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March 5, 2007
The Los Angeles Times is Stupid (Canto MCXVI)
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 ... More >>
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June 18, 2007
Re: Press Club Awards
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 ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
Did the New Yorker Rip Off a Mexican?
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 ... More >>
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April 3, 2009
Celebrity Food Contest Time: Lalo Alcaraz Edition!
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 d ... More >>
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October 9, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Recap Edition
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 d ... More >>
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September 28, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'Something happens when we cross the borderwe forget our sense of humor and become too literal'
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July 21, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
'Something happens when we cross the borderwe forget our sense of humor and become too literal'
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September 18, 2003
Letters
'Something happens when we cross the borderwe forget our sense of humor and become too literal'
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July 6, 2010
The Five Best Parodies of the Illegal Immigrant Crossing Sign
You know the sign at right, created in the 1980s by a Caltrans worker after a rash of illegal immigrant deaths on freeways, committing the very act the black-on-bright-yellow icon depicts. It's legendary enough nowadays--especially in the borderlands--to have inspired many parodies, not all of th ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Four Ways to Make Mickey Mouse More Mexican
The title says it all...Mickey Mouse was at SanTana's Mexican Independence Day Festival yesterday, wearing a costume of imperceptible ethnicity and a sarape. That's the best you can do, Disney, to Mexicanize the Mouse? Even Minnie wore a baile folkórico dress, for chrissakes.Disney should've con ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Does 'Radio Chola' Have a Future? Stay Tuned
After a chaotic week in which Ask a Chola was revealed to be a Santa Ana loft dweller named Chloe Michalopolous, those angered by the revelation turned focus to her Wednesday night internet show on Killradio.org. All kinds of questions abounded: Would the woman behind the green bandanna finally t ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Lalo Alcaraz and Jim Gilchrist on the Arellano-Tancredo Debate
Courtesy Lalo AlcarazMuch as it pains Gustavo that we keep blogging about this, we've got one more round of embarrassment for him about his debate yesterday evening in Denver with former Congressman Tom Tancredo. (Follow that link for the video.) We asked some local luminaries to tune into the de ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Lalo Alcaraz to Sit Down with Gustavo This Thursday at the Fullerton Public Library
Lalo Alcaraz, the mad genius behind the La Cucaracha comic strip, the genius Obama-as-Zapata political cartoon, and too many other to mention, will grace this fair county this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Fullerton Public Library. But it won't be his usual desmadre--joining him in the Hispanderin ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Forking Around With...Lalo Alcaraz
Courtesy of Lalo AlcarazLalo Alcaraz, the mad genius behind the La Cucaracha comic strip, the genius Obama-as-Zapata political cartoon, and too many other to mention, will grace this fair county this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Fullerton Public Library...wait, that's the exact intro to this p ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Lalo Alcaraz at the Fullerton Public Library Tells of Mickey Mouse Flipping Off Roy Disney!
Over 60 people went to the Fullerton Public Library last night to hear Lalo Alcaraz, the great cartoonist and occasional Weekly contributor. Instead of his usual act--a lecture in which he flips through some of his favorite editorial cartoons and offers one-liners--I proposed something a bit more ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Eddie Lin Book Giveaway Quiz Time!
In digging through my archives for a document for my investigative side, I came across a couple of autographed copies of SaFII friend-idol Eddie Lin's Extreme Cuisine, his awesome book that the Fullerton native released through Lonely Planet. It'll make a great stocking stuffer for your dearest f ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
In Defense of New Mexico
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And can gabachos shorten Spanish words?
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January 18, 2011
Announcing 'Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!' at the Fullerton Public Library: Love and Rockets, Taco Trucks, and More!
Given the overwhelming success organizers had with lectures at the Fullerton Public Library regarding the Alex Bernal housing-desegregation case and Lalo Alcaraz, the Fullerton Public Library and Cal State Fullerton's Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (for which I'm a part-time lecturer) ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
"Ask a Chola" Compares Grilling of Top Gear Hosts for Anti-Mexican Statements to Her Public Outing for Brownfacing
You'll remember late last year that a group of Chicano activists unmasked the person behind the mildly amusing "Ask a Chola" web persona as Chloe Michalopoulos, a SanTana loft dweller who's about as much a Mexican and a real-life chola as I am a CCIR member. The Internet condemnation of her was f ... More >>
Columns
March 10, 2011
Can Mexico Sue the United States to Get the Southwest Back?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Also, why do Mexican girls write online in ALL CAPS?
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April 30, 2011
[UPDATED: Subcomadante SquarePants?] SpongeBob SquarePants Utters "¡Viva La Raza!" On Radio
[UPDATE] Reader Steve Reyes has found proof that SpongeBob is actually a Mexican revolutionary--photographic proof after the jump. And faithful reader Culichi1967 finds even more Mexican attributes in who we Mexicans call Bob Esponja (Bob the Sponge): I just knew t ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Resistant Culture Headlines Benefit Show for OC Dream Team
Lalo AlcarazImagine they are mohawks The DREAM Act is back in the news and a show this Friday in Fullerton featuring Resistant Culture will benefit the local efforts of the Orange County Dream Team. The federal legislation providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth who at ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Petition Asks Baseball Players to Wear White Ribbons During Next Week's All-Star Game in Protest of SB 1070
Next week, Major League Baseball will hold its annual All Star game in Phoenix, where Sheriff Joe Arpayaso roams and perhaps the only major metropolitan area in the United States that has more Know Nothings per ratio than Orange County. For the past year, activists have been calling on Commission ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
"Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!" Returns This Month to Fullerton Public Library with Lalo Alcaraz, OC Register Reporters--and More!
After a summer hiatus, the lecture series (unfortunately titled "Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!"--not my choice) I host at the Fullerton Public Library in conjunction with Cal State Fullerton's Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (where I lecture) returns next week on Sept. 29 with a vis ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Lalo Alcaraz at Fullerton Public Library TOMORROW
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, my "Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!" returns tomorrow at the Fullerton Public Library with legendary cartoonista Lalo Alcaraz. Lalo, ever the quick drawer, has even modified one of his famous anti-police brutality editorial cartoons to reflect Kelly Thomas' mur ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
Pepper-Spraying UC Davis Cop Gets Mashed Up with Tapatío Man in Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon!!
Lalo Alcaraz doesn't get nearly enough attention on this blog, but he's a legend over at Navel Gazing: the nation's premier Chicano editorial cartoonist, and just a brilliant cabrón overall. Just look above at what he did with that pepper-spraying UC Davis cop and the iconic charro of the Tapat� ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Lalo Alcaraz, Legendary Cartoonista, at Calacas ~~NEXT~~ THIS FRIDAY
I remember a time when Lalo Alcaraz, the legendary cartoonista would go years between making appearances in Orange County--cabrón was damn paranoid about appearing. But ever since I agreed to be his official passport, fucker virtually lives here--since September alone, I know he's made at least ... More >>

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