What, you don’t have a costume yet?
Here’s an idea from one of Mexico’s leading print publications:
This is from last Saturday, but I still wanted to put it up here because I love how the photo is right above a headline about the dollar jumping up to nearly 14 pesos. Capitalism, democracy and strippers – that’s [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Viva Los Muertos
October 30, 2008
Dia de los Muertos in the Big Manzana
Special thanks to my pal, La Cremosa, in Brooklandia for sending over the info for this Dia de los Muertos event taking place in New York City.
Contrary to popular mythology and various lowrider airbrushings, Mexican Americans inhabit more places in the U.S. than those handed over after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. According to the [...]
October 29, 2008
Where have all the Papis gone?
Ever since I found out Gael Garcia and Diego Luna have knocked up their y tú mama tambiens, there has been a giant Latin heartthrob-size hole in my heart and I’m sure in that of many other Chilangabachas and our homosexual compatriots. Actually not so giant because Gael is like 5 [...]
October 28, 2008
Lean Like a Chola
Being the modern day Malinche that I am, I always find myself bridging the gaps between cultures. I explain to my newly arrived paisanos that yes, you really can scorch off your eyebrows while lighting the stove and I tell my Mexican friends that no, we don’t refer to Obama as “el Negro” back in [...]
October 23, 2008
Serious Campaign Coverage
So, I haven’t written anything about the presidential election so far. Here we go. Blah, Blah, Yeah, Maverick, The One, Hockey Mom, Joe the Plumber. All that plus this video about sums it up:
If you want to see the full version go to here.
October 23, 2008
Typical
I can’t count how many times I’ve prepared myself for a perfectly normal day here in Mexico, and then ended up at a clown parade or hanging out on a street corner with a bunch of grown men and women wearing cat costumes. Whether its because of the culture or the language barrier, I often [...]
October 20, 2008
Just Because…
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of movies and television shows where mannequins come to life in the middle of the night. Who could forget 1987’s “Mannequin” staring Estelle Getty AND Kim Cattrall, and the lesser known, yet equally entertaining “Mannequin Two: On the Move” staring Kelly Swanson and “Designing Women’s” own Meshach Taylor. [...]
October 16, 2008
Feigned Indignation at Roma’s Impending Gentrification
Attention Roma Norteños:
You’re about to get some new neighbors!
Just when you thought you had escaped from the trendy bars and restaurants in Condesa by trecking past the fringes of Parque Mexico and spending your Saturday nights a Covadonga, a little store by the name of American Apparel moves in to [...]
October 15, 2008
The Living and the Dead
After my first viewing of Texas singer/songwriter Jill Holland’s music video for her new single “Mexico City,” I was about to go off on a rant about how it’s filled with lame stereotypes (cacti, skeletons, abuelitas) and more likely filmed somewhere outside of Tucson than in some random Mexican desert. I was going to say [...]
October 13, 2008
Blogazar’s Lament
If Mexico City is now my official lady love, my good pal Blogazar was the John who introduced me to her. While Blogazar currently lives in Seattle, where he works as a gay rights activist and writes an amazing style and culture blog, he lived in DF back in 2005 while attending UNAM. It was [...]
