New Backsplash for the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog! One of the New Prints Available on the Mextasy/Eyegiene/Textmex Tictail Outlet Mall...

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A Thanksgiving Thank You to the Readers, Lurkers, Visitors, and Accidental Guests of the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog

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Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving!

I have been doing this blog de desmadres since 2007 and the regular visitor will have noticed a dearth of updates of late. Some of that has to do with the evolution of the blogosphere. Blogger, god love it, just has not made it as easy to post as Tumblr and Facebook, so a fair number of posts that used to go here now show up on the Facebook book page for Tex[t]-Mex or the Eyegiene tumblr (set up to support and be a resource for my new book Eyegiene: Permutations of Subjectivity in the Televisual Age of Sex and Race).

And, of course, there's the fabulous competition that have now far and away surpassed the scope of this venture--the amazing Pocho.com run by Lalo Alcaraz y su crew, Gustavo Arellano with Ask-a-Mexican and the OC Weekly (the rag he edits like William Randolph Hearst's lovechild fathered with Che Guevara and Lupe Velez) and the equally outrageous Latino Rebels--and I can't forget Sara Ines Calderon's internet universe nor the NewsTaco crew. This nefariously talented cabal of sites and people are more on top of things than I can be toiling away in my day job as a lit prof, so at some point, I just gave up trying.

Despite the passing of time, however, I intend to keep this beast alive, if only to support the evolving life of my original book with the University of Texas Press--Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America. Now in its latest incarnation as a traveling museum exhibition called Mextasy, Tex[t]-Mex, the blog, will always be there for you intrepid visitor, seeking answers to the mysteries of Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, Latinas/os and other strange brown beasts prowling the corridors of this (sometimes) beautiful planet!

¡Gracias!

Read about the evolution of Tex[t]-Mex to Mextasy in a piece I just published in Frederick Aldama's new edited anthology Latinos and Narrative Media: Participation and Portrayal with Palgrave with the gnarly title "Tex[t]-Mex, Seductive Hallucinations of the 'Mexican' in America, 2.0 or 'Narcissus Mexicanus': A Diary Chronicling the Transmogrifying Metamorphosis of a Mexican American’s Neurosis from Psyche to Book to Museum and on to the Internet."

TEXTMEX, MEXTASY, EYEGIENE Lecture today @ UCLA | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 4pm | GRATIS

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Breaking News! Sex Sells! Sexy Latinas Sell!!! STOP THE PRESSES ;-)

Bordertown! New Animated Series from Fox and Seth McFarlane--Lalo Alcaraz on the list of Writers! Links to the Story from the LA TIMES and CARTOON BREW

Don't Panic Amigos. The End is not Near

UPDATED POSTER!!! From Tex[t]-Mex to Mextasy to Eyegiene--Public Lecture at UCLA Chicano Research Center!

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Thursday, November 19, 2013 @ UCLA--more details to follow:

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New Santo Poster Auction!!! Santo vs. The Vice Mafia (Peliculas Latinoamericanas S.A., 1971). Mexican One Sheet (27" X 37"). ... via Heritage Auctions

auction link here

Diego Luna's CHAVEZ! Official Trailer

The Votes Are In! Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) Unanimously Elected OCTOBER 2013 PENDEJO OF THE MONTH! "I Can't Even Look at You Edition"

Texas politicos just love the notoriety that comes with being a Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog PENDEJO OF THE MONTH--witness the pendejoness of Pete Sessions (bizarre caucasian bestiary candidate numero uno) who in a meeting with President Obama over the recent budget meltdown mouthed words of infamy (and classlessness) at the "leader of the free world." Sessions comment? "I cannot even stand to look at you".... which would be funny if it wasnt old school racist logic fueling the fires of his utterance.

More on the debacle from the Daily Kos.  and from the Huffington Post and from everyone.

Feliz Cumpleaños Celia y Gracías a Google

Without apology, here at Tex[t]Mex we express fawning adoration for epic Latina screen sirens.  These women hold an indelible place in the world's entertainment history, in spite of constant discrimination, and alienation from their own heritages. Today Google made our day by dedicating a Google Doodle to the powerhouse singer Celia Cruz. Take a look:

About Celia


Y más
I dare you to listen without dancing
 Guantanamera

Alfonso Cuarón Does More than Harry Potter and Children of Men! GRAVITY and the Global Impact of Mexican Intelligentsia on World Cinema

Cool story in the LA Times on Alfonso Cuarón's GRAVITY--I don't have time right now to blog about it, but the impact of Mexican figures (Carlos Slim, Guillermo Del Toro) on global media and entertainment is a key part of our evolutionary now...

It just keeps happening ... Fox "News" marking National Taco Day in the only way it can.

Hey, you are brunette, named Maria, give off a sexy Latina vibe, so you must have grown-up on tacos, right?  WTF!

CLICK this link for the absurd video and story.

just some old emails to my class...

• Key Diary Updates!!!! 
  Posted on: Friday, January 31, 2014
  robots!!!!! be sure to refresh your cache (reload your page) so you get the latest updates!!!
  http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2014/spring/roboticerotic/diary.html#latest
  
  over and out
  cyborgnericcio
  
  
  Posted by: William Nericcio
• Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
• good news and last chance to easily pick up your required textbook POETRY INTERNATIONAL  
• Posted on: Friday, January 31, 2014
  more apologies as PI staff again let us down today!!!!... BUT, to the RESCUE...
  the editor in chief blew a gasket
  and now... more hours to exchange 6 george
  washingtons for paper and joy:
  read for details!
  
• ---------- Forwarded message ----------
• From: Jenny Minniti- Shippey 
  Date: Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:36 PM
  Subject: Re: Poetry International Problems
  To: "memo@sdsu.edu"
  Hi again,
  Booksellers coming to your class Tuesday, and the office will be open 11-3 Monday and 12:30-3 Tuesday.
  
  Jenny
  
  T hanks, Jenny!!!!
  Bill
  
   
  Dr. William Anthony Nericcio
• Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences (MALAS)
• Professor, English & Comparative Literature
• San Diego State University | MC 6020 | A&L 273
• San Diego, California 92182-6020 office phone: 619.594.1524 This email is a natural product. All noted variations in 
• spelling and grammar enhance its individual character 
• and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or 
• defects. As such, please do not forward this missive without
  asking permission in writing. links: cyber-index @eyegiene   textmex@facebook   blog   tumblr  
• 
  
  
  Posted by: William Nericcio
• Posted to: ENGL220-03-Spring2014 English 220.03 Robotic Erotic Electric
• 
  this and that... 
  Posted on: Friday, January 31, 2014
  androids! robots! cyborgs! reminders that you have to 'like' our robotic erotic electric facebook
  page in order to get class updates--
  you can do that here. remember that
  facebook pages archive outside
  posts on a different page here--
  this is in case you are worried
  that your posting did not go
  through.
  also, i am seeing posts on social
  media with links  telling you
  where to see HER online free.
  setting aside ethical matters, it
  is JUST NOT THE SAME to
  see a movie on a computer
  and in the theatre. in terms of
  brain science, it's an other
  experience altogether.
  there are great matinees
  tomorrow and sunday
  at fashion valley--a trolley
  trip away for those of you
  stuck on campus! believe
  me, Jonze's opus is worth
  7 bucks!
  updates to your page diary
  in an hour or two...
  bill nericcio
  head robot

In Honor of MACHETE KILLS Breaking Out Soon From Hollywood, Some Golden Age Blood-lusting "Mexicans" from the Past!

click here for the whole story!