Gustavo Arellano and Lalo Alcaraz Working for Fox! What's Next? Limbaugh and Coulter on MSNBC? via Pocho.com

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New Grunge SANTO Backsplash

Mariachi Flor de Toloache!

Cool all-female mariachi band out of NYC... Mariachi Flor de Toloache

Textmex/Mextasy/Eyegiene Lecture at UCLA!!!

It Was Close and Paula Dean is Angry but TED CRUZ has been Selected as the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog PENDEJO OF THE YEAR for 2013! Felicidades

Just a quick thank you for all the visitors and comments in 2013 to all my loyal Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog followers (and lurkers).

I am happy to announce that TED CRUZ, pseudo-Tejano neo-fascist from my home state has been voted in as PENDEJO OF THE YEAR, beating out Paula Dean, Phyllis Schlafly and a host of other pendejas/os!

Cruz, a posing darling of the right-of-right, self-righteous ignorant set in Washington, had quite a 2013! Congratulations!

¿Who Who Who Deserves the Title???!!!! The Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog's 2013 Pendeja/o of the Year Award!!!!

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All, I need help!

I just can't decide who deserves the coveted 2013 PENDEJA/O of the Year Award from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog! Pick from one of these eight glorious pendejas/os and let me know below--feel free to write one in if your fave 2013 pendeja/o is missing)! Vote below or go to our Facebook page and leave your vote/comments there!!!

Phyllis "Latinas/os don't understand the Bill of Rights" Schlafly http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-voting-was-close-but-tally-is-in.html

Edith "Blacks/Mexicans more prone to crime" Jones
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/06/judge-edith-jones-vies-for-july-2013.html

Jason "Non-whites not as smart as whites" Richwine
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/05/may-pendejo-of-month-jason-richwine.html

Cathrynn "Rape Victims are Felons" Brown 
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/01/cathrynn-brown-new-mexico.html

Pete "I can't even look at you Obama" Sessions
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-votes-are-in-rep-pete-sessions-r.html

Chris "Gay sex is a sin" Broussard"
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/04/chris-broussard-of-espn-on-nbas-jason.html

Sean "Obama like Trayvon because he 'smoked pot' and did 'a little blow'" Hannity http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/07/sean-hannity-july-2013-textmex.html

Paula "Samboburger" Dean
http://textmex.blogspot.com/2013/06/cmon-whats-wrong-with-fixin-us-sambo.html

Dreamer Takes Leave of Congressional Gig to Fight Mother's Deportation!

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BLOOD AND SAND | Rita Hayworth and Tyrone Power from 1941--the New Backsplash on the Textmex Galleryblog!

Nothing Says Christmas and Santa Claus Better than René Cardona's SANTA CLAUS (1959)! "Mexicans," the Devil, and Mucho Mas More!

More on René Cardona's masterpiece here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(1959_film). Info on its Mystery Science Theatre treatment is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0655448/

 Here is a streaming view of the film in its entirety:


 Here is a streaming view of the entire MST3000 treatment:

Homework con Drama: Long Live the Telenovela!

I make no secret of my eternal addiction to Telenovelas. So imagine how delightful it was to see this homework assignment. "So I had to do a Spanish assignment to show I can speak the language- everyone else did a song.... I made this." Wrote Julie Bryan on Reddit. 

 Via: Gawker.com

A new print for sale at the Mextasy/Eyegiene Tictail Shoppe! Lupe Velez!

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New Posting!

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— William Nericcio (@eyegiene) December 1, 2013

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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