Houston, We Have a Chicano.

When captured Aztec warriors headed up to have their hearts ripped out on the sacrificial pyre, there was only one thing on their mind: space travel.
For realz! It was believed that upon their death, all good warriors would join their compadres on a celestial mission to accompany the sun across the sky each day. So, [...]

Make it Work

Last year I stayed with my Gramma aka O.G. Chilangabacha for six months and was amazed on a daily basis by her ingenuity. One late night I went into the garage to get a coke and almost screamed my lungs out when I saw what I thought was a human foot sticking out from underneath [...]

Brinco de los Tiznados

Yesterday I witnessed one of the most amusing, mind-boggling, and probably politically incorrect events I’ve seen in Mexico so far. I traveled about an hour south of the city to the gorgeous town of Tepoztlan at the urging of a contact from the Posada del Tepozteco. Here’s what she said in order to grab my [...]

Black Faces in Tepoztlan

So I´m walking down some back alley in Tepoztlan, minding my own business, trying to find out where the banda music is coming from and BLAM some 12-year-old chubby kid smacks me in a face with a handful of black powder. ALl of a sudden his friends all joined him and I was attacked! Welcom [...]

Lazaro Rises

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Gael and his Argentine luvvah/y tú Baby Mamma También, Dolores Fonzi, welcomed what was probably the cutest baby ever into the world. For some reason they decided to name him Lazaro, you know, like that zombie in the bible who walked out of a cave. Gael totally beat out homegirl in the fight to name [...]

Chilangabacha Enough

After spending years hanging around commies  as research for her book Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana native Texan Stephanie Elizondo Griest decided it was about darn time to explore her Mexican roots. Like so many other of us poor suckers, she headed down to Mexilandia and the result was her [...]

Piñata Rage

Thanks to my girl Meli Mel for bringing this travesty of a website to my attention.  As it’s name suggests, DownWithPinatas.com is a site dedicated to calling out piñatas as the party game of the devil. Not since Winona Rider went to  Salem has such an atrocious witch hunt taken place. The woman who started [...]