexico). Movie: "Hot Thrills Warm Chills."

The Latinx Semiotic Hall of Fame: The Wizard of Mad Magazine, Sergio Aragonés

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Spanish ex-pat (thanks Franco!) and honorary Mexican illustrator Sergio Aragonés changed the way I see the world--his features and hilarious marginalia in Mad Magazine is the stuff of cartoonist legend, but it had a profound and deep impact on my thinking.  Between Jacques Derrida and Sergio Aragones, I learned to obsess over margins, to focus with passion on the eccentric, and the rest, as they say is history.

I just ran across this strip from a feature on California by Aragones in the June 2015 issue of Mad, guest-edited by Weird Al Yankovic (ack!).  The series of strips on California, though, show Aragonés's still at the top of his game, with this one, in particular, of interest to readers of Tex[t]-Mex for it's cunning outing of the game of ethnic stereotyping/simulation:

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Ugly, Fat, Corrupt, Mexican Bandits! Another Chapter in the History "Mexican" Stereotypes from Atlas Comics

Pappy's Golden Age Blogzine continues to emerge as the premier treasure trove for stereotypes-seeking cultural studies workers probing the backstory for anti-Mexican loathing--enjoying a Trump-led renaissance these days.  

Turns out the fat, corrupt, racist/rapist (Trump, not the "Spider"), did not have to dig too deep to conjure frightening hallucinations of swarthy, scary ethnic criminality. Below appear some choice page selections--the whole epic tale is available here.

Prize Comics Western's 1950 Bio-treatment of the Life of Joaquin Murrieta is Worthy of the Textmex Hall of Fame--Evil Gringos (Think 19nth Century Trump-heads), Wronged Mexicans y Mucho Mucho Mas More! #mextasy #textmex

 

The March-April edition of Prize Comics Western hit the newsstands in January of 1950 and this issue has a treasure trove of findings for you, my fellow stereotype-hunters!  Penciled by M. Bailey, the story has everything--gore, hangings, treachery etc.--most of it perpetrated by angry, racist gringo Californians hot on the lusty trail for gold, Mexican blood and more! 

The star/victim of "Robin Hood of the Sierras" is Joaquin Murrieta, "bandit"/national hero/corrido-fodder from California history.   More on Murrieta here. 

An added treat for followers of the #bizarrecaucasianbestiary hashtag on blogger, tumblr, instagram, and facebook? None other than "Sandy" the self-wetting rubber doll! Ack! 

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For more info on Murrieta, California history, and other alleged "rogues" of the Western era, look up  Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros: Debunking the Old West (Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture) by Cuban cultural critic and librarian Danilo H. Figueredo.








Comic scan source?  The awesome Digital Comics Museum!