Neo Retro Blaxploitation Comics

More here. With a complete Jim Rudd tale featuring Richard Nixon (!) here.

Eyegiene: Cool New Way to Search for Images

Eyegiene: the Policing of Pornography

Eduardo Santacruz, ace correspondent, is going link crazy; he sends in this anti-pornography rant as a meditation on eyegiene:



original source:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/lists/five-funny-propaganda-videos-110708

Manuel from Fawlty Towers

In Tex[t]-Mex I argue that many of the stereotypes of Mexicans familiar and cherished in the United States are rehashed and refitted mash-ups of English takes on Spaniards. Eduardo Santacruz passed me this YouTube video of "Manuel" from Fawlty Towers, which is a popular and well-known example of this view:

MLA Bound: Gilbert Hernandez, Birdland, and More!

More soon. Here's a cool interview with Gilbert Hernandez.

Mexican "Bombshell"

Gilda Redux in Elle

In a chapter entitled "When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential," I do a number on Rita Hayworth, aka, Margarita Dolores Cansino, as I ponder the nexus of race, ethnicity, and celluloid at work in her biography. Elle Magazine recently did a fashion meditation on Rita's work in Gilda; I am in debt to one of my Naked Mirror students for bringing it to my attention:

Cool Photojournalism: Obama

Precedent Obama!

Barackas: Cultural Xicanosmosis at its Best!

Sherman Alexie on Colbert!

Long before Tex[t]-Mex hit the presses, Native American writer/critic Sherman Alexie was out there pulling the rug out from racist nincompoops and blindered malcontents in the worlds of American letters; here's Alexie in a recent appearance on Colbert:

A Moment in History

Hope Again for a Renewed Americas!

Hasta Los Gatos With a Xicanosmotic Cholo Obama Posting!

Hit Hasta Los Gatos for a cool CholoObama treatment! A high-res image of the poster is here to the left! The artist is David Cordova.

Tex[t]-Mex: Cultural Ephemera as Hegemonic

We take a break from our usual obsessions with Mexican stereotypes and my recent obsession with the presidential election--yes I have already voted this morning and YES, I voted si se puede for Obama. The break is to post a curious rant on Bratz dolls here.