Ack!!!! Sara Hates Laredo! (and "Illegal Mexicans")

I don't have time to comment on this, but will!




more here...


here's a cool response video to "Sara"'s posting!




and, a local LAREDO KGNS story on the viral video

Laredo, Arizona? or the Arizonification of the Americas....

UPDATED with McAllen Monitor Story | Nuevo Laredo! WARNING!!!! Another Chapter in the Sad Evolution of the Laredo Borderlands

update...

Laredo Nose Job! or why the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog Should be Your One-stop Site for Plastic Surgery Inquiries in South Texas

I just received this amazing solicitation (see below)! I can, if I enlist the aid of this company, be THE go-to site for Laredo Nose Jobs!  Readers, please! Should I do it???


Yours, Bill Nericcio
Editor-in-chief/ringleader
Tex[t]-Mex Gallerblog


To: <nericcio AT cornell DOT edu>
Subject: Quick Question About Your Website textmex.blogspot.com
From: Ophelia Maxwell <ophelia@dbdresults.com>

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What you need is high quality one-way anchor text links. I can help you with this.....

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I didn't send this email out to very many people but I do favor your website because I can see your website monetizing the targeted website traffic for the keyword Laredo Nose Job  can deliver.

I have your contact information and phone number. Would it be okay if I were to give you a call?

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Sincerely,

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(888) 292-8858
www.dbdresults.com

P.S.- if the tables were turned and somebody I didn't know came to me with  a proposition, even one that was appealing, I would be hesitant because I would be wondering - what's the catch? What does this person know that I don't.

But then again I would think her company does know something that I don't know. Her company owns 1000's of websites, her company does have hundreds of thousands of pages indexed with top rankings on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Websites that can deliver only the highest quality anchor-text links that can move your rankings fast. I would also think that I need to get my website in the top rankings. And her company is offering turn key page 1 rankings on all of my keywords including Laredo Nose Job . Keywords that produce the kind of traffic potentially worth tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars.

I emailed you this because it's a win-win for both of us. Think of it this way, who wouldn't be interested in buying money at a discount? Because that's what I'll be able to offer you....discount money.

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What Ever Happened to the Classic Old Texas Icehouse: Laredo's Web 2.0 Version of Convenience Stores aka Strip Joints

Mami Chula's Commando Guerrilla Photography

I just reposted Que Fregados cool take on the MAMI CHULA's Beer-run, Ice House in Laredo, Texas; here, from last May 2010, a cinema verité snapshot by Rosalinda "Robert Capo" Nericcio, taken as we hightailed it out of the joint after our abbreviated filming.   Here's the original photo, and a detail:

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

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

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

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!

Ack! Ack! Ack! "Mi pobre ciudad" | Laredo, Una Bola de Tontos and other Horrifying Revelations!

That's all Laredo, Texas, my hometown, needs: MORE Bad Press--hit the story from Portfolio.com by tapping the image above for the details!

Here's the dispatch from my friend Marc García-Mártinez, profe at Allan Hancock College:

From: Marc García-Martínez

Subject: hey smarty-pants Tejano!

Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:56:35 -0800

To: Bill Nericcio

Hola Bill...what does Laredo, Texas have in common with other cities like Merced, Fresno, and Bakersfield? According to a new study, it's one of the least-brainiest (read: not that smart) cities in the nation. I'm forced to wonder about the Latino/a demographic in these cities, and which 'behind-the-measures' measures these pseudo-scientific pendejos who compile the list may be directly/indirectly applying. Check out the links: one, two, three.

love,   M

Lying About Laredo, Texas | Narco Ranch Takeovers and More

Watching the Waters Rise and Recede in Laredo, Texas

Laredo Bookstore on the WAY! and they have a copy of a favorite son of laredo's book!

here's the story:

Laredo, Texas, 200,000 Souls Large, Loses its ONLY Bookstore!

SpongeBob Squarepants, Estilo Laredo!

Lucha Libre SANTO Poster Exhibit AND Teatro Chicano Invade Laredo, Texas!

A big tip of the somebrero to Debbie Jacaman, our new Laredo-based correspondent, for sending in updates on the cultural scene en Laredo, Tejas, USA. Hit the images above for the lowdown.

Laredo, Texas on My Mind...

hit the image above for the source, lasanbe!

hit the image to the left to see it bigger...

BordertownBlues Musings on South Texas Beer Runs

As I prepare to revise for publication (finally) my own photographic laced musings on Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, I have been perusing the contemporary Barthes-style writings of borderland flaneurs and semioticians--Bordertown Blues's thoughtful notes on South Texas beer runs, drive-in, drive-thru "ice houses," common in Laredo, are first rate:


La Sanbe, to your left and below, probably, in my "ilk" section, another worthy Laredense son of Roland Barthes, I have written about here before.

Roland Barthes in Laredo, Texas

Nostalgia junky that I am, I like to keep tabs on my hometown of Laredo, Texas to see what is going on in that fantabulous and extraordinarily uncanny "gateway to Mexico." Luckily, a very gifted posse of talented macontents with cameras take it upon themselves to document the ironic richness of this singular borderzone. Entitled "La Sanbe," after San Bernardo Avenue, it is a cool site for frontera-loving Tejanos y Tejanas the world over!

You can be instantly teleported to a recent fave posting by hitting the image reproduced here:

I was especially taken with it as it treats with a semiotic subject I am somewhat familiar with--hit this link to see an online version of an unpublished essay on Laredo that will appear as a chapter in a forthcoming book edited by Arturo Aldama and as a chapter in my follow-up to Tex[t]-Mex entitled Eyegiene: Salacious and Sundry Semiotic Speculations on Mass Culture en las Americas.

Checkpoint Charlie in Brownsville, Laredo, etc...

...a quick link to a Newsweek story on the border walls threatening to go up in South Texas. The New York Times has a picture that augurs the future of Tejanolandia, mi tierra, my home.