It's painful picking up the Los Angeles Times every morning and notice it's getting lighter every week. While they're doing this, however, their Chicago pendejo overseers are spending mucho millions on how to attract more readers. Their supposed salvation: Mexicans.
If so, why in God's green earth would they axe La Cucaracha, the pinche funny comic strip drawn by legendary pocho Lalo Alcaraz??? It's one of the precious few comic strips in Latino USA drawn by Latinos and that deal with Latino is
Some highlights:
- Yahoo's open bar and their token Yahootinis (basically Lemon Drop martinis with some strange medicinal aftertaste). And their nuclear ice cubes. (See photo.)
- Gear from the L.A. County Coroner's Office gracing the silent auction - and becoming a major draw.
- Arianna Huffington and Kevin Sites accidentally failing to announce that the Times' "Altered Oceans" team won the Newspaper Design category - though the screen across them did.
- The return of LYT's fabled rainbow 'do
I did a double take today upon looking at the latest issue of the New Yorker, the one on the right on the left. It looks suspiciously like the image on the left on the left drawn last year in February by Lalo Alcaraz, iconic Chicano cartoonist and author of the syndicated comic La Cucaracha. Now, I know that everyone rips everyone off, but can anyone point to an image of Obama-as-Washington dated before Lalo's much-better version (the New Yorker image, btw, was drawn by Drew Friedman, one of my
Last Saturday, I had the honor of introducing Lalo Alcaraz of "La Cucaracha" fame at Calacas in downtown SanTana. Good time had by all, with quite a few swigs of the Herradura bottle by the crowd of 30 or so. Alcaraz rarely comes to Orange County, but when he does, he loves to partake of an ethnic dish that reaches its stateside apotheosis in la naranja (and that's the only clue ustedes get--think about it, and it'll be somewhat obvious). Which is it? First person to answer this question gets a
