Facebook and Tex[t]-Mex

Truth be told, I have met so many cool readers/critics/lovers/haters of Tex[t]-Mex through Facebook (simulated fans opposite). So I have decided to open up my social networking site to readers of this blog. So, if you are a regular peruser of Facebook, don't be shy about sending a shoutout!

Thank You to Amazon Shoppers!

For some reason Tex[t]-Mex is back in the top 10 of Hispanic titles on Amazon.com! Gracias, gracias.

Eyegiene, Draft New Logo Banner, and Camera Portrait

This post is just a mini-warehouse of semiotic bonbons.

The first, a high resolution scan of the original poster for Joseph Green's and Rex Carlton's The Brain That Wouldn't Die--I write about Frida Kahlo, Gilbert Hernandez, and Green/Carlton's schlocky opus in Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America, a revision and expansion of the Frida piece I published in Latino/a Popular Culture with NYU Press.


Next up, a gorgeous shot of cameras (cue irony) that I want to use in my Eyegiene collection for UT Press.



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... a vanity press mashup of a recent picture of mine I have "re-purposed" for general distribution.

...and, last but not least, a gift from my designer pal Michael B, genius of design, that I intend to weave into Eyegiene.

...and, again, I want to thank the Academy....

Tex[t]-Mex is #1 in sales in the category "Hispanic" at Amazon.com as of 8:49 pm, Sunday, August 3, 2008! While the moniker "Hispanic," a monstrous catch-all coined by Nixon's minion-wonks, leaves this Tejano, Chicano, Mexicano, Latino feeling out of sorts, I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. Gracias, gracias to the fates and the wonderful people punching their keyboards and emptying their wallets at Amazon.