If Beluga Whales Love Mexicans, Why Can't the Primates in Georgia, Arizona, etc Get Their S*** Together!

#7: The Locas Stories, Jaime Hernandez « The Hooded Utilitarian

#7: The Locas Stories, Jaime Hernandez « The Hooded Utilitarian

Joaquin Murieta in the Imagination of the Americas | via Movie Miento

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks

Reading this book changed my life in graduate school.... here's a cool promo page i found on tumblr.com...

Afro-Latino Spiderman on the Horizon | via Guanabee

A Personal Story: Two Mexicans Assaulted After Dodger Game | The American Show

A Personal Story: Two Mexicans Assaulted After Dodger Game | The American Show

The Hours, ALI IN THE JUNGLE, and Django Rheinhardt...

repost...original posting, december 2009...

The Hours "Ali In The Jungle" music video - Directed by Jonas Odell from FilmTecknarna on Vimeo.

Kiss Beethoven to make THE HOURS song start or just click the video below for DJANGO RHEINHARDT's latest...

Erik Estrada! Dancer via El Zonkey Show...

White Supremacy in the News! Courtesy of the Daily News....

as always here on the galleryblog, click the pictures for the link or to make it bigger...

first, a story that highlights the ever-evolving relationship of aesthetics, medicine, and race-hate...

and, second, a tale of Catholicism, racism, and schools...

A Watershed Moment in the History of U.S. Soccer (FIFA)... via ESPN

"If we are prisoners of our own paradigm, then you can understand why Bradley, with his Princetonian soul, was far more comfortable recruiting players from the green fields of universities than from the barrios." (source)

Josef Mengele, Sportswriter, or Adjectival Flatulence on the East Coast: Adrian Gonzalez, the Boston Red Sox, and Spock

"His face is wide and open, with eyebrows that are a bit too short for his forehead but that also shoot upward at their ends at sharp angles in a fashion not dissimilar to the ones that helped make Leonard Nimoy rich and famous long ago. He resembles a happy mixture of someone you might see on Star Trek and one of those Mesoamerican monolithic heads that dot the landscape of Central America." {emphasis added but not really needed...}

FROM "Gonzo finds a home: It sure took the Red Sox a long time to sign Adrian Gonzalez. But no time at all for the slugger to settle in" by Charles Pierce, in The Boston Globe.

Latina Genitals on the March! Summer's Eve Ad Dabacle and More!

more, here, from Adweek...


here's the rather remarkable ad...

More Aztec Mummy Robot Semiotic Deliciousness!

source, via heritage auctions

The Tex[t]-Mex Semiotic Composite For the Day! The graphic novel adventures of a gunslingin' güero tonto—muchas piernas, balas, y pistolas.

warning! not for those earnestly
ensconced in a nunnery or monastery!

original posting, here...

MEXICAN MACHISMO in a bottle! (...this one is too easy, I know).

Strolling the materialist aisles at the local drug store, I came upon this curious medicinal pre-packaged artifact replete with some fairly overt biological and cultural connotations. With due commitment to this intrepid blog (and ignoring the little kid who was laughing at me while her mother was glaring), I forthwith managed to capture a crappy phone camera image or two:

Marketing sexuality and culture is nothing new. But Super Macho essentially criss-crosses both realms simultaneously, both in its rhetoric and symbolism. With the iconic big black horny bull, it promises its respective pill-popping hombre the ability to bring back their youth and endurance. In other words, if one finds that some things in their life are, well, hundimiento, then one can take a few of these and thus take back one's aggressive pride in one's own [cultural] masculinity!




p.s.  talk about intertextuality: Fox News Latino came out just a few short weeks ago with this news article on the sexual problems of Mexicans. Any kind of health dysfunction is nothing to snicker at, sure, but as a public service announcement to all gente who read this blog on both sides of la frontera, I suggest that perhaps the answer lies in these aforementioned amazing pills. Results of any personal experiments will of course be treated strictly as social-scientific data, and thus should be forwarded directly to the blog administrator.