(Recycled) Cholo ...

CHINO CHINO JAPONES ... That's Fucked ... (listening to Tom Petty)

2006-10-25T04:17:00.000-07:00

Ondale … kicking it aqui … es tarde … or is it temprano … I can’t wake up JACK … nomas aqui typing it … como una mes since I said Q-VO to my COMPA … saying nutin … simon … I don’t know about you … BUTT … I just trip out … simon … since este mes … pues much ha pasado … simon … for one homes … beisbal … eastside lost any play aqui en los SERIES … simon … los Yankees and Mets se fregaron … tambien los tapados Oakland A’s … tambien el lay …

It seems el mas chingon orita es Artie Moreno … who claims que some big changes are coming … and they might include big sluggers como ese vato A-ROD … o tambien … MANNY RAMIREZ … ondale … este vato Moreno has the drift that it takes a decade a menos to build algo hasta las chanklas … que no ….

Perhaps the most disturbing and shit que esta pasanda, ese, aqui en NARANJAVILLE es la cosa con ese japon Tan Ngueyn … simon … me and the homes grew up with these vatos … simon … I was eating a bean burrito alli at the beautiful but gruesome Lathrop Jr. high when they all came …simon … I witnessed that pinche invasion of the Vietnamese aqui en nuestra tierra … sanTana …. tu sabes homes … the golden city …

Their invasion required Vice Principal Vince Tafolla to request … pues … mas mesas for “los japones” …

Fucking vatos … ate like mothers … hung out donde podian … and we challenged them to all deportes to the max …

It was cool para nuestra … their arrival was like ese vato Tiki Barber announcing his pinche retirement … early enough to allow planning for him … but not funding for whoever … homes …

Simon … we tripped out …even counted a veces …

AHORA … this TAN vato comes out with a wetback letre para fregar … puro pedo … as I don’t recall any mojados complaining … unless you consider Jose Solario a mojado … and we do … eeeeeee

BUTT BRO …get this ese … our pansas estaban llenado with TAN for some time … simon … he and his green signs and OILY HAIR that said “GO WITH TAN” made no sense … en el barrio …

Simon … his green signs … on a square papel … dark green with a circle in the pinche middle … colored light green … “GO WITH TAN” en black … ondale … it was annoying … and everywhere …

It was annoying because porque … simon homes … why go with this pinche chino … simon … who … why … how come … que pues …. VAMANOS!!!!!!!!!! ... ondale ... that's how it is aqui ...

He’s fucked up … SIMON!!!!!!!

BUTT nuestra homies … pues … we’re all brainy and shit … simon … fuemos a la library and thought about it …. Simon …

Simon … and en conclusion ... pues we suggest ... pues ... GET NAKED TO VOTE RAZA … simon … GET NAKED FOR RAZA … simon … with all the give and take en nuestra politicos … and the ins y outs de la fidea … just get NAKED FOR RAZA … simon … NAKED FOR RAZA …

I agree with sanTana mayor … ese Miguel Pulido … if true … that too much is a good thing … simon … to much RAZA on the sanTana council is too obtuse … to consafos … to chingon … too much menudo … too pinche tapado … although STANDIFORD was not este solution …

Simon … BUTT … every pinche cosa I rec’e en el mail … pues says RAZA … and RAZA’s a firme 4 letter word …

BUTT in the end … it will be up to voting para usted … someone who will take your hit … someone who will back you up … someone who … pues … que entiende … and that’s NOT TAN NGUYEN … simon … he won’t back us up …won’t understand us … and will do “WHAT IT TAKES” to divide nuestra roll to gain a stinky seat …

CHALE CON TAN NGUYEN … he cant’ write worth shrimp scampi!!!

sanTana's New Asst City Mgr's Pet Weasel ... (listening to Chinito Chinito)

2006-09-14T15:10:00.000-07:00

Ondale … so what’s up with sanTana hiring a un pinche ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER … this nuevacita ASSISTANT MANAGER DE ESTE CIUDAD … CATHERINE STANDIFORD … has a similar historia aqui en NARANJAVILLE … and la historia de MANAGER’S DE CIUDADES … pues es boring to the max …

Simon … unless hables de este managers organizing with community groups … simon … un coup de etat to traditional council-mayor-city manager relations … simon …

Ask anyone adentro … pues … quien tiene mas huevos … and los que saben will tell you … MANAGER DE LA CIUDAD … simon … a veces the MAYOR in big ciudades come el chante de ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA … etc, etc y etc …

BUTT this es sanTana and the question is a firme one … who has mas huevos … more power … nuestra MAYOR MIGUEL PULIDO … or (the role de) EL CITY MANAGER …

BUTT in this instance or selection de CATHERINE STANDIFORD FOR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER … the spouse issue is an interesting one …

Standiford esta casado con un mocoso feo … se llama JOHN STANDIFORD … simon … and he’s a pinche pist … simon … he’s currently a DIRECTOR OF ALGO con ese RIVERSIDE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION (RCTC) … (mas o menos el OCTA de 909) … simon … and this RCTC chante is responsible for the pinche “PLANNING AND FUNDING” de los highways and otras pinche calles … along with eminent domain chingasos …

Pero … este JOHN STANDIFORD … pues es weasel to the max … simon … check it out … back en 2002 … RCTC was campaigning to renew its ½ cent sales tax por transportation projectos … simon … AKA OCTA’S MEASURE M … simon … and the vato was sucking cigars por “EDUCATION OUTREACH” … simon … going out and selling the renewel del ½ cent sales tax to 909 big shots and their gente … que no …

Ondale … BUTT … right in the pinche middle de the ½ sales tax CAMPAIGN de RCTC … SABES QUE … JOHN STANDIFORD QUIT … simon … STANDIFORD GAVE UP on his organization … simon … and right in the middle of the campaign … simon … cuando el 909 needed staff the most … this vato hit the road …

The vato quit to come work for OCTA … simon … and who knows why … but apparently … mas dinero and maybe a promised position … and maybe a pinche big chunky BANANA TUMMY … quien sabe …

Ondale … the vato left tambien, maybe, porque he thought RCTC would lose it’s ½ sales tax renewal campaign … simon … the vato resigned and left RCTC laughing like a menso as he rode Metrolink a su chante …

Ondale … RCTC staffers were pissed … maybe felt betrayed … maybe realized he was a pendejo …

Pues … ondale RCTC eventually won it’s campaign to renew its pinche ½ cent sales tax … and ondale … guess what … a few months later … ERIC HALEY … the short Irish EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR de RCTC gets a llamada from JSTANDIFORD … and they meet … and large sucking sounds down south seconds despues … STANDIFORD … is brought into a new position with RCTC … simon … he left as a MANAGER … and returned as a DIRECTOR …

Ondale … the NEW DIRECTOR POSITION wasn’t opened to the public … and STANDIFORD brought his loud sucking sounds del sur with him backt to RCTC … and staff and officials were pissed off …

The vato’s a weasel … laughs through his nose … looks very old … and is having a distressed time seeing his vieja climb the ADMIN LADDER VIA CITY MANAGEMENT … she apparently has decent gente skills … JOHN STANDIFORD has none …

Ondale … I just hope SRA. STANDIFORD doesn’t bring her weasel into NUESTRA CIUDAD … simon …

A Texas Ranger Roundtable ... (listennig to Maze)

2006-09-08T11:57:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... just as the National Latino Congreso gathers this week en EL LAY ... timing couldn't be better ... El Gov de Barrio Califas X13 releases a taped meeting from last spring ... where he and an aide talk like pinche Texas Rangers ... before a hunt ... simon ... he and his Democratic chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, talk about the mysterious ethnic ID de la Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia (LA POINTY FACE) de la Inland Empire ... is she a wab, mayata, PR to da DR, Cubana ... who knows ... "SHE'S NOT MEXICAN," Kennedy dice ... "NO," EL GOV quickly replies ...

The LA Times breaks down the taped conversation ...

"Bonnie Garcia is great," Kennedy says on the recording.

"She's a ball-buster. She's great. Is she Puerto Rican?"

"She seems to me like Cuban," Schwarzenegger says.

"She's not Mexican," Kennedy replies.

"No," the governor agrees.

"But she said something," Kennedy says, "and I thought, I thought she was Puerto Rican."

Then Schwarzenegger offers a theory.

"She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."

Check out the rest aqui ...

Coca'd Y Cola'd Out ... (listening to It's Only Rock 'N Roll)

2006-09-05T15:36:00.000-07:00

Ondale … the $250 plus million calle cosa of Measure M funds, other loco local cash, state fidea and fed fidea tambien will do wonders para nuestra GOLDEN CITY … simon … tearing up the calles … putting pretty ones … wider ones … bigger white lie lines … bigger chino yello lineas hasta no where …bigger smelly spreads to drive through … ondale … and more so … putting NARANJAVILLE on track as a ROUTE to MOVE GOODS AND SERVICIOS Y TAMBIEN INDUSTRIAL WASTE throughout this part of the region for the rest of the region … y-que … simon … if you unsuccessfully push the INDUSTRIAL ICE through los freeways con safos … pues try the major ciudad calles mejor … and if that don’t work take a pinche short cut through the GOLDEN CITY … simon as a TRUE-CLASSIC HUDCAP to all your pinche consumer dream … and shattttt …

And the best part is that MEASURE M is a must … to fit in with the whole califas transportation commish PLAN DE AZTLAN …

BUTT what this will lead to is mas trafico … mas gente on wider calles y sidewalks … simon … mas canestas outside your chante … and the ha-ha-funniest of all is mas PLATAS DE ALUMNI …

Simon … la otra dia … alli on las FOURTH Y BUSH … waiting for a green pill light … and en frente de mi was a LEXUS … firme carucha .. with YALE ALUMNI PLACAS … hey … who goes to YELL … the carucha looked pinche comfy … and the driver looked smelly …

Tambien … earlier … there were PLACAS de CAL POLY POMONA … SLO … ucla … Stanford … and all the top ten escuelitas that offer ETHNIC STUDIES COURSES … tambien there was even EL DRACULA con sus BRISTLE TECH PLACAS … sanTana college …

Ondale … bigger calles are for showmanship of goods and servicios that we don’t even need … and as freeways become CLOGGED like a sanTana sewer systema … and METROLINK and the R/R luchan over who has first rights to los tracks and shit … simon … count on industrial waste to pass nuestra calles in truck loads … and it’s happening …

Ondale … and better yet … look for an ART LEAHY letter saying … simon OCTA supports the transfer of shit through the GOLDEN CITY … in exchange for a PASSED MEASURE M … and expect sanTana MAYOR PULIDO TO piss the same …

ALUMNI … RAZA ESCUELITA COSA …

Ruben Salazar Article de 1961 ... y -que ... (listening to Rewind That)

2006-08-29T11:29:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... below is an interesting article written by Ruben Salazar on January 8, 1961 ... for the EL LAY TIMES ... simon ... Salazar covers the battle to incorporate EAST EL LAY into a pinche ciudad ... ondale ... the campaign failed but if passed, who would have been MINNIE ME ... EAST EL LAY or sanTana ... it's class struggle ... GENTE vs. BUSINESS ... what's trippy es que el CASTRO "BIG PAPI" THEORY pops up ... simon ... during this tiempo (even hoy) gente thought that Castro's takeover of Cuba would menstruate over onto RAZA in Latino Americano y tambien los ESTADOS UNIDOS ... like a spilled hoya de frijoles ... that we'd all become RED BEANS ... check out the article ...

Mexican-Americans Move into New Era of Political Awakening January 8, 1961

LOS ANGELES—Lorenzo Marquez, a 30-year-old Mexican-American who lives on Brooklyn Ave. in East Los Angeles, is experiencing a political awakening.

Until recently, Marquez, a mechanic, thought a workingman's business was that of doing his job well and taking care of his wife and children. But on Dec. 1, at a hearing before the Board of Supervisors, Marquez carried a placard which read:
"Have a heart. Let East Los Angeles Incorporate."

Taking time off from a greasy transmission which he was repairing, Marquez recently mused:
"You know, my father lived in East Los Angeles for 45 years. He never became a citizen of the United States and never even learned to speak English. I remember once after I got back from the Army I asked him why he never learned English."

Things Are Different Now

He answered half seriously, "Who wants to speak to these gringos?"

"Well, my good father belonged to another generation. Things are different now and I very much want to talk to my neighbors, no matter what their national origin is."

"I'm working for the incorporation of East Los Angeles because I know that Mexican-Americans can progress only if they participate in civic affairs. Though my father worked here for almost a half a century, his heart was really in Mexico. I know nothing about Mexico, but I know something about East Los Angeles. It's my home and I want it to get better. If we make it into a city we Mexican-Americans will at last have a voice in our civic affairs."

Others Have Their Objections

At the meeting in which Marquez carried his incorporation placard, another man was there with different ideas about East Los Angeles. He was George Hansel, president of the East Los Angeles Improvement Assn., who told the lawmakers that he represents property owners on Atlantic Blvd. and that 85% of them are against the incorporation.

Hansel, who said East Los Angeles now enjoys a tax rate of 17th from the lowest among 80 communities in the county, told the hearing in part,

"(There) seems to be an awful lot of money spent for the incorporation of East Los Angeles, but we don't know where the money is coming from . . . ."

"We feel that with the revenue of a million to a million and a half dollars at stake that we should have better control and a better accounting of who is going to be city manager, the city government and what they have in mind."

(Charges have been made, though not by the official opponents, that if East Los Angeles is incorporated it will become another Gardena-type gambling town and that gangster elements will move in.)

East Los Angeles is a workingman's district with the reputation of being more wicked than it really is. It has the police problems characteristic of low income communities in large metropolitan areas.

Gang riots, dope peddling and shootings have marred its character in the eyes of people outside East Los Angeles.

Has Better, Less Spectacular Side

But the East Side has its better though less spectacular side. Mexicans love big families and like to raise their children without moving around. The many modest, but well-kept, homes attest to the Mexican-American's love for the "hogar" (family home). Most have been there for generations and intend to stay there, unlike their higher income brother who hopes sometime to buy a larger home in a "better neighborhood."

East Los Angeles' old business districts along Brooklyn Ave. and 1st St. could be something out of Chihuahua City or parts of Mexico. There is everything from chorizo (Mexican sausage) factories and tortilla factories to used clothing stores and cobbler shops where worn shoes are remade from top to soles.

Then there is the "new" East Los Angeles in the northwestern side.

There, West Bella Vista, with its new tract homes, and Atlantic and Whittier Blvds., with their supermarkets and car dealers, point to what all of East Los Angeles would like to be. New East Los Angeles is flanked by Monterey Park and Montebello, two communities which eye the territory as possible revenue-producing annexation land.

Decision Thursday

Next Thursday, the Board of Supervisors will decide whether an election should be called on the proposed incorporation of East Los Angeles and, if so, what the boundaries would be.
On the surface, the squabble centers on two basic issues:
The proponents of the new city, in which the 60,000 to 70,000 residents would be overwhelmingly Mexican-American, claim they seek a long-overdue community identity and that the run-down sections of their area would improve under home rule.

The opponents, business interests along Atlantic and Whittier Blvds. and some property owners in West Bella Vista, argue that a new city would only bring new taxes. This new burden, they contend, is unnecessary because they now receive excellent services from the county government.

The Citizens Committee for Incorporation of East Los Angeles knows that if it excluded West Bella Vista and Atlantic and Whittier Blvds. from its incorporation plans, there would be little trouble in forming the new city.

Integral Part

But the committee feels that these areas are an integral part of the proposed city and that businesses on Whittier and Atlantic Blvds. owe any economic success they might have to the support of the Mexican-American population in the East Side.

However, the hundreds of signatures on petitions filed with the supervisors which ask that East Los Angeles not be incorporated or that their section be excluded attest to the great concern many have over the proposed creation of the new city.

The Rev. William Hutson, a top Catholic Youth Organization official, who was influential in the recent incorporation of Pico Rivera, feels that opponents to the new city "suffer from vain fears."
"I know and have worked with East Los Angeles people for years,"Father Hutson said. "I trust them without reservation. In no hands would democracy be safer. In a time when Fidelismo (Castroism) is making strides among Latin Americans, I see the reverse trend in East Los Angeles. In the future, East Los Angeles will be not only an economic asset, as it is now, but also a social and political asset in Los Angeles County. Besides, the incorporation of East Los Angeles would make the residents better Americans."

The map filed with the supervisors by the proponents of the city of East Los Angeles is of a 38-sq-mile area containing about 17,000 dwelling units. The 1959-60 assessed valuation of the area is approximately $27,661,570, according to the tax division of the auditor-controller of Los Angeles County.

The incorporation position, signed by at least 25% of the property owners representing at least 25% of the assessed property valuation, describes the proposed city as follows:
Bounded on the north by Floral Dr. and a line approximately one-half mile north of Brooklyn Ave., bounded on the west by the city of Los Angeles north of 3rd St. and by Eastern Ave. south of 3rd St., bounded on the south by 3rd St. west of Eastern Ave. and by Telegraph Rd. east of Eastern Ave. and bounded east by an irregular line along Goodrich Blvd. and in the general vicinity of Atlantic Blvd.

Proponents say that the city of East Los Angeles would not fall into the category of industrial cities that incorporated to keep out homes, so school taxes could be avoided, or dairy cities, which were created to protect milk farms from urban development.

"These are not true cities, as East Los Angeles would be," an incorporation tract reads. "These are nothing but incorporated tax loopholes . . . . The incorporation of East Los Angeles is a dramatic story of a people, who once controlled California, and now want to enjoy self-government."

Over the years several groups have attempted to incorporate East Los Angeles without success.
Speaking at a Public Relations Counsel Conference in 1956, councilman Edward Roybal observed:
"One of East Los Angeles' biggest failures is a lack of coordination among Eastside Organizations."

This does not hold true anymore. Twenty-three Mexican-American organizations have a co-ordinating group called the House of Delegates. The membership includes such organizations as the Council of Mexican-American Affairs, Catholic Youth Organization, Inter-American Club,
Inter-American Library Assn., Lulacs and the Mexican Civic Patriotic Committee.

Not Directly Involved

The House of Delegates is not directly involved with the incorporation as some of its member groups lie outside the proposed boundaries. But it encourages all Mexican-Americans to exercise their civic rights and obligations.

It is estimated that there are from 600,000 to 750,000 Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles County and politicians drool when they dream of controlling this group as a bloc.

The East Side of late has been able to point with pride to one of its own, Judge Carlos Teran, who was appointed municipal judge by Republican Gov. [Goodwin] Knight and later superior judge by Democratic Gov. [Edmund G. "Pat"] Brown.

Political Victory

But East Los Angeles only recently tasted its first real political victory when attorney Leopold G. Sanchez, a novice politician, beat incumbent Judge Howard H. Walshok by a vote of 23,767 to 20,519 in the East Los Angeles Judicial District.

In part, it is this political consciousness on the part of the East Los Angeles Mexican-Americans that disturbs some anti-incorporation petitioners.

"It's not that I want to deny anyone the right to democratic process," a West Bella Vista resident said. "It's that I feel that they're forming a bloc and I wonder whether they have my interests in mind, too."

Complaints by anti-incorporation East Los Angeles residents might be summed up by a letter which appeared Dec. 23, in the East Los Angeles Tribune:
"I am opposed to East Los Angeles' incorporation," it read. "I have lived here many years. My folks moved out here in 1922. The majority of the people I talk to are satisfied the way we are now."

"I think a few aspiring young men are looking for a city job. Several of them aren't even property owners, so why should they be concerned. It's for a selfish reason."

Movement Leader

Leader of the incorporation movement is Joseph Galea, an attorney. Among the advantages listed by his committee are:
There would be no new property tax in the new city with income coming from gasoline tax returns, in lieu of tax returns, sales tax, county gasoline tax returns and liquor license fees. These would provide a surplus over expenditures. The "Lakewood Plan" would be used, with municipal services being furnished by the county on a lease plan.

Businessmen along 1st St. and Brooklyn Ave. are generally for the incorporation because they feel a closer affinity to the old "East Los Angeles." The businesses on Atlantic and Whittier Blvds. are generally bigger and have more modern facilities.

Alfred Paquette, who operates a sportswear factory at 3545 E. 1st St. which he says grosses about $2 million a year, puts his faith in the proposed new city.

"My business has been here for about 15 years and I am for the city of East Los Angeles because I'm interested in this area from a business standpoint."

John Siegwein, a property owner in West Bella Vista, thinks it's a mistake to think of East Los Angeles, especially his area, as strictly a Mexican-American section.

Cosmopolitan Group

"The falseness of this statement becomes readily apparent when Bella Vista is included in this area. Here we have a very cosmopolitan group of home owners and they are all Americans. There are people of various European, Latin and Oriental ancestries here and they embrace a large variety of religious beliefs and are living in harmony."

"We enjoy excellent county services and we want to continue to enjoy them. Should we become part of a new city, a city council could change all this. We feel that the city property tax is inevitable if the proposed area is incorporated, and we feel that this tax will be particularly oppressive on the 653 parcels in West Bella Vista."

But to Mrs. Elizabeth Porras, also of West Bella Vista, the fact that her area and the Atlantic and Whittier Blvds. business houses are the "nice parts of East Los Angeles and most prosperous proves why they belong to the proposed City of East Los Angeles."

The Board of Supervisors has a tough job cut out for it on Jan. 12. The supervisors must decide whether West Bella Vista and Whittier and Atlantic Blvds. should be included in the proposed new city. If these areas are excluded, the proponents of the city of East Los Angeles will complain that they have been robbed of much of the tax base required for the city and of the added prestige which West Bella Vista would bring the new city.

If the supervisors approve the tentative boundaries, businessmen will protest that they are headed for higher taxes and a group of homeowners will complain that they are being forced into a community for which they feel no affinity.

Ruben Salazar's Last Article ...

2006-08-29T11:02:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... the following is the last article written by Ruben Salazar ... written on August 28, 1970 ... the next day, Salazar was killed by LA Sheriff's ...

The Mexican-Americans NEDA Much Better School System
August 28, 1970

A week ago today Vice President Agnew stood in a sea of television lights at the Century Plaza Hotel to announce the formation of a new national organization to promote business development among the nation's 10 million Spanish-speaking citizens.

Agnew said the undertaking would help ensure that "Americans of Hispanic descent get a fair chance at the starting line."

By the end of the day, thanks to the great coverage the Vice President gets from the news media, the whole nation knew of the formation of the National Economic Development Assn. or NEDA.

In the barrios Chicanos immediately started calling NEDA NADA, which in Spanish spells "nothing."

Why this rude put-down about an organization which undoubtedly will help some worthy, energetic Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs?

The bitterness stems from the distortion of priorities in this country.

Just two days before Agnew made his announcement, Sen. Mike Mansfield complained that too much attention was being given to the ABMs and the SSTs and not enough to the ABCs.

NEDA, started with a grant from the Small Business Administration, will initiate business development for the Spanish-speaking through public and private sources, it was announced. Fine. Great. Long overdue.

But is it accurate for the Vice President to say that NEDA will ensure that "Americans of Hispanic descent get a fair chance at the starting line"?

NEDA, as good a concept as it is, will invariably help only those who have already made it—those who are in business or ready to go into business. This is hardly the "starting line" for the Mexican-American in this country.

The following has been said and written many times but it has yet to effectively penetrate the minds of our national leaders: The Mexican-American has the lowest educational level, below either black or Anglo; the highest dropout rate; and the highest illiteracy rate.

Yet, bilingual education was one of the items President Nixon vetoed in the educational bill. The veto was overridden but the veto indicates a strange definition the Administration has about where the "starting line" is.

Martin G. Castillo, chairman of the Nixon Administration's Cabinet Committee on Opportunity for the Spanish Speaking, said during the NEDA press conference that the Vice President had recently donated $10,000 to the Salesian Boys Club from proceeds of the sale of Spiro Agnew watches.

Castillo complained that this gesture typifying the "other side of the Vice President" got little mention in the news media.

That may be. But something besides the Vice President's Spiro Agnew watch gesture was being ignored by the news media.

On the same day that Agnew was getting nationwide publicity over the formation of NEDA, the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity was winding up a two-day hearing on minority educational problems. The Vice President and NEDA got the lion's share of the publicity.

Complained Sen. Walter Mondale, chairman of the committee: "We found that the best way to get television cameras out of this room and reporters to leave is to hold a hearing on Mexican-American education. There doesn't seem to be any interest. Yet this is the second largest minority in America."

Mario Obledo, director of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, told the senators that it was a "tragedy on the part" of federal and state government to ignore the educational problems of Mexican-Americans.

"How do you bring this to the attention of the American public?" asked Obledo. "Does it require some overt act of violence to bring it forth, or can it be handled in a manner that is conducive with the American way of life?"

Father Henry J. Casso, also of the Mexican-American Defense Fund, asked Sen. Mondale: "How long would you and I continue to do business with a lawyer who lost eight out of 10 cases; a doctor who lost eight of every 10 of his patients? Being a religionist, what would my bishop do if I lost eight of 10 parishioners?"

"Yet, the institutions, including government, have remained mute to see eight out of every 10 Mexican-American children drop out, kicked out and pushed out of the educational institutions of this country. No one has asked an accounting for the vast sums of public money that have been wasted. But the young are demanding an accounting and I stand with them."

Dr. Hector Garcia, a Texas physician and former member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights who was dumped from the commission by the Nixon Administration, testified that 80% of Mexican-American students in Texas never get past the sixth grade.

" . . .the system has not worked for us," Dr. Garcia said. "I am here as a capitalist. I am one of the few Mexicano capitalists. They say, 'Dr. Garcia, why do you criticize?' I say, I only criticize because I want more Mexicano capitalists, educated, in college . . ."

NEDA, then, will mean little until the government is serious about creating more Chicano capitalists—through good schools.

Remembering Ruben Salazar ... (listening to Stomp)

2006-08-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

Ruben Salazar is briefly covered in today's LA Times ... Salazar died after being shot by tear gas projectile shortly after he was covering the Chicano anti-Vietnam War Moratorium rally in East Los Angeles in 1970. He was a reporter and columnist at the Los Angeles Times and the news director of Spanish-language television station KMEX in Los Angeles

Salazar was born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, across the Rio Grande from El Paso on 3 March 1928. A year later his parents, Luz Chavez and Salvador Salazar, a watch repairman, moved across the river, and Ruben grew up in El Paso. He attended primary and secondary schools there and learned to practice the Boy Scout virtues. After high school he entered the U.S. army, where he served a two-year tour of duty just before the Korean conflict. Out of the service and now an American citizen, Salazar entered the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and received his B.A. in journalism four years later in 1954. During his last two years as a student at UTEP he worked as a reporter for the El Paso Herald Post, where he demonstrated both great interest and skill in investigative reporting.

... tambien, a brief discription of the last few minutes of Ruben Salazar's life ...

... tambien ... here's a list of selected articles written by Salazar ...

El Paso, 1955-1956
"Speakeasies Sell "Atomic' Booze in South El Paso"
"Mexican-Americans, the Border, and Braceros, 1961-1965"
"Mexican-Americans Move into New Era of Political Awakening"
"Murder of a Crusader Underlines Tijuana Choice: Reform or Go Red"
"Civic Leaders Troubled by School Dropouts"
"Spanish-Speaking Angelenos: a Culture in Search of a Name"
"Latins Here to Protest Bracero Law"
"Growers Hit 'Meddling' with Bracero Program"
"Mexican-American Lag in Schooling Income"

Foreign Correspondent, 1965-1968
"Dominican Leader Denies Red Charge"
"Who Would Get U.S. Fire, Junta, Rebels?"
"Students, Army Troops Battle in Mexico City"
"Wonderland of Color Welcomes Olympics"

The Chicano Movement, 1969-1970
"Militants Fight to Retain Spanish as their Language"
"Chicanos Hold 5-State Event in Colorado"
"United Farm Workers to Hold Rally, Woo Mexican Farm Workers"
"Brown Berets Hail 'La Raza' and Scorn the Establishment"
"Bilingual Texas Public School Gains Support"
"Latins Form Distinct Class, U.S. Aid says"
"Maligned Word: Mexican"
"The 'Wetback' Problem Has More Than Just One Side"
"Chicano's Long Love Affair with Democratic Party Ends"
"Mexican-American School Walkout Focused on Problem"

Firme Interview ... Firme Features ...

2006-08-28T16:11:00.000-07:00

LAist has a firme interview with 25 year old LA Weekly Reporter, Daniel Hernandez ...

Here's a peek ...

Why did you move from the Los Angeles Times to the LA Weekly? How are the jobs similar and different?
I owe The Times lots. They taught me so much. They gave me freedom and room to work, and pushed me to push myself. Everyday the people there amazed me, their talent and drive. But The Times has a very clear, very rigid tradition on how to report the news.

Shortly after I got there, I started having these long, tortured thought sessions with myself about my participation in the MSM. I saw how the people and places the paper chose to cover were automatically political decisions because for every thing you chose to cover there is something you chose to not cover. I started realizing that the mainstream style on reporting the news that most papers employ is not really concerned with depicting the truth, but concerned primarily with balancing lots of competing agendas and offending the least amount of interests as possible.

I saw how so much was looked at from certain assumptions and subtexts, and a very narrow cultural view. When I raised questions about such things, I was told we were writing for a "mainstream reader," which I quickly figured out is basically a euphemism for a middle-aged, middle-class white registered Democrat homeowner in the Valley. From where I stand today, I had very little in common with this "mainstream reader" and I didn't care to be in this person's service. I wanted to talk across to people, not up or down to people. I had to get out. So I thought, why not experiment? Try different forms? Laurie Ochoa and the editors at the LA Weekly said, 'Go ahead, abandon rote objectivity and embrace the subjective lens through which we all see the world—Just report it all out.' It was ON.

... Ondale ... check out the rest of the Hernandez de Barrio LA Weekly interview aqui ...

Bada Bing By Fiat ... (listening to Running Away)

2006-08-28T12:14:00.000-07:00

“And now for all you youngsters with visions of tit-fucking in your head … here are the Bing girls … come on … “ … says the BADA BING host in the the TOODLE-FUCKING-OO episode of the SOPRANOS …

Ondale ... my ego has the same script in my mind as I was seconds away from meeting my BADA BING LONG LOST RELATIVE … BUTT unlike the SOPRANO audience … I had to shake hands or give a flakey hug and decir algo como “nice to meet you” … or “how the fuck are you” … or how about “BADA BING” … simon … I was told about BADA BING being in nuestra paternal sangre … TRIPPY … she’s beautiful … so … so … so what other way to build up the excitement for the initial eye contact of meeting LA BADA BING but with a SOPRANO moment … BADA BING … chingow … Dios brought you a fine, beautiful and shapey BADA BING HINA … and she’s your hermana, cabrone … so don’t be cheap on tips … she said … all I could do was laugh with the flow ... que no ...

She also said she was moving from Los Huevos back to AZ … because her soon-to-be-neighborhood has GOOD SCHOOLS FOR THE KIDS … you know … BADA BING … was I fucking rude laugh adentro … BADA BING …

Simon … BADA BING … HAPPY GO LUCKY … BANGING AWAY … THE BALLGAME … it's the annual 2,080 hour BADA BING house fiesta …

BUTT what can you do … ondale … all familias are poco retarded … que no …

Angel Fans Por Unos Meds ... (listening to Maze)

2006-08-28T11:19:00.000-07:00

Ondale … are Angel fans MLB bipolar or just a bunch of gente still venting over the team being bitch-bought by a billionaire Latino … ondale … quien sabe … but when the RED SOX are in town … ondale … the town turns CUM IN MY RED SOX RED … simon … and Thursday night was one of these hillbilly or dead-eye trips …

Thursday just reinforced the truth about a small cola sample of NARANJAVILLE’S population … Angel fans … some of the tamest gente you’ll ever meet … as a matter of pinche fact … they’re too maintained to be called fucking fans … simon … they’re too proper and shit … simon … ondale … and this freaky form of fanship is too trippy tambien … I mean … ondale … for one … Angel Stadium is actually a firme park … simon … it’s neat and clean … good seats everywhere … and has a humongous LOS ANGELES TIMES neon sign in center field that hangs like a pinche nopal on everyone’s forehead … tambien … it has that HUGE stack of shit that acts like natural COLORADO ROCKY MONTANAS with a pinche RIO GRANDE TYPE serene yet stylish water fall and drops it’s agua like piss … tambien in CENTER …

Entonces there’s the players … entonces there’s the RED SOX … and when the RED SOX are in town … pues … the chorro hits the thing that goes round and round … PROOF: Thursday’s juego was all about “LET’S GO RED SOX” … and all about gente walking around in their BOSTON BEST … simon … “LET’S GO RED SOX” some 44,000 drunk and confused fans screamed that night … “ANGELS SUCK” … another 44,000 bipolar fans who probably collect SSI checks yelled back … WTF … there I was … tambien maintained sipping Jack y soda y Corona, wearing my beautiful and lovely ARIZONA STATE cachuca, fancy yet macho guayabera and military patalon corto lleno de suenos … as a matter of fucking fact, I was doing a whole lot … BUTT not cheering for the LUIS-TIANT-FREE RED SOX …

Yo se, yo se … BOSTON RUCAS are firme … BUTT so are LABOUR UNION mujeres … BUTT NARANJAVILLE RED SOX FANS TOTALLY PELA TO THE MAX … simon … they’re worse than a FABULOUS EVE MENDES INTERVIEW … or worse than BEN AFLECK trying to style JOSE SOLARIO’S DUFON …what was that about … anyways …

Anyways … ANGEL FANS … are trippy … because FRIDAY’s GAME vs YANKEES … pues … this juego brought in another pinche 44,000 mocosos who again wore WHORE RED but this time gritaron “YANKESS SUCK” … and check this out … the cheers for A-ROD K’ing four times that night were no where near the “LET’S GO RED SOX” gritas … and then came the pinche ultimate sin … during Sunday’s game … the vato next to me caught Derek Jeter’s home run ball … and the WAB threw it back …

Call it overstimulation … bipolar … being pendejos … resent being bitch-bought by RAZA … BUTT Angel fans are a MLB bipolar trip …

Nomas Aqui ... Fabulous ... (listening to Happy Feelin's)

2006-08-24T13:25:00.000-07:00

Ondale … so what’s going in the Naranjaville mundo de sports cards … simon … seems all the local vendors estan aguitados about something …

About two months ago … this local vendor I frequent to the max … me dijo que algien did a card run at his tiendita … simon … according to this vendor … some vato (or vata, he wasn’t very clear about the whole cosa) walked into his tiendita and asked to see a caja de hockey cards … and a caja de hockey cards contains about 36 packs of cards … well at least the baseball cajas do … and cost unos $60 … anyways … the hockey-carta bandido was handed the caja and then just took off … simon … out the door … and the local vendor, pinche pollo to the max, took off after the hockey-card bandido … and the hockey-card bandido got away …

I can’t believe … that en sanTana … a local vendor puts his vida on the line for $60 …

And according to this vendor … the hockey-card bandido hit other tienditas en Naranjaville tambien …

That’s unfortunate … and pelas to the max … why hockey … hockey SUCKS!! … and according to the local vendor, hockey cards are being sold slowly … “hocky is ours,” dicen ellos … pues keep it along with your peepee smell …

BUTT what’s really unfortunate es que the local vendor’s attitude has changed toward certain customers … simon … and it seems the pinche level of suspicion is consistant with the amount of “café latte” dios has stirred in your pinche pigmentation …

Simon … check this out … I recently purchased unique and very old cartas from this pinche local vendor … and on this day, he started off cool … he gave me firme precios for Roberto Clemente cards … on cartas de Minnie Mosa, Orlando Cepeda, Marcelino Solis, Mike Garcia, Pancho Herrera … ETC … ETC … ETC … for about a buck cada una … simon … it was a steal … and I’m uncertain why … porque these cards are from the early 1950’s and in very good if not mint condition … especially the Cepeda and Clemente cartas …

BUTT … like anything else RAZA related, except tamales … these cards were and are undervalued (by the entire Naranjaville baseball card community) because they are RAZA BEISBOL cosas … and, unfortunately … these push and pinche pull attitudes about RAZA SPORTS MEMORABILIA (that stem from hockey-card runs, loud music, extra charge for chips and salsa, etc, etc, etc) keep the overall market economia for retro RAZA BEISBOL cosas at a continuous and hopefully not long-term low … simon … I mean a pinche buck for a pinche rare Luis Aparicio Sporting News 1959 All-Star card … the vato's in the Hall of Fame ... I’ll take it, guey …

Ondale … I bought these one dollar cards at a mano full … ondale … as a matter of fact, I threw a migra raid on my local vendor’s 1950’ & 60’s beisbol carta collection … simon … I took all the RAZA players … because he obviously doesn’t appreciate their value … and doesn’t deserve to have them …

He, on the other hand, gave them up for a buck because … pues … I don’t think he want’s nuestra fidea … simon … “TENGA” … I felt he was saying … “it’s shit like you who do card runs tambien” … I also felt this vibe from him … his cool went out the pinche puerta como el pinche hockey-card bandido … que gueys …

That’s unfortunate … as word is out that card runs are hitting Naranjaville … simon … and now when we walk into a pinche tiendita that sells sports memorabilia cosas … pues … we’re watched like bad AMERICAN BANDSTAND reruns … simon … and because of that and the preferential treatment that other consumers continue to receive in accessing cosas beisbol, pues, I’m considering boycotting the purchase of cartas aqui en Naranjaville … simon … these Naranjaville vendor gente need to chill out and treat RAZA like everyone else in those tienditas … especially when RAZA ninos walk in and receive continuous “five-dedo consumers” comments that are built in … and other special treatment … thin skinned? … chale … just taking my compulsive and enormous demand for RAZA BEISBOL cosas elsewhere as consumer demand for cosas, especially sports cartas, from these local vendors continues to dwindle rapido …

BUTT the good news is that the local tapado no longer has RETRO RAZA BEISBOL legends in his tiendita … to hear his bullshit … BUTT, before I left with my RAZA cartas, he attempted small-talk conmigo and told me that he is interested in including classic Beatle albums and similar memorabilia in his tiendita … FUCKY YOU!!! … say the cards of Carlos Beltran, Ozzie Guillen and other current RAZA legends that sleep in his pinche display cola … FUCK YOU!!!

Measure Menudo ...

2006-07-25T13:10:00.000-07:00

Pues it seems que Naranjaville’s “½ cent sales tax for planning and funding of transportation projects” es alive and as big as a puta as ever … simon … an invisible verga of the Orange County Transportation Authority known as THE COMMITTEE TO RENEW MEASURE MENUDO is organizing este cochinera … simon … organizing a trucha showdown to renew MEASURE MENUDO on the noviembre ballot … el 7 de noviembre

So … what’s a pinche RAZA sanTana resident, illegal or not, suppose to do ... hay chingow ...

A) … vote simon on MEASURE MENUDO and hope and pray that sanTana’s handsome butt short mayor Miguel Pulido is still mayor en 20 years so that he can bring a chicantillion dollars worth de street repairs and shaaaattttt ….

B) … vote CHALE on MEASURE MENUDO … por que Pulido, even is he’s still king de sanTana, might be making a move to take over sanTana unified school district or the MINNIE APARTMENTS HOUSING AUTHORITY Y-QUE … which ever is mas chingone …

C) … vote a silent simon because many can’t vote … they’re illegal and perhaps too flojo to fill out the papeles to become a cocksucking resident …

D) … vote a silent chale because … pues … asi somos … sometimes …

Personnally … I’ll probably vote simon … SIMON ON MEASURE MENUDO … because all the inland empire has renewed their “½ cent sales tax for transportation projects” … tambien San Diegoso while their roads can be expanded and all creased out and shit … pues … we must keep up with the De Pacas …

Second … and mas importante … sanTana is PINCHE CROWDED with caruchas bigger than most sanTana chantes … ever been on McFadden y Main and heading toward Bristle a las cinco on Saturdays o Domingos … ondale … the trafico’s worse than a homie’s funeral … simon … it’s a two lane calle for miles … and if you’re trying to beat the clock as in getting to the Calle Bristle swapmeet to buy useless cochinadas por nada … pues the pressure can be un madre de overbearing …

Ondale … mismo cosa on Main … Bristle … Standard … Warner … Raitt … Fairview … and of course el famoso MINNIE STREET … simon … it’s as if we’re in continuous and everlasting cruising mode … simon … as if transportation planners are making another mockery of gente cruising, making out y nada mas …

Ondale … butt MEASURE MENUDO will bring in fidea to the max … and while the pamphlets and cochinda van a decir que the cash will go aqui y alli … pues … purrro pedo … simon … all plans can be changed and all transportation dolares can go elsewhere … transportation planners do 2 things … plan transportation y cambian or hagan amendments to the transportation plans … as in putting trollies con crager rims down Main y Bristle y tambien MdFadden and 1st and Warner … and firme buses stilo Mexicano on all other calles … simon … imagine an octopus with a zootsuit … pues algo like that …

Anyways … eat your MENUDO ... hay limon, cebolla, salsa y cilantro pero no tengo tortillas … not even bread ...

By the pinche way .... check out this list ...

sanTana's Lemon Pollo ...

2006-07-12T20:21:00.000-07:00

Sabes que ... there were hobo tales de sanTana hobos when growing up aqui en sanTana ... simon ... all those pinche gente who live next door to St. Bros on McFadden y Standard ... in those apartmentos blanco ... pues before them ... there were orange groves alli ... not pinche necessarily breaking news ... but the hobo tales scared the shit out of us que we had to go witness the hobos ourselves ... so there we went buscando los pinche sanTana hobos ... poco STAND BY ME ...

BUTT we never found a dead head ... nor did we ever run into LA LLORONA ...

Pero sabes que ... while there may have been hobos ... and orange groves no more ... toda via en mi calle there are still ORANGE TREES ... or LEMON TREES ... from the original groves that once cruised and breathed all over the land which stands on Standard/Bishop/McFadden ETC, ETC, ETC ... simon ... these living trees still breath and provide RAZA with firme and tasty fruta ... simon ... every chante on my block has a citrus arbol in front and back ... and probably more like 2 - 4 trees ...

So ... que hago cuando me dan limones ... simon ... I make lemon aid ... fresh OJ ... bitching grapefruit juice ... killer mojitos y tambien home made orange flower agua for my AM GIN FIZZ ... not really eses ... compro el pinche orange agua ... tambien ... I make lemon chicken ...

I love lemon chicken ... so check it out ... try it ... it's easy to the max y you'll like it ...

2 cups fresh lemon juice from a sanTana lemon tree
1 cup extra-virgin olive oil from El Toro Market
1 tbsp. red wine vinegar from El Toro Market
4 cloves de garlic, peeled and minced
dried oregano, which my vecino produces, to taste
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, tambien to taste
A chicken cut up como puedes
un mano lleno de chopped fresh parsley from a sanTana garden

1. Preheat broiler por unos 15 minutes.
2. Be a cool fairy and wisk together lemon juice, oil, vinegar, garlic, and oregano in a bowl que es hecho en Mexico.
3. Place chicken, skin side down, on a baking sheet and broil for 15 minutes. Turn chicken skin side up and broil until skin is crisp and golden and juices run clear, about 15 minutes more.
4. Remove chicken from la estofa and throw in lemon mixture. Return chicken to broiler, skin side up, and broil for 3 minutes. Place chicken on an AZTECA platter.
5. Pour left over juice (AKA pan drippings) into a saucepan, add lemon sauce ... bring to a pinche boil over high heat until thickened ... this takes unos pinche 5 minutes. Stir in parsley, drizzle a little sauce on chicken, and serve remaining sauce on the side. This is pinche killer ...

Ondale ... this goes best with frijoles de la olla ... simon ... sabes por que ... es que the lemon juice gets into an interracial relationship con los frijoles ... and it's firme sabor to the max ...

Corn tortillas slightly toasted from the comal are optional BUTT recommended ... this is perhaps the only dish con frijoles that I won't eat with salsa ...

Rove Booed At RAZA Conference ... (listening to Tierra)

2006-07-12T19:59:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... as you might have read ... the National Council of La Raza held a four dia conference en el lay ... simon ... and on the fourth dia ... a little piggy named Karl Rove said ... open up or I'll huff y pinche puff and make all of you my pinche gardeners ... simon ... or algo asi ... gueys ... on the last day, Tuesday, of the NCLR conference ... President W's homie Karl Rove spoke ... and was heckled ... booed ... and I think tripas and handfuls de canned Juanitas menudo was thrown at him ...

According to the Huffington Post ... "White House political strategist Karl Rove touted "shared values" of faith and family and reiterated President Bush's support of broad immigration reform in a Los Angeles address Tuesday to one of the nation's largest Latino civil rights organizations.

In a lunchtime talk at the National Council of La Raza's annual conference, the Republican advisor outlined Bush's plan for stronger border security, workplace enforcement, a guest worker program and earned legalization for undocumented immigrants."

Anyways ... the Huffington post had it as a headliner cuenta and shit ... with blogger comments up the culo ... here are some of the comments from RAZA and NON-RAZA Huffington readers ...

- I can't stand Carl Rove, but being booed and heckled by an openly racist supremecist group might be the best thing for implementation of the House's bill. By: longhairrepublicansurfer Dude, your comment is almost as conflicting as your alias.

You take the rad out of radical.Surf's up!

- Give Karl some credit. At least he is willing to speak in front of a non-handpicked audience as opposed to Dubya.And that is the "positive news" of the day! LOL!Karl, tu eres un hijo de la gran puta. Espero te pudras en el infierno.Aloha

- Let's see, this Latino group booed the statement that our borders would be better controled in the future. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. The point is, the Latino community would like to see OUR borders continue to be porous so THEY can come and go at will. In other words, they do not value having secure borders in their "adopted" country. Does the U.S. just exist then as a convenience for Latino immigrants? By: trilby Right on, with all the shit Rove's done wrong to this country, and what gets these "individuals" riled up is his/the administration's stance border security. I think the Dems need to be looking else ware for allies.

Click aqui to check out what's up ... and remember to do the same cuando te ves a sanTana councilcosa Carlos Bustamante ...

Chingow ... Stop Oppressing Raza Millionaires ...

2006-07-06T11:00:00.000-07:00

Ondale …. check this out … in the July ’06 issue de Beckett Baseball … it’s a collector’s guide to baseball memorabilia and shattt … pues … they have a copy of a CONTRACTO between St. Louis Cardinal Raza Slugger Albert Pujols and Topps baseball card company … it seems Topps got Pujols to sign a contracto to issue beisbol cards of him … simon … every ball player’s fantasy … que no … but the cosa es que Topps only paid Pujols $5 … simon … it’s a CONTRACTO between PUJOLS y TOPPS for $5 …

And the irony es que … the standard language boilerplate one pagina contracto … looks like a pinche purchase order and shit … pues the contracto serves as a backdrop to the CONTENTS pages de the July issue of Beckett … check it out and pinche barffff …

Chingow … what was the vato thinking … pinche Alberto … I’m sure there’s mas to this pinche cuenta … maybe it was a free-bee cosa obligation between Pujols and his agent or maybe even between his team … quien sabe … but $5 …

This is a trip porque … right now … ahora …. Pujol’s least expensive card is a 2001 Topps card … con un pinche autograph that is worth at least $400 … and the autographs on these “TOPPS FACSIMILIE AUTOGRAPH CARDS” are pinche scanned from the pinche one pagina boilerplate lengua contracto … trippy es que Pujols is on everyone’s pinche list for National League’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) for este ano which will continue to raise the value of his calzones …

Ondale … talk about a pinche deal … or RIP OFF … if Miguel Pulido can get sanTana infrastructure deals como este deal de Topps y Pujols … pues he can keep the mayorl silla por vida …

El Tres de July Was Mejor Que Disneylanda ...

2006-07-05T16:16:00.000-07:00

Ondale … Monday was a big day aqui en the golden ciudad de sanTana … simon … and not because cuetes were flying like locos … chale … city council had a meeting on lunes … and the big cosas de hablar were … cuetes … shopping carts … and tyranny …

Simon … check this out … some members of sanTana’s city council want to put term limits on la oficina del mayor … simon … Councilwoman Lisa Bist claimed on Monday that term limits on the mayor’s seat was not personal or about nuestra guapo mayor Miguel Pulida … chale … she just said we need new blood … AND THEN finished her input with … stating that 20 years is ENOUGH … simon … Pulido was on council for 8 anos and has been mayor for 12 … and she really finished by saying that on Tuesday gente would be celebrating their independence and that sanTana would be celebrating its “independence from tyranny and dictatorship” …

That was too pinche funny …

Then Alvarez spoke … and we all fell asleep … but during that time … I dreamed that she was speaking … at a council meeting … and telling the public … as she stared into the camera … that she loved us .. the sanTana residents … that she loved her boss … that she loved sanTana city staffers … which she says from time hasta time ... and then she pointed at me … Recycled Cholo … and said “please stop laughing, NOW!!" … HAY CHINGOW!!!, I thought … then I said … “estas loca, guey” … and she said “cameraman who I love, please point the camera to Recycled Cholo” … and the cameraman did … and I was now on Channel 3, the sanTana public TV station … and I said, “You really are loca, loca … how can you love all those people … I mean who loves their boss, especially if their jefe is the Orange County DA?” … and she said … “do you have a permit to paint your living room mint green?” … and I said “my sala's not mint green … it’s light blue … and no” … and she began scribbling on that pad as she always does … and she turned to the city abogado … and said … “does our resident need a permit to paint his living room light blue” … and the CA looked at my living room and say “Yes he does … but he can waive the fee if submits a request” …

Entonces I woke up … just as she said “Thank you” … and the next speaker spoke about term limits …

BUTT the councils motion to put mayoral term limits on the November ballot failed … so … Pulido can continue to be an elected city employee FOR-PINCHE-EVER!!! ...

They also spoke about shopping carts … simon … like the one mi pinche vecina just left in my yard … I’m back … I just put the basket three housed down, in front of el vecino who walks his perro at 4am … and shopping carts … pues … at least the CONTRACT for shopping carts is very political en sanTana …mira … here are some variables … city council ... a contractor … two vehicles with drivers for sanTana … shopping carts from St. Bros … Food4Less … Target … Canestas with painted wheels … and the drivers are to pick up all pinche baskets … with painted wheels … simon … it seems the major CORPORATE tienditas have their own FANTASY AGREEMENT, NOT CONTRACT con sanTana to pick up their cochinada … and they don’t always … so the CONTRACT states que the drivers can in fact just drive by and scout out canestas with painted wheels … so in fact, baskets don’t get picked up at all … simon … there are more St Bros, Food4Less and Target on the calles then WHATEVER …

Tambien … this innocent overlooking of canestas that go unpicked-up are bien with the CONTRACTOR … as signed by THE CITY ... as he might in fact have another contract with the CORPORATE TIENDITAS to pick up their cochinada as well … HOWEVER … he won’t mix rounds or drivers or WHATEVER ... it’s the pinche impossible complicated … there are no stats … no time-frame … no conditions … it’s a firme contract to the max …

And cuetes tambien were on the council list … BOOOOOO … VAYASEN … GUEYS … and thanks to the special sanTana PLACA/BOMBERO CUETE PATROL UNITS … the 4th was still deadly and todo loco en sanTana … skyrockets ruled the land for one week … cherry bombs still shook us all night long … but it was a lot more quieter … butt still mejor que DISNEYLANDA …

Caribbean Beisbol At Delhi Park ...

2006-06-29T12:43:00.000-07:00

Ayer … it was all about beisbol … simon … while the seasons over for some … other sanTana Chicanitos continue to train for baseball camp … and here we are … all pretty and shit … in the golden part of the humid golden ciudad … surrounded by cochino full-time vendors … twilight zone gente who party around Standard … Chestnut … hasta Mc Fadden … related to or parte de tons of apartamento gente … pinche renters … tirando su pinche basura wherever …

Entonces we decide to play beisbol … Caribbean beisbol … at Madison Park … simon … there’s a firme field with red tierra … a groovy pitcher’s mound … tambien a new and improved homeplate that was replaced when MADISON PARK went under rennovation or redevolpment and shattt a few years ago … tambien … alli el la Madison … there’s firme batting cages … simon … a mini prison for beisbol lovers … or just lovers … simon … the cage is approximately at least unos 24’ X 24’ … and spaced out for three batters to take turns on this puta …

So … you have the firme and unique batting cage … complete with nets to catch those balls in the air … along with pinche dust … trash … spider webs … ETC … simon … the cages estan alli … all alive and shit … BUTT their locked … and all the pinche memories of an abandoned barrio are there … the cages aren’t used … aren’t available to the public in that public espacio we call a pinche park … there is however … a homemade sign, donated of course, that says a private company name who donated the public yet private cages that aren’t used … entonces … the white sign with blue print has a phone number … to call …

Que la …

Entonces there’s the cage that the city de sanTana donated … simon … she’s about 16 feet tall … big hips … and a see through blusa … she’s there … to be jumped … simon … this puta fence surrounds the entire beisbol field … simon … the one with the firme mound and new homeplate … it surrounds the beisbol field to the max … and it’s locked in 4 places … her apa thinks she’s loose … simon … how about that eses … a public beisbol field … locked during beisbol season and shitttt …. Ondale … that park is so crowded in front of the MADISON PARK SIGN placed during rennovaton … but has a pinche humongous public bald spot in its COLA which is just inside that pinche MADISON PARK SIGN …

The hairiest park … however … or, on the other hand … or, but unlike it’s competing barrio … anyways … the hairiest park … is the infamous DELHI PARK … simon … after reinterpreting city ordinances to jump into Madison Park … pues … I decided it was time to hang with the homies …

Alli at Delhi … they also have a firme red dirt beisbol field … it has a homeplate … that’s missing tierra on the 1st base side … and a descent but flat pitcher’s mound with a pinche hunkin rubber that’s dented to the max … anyways … sabes que … there’s no 16 foot fence … chale … it's public … to the max … simon … as a matter of fact … it's TOO PINCHE PUBLIC … there is no fence surrounding that park … even though that chante has gone under renovation tambien … there’s a firme DELHI CENTER X 13 (X 13 is my emphasis ….) and a firme parking lot … and the biggest fucking soccer field in the world … BUTT no fence … maybe a pinche fence was installed during the rennovation but was stolen … quien sabe …

BUTT I was there ayer … a las 5:30pm … and the place was packed … to the max … on the beisbol field were the mojados playing a pinche mean futbol game … these gente occupied left field and occasionally third base and short stop … pinche gente were cool … entonces there was nosotros … simon … we claimed the rest of the beisbol field … we hit then ran … the mojados played … and occasionally our pelotas clashed … but they unofficially nominated a mensone who shagged our pelotas …

Tambien … the handball court was pinche lleno de LOS ACES … or neighbors or descendents of LOS ACES … the infamous hoods from Delhi park … talk about relatives of los pinche ricos y famosos y pintos … they played handball to the max for hours … they were cool … tambien … the basketball courts were full of Mexicanos playing basketball con sus pinche flat soccer pelotas … and let’s not forget the tecates or winos or lost soles …

BUTT the biggest pinche grupo was the soccer gente playing soccer with a pinche rightly inflated soccer ball … so pinche organized … in that biggest soccer field en el mundo that once housed NATIONAL GUARD and city equipment … there were unos 100 ninos kicking each other … maybe 150 … con sus pinche papas y mamas hanging out … it was firme … en total … unos pinche 300 gente at that park … on a miercoles … como a las 5:30 pm …

Simon … it wasn’t the rumored PIANO MAN alli at DELHI PARK … chale it was MOJADO PARK … and BEVERLY HILLBILLY fun and shatttt …

Big Toe and Summer Juice Correlation ... (listening to Allen Toussaint)

2006-06-23T11:59:00.000-07:00

Simon … I tripped out as I sat and took care of business hoy en my porcelain oficina … reading Matt Cokers cuenta about his bad PATA … simon … it seems the vato’s out of the closet vis-à-vis his big right toe … simon … it appears it’s pinche OSCO … his nail is all yellow and shit … and his cure … no sandals … puro Van tennis zapatos … during el verano … and a slice of puss is on the international dedo del piel sliding-scale …

Ondale … while I’ve never had an OSCO toe … I’m proud to say I’ve never owned any ATHELET’S FOOT RELATED cosas … simon … after a workout … at the batting cages or some racquetball … I walk back to wherever sin zapatos … todo barefoot … YETT, I and my siblings do suffer from a freaky foot cosa … simon … BIG TOE COCHINADA … simon … my second toe … or is that my pinche index toe … pues, it’s big and long to the max … it hangs out of my chankla like pricey sandwich carne in a sloppy BUT delicious sandwich … simon … my toe is probably about ½ inch longer than my original big toe … and the tip is round to the pinche max … it’s shadow or silhouette is even mas firme to the max … looks like the big brother is hugging his fatherless familia in a Ollin Mills pic … simon … someone even has a SHAG in the total firme shadow pic …

BUTT in real vida … with the pinche sol shinning on it and all … chingow … it’s THERE … all cuddled … sometimes hiding under mi pinche chankla … simon … by the end of verano … it’ll be all pinche bruised from me stepping on it …

BUTT in the mean time … I continue to wear chanklas unidas… juarachis … thongs (por los pies) … I’m not a tennis slip-on vato … most cholos aren’t … winos are our cure …

And growing up … pues … this big toe cochinada … caused fucked up detriment and childhood scars to mujeres y hermanas … simon … mujeres with the BIG TOE are known for not wearing chanklas over a pinche lifetime … especially chocante sanTana cholitas … the closest they ever get are MARY JANES …

So here’s my cosa … not a foot fetish … chale … the thought of a stranger’s chankla en mi boca … pues … doesn’t do it for me … the thought of two chanklas … pues … that’s different … anyways … I always notice PATAS … simon … some gente remember names … want to know gente’s interest … ETC … for networking … politicking … power .. ETC … BUTT me … I notice PATAS … PATAS WITH A BIG TOE … I’m not always drawn to them … butt I do notice an APPEARANCE PATTERN AND SHITTT … simon … for the brave sexy mujer, it’s often the big and thick open shoe … followed by ropa that clicks with big thick zapatos … from patalones to skirts even cheesy shorts … there’s a trend … or pattern … tambien blusas … the blusas or tube topps compliment the big fat zapatos and big pinche toes … and when they wear a scarf and let it hang … pues … I know they’re fucking with me … BUTT en sanTana … scarves are an unfortunate rarity among hinas … a scarf fetish isn’t bad … hinas with the big toe syndrome … especially sanTana hinas … take care of their PATAS … and everything else … all else is clean and equal … or equally clean …

Then there’s the shy and weak embarrassed to the max big toe bigshots … they look like everyone else … in the closet … por vida …

One soft tanned Hermosa Beach vata told me it was ROYALTY to have such a big toe cosa … she told me some groovy superior tale … about wrapping it with bacon … she'd wear long pinche brown and orange toe socks for me ... and a burgandy or pastel scarf ... while me made sweaty, sweaty conversation on her NASA induced MEMORY FOAM mattress … tu sabes which one … while your vino is two feet away it won’t spill as you make those SPRING AND SUMMER FRUIT JUICES … on the other hand, my homie told me I was fucked … FOR LIFE …

Cal Worthington de sanTana Rifa ... (listening to What's The New Mary Jane)

2006-06-21T14:41:00.000-07:00

Pues ... if you're one of those RAZA gente that lives in a 99.9% gabacho barrio (you being the 0.1% OTRO) ... pues there's firme noticias ... simon ... you could be a LOCAL STORY en the LA TIMES ... simon ... just call that mensa LA Times reporter Jennifer Delson ...

Simon ... after all, the mensa wrote a wacky story ayer ... about a 51 year old gabacho who is stranded en the barrio ... the vato couldn't afford to live an OC's REALTOR'S VIDA ... simon, he's a real estate agent ... pues who isn't ... anyways ... the vato bought on BROADWAY STREET ... aqui en the golden city ... eses ... that's pretty bad ... I mean if I was going in with four outher familias to buy a casita for half a million en sanTana ... it wouldn't be on CALLE BROADWAY ... that's asking for it ... chale ... I'd buy one block away from CALLE BROADWAY ... in either direction ... just not CALLE BROADWAY ...

BUTT anyways ... Jennifer Delson writes how this gabacho has "upper-classed" out nuestra barrio ... "When Rush moved into his home, he brought the possessions of an upper-middle-class professional. Collections of cigarette lighters, cufflinks and walking sticks, cherry antique furniture, 2,500 books and 100 suits. He stuck a martini weathervane on the roof." .... ondale ... is she including yellow and white pages in the 2,500 cuenta ... and do plaid shorts with plaid camisas count as suits ... and walking sticks ... no saben ... every pair of Dickey pants purchased en sanTana includes one walking stick ...

Anyways ... the vato tambien brought booze and second hand smoke to nuestra barrio ... AND the vato squeals like a PUTA ... 'For more than a year, Rush had regularly complained to city officials about problem neighbors, particularly Pedro Reyes Rios, whom he nicknamed the "Cal Worthington of South Broadway." Reyes was selling cars parked on the street and in his yard.'

Pues ... how else do gente sell personal items ...

The stranded gabacho continues ... "A man's home is his castle," said Rush, 51. "I shouldn't have to be infringed upon by people selling cars, refrigerators and corn on the cob, plus people playing ranchera music at all hours of the day." ... ummm puessss .... if you move into a GOLDEN CIUDAD, you'll encounter GOLDEN MOMENTOS ... as in vendors and firme musica ... that's what makes a ciudad ... not tidy seaport neighbors or another puta galleria ... I mean ... Rush doesn't even have association pagos ... and he has the pinche audacity to fregar and shittttt ...

And it gets worse ... as Delson writes ... "Often, he would call police about noise late at night, as he stood on his porch having a cigar and a glass of Johnnie Walker Black Label."

BUTT there's a homie for the stranded gabacho ... simon ... a stranded gabacha ... Kathi Lapworth ... dice la Lapworth ... "Rush didn't understand that this section of Santa Ana would never look like Irvine, a master-planned community. I don't dislike him, but he just doesn't understand," she said. "He's one guy living in a house, and he doesn't seem to get the fact that there are houses here with more than one family living in them. That changes a lot of things about parking and the way a neighborhood is."

And he claims his actions are only to help improve and raise the property values aqui ... ese ... we have our own way of raising property values without ratting ... simon ... we sell to mensos ....

Quote Of The Day ... (listening to Mean Mr. Mustard)

2006-06-21T13:58:00.000-07:00

Pues ... it's martes ... BUTT still noticias ... with The Mexican on the Colbert Report ... BUTT check out this muchas gracias comment to OC Weekly on Clockwork Naranja ... "Amazing how you guys found such a hard-working, dedicated and inspiring journalist out in front of the Home Depot."

It's A Bird ... It's AeroMexico ... Chale ... It's The Mexican ... (listening to Jeff Beck)

2006-06-15T14:02:00.000-07:00

There's nada like LABOUR HISTORIA ... simon ... from the the Flint, Michigan wildcat strikes to the ferocious Emma Tenayuca ... and covering another labor historical event is Gustavo Arellano ... in Gunkist Oranges, The Mexican shows how, in 1936, "2,500 Mexican naranjeros representing more than half of Orange County’s crucial citrus-picking force dropped their clippers, bags and ladders to demand higher wages, better working conditions and the right to unionize" ... it's a must read ...

Tambien is The Mexican's opinion piece on MEChA in today's LA Times ... he begins with "THE REVOLUTION always finishes the same way: Someone claps. Then someone else. Someone else. Others join. More. Faster. More. Everyone in unison. Rhythmic. Louder. Faster. Finally, someone shrieks, "¡Qué viva la raza!" (Long live the Mexican race!). "¡Qué viva!" (May it live!), everyone screamed in response. And then we go off to continue the reconquista."

Entonces he ends with ... "Years later, I proudly call myself a Mechista. To be a Mechista is to care for those who face the same struggles you once did, to preach the gospel of education to immigrants so they can prosper and assimilate. To be a Mechista is to be American — an American with sore hands from so much clapping, that is."

What's interesting is that The Mexican refers to MEChA as a "Latino student club" ... and it is ... as an undergrad, our MEChA was probably 60% Central American, 35% Mexicano (wabs, though not from OC) and 5% Chicano ...

Firme work Gustavo ... although you'll never convince my pocha hermana who responds "NOD-DU" to "Que pasa" ...

4 RENT ... 4BDROOM ... 2BANOS ... $2,200 ... (listening to Bodhisattva)

2006-06-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

Pues … what happens when volunteers ponen un pinche JOSE SOLORIO FOR ASSEMBLY sign on your front yard … gente stare when passing … gente don’t give a damn … your vecino puts up a FOR RENT sign, and moves … pues ondale … en sanTana … it’s all the above …

De Veras … one dia I rec’d a call from the Solorio camp … asking for … pues support … then the vato asked if they could post a sign in my yard … pues … the sign came a few dias despues … and I didn’t even realize it … BUTT I did notice mi vecino’s pinche sign … 4RENT … 4BDROOM … 2BANOS … $2,200 … pinche vato … simon … only for the rico mojados …

Pues … I know gente don’t like Solorio … and more can’t stand Claudia Alvarez … and many don’t even know who that 3rd candidate was … BUTT … ondale … to move porque your vecino supports the vato con firme pelo … that’s a bit much … y tambien a bit bitchy …

That’s too bad … the vecino’s cool gente … grew up on a rancho … drinks all day … but has a firme chante … nice yard … over 100 plantas … I’ve counted … and a bizarre esposa … the vato is in his mid 30’s and already has one of those MEXICANO SHACKS atras … “you’re beyond your pinche years” … I tell him … simon … the shack has cable TV, bunk beds … it’s his chante away from chante … especially when he’s pounding Budweiser to the max …

One day the vecino called me over … I’ve known the vato for years … butt he still calls me MISTER … or CACOW (twin) … “MISTER” … “OYES CACOW” … he calls one day … he never makes cara contact at the ventanas … or never throws pebbles at my ventana … chale … the vato just yells “MISTER” … “CACOW” … and that pinche dia … he was with some homies … del pueblo … and they had a St. Bros bolsa … “Te gusta botas” … he asked as he pulled out pinche freaky red leather boots out of the bolsa … buy them … he said … the two pueblo homies were pinche feathered in gold and were either horse jockies or circus cosas …

Ahora the vato’s renting his chante for $2,200 … how many Mexican familias does it take to screw in un pinche light bulb then pay their renta of $2,200 … ondale … I’m assuming more than dos … plus single primos … single hermanos … and a compa just visiting from Guadalajara … pues … Guadalajara gente are too proud to rent a sanTana room … chale … they buy chantes en the desert … so the renter’s will have guest from some other pinche pueblo … is that good noticias … or should I just switch partidos …

And the great news es … es que he’s not knocking down the SHACK … chale … Y … he just enclosed ¼ of his pinche patio … so ahora its 6 bedrooms … y INFINITE banos … simon … he has a big yard … plus storage … simon … he has juguetes on his roof …

JOSE SOLORIO FOR ASSEMBLY … FOR RENT … 4 BDROOM … 2 BANOS … $2,200 …

sanTana Solicitors Are Metichis ... They Won't Die ... (listening to U2)

2006-06-09T13:11:00.000-07:00

Recently … pues miercoles ... there another was soft tortilla life knock on my firme front puerta … I was on the itty bitty telefono and walked to the firme puerta … I lost phone reception on the short walk over so I had to put up with the pinche knocker … it was some sanTana vato … with two firme sanTana hinas … almost a blind date … they were sanTana realtors …

I don’t always answer the knocks on mi firme puerta … BUTT I did this time because my firme front puerta was cracked open … just enough to let in fresh aire and perfect for a mocoso solicitor to put his boca in MY CRACK and yell “Sr. So Y So” … “Sr. So Y So” … a veces, they gritan “So Y So,” in my crack … simon … “So Y So” … simon … I don’t know how … but every pinche sanTana solicitor has mi nombre on their clip board … and they knock on mi firme puerta and call me to the firme puerta as if they’re familia … and their voice is compa friendly … has that ol’ sanTana homie tune …

ANDD … this latest tortilla life knock had that ol sanTana homie tune … tambien ... and it was a pinche RAZA realtor … simon … with two fine hinas … they weren’t here to talk to my ass … not about la pinche refinance or vende su chante and shattt … chale … it looked as they had campaigned big time … 10 barrios en 10 dias … they looked a bit pinche beat … en jeans … t-shirts … poco tirados … and they just wanted to hand me a TARBELL REALTOR flyer … not advertising casitas butt COPA MUNDIAL DE FUTBOL – FIFA … a WORLD CUP SOCCER SCHEDULE … that’s firme … it was just a pinche cheap 8x10 white paper … with a delgado rubber band stapled on the top left corner … all fucking crooked ... I mean talk about low cost, efficient, entertaining, the personal touch, sexy women y deportes and about quick sound bites – a WORLD CUP schedule …

And they just handed it to me … “Quien va ganar?” … he asked … that’s all it took … they told me about Mexico’s Argentinian coach and players and this and fucking that … butt at the bottom of this firme flyer were two photos … one of that vato who knocked and another of one of those fine hinas … she looks mas vieja in el pic … and he looks cleaner on film …

Tambien … lunes … there was another famoso tortilla life knock … and a big voca in my opened puerta crack … butt it was some … pues not to be mean and shit … but it was a puebla looking Latina … short … round … a nice permanent tan … black long hair … and a SOL camisa …”So Y So” … grito politely through mi firme puerta … “So Y So” … I opened the door and greeted the pretty lady with a “SIMON” … “QUE PASA” … she was knocking for JOSE SOLORIO … “CAN JOSE COUNT ON YOUR VOTE” … she said en espanol … “Why Solorio” … I asked … she smiled and stood there looking like my favorite cosita en el mundo … RAZA with straight bleached dientes … “QUE SUAVE DIENTES” … I told her … she got embarrassed … the vata knew that I knew that they were bleached … she thanked me for voting for SOLORIO … I asked her what she felt the overall attitude about SOLORIO was en mi barrio … and she said more gente needed to be registered … butt the registered folk … pues … they had good things to say about SOLORIO … they liked that he was a WAB … simon … the WABS en mi barrio could relate with this HARVARD WAB who was running for assembly …

Tambien … they liked his dictionary … she said what my vecino said … people actually had his dictionary on top of their refrigerators … tv’s … ETC … they didn’t throw it away …

Pues … simon … Jose Solorio printed and distributed to barrio sanTana households a pocket-sized dictionary … entitled Learn English: English – Spanish Dictionary … “Helping every Californian learn English …” Jose Solorio, Democrat for Assembly.

Pues … a firme pagina in this libro is “P” … I would provide a pagina number, but none exist in this libro … under “P” there is the following palabras: package, paid, pain, painkiller, painter, pair, paper, paragraph, park, parking, part, party, passport, past, patient, pay, paycheck, pedestrian, pen, penicillin, people, person, phone, photo, pick, pile, place, plastic, plate, play, point, police, politician, poor, possession, poverty, power, practical, practice, pray, president, pretend, principal, printer, prison, private, professor, profit, prosecutor, protect, prove, pull, push, put …

Ondale … reading these palabras … I see lots of cosas … trips to 7-11 on Standard and Mc Fadden … to Tijuana … to downtown sanTana … tamales … stand-by workers at Home Depot … pendejos who don’t pay these workers … Mexican man in a suit … that pueblo hina knocking on my firme puerta … a coconut … 4th street … Logan Park … Delhi Park … Bristle St. indoor swapmeet … guayaberas …

Tambien this vato wrote and distributed his autobiography … “Lessons I’ve Learned” … “who wrote it” … someone asked me … pinche intellectuals … I read it in AZ a few days ago … while visiting my other parent … he’s dying of lung cancer … due to social smoking plus 2nd hand smoke ... BUTT I skimmed SOLORIO rapido while by an AZ pool … with an AZ margarita … then I began reading “Clemente” by David Maraniss … anyways … Solorio writes about his experience as a field worker … all the way to outlawing pocket bikes … tax breaks for the rich … and suing W for the “No Child Left Behind” bullshit … and more … pues you can call his utopia safe and reader friendly … but BORING … Maraniss isn’t boring … he understands why gente engage en … sex, drugs y cumbias …

Ondale … BUTT in all this … I trip out on how all these sanTana solicitors, campaigners … and canvassers … ET AL all know mi nombre and probably yours … and how it sits on that pinche clip board … and how they feel comfortable … knock on mi firme puerta … stick their boca in my cracked door and call me by first name or by “Sr. So Y So” … I trip out … one even said she would have dropped by “ayer” but she knew I would he home …OOOPPPSSS … that’s freaky … BUT NOT BORINGGGGG …

Articles I y II ... (listenign to Jesus Is Just Alright)

2006-06-05T12:17:00.000-07:00

FACT… In 1998, the Autry Museum of Western Heritage presented Culture y Cultura: How the U.S.-Mexican War Shaped the West … the only major U.S. exhibition of its kind, it examined the historical, social and cultural forces of the war, the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the legacy that continues to affect Mexican American communities and people of the American West even today. Curated by Theresa R. Gonzalez, then assistant curator at the Autry Museum, the exhibit explored the forces that created and shaped a unique cultural identity from both sides of what has become the present border …

AND MORE FACTS … de Culture y Cultura: How the U.S.-Mexican War Shaped the West ET AL …

The Mexican-American War grew out of a US expansionist ideology known as Manifest Destiny. Interest in the lands to the west of the United States had been growing. Some of the lands in this region had become familiar to American mountain men as well as tradesmen who frequented the Santa Fe Trail. A few hundred Americans were already in California, coming by way of the California trail, and American ships had been exchanging various goods for hides and tallow all along the coast of California. All of this area was, before the Mexican-American war, the sovereign territory of the independent Mexican republic for some 30 years, and before that, part of the Spanish imperial claim in North America.

… When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, Mexico lost the northern frontier, which amounted to half of its territory. Mexican residents in the region faced the challenges of preserving their communities within a dramatically different culture.
Communities in Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona/Sonora developed in much the same ways as Spanish towns, but the distance from Spain and its government inevitably affected them, too. The communities continued to grow after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821.

Between 1820 and the mid-1840s, American citizens had begun entering Mexico in significant numbers, creating a natural exchange of commerce and culture. Many traded with Mexicans and married and assimilated into Mexican culture.

Regional tensions soon led to national conflict, which resulted in military hostilities. Declaring war in 1846, the United States began a three-pronged approach against Mexico -- south from Texas into northern Mexico, west from Kansas through New Mexico and into California and from Veracruz into Mexico City. After Americans occupied Mexico City, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war.

"Mexican American communities faced immense challenges with the establishment of a new government, new laws, a different language and economic changes," Gonzalez noted. "Over the past 150 years, social, economic and political power shifts have continued to evolve, and the culture of Mexican American communities has become an intrinsic part of the nation's character. These are some of the central issues we hope to address in Culture y Cultura."

Ummmmm … pues …. while the United States appointed Nicholas Trist and Mexico appointed Don Luis Gonzaga Cuevas and Jose Bernardo Couto and Don Miguel Atristain to negotiate a treaty between both sides … we see more characters emerge from Articles I y II from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo …

ARTICLE I
There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people, without exception of places or persons.

Pues ondale … “without exception of places or person” … it appears writers of this document knew too well que bad vibes and shattt would continue and extist between LOS VECINOS who just threw blows … so where do the MINUTEMAN and an attempted ENGLISH ONLY LAW ET AL all stand in all this “firm and universal peace” and “without exception of places or person” cochinada …

ARTICLE II
Immediately upon the signature of this treaty, a convention shall be entered into between a commissioner or commissioners appointed by the General-in-chief of the forces of the United States, and such as may be appointed by the Mexican Government, to the end that a provisional suspension of hostilities shall take place, and that, in the places occupied by the said forces, constitutional order may be reestablished, as regards the political, administrative, and judicial branches, so far as this shall be permitted by the circumstances of military occupation.

A convention was held on July 6, 1849 in San Diego … booze … broads … plumas y papel … and a temporary Border Commission was in fact created to carry out the 1848 Treaty … Polk appointed Ambrose Sevier, a young and newly elected Senator from Arkansas … but the vato died … so John B. Weller, an Ohio Congressman who then became Califas Congressman, stepped in … and from Mexico … Pedro Conde Garcia was appointed … juntos … Homies Unidos, Weller y Garcia drew the pinche migra line from San Diego to the Colorado River … and they obviously made campo for all SUV freaks at “THE RIVER” …

Weller eventually resigned because the vato was just pinche corrupt … John C. Fremont then steppend in … entonces the vato resigned after being elected a Califas lawmaker … entonces … este … John Russell Bartlett stepped in … this was 1850 … and when you consider the characters in this treatise play … it was skewed from the beginning …

The Border Commission then became the pinche International Boundry and Water Commission from Texas and still exist hoy … marking up the fucking mundo and shitttt …

Name That Treaty!!! ... (listening to I'm Your Puppet)

2006-06-01T15:08:00.000-07:00

Ondale … last night I listened to eduardo galeano on a talk show … simon … Open Veins of Latin America … We Say No … or is that CHALE … and the show’s host reading from her pinche AMERICAN LIST OF JOURNALIST PREGUNTAS asked what he would say to Condi Rice if he could meet with her … Galeano said he would tell her to keep quiet for a while … and listen to the voices of Latin America … and he’s right … BUTT not just about La Arroz … butt about todo … que no … especially about this IMMIGRATION … BARRY BONDS … LANCE ARMSTRONG COSA ...

And some TREATY DE GUADALUPE HIDALGO … Galeano would go for that ... que no … it never hurts to get some RAZA-TO-CHOLO facts in order …

BUTT primero … a sentence or two por la background …

Pues ... according to Richard Griswold del Castillo … the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War. Signed on 2 February 1848, it is the oldest treaty still in force between the United States and Mexico. As a result of the treaty, the United States acquired more than 500,000 square miles of valuable territory and emerged as a world power in the late nineteenth century.

Beyond territorial gains and losses, the treaty has been important in shaping the international and domestic histories of both Mexico and the United States. During the U.S.-Mexican War, U.S. leaders assumed an attitude of moral superiority in their negotiations of the treaty. They viewed the forcible incorporation of almost one-half of Mexico's national territory as an event foreordained by providence, fulfilling Manifest Destiny to spread the benefits of U.S. democracy to the lesser peoples of the continent. Because of its military victory the United States virtually dictated the terms of settlement. The treaty established a pattern of political and military inequality between the two countries, and this lopsided relationship has stalked Mexican-U.S. relations ever since.

Ondale … so … mira … aqui es the first paragraph of the TREATY OF GUADALUPE … or is it the opening paragraph … or statement of intent … or introduction … or whatever … chale … I never did take TREATISE 101 … by the way eses … is it really a treaty … or a contracto … or an agreement … or maybe just a pinche purchase order … check it out …

In the name of Almighty God:
The United States of America, and the United Mexican States, animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war which unhappily exists between the two Republics, and to establish upon a solid basis relations of peace and friendship, which shall confer reciprocal benefits upon the citizens of both, and assure the concord, harmony and mutual confidence, wherein the two Peoples should live, as good Neighbours, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries: that is to say, the President of the United States has appointed Nicholas P. Trist, a citizen of the United States, and the President of the Mexican Republic has appointed Don Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Don Bernardo Couto, and Don Miguel Atristain, citizens of the said Republic; who, after a reciprocal communication of their respective full powers, have, under the protection of Almighty God, the author of Peace, arranged, agreed upon, and signed the following: Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.

Ondale … not too pinche complicated but “animated by a sincere desire” … ondale … that’s hot … my hermana es muy animated con su cara as she burns gente … as for sincere desire … pues … sounds like a cool pervert … que no … chale ... and to "put an end to the calamities of the war which unhappily exists between the two Republics" ... what about GHETTO-MANIFESTO-D-AND SHATTT ... then there’s the magic palabra of “relations” … simon … it was suppose to be about building relations … simon … of paz and friendship … but what about partnership en building DAZ KAPITAL … “confer reciprocal benefits upon the citizens of both” ... is that it … mejor they should have written that all gente would just bowl solitos ... with balls, zapatos and lanes according to their RAZA ...

Then plenipotentiaries or ambassadors or reps … or BACK-UPS … were appointed to negotiate the treaty … Nicholas P. Trist was appt’d by U.S. President James Polk … he wound up being homies with Mexico … so the story goes … read aqui …Mexico’s Government appointed … Don Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Mexico’s Minister of Foreign Relations, State and Police … tambien Jose Bernardo Couto, a conservative lawyer … y Don Miguel Atristain, Chamber of Deputies President … similar to the Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representative …

Trist was a trippy vato … During the Mexican-American War, como te dije, President Polk sent Trist to negotiate with “the Mexicans.” He was ordered to arrange an armistice with Mexican President Santa Anna for $10,000. Santa Anna used the bribe money to bolster his defenses … so the cuenta goes … so Polk se enojo and was disgusted hasta las chanklas by his envoy's incompetence and prompted him to order Trist to return to the United States. General Winfield Scott, Trist’s backup, was also unhappy with Trist's presence in Mexico, although he and Scott quickly reconciled and began a lifelong friendship. However, the wily diplomat ignored the instructions. Known to have an overfluid pen, he wrote a 65 page letter back to the Polk explaining his reasons for staying in Mexico. He capitalized on a brilliant opportunity to continue bargaining with Santa Anna. Trist successfully negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848 … so the story goes …

Pues … orale … this is just one version de sanTana X-13 ... ahora talks among yourselves …

Loco Letters ... (listening to Both Sides of the Gun)

2006-05-31T23:20:00.000-07:00

Sabes que ... as I wait for eduardo galeano on Charlie Rose ... I'm reminded of a LETTER ... es que ... siempre ese ... I read the last chapter primero ... I always read reviews by TORTILLA WRITERS ... and when I read the OC Weekly ... I read Ask A Mexican first ... then I read the LETTERS ... simon ... alli the immigration debate continues ...

Simon ... check out this LOCO LETTER from the 25 de Mayo edition de OC Weekly ...

SLAY THE PALE HORSE
I hope ol’ Gus (Ask a Mexican) will not be offended but what I’m going to lay down is the absolute truth. I’m fuckin sick of going to any of my local stores and navigating my way through snot-nosed, loud, misbehaved young Mexican kids. If they’re not there, you can tell they were at some point cuz now I have to navigate through the mess like it was a Marine Corps boot camp obstacle course. Their mother, who usually is quite obese (thanks to plentiful government assistance) is oblivious to the notion that other people like to shop in reasonably kept stores. Discipline is rarely doled out. They say they come here for a better life, to do the jobs that blacks and whites won’t do. They say they are doing nothing wrong. They cry out in despicable self pity about how they have seven children and need to make money for their little undisciplined bambinos. Here’s a thought: quit breeding so much and deal with your economic situation before you drag innocent beings into your shitty world. The competition’s already stiff. What comes around doesn’t go around if you’re an American these days . . . it just goes. I’m talking about our tax dollars that goes into programs such as FREE day care in high schools—can you hear me Santa Ana Unified School District? Mayor Pulido! What bullshit. I had to put my ass on the line in the Corps to receive my well-earned G.I. bill to become a better-educated, well-respected citizen. It’s no wonder they took to the streets to protest . . . it’s not about the jobs. IT’S THE FREE BENNIES!! And don’t even get me started on the gang problems. I’m half Mexican and I had to knock their dicks in the dirt without using a gun when confronted only to be chased in gunfire. Good thing Mexicans have bad aim. No wonder they can’t win a war. My grandfather is a well-respected World War II veteran and business owner. Did I mention 100 percent Mexican? He was born here but with much less than any of you thankless illegals. How did he rise through the same ol’ shit that you guys are complaining about? Oh, I don’t know, how about assimilating to the American way, developing etiquette, not dropping out of school, and most important, keeping a sense of pride and dignity. I have long since given up on our crooked government so we now must take action. I am proposing an American walkout to the immigration problem, the high gas prices, and every other reason to wake the fat sleeping lazy cats in office. I’m sick of it all and we need to propel our society out of this dismal haze and depression. So I urge you fellow Americans and illegals who are going through the process who truly love this country and want to better it for ourselves and for our future generations to stand or sit in the name of taking back what’s ours. The government wants you to take your Ritalin, Lithium, Prozac, Oxycontin, Wellbutrin and any other mind-paralyzing drug to deal with these social ills. But we cannot have a paralysis of action. We need socially abrupt people, we need political incorrectness, we need colorful personalities. That’s what made America great in the first place, RIGHT? Let’s not let the government do away with the Hunter Thompsons and Oscar Zeta Gonzalezes of this great land. You might be next, OC Weekly, to be axed from printing your great publication. So let’s slay the pale horse that’s trying to control us and our future!
James Cregut
Via e-mail

What's al that about ... ondale ... here's the original link ... y-que ...

CURT-FUCKING-PRINGLE ... (listening to Dirty White Boy)

2006-05-31T14:28:00.000-07:00

Curt Pringle ... el guitado mayor and shit del barrio anacrime ... lost his battle to keep Arte Moreno's team as the "Anaheim Angels" ... Pringle doesn't like the new nombre ... Los Angeles Angels de Anacrime ... chingow ... who does ... BUTT it's all about branding and marketing the Angels to a larger marketa ... and not branding anacrime on Arte's fidea ... que no ...

Anyways ... KURT FUCKING PRINGLE and his council, minus una, approved a motion to appeal getting their asses kicked ... and they've put a max of $150,000 for legal fees ... nomas ... then there's the rumor that Arte will move the Angels if KURT FUCKING PRINGLE doesn't back down ... to where .... Arizona ... BLYTHE ... BIG MARKETAS ... ummmm puessss ... chale ... the vato has billions and Curt has a little league politcal career nomas ...

Anyways ... I'd write on ... pero I'd rather hang out con El Loco Jack Daniels de sanTana X-13...

I Need Mas Lechuga ... (listening to Black Tambourine)

2006-05-31T13:08:00.000-07:00

Simon … I always wanted to write about this character’s nombre … GINGI LECHUGA … that’s a totally trippy nombre … no creen … GINGI LECHUGA … gente siempre crack up at this nombre … they think I’m full of mentiras … anyways … this nombre has the HOLLYWOOD making of a RAZA RICHIE CUNNINGHAM … and not because of it’s innocent and SMALL BARRIO SOUND … chale … but because there is really a vato named GINGI LECHUGA de sanTana … simon … GINGI LECHUGA de DELHI …

And check this out … the vato has pelo rojo to the max … as a matter of fact it’s poco shocking and a fire canela … a firme color … the vato’s guero to the max … with pinche red freckles en su CARA … poco HOWDY DOODY AND SHATTTT …

Anyways … it gets mas firme … mas RICHIE CUNNINGHAM de DELHI … simon … GINGI was sanTana’s first rockabilly vato … wearing his blue jeans cuffed like a MADRE in 2nd grade … simon … set with his pinche white camisas or plaid shirts … sleeves were rolled up como loco … chingow … we just thought he was a BADD DRESSER … A TOTAL WAB or LOP or WHATEVER … the vato wore actual BLUE SUEDE SHOES … and … I know this sounds too pinche CORNY … and sanTana’s meanest jelly roll pelo … simon … all in the 2nd grade … ondale … he was mas chingon than da JAMES BROWN WABS in polyester …

And this wasn’t the pinche sanTana norm … chale … the sanTana norm was was a single parent chante … a latchkey-nino lifestyle … TACO MEAT CON NOODLES aka SPAGHETTI … “what do you damn kids want … tacos o spaghetti” … “TACO BELL, mom” … “HAYYY TU, TACO BELL” … cords … Van’s … and an Op or Hang Ten or Lightning Bolt camisa with a crease down the center … and a PEE CHEE folder …

Anyways … he also had an hermano … toda roja … everywhere …

They were always fucking modeling their pinche school clothes to their primos or tios …

His familia was a trip … his apa … god bless his sole … an ARMY VETERANO … and the apa’s homies would drive up the LECHUGA drive way in the family 4-puerta light blue LTD … four hombres came out of this carucha … went to the trunk … opened the pinche trunk and out walked a pinche chiva … all fucking tapado and shit from the drive … ondale … two hits to the cabeza … KILLER CHIVA can salsa verde … and BUDWEISER … and TEQUILA para todos …

The next day there were pinche limas everywhere in their yard … their firme outdoor brick tables and love seats capped with bright cobalt blue and amarillo and café tile HECHO EN MEXICO were filled with LA LOCA VIDA … BUDWEISER CANS … limas …limones … pots and pans … and todo was filled with MOSCAS … simon … when you’d walk by the MESA and SILLAS … simon … moscas to the max would swarm para el norte …

And his ama … walking around the casita singing HARPER VALLEY PTA … mujeres, con respecto, can be a damn trippp ...

Tambien … this vato was the first vato I knew who had a BUILT-UP swimming pool … simon … a pool built above the ground out of firme red brick … and that firme HECHO EN MEXICO tile … all left over from their mesas and sillas and their TJ trip to buy their COCHINADAS …

… NOW this vato is a para-rock-a-billy star … touring los estado unidos … espana … ETC … as part of VICKY TAFOYA AND THE BIG BEAT … simon … VICKY tambien is a sanTana homegirl … tambien de DELHI …

Garden Grove Murders Linked to Porn? ...

2006-05-30T22:04:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... this is too trippy ... the triple murder of a Vietnamese family in Garden Grove ... has possible ties to the porn industry ... dice Porn-industry watcher Rodger Jacobs ...

Jacobs site posts que:
"There was a triple murder in the 8700 block of Summercrest Circle in Garden Grove, CA over the weekend. A child, a 20-something woman, and a 30-something man. No exact names yet, no exact address. However, it is a circle ending in a cul-de-sac, and I count only 5, maybe 6 dwellings (Google Maps zoom function = a beautiful thing) 8731 Summercrest would be the first dwelling on the right as you enter the cul-de-sac. In a photo in the OC Register, it appears the address where all the police vehicles are parked may indeed be 8731. And here is a hit I get a few times on the web when I search that address:

Dusk Til' Dawn ProductionsC. Cleveland8731 Summercrest CircleGarden Grove, CA92844

C. Cleveland is one Curtis W. Cleveland, possibly 48 years old. Another search I did tied him to this address, perhaps in the past:

2964 REDWOOD AVECOSTA MESA, CA 92626

And that is tied to Dusk til' Dawn, which produces porn, again. There's more, but as I'm only feeling out these connections in an effort to find out more I won't bore you with it. I just thought you might know a little more about Dusk til' Dawn or Cleveland, and also that you might find it an interesting story to follow."

Tambien dice Rodgers que From Dusk 'Til Dawn Productions produces a lot of XXX gonzo, including the popular lines "Beach Bunnies with Big Brown Eyes" and "Amateur Cream Pies."

Ondale ... and if you punch 8731 Summercrest Circle Garden Grove into Google ... you get many pinche hits including a MySpace hit ... in which there's a pinche posting for a PARTY at that Summercrest chante ... linking you to fotos of that fiesta ...

ESE ... Guess What Country Cottage Serves ... (listening to I Wanna Get Next To You)

2006-05-30T12:43:00.000-07:00

Somewhere along the pinche 10 FWY … in the FIRME BUTT CALIENTE Coachella Valley … there we were … alli cruising the freeway … tambien sitting in traffico … simon … in EL BARRIO DE LA MARANA – LA CORKY LARSON DE CVAG …. she’s a pinche skagg llena de sus pinche mentiras … EL BARRIO DE CLINTONITE GREGORIO CERVANTES … DE LA REPUBLICANA FUCHI – LA BONNIE GARCIA … why is this pinche hina’s calzones always on the Califas Legislative agenda … up for discussion … Best Best & Krieger’s turf … home of the WHITE BLANKET fiestas hated by WILLIAM KLEINDEIST where este vato sat as pinche Mayor of Palm Springs, enjoying la vida, when he was beaten to the max, to everyone’s surprise, by Ron Oden, a GAY BLACK MAN, en 1995 … Oden was re-elected Mayor en 2003 … BUTT HOY, KLEINDEIST, an 8-5 mocoso architect, remains MASTER DE PINCHE CEREMONIES hosted by Inland Empire associations of gov, councils of gov, commissions and otro pinche SPECIAL DISTRICT Y AUTHORITY Y JOINT POWER COCHINERAS … the 909 LEADERSHIP despises the “HOTO” …

BUTT anyways … alli en el freeway … there was nada de reception por el radio … the search button went pinche loco … BUTT there was ruido on AM … on 3 stations … all talk radio … ABOUT SPORTS … AND TWO ABOUT IMMIGRATION … simon … the sports cosa ragged on EL BARRY BONDS … calling him anything but abled … PUES WHAT’S THE NEW FUCKED UP CHISTE … HE’S SO LAZY, his genes haven’t had a REAL job since slavery … THAT’S FUCKED UP … these talk freaks where there … so lo cambie … and there was pinche talk radio on immigration … calling us fucking FUCKERS, basically … saying were just workers and shit … BUTT we started cracking up … simon … talking about other FUCKERS we knew … hablando de nuestra maestros en escuela … Mrs. Ettinger, who never wore a bra … simon … the vatos always had a luncheon for her during the last week of school and the vata would wear her mesh/net blusa … GRACIAS Mrs. Ettinger … tambien fue Ms. Schwartz … she’d always bump into Mr. Henry’s pinche huevos … simon … nomas faltava el peanut butter in her mano … entonces there were those maestros who’d constantly call their casas during the rainy season … simon, it use to rain … just to make sure their NEWPORT casas were surviving the waves and shit … they’d leave the classrooms with just nosotros supervising …

BUTT in between the GABACHO IMMIGRATION TALK there were pinche cheezy commercials … this aged financial planner calling the winter birds … this aged insurance vato calling the non-agriculture clients … pero sabes que … I LOVE CHEEZY … simon … I’m a fan of cheezy to the max … tambien me gusto cosas CORNY … simon … REAL CHOLOS LOVE COSAS CORNY … TU TU RU … BUT WE JUST MAINTAIN … BUTT there was this trippy commercial about COUNTRY COTTAGE RESTAURANT … ON THE 10 FWY … OFF DILLON ROAD IN INDIO … said the commercial … MOLE ON SATURDAYS … dijo el radio … simon … the COUNTRY COTTAGE went from date shakes and pimento loaf sandwiches and mashed potatoes and steamed carrots to Menudo on Sundays … Monday enchiladas … Taco Tuesday … Miercoles is now grilled pollo … Jueves improved to Flautas … Disco Friday is pescado … simon … all this COMIDA RAZA AT THE COUNTRY COTTAGE … told to us on behalf of pinche GABACHO air time ragging on us ON THE RADIO as we ragged on braless and ball grabbing maestras …

Ondale … BUTT I do wonder how those meals taste … when a gabacho bites into a taco and says “those damn Mexicans … all of them …” or when they grab that big long fat flauta and deep throat it and say “remember the gold old days” … or when they say “NEVER” then order enchiladas …

PINCHE GENTE …

A Guerrero Mood ... (listening to Ry Cooder)

2006-05-26T13:19:00.000-07:00

A firme cancion sung by Lalo Guerrero with Ry Cooder on guitar ... y Joe Rotondi on piano ...

LOS CHUCOS SUAVES

Carnal, pongase abusado,
Ya los tiempos han cambiado.
Usted esta muy aguitado,
Y hasta buti atravesado.

Antes se bailaba swing,
Boogie-woogie, jitterbug.
Pero esto ya torció.
Y este es lo que sucedió.

CORO:

Pachucos suaves bailan rumba,
Bailan la rumba y le zumba.
Bailan guaracha sabrosón,
El botecito y el danzón.

Cada Sábado en la noche
Yo me voy a borlotiár
Con mi linda pachucóna.
Las caderas a menear.

Ella le hace muy de aquellas
Cuando empieza a guarachar.
Al compas de los timbales,
Yo me siento petetear.

CORO

Friday Chismes ... (listening to Steely Dan Alive In America)

2006-05-26T12:10:00.000-07:00

Puesssss ... mira chismosos ... Naranjaville chismes ... quieres un pinche home run ball for your Naranjaville collection que rifa X-13 ... attend an Angels game ... they're going over ... pinche Angels ... in a pinche slump ... Arte's reponse ... trade vatos Adam Kennedy even Sr. Bartolo Colon, last year's American League Cy Young winner, if they don't get their shit together ... And the halos are serious about paying WHATEVER to get Red Sox ace Manny Ramirez ... that be firme ... but so would CANNED SEX ...

Tambien ... NEW SPY STORE EN sanTana ... simon ... this AM I was cruising sur on Calle Main aqui en nuestro pueblo, entonces ... right next to one of Mike Harrah's twins, the OC Pavillion ... pues there was a van parked with a ticker cosa tape ... red letres flashing como loco on the van's ventana ... GRAND OPENING ... SPY STORE ... pues ... who needs a spy tiendita ... our message is clear and simple ... VIVA LA RAZA, con apple pie ....

Anyways vatos ... chismes de EL LAY ... a new read ... simon ... You-Tú is a "new Los Angeles-based bilingual national title for the Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community," according to LA Observed ... simon ... so if you buy your suits at Sears ... pues this cosa ain't para usted ...

Entonces ... seems like MEChistas at Pasadena Community College estan todos aguitados ... seems like the campus papel shuns their hard work ... according to El Mayor Sam ...

BUTT anyways ... LATER ...

Nomas Aqui ... Joshing Con Usted ... (listening to Whipped Cream & Other Delights)

2006-05-24T11:19:00.000-07:00

Aqui ... mira ... here's an interesting 2003 interview with Josh Kun, Asst. Professor de Ingles at UC Riverside ... he speaks about musica crossing boundaries vs. marketa ownership of this cultura good ... some geo-politikos of musica ...

Interview With Victoria Cuellar, Angeline Shaka, and Josh KunHemispheric Institute of Peformance and Politics, Spectacles of Religiosity, NYU, July 19, 2003

Vicki: A lot of music is brought over to the U.S. and packaged as Mexican, or Chilean or African. Can a group of people, an ethnic group, or a nation claim or can it claim ownership to a music from- legally or theoretically?

Josh: […] It really depends on the case- not to be evasive about it but I think there are moments when ones claims of ownership over his/her or any other performance or cultural act is strategic and necessary. For example, in the mass marketing of world music, the importance of claiming Mexican or claiming Chilean, within this theme of world Music is crucial, because world music’s job is to completely despecify where music comes from in order to package it to U.S. consumers into some sort of appealing exotic commodity; so that the specification in some cases is really important.

No, this isn’t world music, this doesn’t belong to the world…universal language […] but in fact it comes from a specific country, more importantly, a specific region, a specific neighborhood, a specific block and a specific stylistic place in history.That said, the flipside of that is that ownership can also overlook and eradicate the cultural realities of music’s history. So that when you talk about a certain category of music that can be categorized as Mexican when in fact it’s an indigenous Indian music- and there is a long history and debate between the national category and the ethnic cultural category of the Indian and the way that the identity of the Mexican and particularly the Mexican mestizo has eradicated the identity of the indio in the name of the Mexicans, so then it becomes important to say no, it’s not Mexican it’s Indian. So, these battles go on all the time.

Here is one example that ties into this: Herbie Mann, who is jazz flautist died about two or three weeks ago, was well known for mixing jazz, and African American blues with music from Brazil, Africa, Japan, and the Middle East. He was pretty much known as one of jazz’s most important figures in creating cross cultures. Herbie Mann’s white, he is Jewish born Herbert Solomon and when he died The New York Times ran this obit that was very interesting about him that basically positioned his whole life as a series of cultural crossings. Right before he died he recorded an album called Eastern European Roots. The Times quoted Mann as saying: “This is the real me. Finally I’ve come back to what I really am.” Yet he was from Brooklyn and it raises these great questions. Is the real him these roots that he can romanticize and come back to that he owns? This is Mann: Eastern European and Jewish. Or is it Brazil and Japan, the Middle East all these places he clearly felt the need to go and that he clearly felt the desire to go to - why isn’t that him as well? And why doesn’t he own that as much as he owns this other category? […]

Toni Morrison has this great line about music. She says: “It slaps and it embraces:” just when you think you get it, it kicks you in the ass. It does what it’s not supposed to; just when you think you’ve mastered it, you learn something. And this happens to me as a scholar and writer. I write music all the time, when I think all right I’ve theorized this piece of music to death, it comes from this and this and that, someone will say, “yeah but did you know that chord is actually African?” And I’ll say, “okay”, and I’ll go and I’ll trace the history of that chord and in fact, that chord is actually from Southern Spain that made its way down into Central Africa. And in southern Spain it was this and this and this. A lot of what I try to do in my work instead of focusing questions of ownership as essences or as self evident modes to use the space of music itself to focus on the migrations within it to talk about what happens inside a song how you can get inside an album, or a song or a few musical moments and from within that see the maps that are there. Instead of paying attention to the fixed product or the essence, pay attention to the travels. To all the crossings that begin to happen in the song. That’s how I tend to think musically and see any claim in ownership as perhaps necessary, but always as a strategic move, always as a constructed move. […]

Let’s remember where the roots of the stuff are. It becomes important to make sure that the previous mixtures or the previous histories of what we have now should not be forgotten. Because it’s very easy in the marketplace- there’s no history- no one likes to be an historian in the space of the pop marketplace- it’s all about the contemporary, it’s all about the right now, it’s instant- you know what is this what does it mean to the future? That’s what the New York Times – the L.A. Times likes to put a spin on it. They’re not interested in the history they’re not interested in the facts they’re interested in the trends. […] And so, there is a kind of crisis of history in the way that music is talked about in the popular imagination. So it is important to always sort of balance the- all right, these mixtures are here, they’re everywhere, no question this is the kind of manic multi-culture we’re all living in BUT lets not forget that when you’re buying- if a suburban white kid in Ohio is buying an N’Sync record that they know where this record comes from.

VC: Do you think there is ever a point where you can no longer trace these roots back? Where it becomes this whole new thing and it’s just really hard to pick apart…?

JK: […] There will always be someone that can trace it back, can the average listener always do that – should the average listener always do that? I’m not an advocating for that. I think you should enjoy music how you want to enjoy music. You should get what you want out of it. But as a critic I feel like that’s my job. And that’ s all I can speak about. When I write about a piece of music I will always try, before I write about it, historicize it in my head; trace its history. Create the maps, create the lineage, and then decide what to do with it. I might ignore it or I might make it all about that. But I think the critics role while it is the same as the fan’s role in the sense that you’re suppose to listen, you’re suppose to enjoy, you’re suppose to get off on it feel it. Great. But the critic is then a critic for one reason ok then you have to take a step back and look at it critically. […]

VC: […] You did a really good job of giving us a good example of the space of Tijuana, the sounds, the smells, the attitudes- what’s going on there. What happens when you bring something like Nortec- fusion music, and bring it to Carnegie Hall and people buy expensive tickets, and it’s a formal setting. What happens when you change that dynamic of audience or space?

JK: It [Nortec Collective's music*] changes. It’s very different. When they started they were playing small clubs. They were playing a lot of museum gallery shows wherever they could play because there weren’t a lot of spaces. Kids were showing up they were like rave parties basically. Mainly Tijuana kids although there were a lot of San Diego kids there as well, and it was very much a vocal audience to whom this music was speaking to like an anthem in the way that [Nirvana’s] “Smells Like Teen Spirit” galvanized a generation. Particularly a demographic U.S., that’s exactly what their music was doing- best corollary.

So, when it comes to Carnegie Hall what happens? Well, it’s not the same audience, it’s not Tijuana, it’s not in an historic venue that means something to the people of the city, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not as powerful and moving it just has a different register. […] So, to answer the original question does it change? Absolutely. I feel like that’s its job: to go out there and play to different audiences to create different spaces. What they’re doing for PR for Tijuana is incredible. People are for the first time thinking of Tijuana when they hear Nortec as a modern city. Anybody who knows the city knows that not only is it modern but it’s post-modern before anyone knew what post-modern was. And still it’s thought of as a dusty unpaved little third world town, and it’s not. So Nortec is the first thing that has broken internationally and people are like “Wow! This is so modern, so contemporary it comes from where? They have this there? Ya’ll have electricity?” There’s that kind of a stereotype that needs to be broken down. I think they’ve done a lot of work in terms of changing the perception of their city. It’s certainly not what motivates them it’s something that makes them very happy, to be able to say look this is where we come from and this is us. [...]

VC: So is it important to contextualize the performance or the music before it happens or do you think people actually get a sense of Tijuana?

JK: […]I think context really helps with them. But not knowing it doesn’t limit your ability to appreciate and enjoy their music. That’s also why they work. I’ve heard their stuff in Urban Outfitters playing because it sounds good. […] It’s good music and that in the end is one of the most important things. Just like anyone else the context is important but it’s only important because the music is that good.

*Nortec Collective is a music group based out of Tiujana, Mexico that blends traditional Mexican music with electronica.

And for you VENTURE RAZA KAPITALISTAS ... the marketa is open to trademark the entire cholo vocabulary of "Q-VO" and "CHALE" plus "CHECK IT OUT" and the infamous "PINCHE GUEY" ...

Baby Lou Dobbs ... RUN!!! (listening to Maggie May)

2006-05-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

We've all met a pinche vecino lop or wab named AMERICA ... simon ... there's actually RAZA who name one of their ninos AMERICA ... or is that AMERIKKKA ... que no ... entonces there's RAZA like mi pinche vecina who name their nino after their SHOPFLOOR OPPRESSING JEFE ... and we've all met a YESICA ... ahora ... the POCHO HOUR OF POWER RADIO SHOW is offering $500 worth of baby items to the first illegal alien who names his/her nino LOU DOBBS ... simon ... is that loco o que ... THERE GOES THE BARRIO ...

The loco POCHO HOUR is hosted by satirists Lalo Alcaraz and Esteban Zul ... on their site, dicen que, "It is the Pocho Hour of Power's contention that today's modern immigrant is assimilation minded and generally eager to please. Today's undocumented immigrant is the uninformed American of tomorrow. Americans have a great tradition of naming their offspring after public figures, like John Wayne, Ronald Reagan and Archie Bunker. What could be more patriotic than naming your baby after a beloved American bigot?" ... Thus ... Therefore ... As a pinche result ... o como quieres ... POCHO HOUR claims that BABY LOU DOBBS "promises to gurgle adorably and work cheaply" ...

These vatos air on KPFK 90.7 FM , Fridays at 4pm ... Y-QUE ...

More on the POCHO HOUR OF POWER RADIO SHOW
Tambien on LA CUCARACHA by Lalo Alcaraz ...

I Am Orange County ... (listening to Across 110th Street)

2006-05-23T23:44:00.000-07:00

Sr. Professor Alexandro José Gradilla de Cal State Fullerton emails me a LA Times article on a firme local film, I Am Orange County, made by sanTana estudiantes ...

The filmmakers are estudiantes de sanTana High School, Carr Intermediate School, César Chavez High School and Community Day School and the projecto is part of a digital storytelling project to assist the at-risk youth in telling the story of their lives through their eyes ... I Am Orange County, is a 30 minute documentary which highlights two aspects of these estudinates ... the immigrant experience and challenging media misrepresentations of Orange County youth ...

I Am Orange County will be shown June 3rd, 2006 at the Orange County Children’s Therapeutic Arts Center, 2215 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706

Check out the Times article aqui ...

Links ... Y No Links ... (listening to Long Time Woman)

2006-05-23T23:13:00.000-07:00

Pues ... excuse me for my links that were deleted ... I haven't had a chance to update them since getting that pinche face transplant ... to be replaced soon ...

The Five Gente You Meet En sanTana ... (listening to Hello Josephine)

2006-05-23T15:31:00.000-07:00

Ondale … la otra dia someone asked me about what came to mind when I thought of sanTana … pues … the first cosa was this pinche firme sweetheart … simon … her ojos are a pinche dagger … pero de veras … I’d say pues ... RAZA … lots of RAZA …

Butt the truth is … Seinfeld was right … word association games are puro nonsense … mira ... ORANGE COUNTY … VD ………… apples … lowrider ………………… DANDRUFF … VD … ves, es nada ...

BUTT the verdad es … que if you ever cruise through or have a chante aqui en sanTana … you’ll meet tons of gente from all pinche over … players … wiseguys … payasos … workers to the max … serious folk … shakers … many millionaires … too many pesants … AMERICAN FLAGS … ISRAELI FLAGS tambien … you see vatas with brushes in their back pockets … 15 year olds who look 35 and 45 year old gente who want to be 16 … you’ll see too many camel toes … in the ‘70s you might have seen bulges wrapped in polyester … Hay, que Santa Claus … BUTT no cotton fields … no KINKDADE BARRIOS … no LEPRECHAUNS … nor El Woody Allen on Tuedays or Jueves en los calles … y-que … a few Chicanos … UNCLE SAM in his Sunday best – creased brown Levi cords, bell bottoms cuffed … a blue preppy Pendleton with red stripes, tambien creased … black earth sapatos … walking around with his fucking blue 3” thick bandana above … carrying su pinche Wild Turkey on the rocks … battering around nomas … going to see Jimmy por un rato …

Tambien … there are some gente you can never get enough of …

How about that fucking vato … el cocinero … simon … the mojado works at every fucking outdoor restaurant … the cabrone has un mano to kill for … his costillas are too firme … to die for … total killer with his home made thick corn tortillas … se cocina los costillas con los juesos … en chili COLORADA … he’s a cool dude and aims to please to the max …

Tambien … el pinche retarded driver aqui … simon … this vato gives RAZA a bad rap … he’s the cabrone pendejo who drives like a fucking manyaco … speeding through everywhere everytime blasting sus pinche ranchero musica … what a fucking cheap thrill … que no … his carucha is pinche banged up to the max … every corner … every time … but el pendejo started driving when he was in his thirities … his coordination is a retard … simon … he’s a retarded driver … que no … he’s a pueblo driver who couldn’t afford a carucha en su pueblo but aqui en sanTana he cruises and fucking crashes … he doesn’t drive like the stuck up mensos who took DRIVER’S ED … all coordinated and shit … or those gente who drove by 12 en los pueblos … he gives us a bad rap …

DON LIQUOR STORE … simon … these gente are cool … these tiendita owners are cool humble gente … they closed on May 1 … but might have eaten out that day … y-que … simon … they have customers to the max … for todo … the have state of the art cash registers tambien … but the register puerta stays open 24/7 … the register buttons still have the plastic cover … they’re virgins … and every purchase ends in 0 or 5 … $3 … $2.25 … $0.75 … somewhere, somehow tax is in there … y-que … you can hear all the pinche nickels and dimes land in the machine … no receipt … their greetings are the customer service and trust … they’re cool folk …

Tambien … los walking gabachas … simon … a las noonish … siempre hay 3-4 gabachas who walk the calles … simon … taking theiry DAILY WALK to the max … con sus tennis sapatos y pansas … simon … they’re maestras … secretaries … admin folk … ETC … who work las escuelitas or in school district admin aqui on Calle Chestnut on their break for a break from alienation … cruising nuestra cosa for fresh air and to CHECK OUT WHERE “THEY” LIVE … y-que …

And there’s seguros … or is that seguras … simon … this cosa is on every corner 24/7 … SEGUROS … SEGURAS … ss cards … all IDs … no eye contact … no assurance … no nada … he can tell he’s wasting his time … pero one vendido and he’s made a meal and some pisto … and if you’ve never heard him … pues maybe you have a penocha on your forehead … anyways … these gente never die …

Ondale … that’s what came to mnd ... nuestra official unofficial volunteer welcome and beautification cultural RAZA committee and shitttt … and if you're cruising aqui with gente de out of town ... nomas diles que it's HOLLYWOOOD BEING REDEVELOPED ...

Barrio LPGA ... (listening to Rocky Raccoon)

2006-05-21T23:29:00.000-07:00

Lorena Ochoa de Guadalajara, Mexico currently leads the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) in earnings ... after winning $195,000 at the Sybase Classic over the weekend, Ochoa's total earnings for 2006 is $1.1 million ... not too shabby for a wabby ... que no ... read more about her win aqui ... or about her LPGA ranking aqui ... or just cruise her website ...

Her energy and humbled nature are impressive to the max ... she displays deep respect for her peers, the game and for Mexico ... as a matter of fact, green, white and red can be found on her towels or club handles or elsewhere ...

Mexicano Mexico Trip ... (listening to Why Don't We Do It In The Road)

2006-05-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

A couple years ago … I was at an IKEA tienda … I was cruising the mesas looking for a PC cochinada … simon … and as I was cruising alli, I saw a something trippy … a few feet from me was a group of pinche rancheros … simon … with their whole pinche bet … this was a group of four older men … abuelos … and they had Levi’s on … plaid shirts … their pinche pointed boots … and there firme sombreros … simon … their skin was leather brown … and wrinkled and they spoke and laughed softly … simon … they were from the ranchos … kicking it at IKEA … waiting for their viejas … or like me cruising for a mesa …

I was expecting their pinche caballos to come from no where and pick them up … or for one to stir the carnitas … or hechar mas pisto … or something …

BUTT now these vatos don’t have to make that IKEA trip … chale … especially if they’re buying cochinada for their annual trip to Mexico … where they leave todo for their familias including their pinche calzones … simon … that’s how these MEXICANO MEXICO trips are … the men take all this bullshit back to the rancho and pass it around to their pobre primos ETC as they wear every pinche piece of jewelry they own on their fat dedos … they leave with five suitcases … return con nada … not even with their white JC Penny t-shirts or supermans …

PUES … I was raised by a single ama de Tejas … so I didn’t have to put up with the pinche MEXICANO MEXICO trips and shit … but mi vecinos did … and every pinche ano … and they resented their apas going on these MEXICANO MEXICO trips … simon … it sucked …

ANYWAYS … now … LIVERPOOL has a substitute to these pinche trips … simon … about a week ago … I received a pinche hoto pink 8½ X 11 envelope … simon … pink with rose colored stripes and white plain/empty space to the max … but the pink stood out and made me tingle adentro … anyways … ahora … LIVERPOOL, a pinche famosa tienda en Mexico … has a U.S. CATALOG EN ESPANOL … simon … and anyone can order furniture … from this tienda by dialing a pinche 1-866 number and have that cochinada delivered to familia en Mexico … simon … it’s a 45 page catalog with sofas … mesas … cosas WHIRLPOOL y SAMSUNG … recamaras … colchones … ETC … ETC … ETC … $700, $800 … $1,7000 are popular numbers in the catalog …

The catalog reminds me of that pinche IKEA experience … it has very pinche modern muebles … leather sofas … chrome fixtures … ETC … with an inset foto of a puebla abuela on the side of the paginas … tambien … I think one of those vatos with the leather skin at IKEA also modeled for one of those inset pics … simon … pues … the catalog with new muebles and old gente gives it a WABBY CHIC feel … and while I see my IKEA homies … I also see pinche NOVELA FURNITURE … simon … that same furniture that looks like hot air would knock it down … pues … it’s now available to the 12 million …

There is a bright CHICALI lime green sofa that’s pretty cool … simon … with this cosa, eclectic possibilities are pinche endless … tambien … there’s a narrow stove, half the width of a pinche one purchased from Sears at South Coast Plaza … and the washing machine is also narrow … but the pinche TV’s are fucking massive … put one of these pinche TV’s in a Tijuana home that sits on the cliff with a bitching view of the ocean and HUGE satellites and kiss that pinche casa good bye … these TV’s must weigh a pinche ton …

ANYWAYS … this sounds like a good idea … shipping muebles to familia en Mexico … besides, MEXICANOS might be tired of the same old JC Penny ropa after 2 o 3 fucking decades anyways … butt if I was that MEXICANO making that MEXICO trip … I might prefer the old days … simon … the MEXICANO MEXICO trip … simon … it would give me the very pinche necessary excuse to take off my pinche calzones and throw them at the familia …

D.F.'s Mota War Y Mas .... (listening to Englishman in New York)

2006-05-21T21:24:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... here's a pinche update on La Ciudad ... Mexico ... from The Economist ...

Riots and tears

San Salvador Atenco, a town on the outskirts of Mexico City, saw an outbreak of riots in early May. The conflict began after police tried to prevent unlicensed flower vendors from setting up shop in the street, and violence quickly escalated. Angry residents kidnapped and beat six policemen (who have since been released). In response, thousands of police stormed the town, arresting more than 200 people. A teenager was killed, dozens on both sides were injured, and more than two-dozen women have filed complaints of sexual assault by the police with Mexico’s human-rights watchdog.

Order has been restored, but on May 11th hundreds of demonstrators blocked roads into Mexico City to rally against police brutality and demand the release of the arrested protesters. The riots—and the images of police beating residents on the nightly news—have stained the image of Mexico’s outgoing president, Vicente Fox, who had pledged that his administration would part with Mexico’s authoritarian past. Various agencies have promised to launch investigations of human-rights violations, but it will probably be some time before such abuses are fully explained.

Pass the joint, oh, and the bill

Another recent rally in Mexico City was more relaxed: 500 protesters gathered on May 6th for a marijuana “smoke-in” to criticise an about-face by Mr Fox on a drugs bill. The president had promised to pass (and had helped design) a bill to decriminalise possession of small amounts of most drugs, a measure that the bill’s supporters say would free up police to pursue dealers and traffickers instead of small-time users. Both houses of congress had passed the bill, but Mr Fox, under pressure from America, abruptly reversed course on May 4th. Some Mexican legislators say they may override the president’s veto.

The protesters at the smoke-in were joined by Patricia Mercado, the presidential candidate of the Alternative Social Democratic party, whose strong showing in a recent presidential debate bumped her up in the polls—though her support base is still paltry, at 3-4%. Ms Mercado declined to light up, but said she supported the decriminalisation of marijuana.

See article: Just (don't) legalise it, May 4th 2006.

Borderline

As the fight over immigration rages on in America’s cities and Congress, politicians and activists in Mexico are struggling to define their role in the debate. Mexican protesters tried to support immigration rallies in America on May 1st by boycotting American goods, but few abided by this plan. That same day locals marching in an annual labour day parade in Mexico City declared solidarity with immigrants across the border, even as Mr Fox insisted that his government neither supported nor opposed the boycotts.

Mr Fox has had trouble promoting a solution to the immigration quandary. Two weeks later he phoned George Bush, America’s president, to protest against Mr Bush's proposal to put National Guard troops along the border, only to back down when Mr Bush assured him that he was not going to militarise the border.

For background see: More marches, a growing backlash, May 4th 2006.

Taking back the streets

Yet another protest, this one more genteel, took place in late April on the streets of the upscale Condesa neighbourhood. At issue was a basic right of the upper-middle class: parking. About 80 residents blocked streets to protest against over-zealous valet attendants who park cars in their driveways. The density of restaurants in Condesa and the lack of parking garages mean that even the local Starbucks has valet service. In response to the demonstration, the local restaurateurs’ association promised to hire security guards to police the valet attendants and make sure that they park only in legal spots.

Kicked back

Blanca Lourdes Álvarez Ortega, the head of administration of the borough of Tláhuac, on Mexico City’s eastern edge, has been suspended by Alejandro Encinas, the city’s mayor, over corruption charges. According to allegations by Pablo Trejo, a local legislator, Ms Ortega had been receiving whopping 8.7% kickbacks on local logistical and construction contracts. Mr Trejo claims that the total amount lost to fraud may be as much as 50m pesos ($4.5m). Mr Trejo, who also serves as the head of a local auditing committee, launched his investigation after receiving an anonymous tip. Whether there will be wider political fallout remains unclear.

Getting out the lad vote

The two most prominent women in the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution’s delegation to the city’s legislature raised eyebrows when they posed in H Para Hombres, a men’s magazine. Lorena Villavicencio, the party’s legislative co-ordinator, was photographed lounging suggestively in a business suit, while Alejandra Barrales, the delegation’s spokeswoman, outdid her colleague by appearing in a slip. The two were joined by Brenda Arenas, the secretary for social development of the smallish Alternative Social Democratic party. Ms Barrales told Mexican newspapers that the photo shoot was a way of reaching out to a demographic that often doesn’t vote. The new left indeed.

Balancing the Ball
May 23rd-31st 2006

Mexico’s national cinema archive has devised the perfect film series to get warmed up for this year's football World Cup. As the games will be held in Germany, it is fitting that most of the films are German. The programme includes “The Eleven Devils”, a 1927 classic, has long shots of real games mixed in with close-ups of the actors in a climactic, fictitious match; “Free Zone”, from 2002, tells how a black immigrant player breaks down racial barriers in the former East Germany; and “Adelante Muchachas” depicts the story of two teams of teenage girls—one rich, the other slum-dwelling—who play against each other in Honduras. Taken together, the films offer a persuasive précis of why football matters.

Cineteca Nacional, Avenida Mexico Coyoacan No 389, Colonia Xoc. Tel: +52 (0)55 1255-9300. Tickets: 60 pesos (25 pesos on Tues & Wed). See the archive's website.

More from the Mexico City cultural calendar

Naranjaville's He-Hate-Me-Cards ... (listening to Afro Blue)

2006-05-16T17:02:00.000-07:00

Ondale … this is my 227th post on (Recycled) Cholo Knows … and I think I’ll hit 715 antes que Barry Bonds breaks Babe Ruth’s home run record de 714 … simon … and I think it's because he's tired of all the bullshit ... what really trips me out is not only the pinche messed-up mainstream publico attitude about Barry Bonds as he reaches a beisbol milestone … simon … every time the vato reaches the plate … fans boo the MUTHA … they hope he K’s … and drops dead like a limp cock … simon … the vato has fans, como yo, entonces the vato has enemies like MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG … pues … maybe enemies is a strong palabra …

Not so long ago ... my old childhood homie and I were pinche crazed beisbol card collectors ... simon ... we'd play poker for cartas ... roll dice and shit for them tambien ... anyways this vato had cards that belong to his hermano who was doing hard time en san quentin ... simon ... he robbed the same tienda twice ... twice ... and in my homie's closet, hung his hermanos Hang Ten and Op camisas, which all had cigaro holes ... these gente worshipped these garas like gold ... and then there was a Los Aces sweatshirt ... simon ... it was a short sleeve dark blue sweatshirt and on the back were the cards with the Ace in the middle ... and with the barrio spelled out in white stetching ...

Entonces right below all this bullshit were shelves with binders ... five binders ... the binders were old county binders from human resources ... simon ... they were orange and had ORANGE COUNTY PERSONNEL written in gold to a firme 1960's retro design ... and inside these pinche binders were beisbol cards ... tons of them all secured in plastic sleeves ... all the classics ... Hank Aaron ... Willie Mays ... Steve Garvey ... Nolan Ryan ... Roberto Clemente ... Jim Fregosi ... ET AL ... and when this vato's hermano came out from hard time ... he told his hermanito ... never sell the cards aqui en Orange County ...

This Chicanito had a firme collection ...

This familia was a trip ... they had a pair of thongs (black with light blue striping) by the back door ... and everyone wore them to go afuera ... yo tambien ... simon they were like size 14, a one size fits all cosa ... pero the apa and pinto hermano were bow legged ... mi amigo fue pigeon toed ... his firme hermana was big boobed pero flat footed and his other firme hermana walked like a pinche ballerina ... entonces la ama just smashed them ... so walking on them was like being on a pinche teeder todder or walking a tight rope por vida ... Y-QUE

BUTT hoy … white-skinned YANKEES like New York Yankee Jason Giambi are cheered as they reach the plate … even though this vato, like EL BARRY, is accused of steroid wrong doing Y-QUE … but when a black vato … or is that CHENATE … MAYATE … o some other HUSH HUSH NOMBRE … when a vato like EL BARRY reaches the plate … it’s bad treatment … all over AGAIN …

ENTONCES … they said it’s porque of steroids … his stuck-up attitude … his stand-offish treatment of the MEDIA … ETC … ETC … ETC … sabes que … puuurrrroooo peeedddoooo

The vato just ain’t liked … simon … check this out … hay unos pinche beisbol/football/basketball/hockey specialty card tienditas aqui en Naranjaville … simon … and the vatos who run these gigs … pues have firme historia alli … simon … a Willie Mays card won’t last one pinche dia in the case without being purchased … simon … a piece of Mickey Mantle’s bat, no wider or bigger than your pretty little cola thumb nail … pues this cosa goes for $125 … simon … ETC … ETC … ETC …

And with the Bonds cosa happening Y-QUE … entonces St. Louis Cardinal’s Albert Pujols leading the league with home runs … entonces … North Carolina’s Vince Williams being the #1 2006 NFL draft pick … followed by USC’s Reggie Bush as #2 … entonces … Texas’ Vince Younge being # tres … pues … if you have one of these cartas … aqui en Naranjaville you might get what they are worth … BUTT do local vendors promote and make them a trading priority to truly establish their value to current card buyers … as they still do for (steriod induced?) Roger Clemens … CHALE … one vato told me he won’t even purchase a EL BARRY card for his tiendita … he won’t waste his time, the vato said … even if the card was unique and in rare mint condition … mismo with the top tres 2006 NFL draft picks …

Pues … so … I purchase a pinche caja de 2006 NFL draftees … and who do I get … pues todos …simon … all top 40 picks and shit … tambien I get Matt Lienart’s autograph … and I sit on it for two weeks … simon ... when he boinks la Hilton, it might go up in value ... quien sabe ... but every time I go to this card tiendita … the vato wants to know who I got … I finally told the vato about Matt … according to him, this is the most sought after card "in OC" … “You’re kidding” … le digo …

Matt Lienart was the 10th pick in the 2006 NFL draft …

PERRO sabes que … I don’t expect all things equal … CHALE … what I do know es que since I was en sapetas … these vatos have been shoving Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Tommy John, Rollie Fingers, Joe Namath, Roger Maris, George Brett, Brooks Robinson, Larry Byrd, Joe Montana … ETC … ETC … ETC …down my throat … simon … yet my fidea has always been on Mr. October … Bob Gibson … Clemente … Tony Perez … Vida Blue … and of course other YANKEES ... ETC … pero ... es que these local vendors continue to water down the equilibrium that makes a burrito firme … that holds a hamburgesa together … or that makes deep-throating spectacular …

Simon … the equilibrium still exists en Naranjaville’s THICK local beisbol card POLITICA ECONOMIA … but it's pinche cultura-lite to the max ...

Pendejo To The Max ... (listening to Styx)

2006-05-14T00:48:00.000-07:00

I tripped out on Viernes ... el 12 de pinche mayo ... simon ... I was enjoying mi chenate con mi pan de dulce ... simon ... kicking it ... when I saw the pinche Minute-she-men on CNN ... simon ... PINCHE LIVE ... Minute-she-men executive NAZI Steve Eichler spoke about his pinche pendejo vision ... and the hecklers heckled ... they pissed him off ... entonces he introduced someone who has a pinche MBA in TAXATION and shit ... the one and only HEAD NAZI ... Jim Gilchrist ... simon ... this menso also spoke about his hard-on vision ... WHITE-ON-WHITE SEX and shit ...

And the hecklers heckled hasta las chanklas ... and these vato hecklers were pinche loud ... HEAD NAZI got all pinche pissed off ... and he paused ... they heckled ... he tried to speak ... they heckled a su madre ... entonce HEAD NAZI pointed at the hecklers and told them to "GO TO HELL" ... simon ... can you imagine that ... "GO TO HELL" ...

Entonces it fell apart ... simon ... as HEAD NAZI grito "GO TO HELL" ... behind him were unos GOP Afro-Americanos ... a whole pinche three of them ... simon ... so as HEAD NAZI grito "GO TO HELL" ... the three Afro-Americanos jumped in ... at the top of their pinche lungs ... the THREE tambien gritaron "GO TO HELL" ... over and over ... and soon the gabachos next to them joined ... but the gabachos weren't so loud ... su sabes como son ... these gente never want to be loud and shit ... so LOS TRES gritaron como locos right into HEAD NAZIS' orejas ... as they were right behing him ... anyways eses ... the chant continued with los tres ... los off-beat gabachos and HEAD NAZI ... ENTONCES ... HEAD NAZI stopped but los tres didn't ... HEAD NAZI looked back at them with the "ya chut up cue" BUTT los tres continued ... ENTONCES ... I'm pretty sure I heard right ... HEAD NAZI turned around again and grito "WILL ALL OF YOU BEHIND ME SHUT UP!!" ... then they stopped ... what a pinche mess ...

Can you believe this shit ... CHUT UP ... GO TO HELL ... ETC ...

Entonces HEAD NAZI introduces TED HAYES ... LA's homeless adovocate ... this vatos weird to the pinche max ...

Hayes talked and talked about the "BLACK MAN" ... as he put it ... low wages ... opression ETC ... the weird vato continued for a few minutes ... entonces out of no where ... he began with "these people" ... "these people," he said ... "MEChA" ... "LA RAZA" ... he said that these warriors took thousands of people up to their pyrmaids ... and tore their hearts out ... they sacrificed and sacrificed ... and killed thousands of people ... they were murderers ... and this is what "these people" are doing to the black man ... the vatos was insane with his pinche palabras ... and really showed his hatred and separatist attitude ... this coming from a homeless advocate ...

Hayes is with Dome Village ... a homeless project in LA ... and this project's funding is coming to an end soon ... it's had no pinche success ... so I guess the vato feels he can shoot his fucking mouth off like a pinche pendejo ... he has the NADA TO LOSE ATTITUDE ... BUTT ... this vato should be removed form committees ETC that he sits on in LA or elsewere ... for his total pinche ignorant remarks about LATINOS ... MEXICANOS ... CHICANOS ... ETC ... calling us murders and accusing us of wanting to cause harm ETC to the black popoulation ... he needs to be removed from working with groups that received public and private funding for non-profit purposes ETC ...

Maintain, Planners, Maintain ... (listening to Steppenwolf)

2006-05-08T16:37:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... now here's firme public policy thinking ... simon ... as we all know ... developers, planners and huevon bureaucrats de Naranjaville (OCTA) and 909 (RCTC) quieren hacer otra pinche freeway between both counties ... simon ... this time, however, they want to build a pinche pretty scenic one ... simon ... to relieve the congested 91 freeway (the 91 gets about unos 275,000 caruchas cada dia ... what a whore!! ...) these gente want to rip a nice clean cola through the pinche sanTana montanas ... simon ... make a tunnel through these montanas and allow agua or a train to flow underneath the calle as a way to generate revenues and shit ... purrrrroooo pedddddooooo ...

Simon ... this Popeye the sailor cochinada was pushed and pushed by RCTC and liked and liked by OCTA ... and has been draggen on so long that a special authority, by the agua municipalities, has been formend just to study the pinche idea ... simon ... according to the LA Times, tres agua agencies -- the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) and the Western Municipal Water District in Riverside -- have formed the Riverside Orange Corridor Authority in order to get the $15.8 million and conduct the study. ROCA is chaired by Brett Barbre -- a MWDOC director and Assistant OC Treasurer-Tax Collector Tambien ...

Tambien pinche developers including the engineering society such as Bechtel are pushing this cochinada as it's BILLIONS BABY during the next 3-4 decades ...

We're screwed ... because transportation commissions like OCTA and RCTC are all about staying in biz ... simon ... and building allies in other public and private barrios to the max ...

Step in Irvine Mayor Beth Krom ... this hina says chale to the pinche COLA tunnel ... chale ... Krom has said she prefers policy makers ET AL use the fidea to iron out the pinche housing and job imbalance that exist between OC y 909 ... tu sabes further develop the Inland Empire with jobs ETC ... simon live and work en 909 for the 909 masses ... hey, makes sense to me ... Krom will carry her battle beyond Irvine ... BUTT she will face stiff CHALE'S even from 909 politicos ... and according to the Orange County Biz Journal Krom is poco retarded and shit for thinking "909 development" with Naranjaville cash ...

BUTT the COLA tunnel issue is importante for another reason … simon … alli en da 909 and elsewhere … there’s the development habit of building on possible freeway tierra … simon … developers will build suave casitas for the masses on land that may be freeways in the next 3 -4 decades … simon … it’s already happened en el ciudad de Perris … simon … gente compraron casitas alli about 15 years ago … ahora … they might be losing their chantes to accommodate federally funded but not yet built freeways from Winchester to Temecula y tambien otra from Hemet hasta Corona/Lake Elsinore … simon … these freeways are a pinche shoe-in … and that’s fucked up …

Tambien … further developing la 909 makes sense to the max porque … alli the infrastructure esta nuevo … simon … with all the pinche little towns popping into ciudades … their calles, escuelitas, sewer and ague lineas, lights, tienditas, ETC ETC ETC … are pretty pinche new … simon … consider Moreno Valley … Temecula, Murrieta, Hemet, Banning Beaumont … Tambien Highland, Redlands, Coachella, Perris, Palm Desert, Indio ETC ETC ETC … simon … all new infrastructure in these lugares with an average age of los cosa nuevo less de 10 anos … y-que ...

Otra vez … makes sense to further develop economias alli en 909 …

Anyways ... here's the OCBJ piece in case your ass can’t login and shit ...
Economic development boosters in the Inland Empire have an unlikely ally: Irvine Mayor Beth Krom.
At a recent Urban Land Institute gathering in Costa Mesa, Krom said it might make more sense to spend money pushing economic development in the Inland Empire than building a tunnel linking inland workers with jobs in Irvine and elsewhere in Orange County.
“We shouldn’t look at this as a threat to Orange County,” Krom said of jobs in the Inland Empire before some 200 developers and local officials.
In an interview after Krom’s speech, she called the Inland Empire’s development the “the elephant in the middle of the room.”
“No one wants to talk about it,” she said.
Krom said she’s willing to look beyond Irvine’s own economic aspirations to get the Inland Empire on board with a plan that keeps people from driving “four hours a day” on congested freeways.
An Irvine mayor championing Inland Empire job growth over that in her own city seems odd. But Krom’s Inland Empire cheerleading is driven by what is a bigger concern for many in Irvine—the tunnel.
A tunnel linking Irvine and the Inland Empire is an option transportation planners are studying as a way to relieve chronic congestion on the Riverside (91) Freeway. The $12 billion project, which many see as a long shot, would carry drivers between Orange and Riverside counties and include an aqueduct.
Krom opposes the tunnel, saying it would be disruptive to the mountains and would dump traffic on her city. ... make a tunnel through the

The Mexican Slams the OC Surface ... (listening to Otis Redding)

2006-05-08T12:09:00.000-07:00

In today's LA Times ... OC Weekly veterano Gustavo Arellano writes a pinche lightning bolt commentary about Orange County's anti-Mexican ways and historia ...

From Mexican's and the law ... to gabacho attitudes ... to his personal experiences ... he covers just a drop of our frustrations ... writes Arellano "... a couple of years ago, I attended a fundraiser at the Balboa Bay Club — the Musso & Frank's for O.C.'s old money, and John Wayne's favorite drinking well — and while I was standing in line for a horrid Mexican buffet, a skinny, prissy thing approached. She asked if I could serve her some beans. I laughed. While I waited for the valet later that night, the same woman asked if I could grab her car. "Not unless you want it on cinder blocks," I replied. My Camry arrived. I paid the $5 charge and slipped the Mexican valet an extra $20."

Whoever says this piece ain't fair ... pues ... no menduo para usted, guey ...

p-pinche-s ... chale ... the pic aqui ain't Arellano ...

Racing sanTana ... (listening to Try A Little Tenderness)

2006-05-08T11:32:00.000-07:00

Ondale … I don’t want you vatos to fregarme and get me all wrong and shit … eses … BUTT Prentice Park aqui en sanTana and it’s pinche zoo con todo ... pues ... esta firme por los chavalitos or CHEAP DATES … simon … los LOPS and cheesy lovers aqui a veces usan the pinche zoo as a walk and hold manos cosa … poco romantico … it’s suave … then they kick it anywhere on the sacate … his cabeza on her lap … los dos all barefooted and shit … eating $1 SLICED vendor fruit, napkin included … tambien listening to free musica from the parked cars … enjoying the cool breeze before the breeze hits TUSTIN … it CHEAP but it’s firme … relaxing … makes me all aprendido …

BUTT before this CHEAP DATE COCHINADA … LYON STREET was BROADWAY for us CHICANITOS … Motorcylce Hall of Fame Racer DAVID ALDANA popularized what was sanTana’s only race track … sanTana had a race track for los ninos … simon … por nada, ninos mensos could take their bikes to this track, where the ZOO and its animales cochinos now sit around … shitting everywhere ... there might have been a pinche fee to race your bike … BUTT I wouldn’t have known … chale … we use to cruise alli with EL CHAVALO LARRY, David’s much younger hermanito … simon … their chante was alli by the bike trail on Bishop and Oak … Larry would cruise by and we’d take off POR TODO … simon … independent 7 year old like pinche pulgas … we had to throw our GEMCO bikes over the fence then climb alli at the track BUTT once we were in … it was TODO LOCO … no helment … no gloves … no pads … no park Rangers … it was us, our bikes and (when the ALDANA'S weren't with us) our 7-11 COLA SLURPEES flavored with whiskey ...

The starting line alli en old sanTana’s track started atop a pinche hill … straight down … entonces to the right … ALL OVER … and just as fast as the gig was over … the track came down …

BUTT David was a cool vato … simon … the vato was always testing his motorcycles out aqui … speeding como un pinche menso loco … with his flashy leathers ... before white t-shirts, khakis and oldies … we were exposed to FREAKY and COLORFUL LEATHER OUTFITS … custom made for ALDANA RACING … BUTT we thought the LEATHERS would look firme at the bailes … siempre freaks …

Check out more about my former vecino and sanTana’s racing legend David Aldana, aqui, gueys …

To Today's LOP of the Day ... (listening to Spiral Staircase)

2006-05-08T08:29:00.000-07:00

Quote de la pinche dia … “What if Earl raised John Daly” … sports writer Rick Reilly this AM on Cold Pizza talking about Tiger and Earl Woods then about golfer and menso out of the closet gambler, John Daly …

Pues … ondale … trip out on Germany’s #1 LOP-TO-BE … simon … our beloved Register’s web site has two LOP cuentas hoy … simon … one about ripping off LOPS and another on a pinche pocho … or WAB or LOP or WHATEVER or COMO QUIERES … check out the latter (latter … hay tu …) and what the beloved Regiser has to say about David Pedroza, the “41-year-old survivor of the O.C. and L.A. rock scenes” …

Born en sanTana BUTT raised en Buena Park … this pinche LOP will today “arrive in Berlin with two guitars, one laptop, a suitcase weighing less than 50 pounds” and begin living alli en Germany as a resident … simon … now this is a firme gig … BUTT what makes this sanTana veterano mas chingon, and today’s LOP OF THE PINCHE DIA, eses, es que, pues as the reliable and beloved Register puts it … preparing for this residency “meant flying to Germany twice to be interviewed and sign paperwork. Showing proof that he had international medical insurance (so Germany wouldn't be stuck taking care of him if he got sick). Proving that he had enough money to live on for six months without working (so Germany wouldn't be stuck supporting him). Opening a German bank account. Taking a one-month course in the German language. It all cost about $3,500.

He did everything the legal way. And he's incredulous that undocumented people protesting in America think they shouldn't have to do the same.”

ONDALE … at least this LOP is pinche honest, que no … BUTT de veras … what’s this LOP talking about … once every other LOP reads about him … chingow … Germany will become the next pinche WAB HOT SPOT … simon … and it’ll begin with MEXICAN LETTERS FROM THE US from FAMILIA PEDROZA … then AMIGOS PEDROZA … entonces WHITE MUSICIANS … entonces BROWN MUSICIANS … then super intellectual and super pinche serious undergraduates disillusioned about the US job market … entonces …he’ll begin selling DIA DE LA MUERTE cochinada alli and the pinche Germans will think this cochinada is cute, unique and CULTURAL … and it is … entonces come the pinche guayaberas …ENTONCES Pedroza becomes the pinche CINCO DE MAYO EXPERT in Germany’s rock scene … another excuse para tomar hasta las chanklas (right now, WORD just changed las to alas)… then and pretty soon COYOTES will join this LOP’S gig … it’s a pinche snowball cochinada … read this LOP'S cuenta aqui ...

BUTT that’s nada homes … wait til the German press picks up his cuenta … they'll might have pinche fun with it …

Ondale … "You don't need to be a citizen to come to public schools here. That comes out of our tax dollars and that just sucks. It took me nearly a year to get this together to be a guest in Germany - I went through all this hassle to do it legally - and these people think they can just walk in and demand rights. That's not fair.” … says this LOP … simon … of course it takes time … that’s why MOJADOS use COYOTES, GUEY …

Pues … to this LOP’S firme adventure and shit … un pinche MINT JULEP en da AM …

Hey Baby, Que Paso ... (listening to Jose Rizo)

2006-05-07T13:26:00.000-07:00

Check out this momento from the Loretta Sanchez chante ... de OC Blog ...

Former California Republican Assembly President Steve Frank publishes a newsletter - and I have taken the liberty of 'lifting' this from the latest issue:

MEMO TO POLITICAL CONSULTANTS, OPERATIVES AND LEADERS:

NEVER, EVER YELL INTO YOUR CELL PHONE IN PUBLIC ABOUT A CRISIS IN YOUR CAMPAIGN. NEVER, EVER SUGGEST YOUR CANDIDATE, ESPECIALLY A CONGRESSWOMAN,
IS NOT DOING HER JOB IN RAISING MONEY. SECOND NOTE: NEVER, EVER HAVE YOUR STAFF IN A BAR DISCUSSING , IN PUBLIC, HOW THE CRISIS SHOULD BE HANDLED--ESPECIALLY IF THEY OPENLY TALK ABOUT MISLEADING DONORS.

Catch your attention? Trust me, I am living an interesting life. On Thursday I had a luncheon appointment at Beckhams Grill in Pasadena. While waiting for the other people to show, I was pacing outside the restaurant (Those who know me, know I am the nervous type). While waiting I heard a lady yell into her cell phone that she wanted "the number for the Loretta Sanchez for Congress campaign in Santa Ana, California." Of course this perked my interest.

When she got on the phone she complained that "as of this morning no tickets were sold". "Did Loretta make her phone calls?" "She was supposed to make them from 1-5, but she is in the air, not making her calls." This went on for a long time, so I went inside the bar to sit and wait for my friends. A few moments later she came in and sat with two women that seemed to be her staff. She then explained the situation, and went outside to make more calls. Obviously this was a serious problem and she was trying to contain it.

At this point one of the ladies said, "I guess we have to cancel it." At that point the other person said, "No, we will say it is being re-scheduled, that sounds better." They continued to discuss the issue, so I went outside. The first lady was back on the phone and told someone, "This is Chrissie Unruh." She noted that "$28,000 is at stake" and for the third or fourth time asked, "Have we talked with the Longshoremen?"

(NOTE: Sanchez besides running for re-election to Congress has filed, as noted here months ago, a "Sanchez for Governor 2010 Committee". Guess she doesn't think Westly or Angelides can defeat Arnold.)

Unruh continued on the phone complaining about the situation, who was at fault, etc. Finally, she went back to the bar.

Then my friends showed up and I told them to follow me into the bar area first and just listen to the conversation, they agreed. (My friends are statewide GOP leaders well known in the Party)

I then went up to Chrissie Unruh (yes, of THAT heritage!) and her friends at the bar, and introduced myself as Steve Frank, publisher of the California Political News and Views and thanked her for making me feel like Walter Winchell today. I repeated her words about Congresswoman Sanchez and the event fiasco. She told me that I could not print this, because I overheard her private conversations. She was informed that she was in a public space, speaking loudly, others heard her as well. As for her friends in the bar, I heard them from about ten feet away in a public bar..so it wasn't that I tried to listen in, I could not help but hear their words. Of course, Chrissie never denied saying any of the things I quoted her as saying, nor did her staff people deny what I quoted them saying--all of this before two witnesses! All Chrissie demanded was that I not report it.

My friends and I went to our table, far from the bar. A moment after we were seated Chrissie came over to our table and demanded my card, which I gave her. She again said I could not write about her phone calls or the conversations. I told her if she wanted she could call Bob Mulholland and he would tell her who I was. Chrissie announced that Sanchez supported Westly, so she couldn't call Mulholland (he works for Angelides). Oh, I said, then you can call Garry South (he is the chief consultant for Westly) and he will tell you who I am.

Lesson for everybody, in the middle of a crisis DON'T make cell calls telling campaign secrets so the whole world can hear you. Those new to politics this story is meant for you. Even someone involved in politics as long as Chrissie Unruh can make a rookie mistake. Learn from her. Don't pull a Chrissie Unruh.

And Now, 2(A Poema) ... (listening to Jeopardy)

2006-05-04T11:48:00.000-07:00

Simon ... as found in ZYZZYVA ... Y-QUE ...

SIMPLE PRESENT
by Rodrigo Toscano

CREDIT Cut off--
"so
on your way!"
held
(were you?)

(in and around old '95)

The white luck of markets
eliberate odds

emptiness?

No universal luxuries
to poeticize here

Rationing then was for calm
Rationing now is for rage

ORGANIZATION

Gauntlets of indictments
to speak through
(did you?)

MEMORY what's missing
pressing
meaning
(little as a neutral concept)

They began with
what they had

was changing

Institutional Agreements
canceled
at the drop of a hat

the rate-of-profit hat
still falling . . .

dragging with it
you too
activist

Began with clues
or rumors
of consensus

were accumulating

are dispersing

What person
couldn't sense force
aimed at their body
was likely ill

What person
couldn't free words
dictated by force was likely . . .

(here
in and around old '95
merely)
(and not so merely
did they falter)

WORDWORKERS
everyone

plugged
away

being taken

MEMORY

what's left
spend it
like there's no . . .

[sundried flower lit by the math of
by the smiling mock
by the penury
of our predicament
called

TOMORROW

love like a dirty, dirty switchblade
by Lizz Huerta

here we are in the bathtub with boredom.
darling! let me pop the stopper, drain the drain
and call down the pipes to Lucifer

to come on up, bring a fifth of Jack, his raunchy slideshow
for I tire of your romance, your brushing my hair with oil
your simple songs and idiotic bedroom looks of love.

hate-fuck me in the morning so I am reminded the rest of the day
suck the knuckle lover, we’ll lick the blade clean
humble me so that I know what it is

to be alive and want
unseal my poetry tattoo
give me a reason to love you back to normal.

"With our history of taking care of ourselves" Lucy Dunn OCBC ... (listening to You Haven't Done Nothin')

2006-05-03T15:46:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... had enough of "illegal alien" or "undocumented worker" or "those people" reading ... pues too bad porque it ain't going away ... BUTT in the pinche meantime, eses, check out these firme PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION reads ...

Western Regional Council of Govs (WRCOG) Exec. Director and Naranjaville resident Rick Bishop speaks to the Metro Investment Report about WHAT'S UP in 909 y 951 ... simon ... this COG collects a tranportation and urbanization mitigation fee (TUMF) from construction of new casitas and new commercial chantes ... tons of cash aqui ... and Bishop explains how SCAG throws the chinga and unwanted excess of the regions urban planning towards 909 ... what the vato doesn't say es que 909 ciudades had their arms twisted to approve TUMF cosas for their cities ... simon ... if cities didn't approve TUMF then they would not rec fidea from Riverside's 1/2 cent sales tax Measure for transportation projects which was renewed by voters en 2002 for an additional 30 years ... CHINGATE TU!!!

HABLANDO DE 1/2 cent sales tax Measures ... en Naranjaville, our Measure M for PLANING AND FUNDING OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECTOS is coming up soon ... check them out ... simon ... will we voters renew the sales tax for another 20 or 30 anos ... DEPENDS ... depends on whose the pinche BITCH ... ondale ... BUTT check out what La Lucy Dunn of the Orange County Business Council (OCBC) has to say about Measure M and about Naranjaville taking care of their own ... ondale ... Naranjaville and the Godfather of Measure M, Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) can't even develop a TUMF cosa ... simon ... not enough casitas being hecho aqui ... thus, therefore o como puedes, guey, OCTA is twisting OC city's arms like a pinche chavala ... simon to be eligible for RENEWED Measure M fidea, according to OCTA, these two-meal ciudades must ... have a pinche pavement programa ... be part of a county-wide signal light syncro programa ... plus, city's must match renewed Measure M fidea with other dollars or pesos ... NO ME CHINGAS!!!

FINALLY ... LAST OF ALL ... and then ... BUTT nunca en conclusion ... James Rojas, founder of the Latino Urban Forum, talks to The Planning Report about New Latino Urbanism … and how urban and planning needs of nosotros might just not be in that pinche checklist de COGS or BUSINESS COUNCILS or otro pinche ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS o AUTHORITIES … and about a continuous changing definition of SPACE and PLACE y COMMUNITY … he also talks about the LATINO PEDESTRIAN ISSUE … GUEY!!!

Dos Por $200 ... (listening to You Know What I Mean)

2006-05-03T13:28:00.000-07:00

Ondale … sabado was Angel’s beisbal … simon … Arte and the homies played last year’s World Series winners, the Chicago White Sox, not a real beisbal team pero pense que it would be a firme game …

Simon … I was on State College Blvd Saturday AM … so I cruised by the Angel’s ticket box … chingow … $120 for two pinche tickets … simon … I must be going menso … maybe I need a massive foam finger to keep me en check … but ondale … the game started at 7 en da PM …

The sillas were firme … padded to the max … and included pinche servers … simon … a cool hina who was pinche slaved to death … by thin and tanned OC arms that raised for her attention cada vez this hina put her head up … simon … there weren’t home made signs aqui saying “GET IT TOGETHER ANGELS”… or “WHITE SOX PELA” … chale … the only papeles were pinche menus … simon … I ordered two beers, a pinche pretzel, and eventually a hotdog and nachos … tambien compre dos “A” cachucas and a pinche program … I spent unos $40 … and the pace of the pinche jeugo tambien was firme … but those pinche tanned muscled OC arms being raise for an order me canse rapido … simon …

During the game … I could see the gente who had sillas at that restaurant behind home plate … simon … pense … that be firme … a meal and a pinche game … entonces pense mejor not … as this hina with a black dress began squirming in her restaurant seat by the 4th inning … simon … these gente were thrown on thin bar stools, I think … by the 7th I figured everything was tangled …

Depues … we stopped for pizza and beer … $25 … ondale so for two gente with Club MVP seats that were OK and cerveza in plastic … I spent about $192 with parking … even if I had spent less on pinche tickets, I would have then bought that extra large foam dedo, large bat, Angel’s beaded necklace, and those Angel’s drum sticks …

In other noticias ... if you think the BOO'S are Red Sox fans still BOOING Yankee centerfielder Johnny Damon ... pues guess again ... the ruido is for sanTana mayor miguel pulido who gets ripped by an extra large foam dedo for being a no-show at the May 1st protest ...

JOSE Can You See ... (listening to Juan Gabriel)

2006-05-02T20:41:00.000-07:00

Que pues ... and what's up with the MAN getting all pinche guitado with Nuestro Himno ... simon, the Mexican finds us the Star Spangled Banner en espanol ... true classic ... entonces Boing Boing pisses off the MAN mas .... ehhhooo ... simon Barrio Boing Boing finds this cancion all decked out in morse code ... simon aqui ... and it's in International Morse code, not American ... eeehhhooo ...

ENTER BUSH ... simon ... according to Barrio Boing Boing, "... in his book American Dynasty, Kevin Phillips notes that during Bush's first presidential campaign, he would often sing the national anthem in Spanish. From pg. 142: 'When visiting cities like Chicago, Milwaukee, or Philadelphia, in pivotal states, he would drop in at Hispanic festivals and parties, sometimes joining in singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in Spanish, sometimes partying with a 'Viva Bush' mariachi band flown in from Texas.'"

Hay ... que Bush ...

ENTER ARROZ ... On NPR's "Mixed Signals" blog, Mara Liason writes,
"[I]n fact, the U.S. government appears to be promoting a number of foreign language versions of the national anthem. The State Department Web site posts four Spanish versions and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she's heard rap, country and classical versions. On CBS' Face the Nation (PDF transcript), she says the 'individualization of the American national anthem is quite under way.' "But Condi, the president wants the anthem sung in English! Talk about mixed signals."

ESES ... anyone has contactos to the pinche SPANGLISH VERSION of the cancion ...

" ... JOSE can you see .... ETC ETC ETC ... "

_ _ _ _ _ Cat Dedications (listening to Living for the City)

2006-05-02T15:28:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... sabes que ... here's another whiffer GOP WETDREAM ... RAZA Left VS Hispanic Right on the pinche topic of May 1st ... simon ... check out these gente ... Juan Jose Guiterrez de Latino Movement USA y la wacky Leslie Sanchez from Impacto Group ... there's even a "Leslie Sanchez story" ... eeehhhoooo ... now she's a WAB ...

You can read it aqui or it's on audio tambien ... como quieren, gueys ... tambien, I wanted to send out these dedications to my homies and homies-not ... ondale ...

To: sanTana city council and all vendors, the homeless and the real estate assoc., Nick and Jessica, Red and Blue, Jim Gilchrist and all Mexicans ET AL,

Dedication: Me and You, Confessing a Feeling, Baby I’m Yours, I’m Your Puppet, Reunited, Searching For My Love, Reasons, I Want You Back

To: A Day Without a Mexican Supporters and Participants and Organizers

Dedication: Don’t Let No One Get You Down, The Town I live In, United

To: Gente who completed cultural competency or diversity training, Gabachos and Gabachas with Mexican significant others, Hermosa Beach Chicanos, “Immigrants are good people” line droppers, Arte Moreno (Angels played on May 1st),

Dedication: Tell It Like It Is, You’re Still A Young Man, That’s How Heartaches Are Made, I Like The Way You Love Me, Hello Stranger

To: U.S. flag burners, Mexican flag burners, separatists, crazy nationalists, AZTLAN fanatics, Minute Men, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library Board Members, The Lincoln Club, Lupe Moreno, Lou Dobbs, Leslie Sanchez/Impacto Group

Dedication: Baby Is There Something On Your Mind, Open Your Eyes, Just A Dream, Hypnotized, Hey There Lonely Girl, The World Is A Ghetto

Cruising The Mexican OC ... (listening to Buddy Holly)

2006-05-02T12:21:00.000-07:00

It was a classic scene … Modesta Avila, a San Juan Capistrano Chicana, who in 1889 stopped the railroad monopoly from entering into her tierra, lays dead on her property only to be picked up by public sector hard-hat orange-vests road workers … simon … that scene set the mood for The Mexican OC …

The Mexican OC, directed by Sara Guerrero, is a firme and entertaining historical play about OC Mexicanos who have pounded the walls of ignorant institutions … the Yorba familia … the Mendez Family … Rueben Martinez … Gustavo Arellano … Rosie Espinoza … and many others … characters Debbi Murillo, a pocha real-estate agent, and a Chicana crossing guard named Yolanda Gomez meet and reflect on Naranjavilles’ past, present and futura …

And throughout the play there is wonderful REDEVELOPMENT SATIRE … in the name of progress … eminent domain … re: how OC DEVELOPED … and REDEVELOPED … and REDEVELOPED … through political and adminstrative seams ... and it’s here you witness a GABACHO’S WETDREAM … the Mexican Left VS Mexican Right … as Debbi and Yoli argue … “progress” or “oppression” … simon … it’s a reminder of the battles we RAZA estudiantes had with UC administration only then having to put up with the Hispanic bullshit from my other homies, the very pocho HISPANIC BUSINESS SOCIETY estudiantes …

An Immigrant Mayor's May 1st Gift to Workers ... (listening to Green, Green)

2006-05-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

Pues … ondale … I rec’d a llamada from my hermano yesterday at 10am … he was cruising Tustin Ave … simon … he said it was seco, seco … dead to the max … he had just come from 909 and tambien said the freeway was seco … especially the 91E … dry to the bone … entonces KFI gente John and Ken had the pinche audacity to claim the marches had no impact … they claimed that only “minority businesses” were closed … simon … all those negocios in da downtown … I rec’d an email tambien que dice que Tony Valdez from KTTV reminded John and Ken about Manifest Destiny quite nicely as both vatos excused ayer as a waste of time … imagine that … a KTTV anchor giving a spill on Manifest Destiny … the marches hit nerves to the max …

Tambien … the biggest hit was perhaps on government revenue … simon … $.0775 times all those pinche purchases that weren’t made yesterday means a lot less fidea for local govs … simon … local gov will see that “HICK-UP”, as Wall Street put it, in their next ESTIMATED REVENUE REPORT … simon … “we underestimated our pinche revs porque we didn’t anticipate a pinche walkout” …

BUTT what took the pinche-pan de-dulce was sanTana’s city council … pinche gente … on this day … 1st de Mayo … council held their scheduled meeting … and first on their agenda was to recognize Bruce Dumans, Community Preservation Manager, with an employee award … can you believe that … on May 1st, 2006 Bruce Dumans is a pinche hero, according to MIGUEL PULIDO ….recall … this vato Dumans was given the pinche task of creating the new city vendor reglas … remember that … his new reglas allowed the city to issue 150 vendor permits … and would cost the LUCKY VENDORS a pinche whopping $3,000 for this piece of papel … simon, there was a pinche payment plan … and these gente would also have to move cada few minutos, homes … simon … Dumans was the sanTana staffer responsible for gathering the VENDOR FACTS … and prostituting together a VENDER PLAN DE SANTANA … simon … a plan that would squeeze and choke the vendors … and second, the VENDOR PLAN DE SANTANA was half-ass public-policy … the data collected was pinche shoddy and shady … amount of permits to be issued was pulled out of his calzones … and why have vendors move constantly was just a stupid mock of RAZA … this vato rec’d full-pay for un pinche basura de trabajo … the courts even threw this pinche basura out the ventana … simon…. vendors took this sanTana to court and the courts said Dumans’ plan made no sense …

ENTONCES … on May 1st, sanTana Mayor Miguel Pulido, a Mexico City Veterano, talks for an entire minute about this GREAT VATO DUMANS … he preserves communities, did you homies know that … Pulido admires his valued accomplishments to the city … then Pulido shakes his hand … hands him a fucking clock … and tells the vato that everytime that pinche clock croaks time … it’s just a reminder of sanTana saying thank you for all his fucking hard work …

PURRO PEDDDOOOOO …

Illegal Shmegal ... (listeing to What's New Pussycat)

2006-04-27T13:18:00.000-07:00

If you read the honest and so balanced Orange County Register during the past few months … you’ll know that Mexicans are the worse thing since fucking Italians … que no … simon … Mexicans … we walk streets, climb fences and we bring our packaged tortillas and Mexican chocolate ways and think we own the whole fucking under-the-mesa labor market … HAY, they intend to squeeze us. They don't like our kind of people. They don't like to see us come out to this clean country in our Jonathan hair -- dressed up in our ropa firme - and try to pass ourselves off as decent Americans. They’ll do business with us at Home Depot, but the fact is, they despise our masquerade -- the dishonest way we pose ourselves. Ourselves, and our whole fucking familias …

Eses .. those are SENATOR PAT GEARY’S pinche words … not mine …

And if you read latest edition of Orange Coast magazine … you’ll now know every fucking slogan of every Naranjaville ciudad … simon … this magazine TALKS CITY this time and covers Orange County City info including slogans … in a slogan, check out what city staffers think about the cities they work in or even live in … after all it’s usually staffers who make up these one liners … the latest issue Orange Coast magazine TALKS CITY … check it out …

Anacrime: Where the World Comes to Live, Work and Play.
Buena Park: Center of the Southland.
Costa Mesa: City of the Arts.
Cypress: Education – Cooperation – Progress.
Dana Point: Harboring the Good Life.
Fountain Valley: A Nice Place to Live.
Garden Grove: City of Youth and Ambition.
Huntington Beach: City of Expanding Horizons.
La Habra: A Caring Community.
Lake Forest: Remember the Past – Challenge the Future.
La Palma: City of Vision.
Los Alamitos: A Gem of a City.
Mission Viejo: Mission Viejo – The California Promise.
Orange: A Slice of Old Time Charm.
Placentia: The People Are the City.
San Clemente: The Spanish Villager by the Sea.
San Juan Capistrano: Preserving the Past, the Enhance the Future.
sanTana: Education First.
Seal Beach: The City of Surf, Sun, and Fun.
Stanton: Community Pride and Forward Vision.
Tustin: City of Trees.
Villa Jewel: Hidden Jewel.
Westminster: City of Progress – Built on Pride.
Yorba Linda: Land of Gracious Living.

Entonces there’s the stuck-up crowd … simon … these ciudades refuse to play the logo game … simon … they’ll just play revenue and kick it … these are their names …

SLOGAN: NONE.
Aliso Viejo
Brea
Fullerton
Irvine
Laguna Beach
Laguna Hills
Laguna Niguel
Laguna Woods
Newport Beach
Ranch Santa Margarita

There have been changes … Huntington Beach is now SURF CITY, USA … seems another city wanted that title so HB took that other city to court … simon … it’s now property of HB …

Tambien … sanTana’s slogan is now DOWNTOWN ORANGE COUNTY … same story … another city (IRVINE) wants to be DOWNTOWN ORANGE COUNTY … simon … but sanTana city council in it’s BROKEN RUBBER WAYS protected us by changing our slogan … from EDUCATION FIRST to DOWNTOWN ORANGE COUNTY … hay, everyone who resides in Naranjaville knows that … afterall, we house the county’s political and legal economy … our slogan might as well been changed to LOTS OF MEXICANS HERE … or LOOKS MEXICAN, TASTE LIKE CHICKEN …or UNCIRCUMSCISED SCENTED ... or ILLEGAL SHMEGAL … or CITY OF WORKING HANDS … or FAIR WAGES ONLY … or SOMOS BLUE, WITH PINSTRIPING … or WHATEVER …

Would You Like More Canela, Ma'am ... (listening to Detroit City)

2006-04-27T11:14:00.000-07:00

Ese … this AM … I made my chenate … my pinche DRY MUTHA DRY FUCKA CHENATE … I always have a can of CANNED CHENATE on hand … for the AM’s where I don’t want to do the pinche FRESH, COOL AND HIP BUTT FINE TASTING CHENATE DANCE … sometimes I say “FUCK THAT PINCHE 15 STEP SHIT”… and reach for the can … and I reach for those fucking 200 chenate filters that cost $1 and put those cosas in my café machine … so they’ll collapse as nuestra agua caliente invades them ... and let café grains fill the pot, along with brown water … muddy fucking water en sanTana … I even pour it and drink it en sanTana … it’s best without sugar and I always put leche in my muddy water …

Tambien I put leche in my CANELA … I’m a fucking canela drinker like crazy… no pinche filters aqui ... and I always order CANELA at Denny's or IHOP ... and it's still not on the menu ...

BUTT ... muddy water con pan de dulce remains my cosa en la manana … especially when I wake up and dance like a CRAZY MUTHA FUCKA … any pan will do … I’m a vato who also enjoys my canela with a pinche healthy dose of toasted pan con frijoles con queso con chile … the LATTER (latter, hay tu!) taste firme and looks totally sexy when served in my pinche white coffee cups … on my white platos … a veces I use my pinche clear glass chenate cups … simon … like nude nylons … PINCHE COCHINO … you can see right through these cups, right under canela’s skirt … you can see what’s going on in canela’s mix … her tanned nalgas … her dark tanned colas … her forbidden cheek line … she doesn’t care … canela’s copper color from waist to hip hasta su pinche feet can be seen tambien … she just fucking fine … she’s a BAD MUTHA FUCKA …hay chingow … think I’ll make a cup …

Tambien with my clear glass chenate glass, I can see my leche just pound canela … simon … that’s why when I pour, the leche carton has to be 18 fucking inches from her nude nylons … simon … I pour that thick leche all over her crouch, all over her brown hair … she doesn’t even turn off the lights when leche's totally in her … you can see their fucking pinche tornado …

AND my muddy water whether in white chenate cups … or clear glass vasos … remains muddy … con leche … with or without sugar … mixed … drink … it goes down like a stiff drink … I squint and make a fucked up funny face … a CLOWN UNIVERSITY DROP OUT ... it’s out of a can that was shipped to sanTana … it’s supported with 200 filters that cost $1 … it’s DRY CHENATE … a DRY MUTHA FUCKA …

Chale with dry chenate … I’ll be doing the dance cada manana … and when I say "FUCK THAT PINCHE DANCE", it'll be canela ... and I’ll be looking through canela’s skirt and through her nudes … MUTHA FUCKA ...

Climb This!!! ... (listening to Plug Tunin')

2006-04-23T15:41:00.000-07:00

Pues ondale … hoy I woke up at 6ish AM … simon … I wanted a pinche early Folger’s café momento … pero instead I let it fly like a pinche board … let it have its fun … mother nature adores my POP TART cada manana … she's soo god damn good ... simon … it gets out of control, a veces …

Entonces, The pinche Godfather was on AMC at 6 AM!! … simon … imagine a MOE GREENE morning … first thing in the AM … POW … right in the ojo … simon … it's that or a killer swallow ...

BUTT I surfed el television … entonces I saw it … simon … Chris Simcox, some cocksucker found but maybe hidden in the Minute She-Men (is this their nombre, I forget) org’ chart … announced on FOX NEWS that this group will build border fences with private funds … simon … can you imagine that … a US LOVES MEXICO CON SAFOS FENCE probably to be hecho with third world raw materials which might be mixed to a wacky recipe aqui en USA to make MADE EN USA brick y mortar cosas + private dollars, whose multiplied factor or dividend roots may be tied to third world or even illegal immigrant sweat … maybe even tied to whatever … all this cochinada will go into building a private fence to keep illegals out … WHATEVER ESES ...

Hey … Simcox said to get a fence, all an individual had to do was request one and these gente will do what they can to build one for ya!! … pues, let me get my pinche topo facts straight … uno: Simcox will build a fence, or will try, around your chante … two: butt only if it will keep “illegals” off nuestra private US property … tambien, farmers can request this fence since illegals go on their turf and kill their animals and whatever else, according to Simcox … tres: to get a fence, just ask …

PUES ORALE … I think I might qualify for this free-market-private cochinada invisible hand in my calzones type fence … simon … eses … every pinche day there's WABS, MOJADOS … DISCO VENDORS, ETC … crossing my yard … simon … whether they’re walking their ninos to school … or driving to work at 4AM … or mowing someone’s lawn aqui en mi calle … or whether they’re running to the ice-cream truck … or whether they're speeding on mi calle at 90 MP-pinche-H from 1st Street to McFadden, about 1/2 mile, in 10 seconds … simon … true … BUTT everyone does this on mi calle ... Asians, Gabachos, COCKROACHES, rick folk and poor polk ... but we aren't talking about these gente ... ANYWAYS SIMCOX … I don’t want to keep ILLEGALS off my property … that's impossible ... but your fence might just do that … so there shouldn’t be a problem with you building me a bigger and stronger blockwall, right? ...

Pues afterall, Simcox, my red block fence, that surronds my chante, was probably build in 1956 or a couple anos after … probably when you were able to enjoy your strawberry POP TART en da AM … the cosa needs to be replaced ... my wall isn't even 6 feet tall ... simon ... I can see my vecino's dufon and neck bopping up/down cada dia ... and the mortar from my block wall is disintegrating … from buttered blonde weathering + all those welcomed and friendly ILLEGAL feet using it as a ladder to pick whet fruit from our natural juicy pussy trees … some bricks are even cracked … simon … with my TINO MARTINEZ fouled tip baseball, I throw two fast balls, two curves and a drop cada dia against that damn wall … simon I throw two fast balls and say my favorite cuss words as I release … “PINCHE GUEY” … then two curves and say my 2nd favorite cuss words … “CHINGOW” … then the fast ball gets my 3rd favorite cuss word … “BISH" ...

Suri De Pacas ... (listening to Breakestra II Song #6)

2006-04-19T14:03:00.000-07:00

Simon … from Tabitha hasta Xochitl … sanTana RAZA has rolled over the baby-name turf … simon … mi vecino had a nino a year ago and named him Willard …. Willard? … simon … after her boss … she works blue collar, ese … according to la vecina, her jefe is cool gente … she was born in a pueblo en Mexico … she and her beautiful sister, raised by a single ama … they crossed over … lived in one apartment after another in Gardena and other places like that … within 5 years, she was married … her hermana tambien … together, the foursome bought a sanTana casita … shortly after, a loco blogista became their vecino ... they’re living the stable CONSUMER DREAM … of hard work, homeownership and fiestas cuando pueden … they’re good, hard working gente … ondale …

And her beautiful hermana tambien had a nino three years ago … and another non-Latino nombre …

Eses, mis vecinos are sanTana ... fast fooding it ... buying in pinche bulk ... not carpooling ... gente using nombres from other culturas or customs … call it assimilate, mainstreaming ... a form of diversity … cultural competency … cross cultura … ETCETERA … go for it … no problema aqui … it's so god damn common aqui en the golden ciudad … within a couple of generations, we’ve gone from returning RC bottles for deposit to buying 2-liter plastic ... from Josefina hasta Yesica to Amanda … or something like that …

Ondale … years ago,cuando fue nino … my homegirl dreamed of the day she had 10 kids … simon … 10 kids and maybe more … pero sabes que … it had nothing to do with sending the ninos to work for fidea … it was not about generating income or improving nuestra historical material mood … nor about being irresponsible … chale … instead it was all about loving names for her ninos-to-be … simon … it was about being a proud Chicana ama, which she is hoy … tambien, it was really just a conversation piece … and our comrada had us cracking up as we, sixth graders, sipped our whiskey filled 7-11 slurpees and smoked nuestra ranflas we swiped from Shopper’s Rancho aqui on Main and Bishop/Cubbon … simon … thereafter, we sat in the lunch tables at LATHROP ... played veinte uno, dominos ETC hasta cuando … unfortunately toasted ... and used fifty dollar bills as “coasters” … this was a pinche Monday PM ... puro payasos …

What was a trip was that nuestra sanTana comrada idealized certain names … certain high-frequency CHICANO names … Cynthia … Lisa … Mathew ... Mona … Joseph … Noel … Brenda … Robert … Johnny … Alex … Paul … Lydia … Esmirna … Mike … Danny … Eric … ETCETERA … typical Chicano names from ayer, que no …

Other names were absent … simon, nombres like Tiffany, Tabitha … Dillan … Mitch … Xochitl … Cuauhtemoc … Esperanzo … Ernesto … Jose … Irony … Sue … Rosario … Amanda … Betsy … Wynona … ETC … I don’t know why … but I guess it was comfort in calling your own ninos …

BUTT anyways homes … I know a Mathew who has an Amanda … a Lydia who has an Andriene … an Esmirna who has a Xochitl … and so on … all en sanTana, where we grow in numbers … yet our high-frequency Chicano/a names might be fumbling all the way to the bank …

Pues … don’t know about ustedes … but this sanTana blogista is a Tomas vato … as in Tomas Rivera … I’m also an Amil homie as in Cabral …

Hump Drink ... (listening to Blue Money)

2006-04-19T12:49:00.000-07:00

I'm devastated ... todo guitado ... pinche tripping to the max ... mi hermano broke some noticias ... me dijo that he once worked for the Church of Scientology ... CHINGOW ... simon ... he had an amigo that he was helping out ... so he did some "part-time" trabajo for dias nomas ... simon ... this was years ago ... aqui en Naranjaville ... that explains his addiction to religion humor ... southpark ... and his pocho ways ...

Anyways ... it's hum pday ... que no ... so here's a pinche simple recipe for some firme hump pisto ...

Ingredients and shitttt:
Usted and a firme lover
While in bed, reading the papel, direct lover to BAR
Say the following:
"Grab the red vasos, they're 16 oz vasos, did you know that!!!
Fill both with small ice cubes, but not crushed ice as crushed ice melts and waters down JD
Fill each vaso 1/3 with Jack Daniels .... guey
Hairy UP!!
Stick your entire middle finger in my vaso
Run your wet dedo around the back of both ears
Think cochino ...
Open the frig, grab chilled can of Coca Cola
Use all the Coke to fill the vasos
Get a spoon and stir the drinks briskly until the vasos foam on top
Lick the spoon ...
Take a big sip and bring it to me ...
I want to see foam all over your dirty mouth ...
Answer the phone ...
Think cochino ..."

TRICKY TRAFFIC Always Ends With "L" ... (listening to 6 Variations Of In The Rain)

2006-04-18T10:29:00.000-07:00

Simon … when you think of sanTana traffic, many things come to mind … caruchas … SUVs … BC license plates … MUSICA … vendors … ringing bells … corn on the cob … detergent … ETCETERA … pues, I think el mismo … BUTT there’s also the pinche TRICKY TRAFFIC aqui en el barrio … alli tambien … simon … DC and DIOS brought us TRICKY DICK and now DC, BC and DIOS bring sanTana TRICKY TRAFFIC … simon … and these fuckers have balls …

Hey … la otra dia … I was kicking it watching a Yankee game … simon … pues if Derek Jeter never does a table dance, which, according to himself, is a pinche no-no during the season per George Steinbrenner … mejor, maybe the vato can wiggle some nalga over home plate … a pinche quickie, for ratings …. BUTT the juego was on entonces I saw this vato coming up my driveway … simon … the vato was poco gordo … was eating an orange and was throwing his pinche peels on everyone’s tierra … pinche mocoso pendejo … my front door was cracked about two inches, for fresh air … simon … RAZA needs fresh air … then the vato’s eyes began moving around mi chante, like a stoned radar … simon … the dude was scoping out the entire frente del casa … BUTT he ignored my crack … simon … then he slowly shouted algo … don’t know what pero I think it had to do with free carpet shampooing cuz it always does … he stood about two feet from the door and stared straight into the glass puerta … the vato was able to see me even he was looking about 6 inches to my left … then dropped a card … the vato continued to pinche lean forward toward my crack … he had thick dedos … all round and shit … I said nada …

The vato still ignored my crack which by this time was ripped open another four inches … due to the wind … Johhny Damon, Derek Jeter y el Garret Sheffield all ripped … and now Alex Rodriguez with his big ass was swinging his cochino bat … simon … but I just watched this vato scope the chante … he then turned and hit the calle … moved on to tighter colas … my cocoa door and mysterious crack scared him fucking silly … and don’t think Yankee noise coming from my cracked entertained him … he’d prefer Raggaeton … or maybe Juan Gabriel … how about ABBA … it would of struck his pinche DANCING QUEEN cord …

sanTan’s TRICKY TRAFFIC never stops cumming … simon … churches which operate out of theaters … simon … ellos, pues they congest the BLVD con su pinche TRICKY TRAFFIC … simon … this one grupo has visited mi calle and maybe yours at least 10 times in the last few months … fregan to the max ... simon … same firme hina knocks … they’re not shy … they come right up and knock … they’re not pinche shy … dressed in tight skirts … piernas wrapped in chocolate brown nylons … sometimes burgundy … was azul, once … bitch heels … great pelo … puppy eyes … simon … she’s thirty algo firme … have to take care of biz when she splits … her grupo sabe que she’s a 40/60 … some iglesia noticias … mostly flirting via ojos, lengua and dedos and shitttt … I’m sure she’s good, clean and tasty con sus glassy ojitos … she’s the perfect LETRA L … one leg straight up, la otra straight down … no bending of the knees … all 90 degrees … I bet she’ll wear another mask … I bet the vata would appreciate a scarf, black sunglasses and would love to hold my chin … and when I wake up, she’ll be staring straight at me … a twilight zone HINA … twilight zone RAZA … TRICKY TRAFFIC RAZA … did I mention I bet the hina’s clean to the max …

Good Friday, Trippy Monday ... (listening to The Dap Dip)

2006-04-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

Ummmm que … pues … I’m not sure what it is BUTT sanTana Easter’s are a total trip … simon ... and totally firme … simon … it’s one of those pinche holidays that we take total advantage of … simon … on the 4th of July … we pinche hit the cuetes like it’s our last pinche dia en el mundo … pinche crazy … simon … on Halloween, sanTana RAZA packs the calles with ninos and their single parents who rap hasta las 11 … todo block party …

Entonces there’s Easter … simon … every familia on my calle was dressed-up to the pinche max … simon … son Mexicanos que levantan a las 5am … throw on the musica, gritan como locos entonces are listo by 6:30am … simon … their ninos are sleep-crying … pinche raza … they then pack the pinche carucha with whatever and hit the calles to the misas or go visit their pinche compas all while the pinche ninos are all KO’d atras … simon … they along with the butchy abuela are all pinche happy viviendo EASTER, AMERICAN STILO … one vecino made his 6:30am round in a black leather jacketa … I was impressed … leather in da AM … the vato was decked out to the max … black camisa … tan Dockers … retro sapatos de CANADA and the LEATHER … entonces my other vecino didn’t open his gate hast la una … chingow … he and the hina were feeling their EASTER sacate for hours … FUCHIII … it was probably pink sacate tambien …

BUTT I’m totally amazed at how FELIZ and shit raza is with this holiday … hey … were many of these the same gente who’ve been hitting the calles against racist immigration legislation … or are these their vecinos … simon … these gente are all happy and shit celebrating their dios … simon … the same dios who won’t stop racist reglas … how do we do it … un dia we’re all pissed off and shit con este sistema … protests … walkout … boycott … ETCETERA … entonces on day two … pues … como nada paso … simon …we’re driving all pretty by the reglas and staying in pinche line all the way to the pinche fiesta … paying los pinche pisto taxes for the AMSTEL LIGHT, TECATE y JACK DANIELS tambien for the rounds … eses … pues … nuestra vida remains methodical … we remain with pinche hope and dreams … we’re respectful gente, never intimated, maxing out the holidays y weekends tambien … simon … just like everyone else … sabes que … sounds like a true marriage …

Pero sabes que … if it’s too much for some gente to handle … pues we ought to continue to drive the by reglas BUTT bring the chenate to a pinche THIRD POLITICAL PARTY fiesta where EL FLACO can do the HUGGY BOY boxer dance … where we can watch continuous reruns of LAW & ORDER ... y LA FLACA y LA PUPPET can have their way … where Dave Stearn and Bud Selig can continue to be TRUCHA ... Mr. DRACULA can make the hina hickies … and TATTOO can tattoo … where Jonathan can cut your pelo and MURO can do the teatro and poemas … where la familia Gambsky will continue to make our fiestas and send me X-Mas cards ... and James Brolin y la Barbra Streisand continue to be UNITED ... Cutie Couric sigue con su pinche mega million contracto at CBS and shit ... yet, we can stuff and massage our juevos with THIRD PARTY confetti …

ESES ... hate to rant and correr BUTT Jack Daniels me llame ...

The Mexican OC (listening to Tighten Up)

2006-04-12T12:58:00.000-07:00

For Immediate Release

Breath of Fire opens Premiere of The Mexican OC Friday, April 28!

Breath of Fire Theater Company is pleased to announce the World Premiere of the ground breaking play, The Mexican OC, A California Story Fund Grant Project. This funny and poignant collection of stories seeks to entertain, educate, and eliminate the stereotypes of Orange Countyï¿½s Mexican community. We meet two forces: pocha real estate agent, Debi Murillo, and chicana crossing guard, Yolanda Gomez, who are our guides through the intersections of untold Mexican American heritage.

This show is Directed by BOFTC Artistic Director Sara Guerrero, Produced and Production Managed by BOFTC Executive Director Heather Enriquez, and written in collaboration with Apolonio Morales, Cristina Nava, Elizabeth Szekeresh, Heather Enriquez, and Sara Guerrero. The production opens Friday, April 28 and runs for a total of seven performances through Saturday, May 6 at El Centro Cultural De Mexico, 310 W. 5th St., in Santa Ana. Show times are Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 5:00 pm. One Thursday night show is scheduled for May 4 8:00 pm. A private fund raising performance is scheduled for Saturday, April 29th at 2:00 pm. Community Dialogs to follow each performance. Performances are free of charge, however donations are welcomed, and reservations are suggested.

The cast of twelve includes Breath of Fire Theater Company members Cristina Nava, Elsa Martinez Phillips, Lorena Billings, and Ronnie Alvarez, as well as El Centro community members Analy Garcia and Pedro Lopez. Making their El Centro Cultural De Mexico debut with this production are Alejandro Lara, Anthony Lucero, Jami McCoy, Keith Bennett, Maricela Lazcano, and Stephen O Young.

The tech team is headed by Stage Manager Jody Reeves, Lighting Design is by Oliver Huang, and Technical Direction is by Lonnie Alcaraz. BOFTC Members: Elizabeth Szekeresh is the Assistant Director, Angela Mauro is the Assistant Stage Manager, Costume Design is by Gina Davidson, Set Design by Andres Galvan, Set Construction by Bill Hilton and Randy Navarro, Sound Design by Apolonio Morales, Composition by Andy Mendoza, Graffiti Art by Eric Girten, and Video Direction/Production by Apolonio Morales and Elizabeth Szekeresh.

If you'd like to arrange an interview with the cast or director, would like more information, or to make reservations please call 714-785-0764 or send us an email at BreathofFireTheatre@yahoo.com

To make a donation, please contact: Fundraising Director, Andrea Ramirez at 626-665-8102 or by email at mextica@gmail.com

"It is important to know where we have been, and where we are, to see where we are going. You have to remember, that's all I'm asking." Yolanda Gomez The Mexican OC

Matt Santos ... Party of 12 Million ... (listening to Archie Bell & the Drells)

2006-04-12T12:15:00.000-07:00

Eses … Matt Santos is running for U.S. President … and Vegas says the vato has won ...

Simon … Matt Santos for U.S. President … Matthew (two t's) Vincente Santos ... Houston’s first Chicano Mayor … he’s currently in his third term as a U.S. Congressman … the vato was born in Tejas at St. Joseph’s Hospital … as he entered his senior year in high school, he visited his Congressman in Houston’s 18th District … and check this out, Matt was recommended then accepted to the Naval Academy in Annapolis … he became an engineer with an interest in politics and shattt … in bullshit time, Santos was elected to city council where he helped rebuild playgrounds for ninos and build community watchgroups …

You probably met a Matt Santos … or maybe you’re a product of a Matt Santos … the vato’s one of seven ninos born to Luis and Marita Santos … where they all grew up in the 2nd Ward – Houston’s oldest Mexican-American or Chicano neighborhood and home to six generations of the Santos Familia … maybe their name is hidden in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo …

And now … according to the script … “when he entered the House of Representatives six years ago, Matt Santos wanted to improve the daily lives of his 18th district constituents, and the lives of all Americans who, like him, needed some encouragement to succeed. During his tenure, he has helped provide more education grants to low-income college students, and health insurance for millions of children. On the Ways and Means Committee, he has led the movement for temporary assistance for needy families, and worked diligently on job creation and worker assistance for hardworking Americans. Matt has never forgotten the lessons he learned as a young man in Houston – lessons in faith and perseverance that have fortified him through his political and lifelong journey. He seeks to serve the American people as he has served his family, his country, Houston and the 18th District of Texas. Matthew Santos is married to Helen Santos, and together, they have two children, Peter and Miranda”

Matt has read I Am Joaquin … whenever introduced as Matt, gabachos ET AL always ask “what’s that again?” … the Democratic party recently asked him to resign for the “good of the party” … he and Antonio Villaraigosa meet whenever Antonio’s in DC … He’s already met and may have the support of sanTana’s handsome Mayor, Miguel Pulido … he cracks up at “Ask A Mexican” and says “the writer is definitely from California, he’s a libertarian” … I saw Matt and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson speak about the immigration rallies one day ago … this vato was born with an American flag in his pinche mano … ese ... check you out ... you're MATT SANTOS …

A MEChA Clap ... (listening to Bread)

2006-04-11T20:36:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... Alexandro José Gradilla, Assistant Prof de Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Fullerton me manda el pinche following ... el y Fulleton's MEChistAs invitan a todos to a WALKOUT STUDENT FORUM ... to be held 12 de Abril from 6-8pm ... Room 130 North Pollack Library ... check out the following for mas info ...

According to the Register .... 5,000 estudiantes have protested aqui en Naranjaville ... and 3,000 of the protestors were aqui en sanTana, the golden ciudad ...

4 Nuestra Calle 1/2 ... (listening to Eat A Peach)

2006-04-07T10:32:00.000-07:00

I lied … I have sinned … Flaco, I did chop down the cactus tree … I chopped it down, skinned it, I julianned the bloody cosa and mixed it with fresh juevos from 7-11 … I added fresh tomatoes and onions from a vendor truck that sits around the pinche block on the heavily congested death trap, Standard Ave … tu sabes, the yellow truck with the vendor’s kids playing hide-n-seek as they hide right next to the boiling grease and between the soda and run in and out the puertas onto Standard and dodge whose “IT” plus the pinche CNG OCTA buses and massive SUVs … simon, that truck …

I have lied again … simon … I’ve always claimed sanTana has firme eats … and firme comida turns me on … BUTT … there’s something more impressive about sanTana, tu sabes our GOLDEN CITY … let’s just call this impressive cosa the ABILITY … simon ...

You know what I’m talking about … simon … pues … maybe you don’t know … BUTT sanTana RAZA has gained the unusual ability to develop pinche efficient fuerzas that cut through bureaucratic tape … simon … check it out … they’ve developed the ABILITY to create new and exciting addresses … simon … hay … about two blocks away, some vato converted his garage into a pinche firme studio … simon … his address is ABCD … and the firme studio, for that special renter, es ABCD ½ … simon … tambien, his homey did the same cosa … and this vato’s address is DDD … and for his respected renter, DDD 1 … simon … entonces theres BBB A … CCC C … EEEE 2 … or … 3 UUU … trippy ... simon … I’m a pinche communidad walker … simon … and I trip out on this shit … this is what makes us a ciudad or better yet, a pinche DOWNTOWN …ondale …

Hey … this made my pinche ROBERTO CLEMENTE WEEK list difficult … unofficially and according to me, it’s this week as TOPPS baseball card co has released his rookie card este pinche semana … simon … first on the list ….

FLACO Y FLACA
4 Nuestra Calle ½
sanTana, califas 1 92705 ½

Te paso the ABILITY to cut the pinche tape … tenga …

Commission Is A 10 Letter Palabra ... (listening to Little Sister)

2006-04-07T09:21:00.000-07:00

Work 2088 hours and do NADA ... can you vatos do this ... simon ... pues sabes que, you might just be able to ... simon ... as we all know ... the transportation communidad has a pinche hole in its pocket ... simon ... in the latest Planning Report, check out what Bobby Shriver, Chair of the State Parks Commission and Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem, has to say about the Transportation Corridor gente building a pinche toll road through San Onofre State Park ... esta aqui, gueys ...

According to Shriver ... simon, Maria's hermano ... the Parks Commission does not support this new road as it will destroy the beautiful park ... so the Commish will .... are you ready ... the Park Commission will not do a damn thing ... simon ... according to Shriver, the Commish is strictkly advisory ... so, they're entitled to free flights throughout Califas and meals to meet and discuss park stuff ... have they discussed San Onofre's new slab ... simon ... but JUST ONCE, according to Shriver ... ummm puessssss ... well the good thing is that he gets to chat con Clint Eastwood, who also sits on this Commish ...

Even if the Commish had balls, they'd be fighting a difficult battle ... simon ... TCA might just have the support of the California Transportation Commission and local transportation special districts and the building industry ... but what's freaky es que there are about 300 players in Califas who really make transportation policy ...

So, some insider info ... a great job is a commish staffer ... simon, you sit and watch appointed commish board members do nada ... and guess what, you do the pinche same ... so if you're ever able to sit on a commish, as a staffer, remember to sit and do nada ... twirl your fat Mexican thumbs, scratch your pink cock, or surf the net as you sit and inhale your vaginal odor of the month ... and collect your hefty check ... otherwise you just might be chased the hell out ...

Golden Ciudad, Golden Arches ... (listening to LA Woman)

2006-04-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

Sabes que ... I enjoy sanTana ... simon ... there's real bodies aqui ... not too many plastic creatures walking aqui porque plastic boobs aren't really a priority for barrio wages ... chale ... what you see hanging, bulging and bouncing are puro RAZA carne ... simon ... BUTT what I truly enjoy is chowing down ... I’m a big pinche fan of RAZA comida … I enjoy stopping and eating at many of the not-so-pretty holes aqui en the golden ciudad … my pansa es muy pinche macho … as a matter of fact, I’m the vato who eats at the corners in Tijuana and Seal Beach … I just really enjoy TASTE …

So, if you’re also into taste, sanTana comida is your excuse to cruise into nuestra golden city … simon … it’s routine … CERVEZA and a SHOT or DOS … chips … CERVEZA … CERVEZA … comida … move on … BUTT this ain’t your regular CERVEZA-2SHOT-CHIPS-CERVEZA-CERVEZA-COMIDA pueblo … chale … what makes the sanTana restaurant experience unique is the god damn radio on every restaurant counter blasting the pinche hell out of your fucking ears … pinche polka cochinada takes some pinche adjustment … UM-PA … UM-PA … UM-PA … BUTT the CERVEZA makes it sound better than it is ... besides, if you want firmed comida, the muscica's a fucking must …

Simon … it’s a classic initiation environment aqui in the golden city … siempre ... the above CERVEZA recipe along with the POLKA cochinada blasting from the pinche silver box on the pinche counter … AT 9AM … and if you let them know its too loud, they always say the same shit … no se como apagarlo … or, it's pinche broken … BUTT on this one pinche occasion, I stopped by CASA COLIMA … simon … alli on Main, cerca de la 700 CLUB … simon …. Not too long ago it was a Serranos … #4 or 5, don’t remember … then ownership changed … simon … the owner was some vieja who claimed to just come off the bus and then bought that restaurant before setting up a casita … then it closed for REMODELING … NOT REDEVELOPMENT … CHALE CON REDEVELOPMENT … REDEVELOPMENT PELA ... como fregan …

Anyways … this lugar was close for a few months … entonces … un dia it was open … simon … it looks like a firme patio with firme shapey arches all around … nice pavers ... simon … the vato went all out … he’s a cool vato … anyways … about a week ago I was heading to eas los when I passed Colima … fue como las 9am and shit … and the vato was serving comida … so I stopped by for a cafecito … for the road, you know … simon … he was serving burritos de jeuvo o frijoles y café … that was all … then it was my turn to order … “puedo ordenar un burrito de carnitas, con todo” … “que” the young hina asked … “un burrito de carnitas” … “que” … pinche radio was blasting so fucking loud we couldn’t hear jack … we went another two rounds when she gave this unconvincing nod and said “OK” …

Chingow … the vato had the radio blasting on the side so pinche loud you couldn’t hear nada … BUTT he called me aside and pointed to the ceramico figures he just hung up on the pation wall along the table … PINCHE DUDE … I was lost for words … then I looked up again and thought they actually looked OK even though they were hung up about 10 feet from the floor … they were bright ... MUY MEXICALLI ... all that was missing was velvet couches and the mirror mesas … the vato has firme ideas …

We talked for a few minutes then my order was ready … I grabbed my bag and nodded to the vato … jumped in the carucha and realized I forgot unas papeles … so I headed back to my pinche chante … sat the at mesa and pulled out my order … pinche vieja … she packed me some pinche sexy torta … simon … and the tortas nalgas, pues pan, were round and burned … it was damn good killer comida even though I really felt for a burrito ... full of whatever I had ordered ... pinche dude …

Pues I was there today … and there she was all fucking smiling and shit … I pointed to the radio and nodded … the volume was lowered and again I enjoyed what I was eating … pinche dude … apaga esa pinche radio … again he called me to the side … he was hanging triangle shaped glass mirrors … simon … the mirrors had holes in them so he was pounding big fucking clavos with an oversized hammer right through the mirrors … not one cracked … I was impressed … BUTT PINCHE RAZA … triangle mirrors for the pinche patio, bright pink ceramica muebles para afuera, velvet leather everywhere and the pinche radio blasting and 9AM … like I said, sanTana restaurants are a classic experience and the food is always firme …

Vendor Fever ... (listening to Humpin')

2006-04-05T11:21:00.000-07:00

Pues ... those who say that immigrants add to the entrepreneur espirito aren't pinche kidding ... with the pinche rains and all ... the pinche frio, wet and windy weather didn't keep sanTana vendors off the pinche calles ... chale ... you'd think that with all that chingow wett ayer plus that chinga of wind that most laborers would have been at their chantes eating their lunches by 10am ... que no ... maybe in most lugares ... but en sanTana, our daily laborers AKA vendors were hitting the calles como locos ... by the way, gueys .. we're all LABOUR ...

Simon ... I was shining my pinche spit shiners, getting ready to meet LA PUPPET for dinner, as the rain frego my pinche casa when I heard the BELL ... simon ... the bell rang like menso ... and I thought "CHALE, not today" ... orale then a second later the snow-cone vendor cruised by ... I couldn't resist so for a buck I bought a cone with fresh limon/lemon juice ...

About half hour later, I was delenting my brown khakis entonces I heard the HORN ... ondale, honk, honk, honk ... the vato siempre squeezes the bell bola tres veces ... drives me loco ... simon, it was the nut/fried onion strips/chips/cotton candy vato ... simon ... the nuts are splattered with chili peppper and as you buy them, MY FRIEND will open your bolsa and ESQUEEZE limon all over your nuts and SHAKE THEM to the max ... AAYYYY MANUELA ...

Onale ... so within a three hour period ... 4 vendors cruised by ... along with three ice-cream trucks .. even the vato whose lic plate frame reads "PLAY IN MY VAN" cruised by ... along with la senora who sells me a mixed six-pack of sodas for $2 ... most popular vendor ayer was the corn vata, with worms ... esta bonita butt she always looks pissed off ... I did have sena with LA PUPPET pero no comi mucho porque all those vendors filled me with their sweet and deep cosas ...

PUES sabes que ... the ice-cream trucks were safe and dry ... BUTT the competitive vendors had another pinche creative twist to add to their labor spirit ... simon ... umbrella cachucas ... hats ... simon ... a crown on their head with a wide size umbrella tied to that pinche princess crown ... it kept them dry and the huge clear plastic bag over their carts kept their goods nice and pinche dry ... I couldn't believe it ... I was impressed ...

I did ask the snow-cone vendor "on days like this, are you really glad you're here" ... in Chicano Spanish, of course ... his repsonse ... "if I wasn't here, you couldn't suck on my cone" ... TRUE ... que no ... I've been buying shit from this vato for some pinche time ... ever since he use to come around in his firme CHUNTARO OUTFIT ... simon, he'd come straight from the not-so-straight bars in the wildest polyester shirts, polyester pantelones or jeans, tacones, never tennis shoes, no belt ... almost an illegal BOBBY FLAY, if you can imagine that ... at that time, when he was a rookie vendor, he carried a flat pink board that was drilled with big fat peep-holes for cotton candy cones ... simon ... cotton candy flamer ... entonces he transitioned and is now a snow cone vaquero ...

BUTT anyways eses ... his cotton candy flamer position remains vacant, he said ... or I should say, there are openings for candy cane salespersonas ... and do you think they have an AFFIRMATIVE ACTION policy ... maybe ... but I'll never know ... chale ... therefore, do us a favor ... next time you see an unemployed gabacho or anti-immigrant body, tell him/her about the cotton candy sales position ... simon ... it's a sales position so pay is on a sliding scale ... si vendes nada, ganas nada ... if you sell a million units, you're doing good ... no car or car insurance required ... no dress code ... sexual harassment is not welcomed but if you can be a bitch for a few hours each day, you'll sell mas ... no background check ... no drug/alcohol test ... not even a diploma is needed ... simon ... tell them there's openings for those jobs ... simon ... tell them here's an opportunity to begin to take it all back ...

Ondale time for queso and all drinks TEQUILA ...

Signed, Cholo's Mutha ... (listening to Domino)

2006-04-04T15:29:00.000-07:00

LAist turns me on (especially A ... ) to a hilarious menso note left by a fucked up Irvine parker ... simon the persona hit another carucha while trying to park and left this nota on the windshield ... fucking funny to the max ...

The moral of this pinche cuenta ... when parking, DO NOT DOUBLE PENETRATE IN IRVINE ...

Tamales Y Porn ... (listening to Stone Free)

2006-04-04T13:58:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... I hear dios is considering DRAGGGG ... que no ... que pues ... si no, I'll put un pinche mil that the vato is bursting at the khaki seams ... the pinche 909 ... check this article out ... some anti-porno CHRISTIAN GROUP (www.XXXchurch.com) located in Corona ordered 10,000 bibles from the American Bible Society (hay tu, Bible Society) and requested that the publisher title all 10,000 libros as JESUS LIKES PORN STARS ... simon, true story ... XXXchurch claims they wanted to attract attention ... the publisher said chale as it may be misleading ... ondale ... that's one cosa I enjoy about living in the most advance industrial lugar en el pinche mundo ... simon ... somewhere, some legal vato is writing a totally fucked up legal response to reduce someone's liability to the pinche max ... check it out aqui, gueys ...

Eses ... every institution pushed to the max ...

Anyways ese ... check out the latest top 35 DVD porn sales de AVN ... y-que ...

Hard as Wood
Swim Meat 2
Happy Hour
Side Effects
Manifesto
Lukas in Love 2
Straight With a Twist
Brazilian House Party
Backseat Butt Fuckers
Grease Monkeys
Casting Couch 3
Stockholm Gay Parade Gone Wild
Weekend Trilogy
Castro 3: Reloaded
Encounters 1
Hot Resort
Bananas From Brazil 3
Cream Boys
Cum Inside
Board Stiff
Empire of Caesar
Heatstroke Highway
The Most
Postcard From London
Haven of Desire
Keeping Score 3
Str8 Off the Base 2
Bareback Hazing
Huge Cocks & Tight Asses
Fuck Buddies
Levi's Twinky Tune-Up
Masters of the Sword
Dawson's 50-Load Weekend
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Latinos in the House 3

Ondale ... you supply the porn, I'll bring the tamales ... simon ... TAMALES Y PORN ... it's firme para usted ...

She's A Lady ...

2006-04-04T11:27:00.000-07:00

Ondale ... I just rec'd emails asking about my last song ... She's a Lady ... eses, I've always said everyone should see Tom Jones at least once ... mira, check ot the lyrics below ... lower ... right there ...

BUTT my Jack Daniels' transfusion has been a pinche clover ... simon ... aqui relishing my AZ genes and the beauty and sweet juices that infiltrate the paternal women in my bloodline ... beauty is genetic en my paternal familia ... beautiful women, handsome men ... we're redheaded indios at birth and some of us become pinche sexy to the pinche max Chicanos and Chicanas ... and others remain firme knockout AZ hillbillies ...

Well she's all you'd ever want,
She's the kind they'd like to flaunt and take to dinner.
Well she always knows her place.
She's got style, she's got grace,
She's a winner.
She's a Lady.
Whoa whoa whoa,
She's a Lady.
Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.
Well she's never in the way
Something always nice to say,
Oh what a blessing.
I can leave her on her own
Knowing she's okay alone, and there's no messing.
She's a lady.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
She's a lady.
Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.
Well she never asks for very much and I don't refuse her.
Always treat her with respect,
I never would abuse her.
What she's got is hard to find, and I don't want to lose her
Help me build a mansion from my little pile of clay.
Hey, hey, hey.
Well she knows what I'm about,
She can take what I dish out, and that's not easy,
Well she knows me through and through,
She knows just what to do, and how to please me.
She's a lady.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
She's a lady.
Talkin' about that little lady and the lady is mine.
Yeah yeah yeah
She's a Lady
Listen to me baby,
She's a LadyWhoa whoa whoa,
She's a Lady
And the Lady is mine
Yeah yeah yeah
She's a Lady
Talkin about this little lady
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
Whoa and the lady is mine
Yeah yeah She's a Lady
And the Lady is mine.

Your Bleached Butt Kicked ... (listening to She's A Lady)

2006-04-04T10:38:00.000-07:00

Ummmm puessss .... was that enought beisball for nosotros o que ... it was just a few years ago that a group of Angels would rideshare from 909 hasta el barrio for a juego ... then carpool back to their casitas ... Percival ... Kennedy ... etc ... ahora ... the only tripp those vatos make is to play or hasta la PR ... cuando pueden ...

BUTT that's firme ... no problem aqui, guey ... this happens every so often ... I'm just pinche aprendido for internet and shatt ... simon ... now I can finally understood mumbles de los peliculas ... simon ... one mumble that has bothered me hasta las calzones has been on Godfather II ... for pinche anos I lost sleep wondering what the hell was wrong with "our son" ... simon ... what did La Winey Kaye Corleone ever tell Michael about their son Anthony ... simon ... towards the end of II, during the Congressional hearings, at their fancy hotel and shit, La Winey tells Miguel she's gone ... "Look -- look what's happened to us, Mike -- my God, look what's happened to our son ..."

And now thanks to pinche internet I find out ... "ANTHONY's friends ... are your buttonmen!"

Pinche Kaye was 1/2 right ... Anthony's friends were also rough cola men cuz in III we find out Anthony's a pinche connected ballerina ... que no ...

Anyways ... ayer was all about ass kicking ... simon ... Yankees jumped out of a bush y mataron los A's ... ETC ... entonces there was the sanTana city council meeting cons sus pinche fighting words ... OCTA went up to the stinky podium y hablaron de da landscaping on the 22 ... along with the requirements for cities to be eligible for renewed Measure M fidea ... simon ... if M passes ... ciudades cant get this guinea 1/2 cent sales cash for their two meal pueblos it they ... have a pinche pavement programa ... be part of a county-wide signal light syncro programa ... plus, city's must match renewed Measure M fidea with other dollars or peso or pinche besos from handsome mayors ... whichever ...

Ondale ... the requirement for renewed M cash are lonely and hard-up for pinche friendship at best ... BUTT the party ignited during this big-shot M fiesta ... simon ... there's this vieja agitator who attends the meetings and talks and talks and talks do todo ... pura agitator ... she's a crack up ... simon ... she's a heavy Latino with bleached blond peolo and a BLEACH bottle in her back bpocket ... chingow ... her natural brown hair is fighting with the new blond cinema cosa ... simon ... you can see her roots at battle ... simon ... the battles just as blooody as the French protestors fighting the pinche estado ... butt anyways eses ... during the OCTA discussion, there was a public hearing ... and she spoke ... simon ... acussing el shorty Miguel Pulido of not prioritizing OCTA services for the truly needy ... simon ... she mentioned transit safety ... then recalled when she got her "butt kicked" on the bus ... then asked El Mayor if he ever had his "butt kicked" ... have you ever had your butt kicked ... have you ever had your butt kicked ... she was scratched ... or was she pinche scratching ... quien sabe ... do your job, she said ... butt El Pinche Mayor just laughed ... why are you laughing, she questioned El Shorty ... pues, I'm guessing he was laughing cuz he couldn't slap her pinche cara ... sad but pinche true ... "all right" he said then the vato turned off the podium microphone ...

Hey, this broad's a trip ... a veces she wears a nun's outfit ... and agitates ... pinche agitators ... about that bleach job ... el payaso George Lopez rags on familia blondes like this ...

Ondale ... noon is aroud the corner ... but I'll cruise early to my Jack Daniels' transfusion ...

Cumpleanos, Nalgon (listening to Turquoise)

2006-04-03T13:23:00.000-07:00

Pues ... it's a fiesta time hoy aqui en Recycled Cholo ... JD ... meet CCola ... with Brando to have turned 82 hoy ... but enough of that pinche cochinada ... and hail to the pinche courts for saying "chale, pendejos" to sanTana's own pendejo city council ... the city's new reglas for vendors that would make the mocoso vendors move every few minutos was found to lack juevos and total credibility ... simon ... among other cosas ... the ciudad couldn't proved that the movement of these vendors would improve the safety and overall health condition of these businesses ...

And that's pinche true ... bathtub queso taste hairy whether the stand is stationary or todo pedo ... que no ... I've had bathtub queso ... not bad ... not bad at all ... fresh ... with our without salt ... and taste firme on bananas and backs ...

Ondale pues ... it's opening day for beisbal and the Angels and Dodgers juegan hoy ... simon ... I made it to a couple World Baseball games ... one was Japan vs USA ... it was a nationalistic breeding ground on both sides ... simon ... the Japanese chanting "nipon, nipon, nipon ..." and the US gente yelling "USA, ETC" ... the US won on a controversial tag up call as the Japanese had bases loaded and their batter hit a flyball to left field ... the vato tagged up but was called out for being to pinche anxious ... thus leaving to pinche early ... ondale ... beisball fraud, otra vez ...

Butt that's firme porque I'm just adoring some nice 30 some nalgas along with a few Barry Bond's cards ... simon, last night we watched the Godfather entonces hit Swinging Door ... entonces it was potty mouth amor ... I've realized that love is best with eight manos ... and that love is a staring competition ... Butt hey, Bonds has a beautiful card este ano ... butt about the nalgas ... simon ... the hina no quiere ir ... there are official nalga rules en mi chante ... simon, especially the ones that fit the curvature in mis pinche dedos better than my Bobby Bonds and Willie Mays autographed glove ... and her beige tan ... chingow ... tambine finer than that pinche glove ... simon ... I'm all for the raza nalgas ... simon ... I always said I was a voz y ojo vato ... BUTT the nalga has taken over me ... simon ... it's not the crack ... or the endless possibilities que el pinche nalga te trae ... chale ... it's just the owner and my admiration for brown hinas and all the pinche cochinada they put up with and do for us dirty potty boca cabrones ... ONDALE ... to my lovely lowrider banana nalga who moves like a sexy UFW flag and serves me chiloso and antigua boycott comida ... esa ... beautiful, I hate to stick my cock in, spank crazy and run ... pero, tengo que ir ... I've gotta go ... LATER ...

I'm In Love With Mary Jane and 198 Casitas (listening to Al Greene)

2006-03-30T12:50:00.000-08:00

A few weeks ago, sanTana city council announced its plan to chingar y cambiar Bristle Street aqui en the golden city ... simon ... these vatos have plans to turn the very pinche dirty Bristle Street into one pinche clean cola ... HAIRY UPP!! ... anyways eses ... some of Bristle has already been decked out ... simon ... alli cerca de that pussy escuelita, Mater Dei ... simon ... alli, the homeless roam the calles near Edinger with new lights ... islands llena de flores bonitas ... turn outs for OCTA buses ... and the homeless can dodge 7 lanes of cars if they shoes to cross the pinche calle in the middle of no where ...

BUTT if you head further south on Bristle towards Warner ... the calle is a piece of shit ... simon ... the calle is a big fucking shit stain ... simon ... the calle is full of holes and rocks and just bad demographics ... on Warner and Bristle it's a continuous pinche rush hour society ... simon ... traffic up the culo ... entonces if you head north again and pass the esceula for penochas then head toward McFadden and Bristle ... chingow ... you've gone to a very pretty hell ... it's another 1960's mall worn down with great prices ... tu sabes ... the $15 guayabera heaven ... tax revenues up the pinche culo ... good food ... and another pinche Gonzalez Marketa ... but the calles pela alli ... simon ... the other day, this proud homeowner papa was washing his pinche Firebird on his grass ... he owned a house on the corner which put the vato about 5 feet from Bristle street traffic traveling at unos pinche 50 mph ... it was a fucked scene butt the vato washed away ...

Anyways eses ... construction will be in done in 4-5 phases at a cost of about $35 million ... it's been a while but these numbers are there ... at the end ... all of Bristle will look like Disneyland Drive ... simon ... all chingon con sus Stacey Adams ... the entire BLVD will be three lanes each pinche way with turnouts for buses or to change your pinche llanta or oil, whichever ese ... tambien ... middle lanes for right turns ... islands to be landscaped and will become the prettiest parts of sanTana .... THE WORKS, eses ... and I guess that's cool porque the amount of caruchas in this town is pinche ridiculous ...

At the same pinche time ... next time you're on Bristle ... cruise the entire 4-5 mile calle ... you'll notice the old part of this calle because casitas and tienditas are located on this busy pinche corridor ... it's pinche dangerous housing but its $400,000 - $500,000 housing y-que ... entonces this $35 million, 4-5 phase Bristle street project will include eminent domain or right of way chingasos ... simon ... the meanest dose of EMINENT DOMAIN to hit sanTana is here ... this pinche Bristle bitch project also means 198 CASITAS will be torn down ... and I belive 39 business will also be kicked out ....

Simon ... 198 CASITAS to be torn down ... gente ... 198 casitas taken over due to eminent domain usually means a pinche FREEWAY is being built ... not a city corridor ... 198 CASITAS ... that's alot of familias and gente that need to move .... so they will be bought out but at very, very low prices ... and at prices that will drive these gente to renting or towards the 909 desert ... these gente will walk away with fidea but no enough to make them better off or no where near their CASITA replacement cost .... it's eery eses ... when I drive by and see those ninos playing or that apa washing his Firebird, which he often does, I just think .... pues ... they're all ghosts ...

BUTT Claudia Alvarez showed her concern by asking the Director of Transportation about outreach to those gente to be affected ... and he said outreach will be done TO INFORM BUSINESS OWNERS ALONG BRISTLE about the progress of this pinche project .... Alvarez also said homeowners shouldn't be surprised, they knew it was coming ....

198 CASITAS gone ... but not to increase local sales tax or revenue or build new businesses to bring in goods and services for sanTana residents ... only to improve the flow of pinche traffic and make sure $35 million is divided among contractors and consultants y-que ...

198 CASITAS .... is given a bad dose of pure eminent domain ...

Q-vo Mexican Pie (listening to Roger)

2006-03-30T10:21:00.000-08:00

Sabes que ... the other day I was at the dentista ... I was in the wait room and they had the cooking channel on ... some vieja was on a pie tour ... and after every pie the pendeja sampled, she'd look at the camera coma mensa and say "just like mama's" .... BULLSHITT ... I thought ... pues, bullshit becuz ama's didn't make apple pies en sanTana, at least not in southwest sanTana ....

Chale ... the only pie we got was the pie in we stuck in certain caras ... simon ... en southwest sanTana we were called the poor folk ... the poor gente, etc, etc, etc ... simon writers and researchers always gave us the pinche POOR label ... and these were writers and researchers who probably rented near UC Irvine ...

I never understood the POOR label ... chale ... as a kid, I always worked the bars ... the Body Shop, Boat House, Frolic Inn ... mopping floors, killing bugs, haulng ice, washed vasos, etc, etc, etc ... I enjoyed it ... the chisme was hilarious and the booze was on the house ... so I always had nickels and dimes in my pockets and I'd always get boob shows ... more important, es que the "POOR KIDS" that everyone said filled sanTana, pues nosotros, pues all our parents owned homes ... simon ... all our gente were home owners ... simon ... we had a 1950's international style casita ... other friends lived on Orange or Maple in very large turn-of-the-pinche-century casitas and others lived in small pinche shacks .... but our parents were long-term home owners ... we didn't take vacations unless you counted Anaheim or Buena Park as a get away ... nor did we eat home baked pies ... we hated pie ... BUTT the beautiful raza women in our homes was what our ama's made .. they would always sew our baseball and football uniforms ... wash our jocks ... treat us to tamale y enchilada dinners ... and their amigas would wear little outfits to show off thier curves ... we were all ninos Chicanos who didn't care about the POOR label, didn't live the POOR vida nor the rich one, but we were considered POOR by administrators, officials, out-of-towners, gabachos, chinos, and other naive pendejos who wanted to believe it ... but now parents sit on properties worth over $500,000 ... some of our parents even own 2 or 3 properties ... and our parents' sangres have been on sanTana titles since the 60's even the 50's ...

We're not all POOR, pendejos ... our parents are humble and accumalated their income and wealth the only way one can do it ... through time ...

The Winds Took Over ... (listening to Jackie Wilson)

2006-03-30T09:26:00.000-08:00

Ondale gente ... OK ... so I've been out for un pinche mes ... eses ... the firme cosa about working aqui at Recycled Cholo is the pinche vacation time ... anytime ...

I guess with beisbal season aqui ... the winds just took over ... the firme news is that I am the proud owner of 11 Mickey Mantly cards ... simon ... I just ran into Nolan Ryan's rookie card tambien ... Roberto Clemente's is next ... and which Latino ball player will have the most valuable card ... too early to tell ...

What trips me out is the mass pinche prtotest organized against anti-immigration legislation ... 1/2 million in el lay last weekend and some say that overall, that number was closer to 1 million ... and the day before ... the large number of raza practicing democray in Phoenix ... that was pretty a-pinche-mazing ... then the locitos aquit en naranjaville ... firme ...

A few years ago ... I remember talking to Ed Ochoa ... at the pinche time he was a prof of economics at Cal State LA ... now he's a Provost and VP and Sonoma State ... anyways eses ... we discussed AQMD policy and I told him how it pinche sucked ... and about the organizers like Erik Mann, Lisa Duran et al who were working como chinga to change AQMD reglas ... etc , etc, etc ... he though it was OK but he stated what bothered him was the protesting ... he said trying to relive the pinche '60's was not productive .... Ochoa's cool gente ... that's why he's at Sonoma ... but nothing could be further from the pinche verdad ... in a firme Democracy, gente can do many things but the most important cosas are to VOTE and the right to PROTEST ... tambien the right to organize and that sweet 500,000 is recipe for a third (labor) party ...

I was also glad to see one of the el lay organizers, Xiomara Corpeno, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and a UCRiverside alumni, on the pinche tube win a good debate over Ira Mehlman, media director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform ... weeks before ... she was flattened over an over-time bill in the califas legislature ...

But gracias for the emails about getting my ass up or split ... look for my daily postings to continue ...

sanTana y Tonic ... (listening to Delta Lady)

2006-02-24T14:30:00.000-08:00

Ondale … last week I hit a few places aqui en la golden ciduad … sanTana X13 … simon … I hit a few sanTana lugares … entonces Pangea Cafe … an eatery with a full liquor license … I had a Tanqueray y tonix con limon … simon … a veces the limon is missing … and the tonix can be flat ... la otra dia I had an Absolute with cranberry at La Cave … they added a pinche lime …

BUTT … Pangea was firme … it was … Tuesday … so that was actually this week … hey, it’s tough … anyways ese … I arrived como las 3:30 at da PM … cierran a 4 … but I had a good stiff drink … tambien one of the pinche owners greeted me and my guest … he came and went … then pinche returned para fregar … no te crees, ese … he invited us to his otra lugar … the Martini Bar … just doors away … that opened a las 4 …

4 pm and there we pinche were … pouring and fregando … the long-haired blondie bartender dressed in a fitted black long sleeve blouse, black pants and all else came to the pinche hip mesa … le dije que I’m a gin/tonic person … and asked if she had anything martini close to that … “I don’t know” … so I stuck with gin/tonix … the drinks were firme … the patio music was tambien cool ...

We kicked it and watched the Tuesday evening traffic pasar … talking chingada … many caruchas on Broadway … many patas on Broadway … many SUV mojados on the calles tambien … I was wondering if this was all part of serenity …

The Martini bar is pretty firme … it’s simple … black, grey y blanco … chic and simple … it’s not Tustin's Swinging Door dump … or an Anacrime's ESPN galleria cosa … I eventually wound up at Swinging Door where they also had a FOXY bartender … brown hair and green eyes …

The next day, by 4pm, I was at Yankee Doodles in Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade … Duke played Georgia Tech … and won … the place was poco bland … faltava sal … entonces some hina with nice tits … who happened to change her blusa in front of me … approached us … she talked about Brasil’s most popular beer and offered us one … chingow … if there’s one thing I don’t enjoy is being interrupted between my gins … but I said "Simon" … “Excuse me”, she said … “Simon” I pinche repeated as I nodded … “Is that Brasilian” she asked … anyways she brought us BRAHMA … some nasty tasting cider that the bartender passed us between chuckles that sounded poco retarded … pinche horrible … the bartender stood there as we took a sip … he motioned his manos … “Simon” … he tossed them …

This Friday AM I was taking care of business, flipping through OC Weekly and saw a full page ad for BRAHMA … even the bottle’s nasty …

BUTT sanTana has good drinks and nice bars even on Tuesdays … and combined with Tustin’s dumpiest, they had mas gente than Santa Monica’s most popular flat tonix sports bar did on Wednesday …

Put Your (Her)manos Together ... (listening to Fleetwood Mac)

2006-02-24T10:55:00.000-08:00

Latino LA turns me on to this poema by Daniel Olivas de La Bloga ...

In the wake of morning’s love, los hermanos commenced building el pueblo from the ground up.

By noon’s smile, the tight, happy cobblestone streets veined through el pueblo like breathing roots around strong, worthy homes, churches and schools.

By afternoon, la gente, who now bustled through el pueblo, grew restless and vile.

“This pueblo is too perfect,” they said.

“We have no reason to strive!”

So, la gente razed the strong, worthy buildings.

With gory fingers, they dug up each happy cobblestone.

And in evening’s horror, la gente snarled as they buried the weeping hermanos with el pueblo’s bloodstained rubble.

La Wacky de sanTana ... (listening to Two Lovers)

2006-02-21T13:52:00.000-08:00

It's a beautiful day ... assuming all else and stupid gente are pinche coup de etat ...

Pues ... where have you PUTOS been ... absorbing FOX ... using OC Weekly to roll ... hit the MARTINI BAR yet ... simon ... that's where STEP 6 hit me ... otra d-girl, mismo vaso, por favor ... confirmed papa was a rolling stone and that LOS DELICADOS, from the bay area, drive alternative fuel caruchas to the max ...

Tambien ... LA WACKY, Rosemarie Avila, a santana escuelita trustee ... wants books banned ... bookes donated from the Mexican gov that allow estudiantes to understand Mexico/US relations ... LA WACKY dice "stop meddling in our schools" ... yo digo "American educational system necessita the 12 steps to recovery and shattttt" ... she's nuts to discourage any type of reading ... bonfire of the wacky ... que no ... check it out aqui ... BUTT she suffers from Cubano-vision ... right wind cochinada BUTT she's from GUATEMALA ... shops LATINA ... and wishes to dictate en naranjaville ... WACKY'S justification for banning books ... FOX NEWS says so ...

Ondale ... en salute to LA WACKY ... here's some cut y paste noticias from D.F. ... compliments de The Economists ....

Switch hitter

With July's mayoral election fast approaching, the National Action Party (PAN) announced Demetrio Sodi as its nominee on January 30th. Mr Sodi may seem an unlikely candidate for the centre-right party, as he is a former senator for PAN’s rival, the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He made the switch and won the PAN's primary only after it became clear that he could not secure the PRD’s nomination.

Mr Sodi trails the PRD’s candidate, Marcelo Ebrard, by a wide margin. Still, he may be able to close the gap, as he is already seen as more progressive and open than his opponent. Mr Sodi quickly won the favour of editorial writers in La Jornada, a left-leaning newspaper, as well as the support of prominent PRD members dissatisfied with their party’s choice. His victory—though a long shot—would be a coup for the PAN: the PRD has held Mexico City’s mayoralty, considered the second most important office in the country, since the position became an elected seat in 1997.

American hospitality

The Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel was the centre of a diplomatic scuffle in February. It was the site of a three-day summit on “US-Cuba Energy”, which saw Cuban officials eagerly wooing American oil executives from Texas and Louisiana, in an effort to get American firms to extract Cuban oil resources. But the seduction was foiled in many ways on February 3rd, the second day of the summit, when the Sheraton kicked out the Cuban delegation under pressure from the American treasury. Because Sheraton is owned by an American firm, hosting the officials violated America’s 45-year-old trade embargo with Cuba.

The conference was promptly moved to a non-American hotel, but the affair has roiled anger in Cuba and Mexico alike. The Cuban government filed a complaint with the Mexican government; Luis Derbez, Mexico’s foreign minister, condemned the application of American laws in Mexico; and Mexico City officials are considering closing the Sheraton. Tension between Mexico and America has been running high already, owing to the matter of illegal immigration. America's Congress is considering building a fence along parts of the border, and some politicians claim that the Mexican army is infringing on American territory.

Serial captures

January was a good month for the city’s crime-fighters. A two-year saga may have come to an end on the 25th, when police arrested Juana Barraza, a 48-year-old former professional wrestler. They declared that she was the “little-old-lady killer”, or mataviejitas, accused of murdering 30 elderly women in their homes. Ms Barraza was captured fleeing a house where an 82-year-old woman, Ana Maria Reyes, was found strangled with a stethoscope. She admitted that she had killed Ms Reyes and three other women, but denied to reporters that she was guilty of the rest. Police detectives, however, said that Ms Barraza’s fingerprints place her at the scene of at least ten other murders.

The city’s mayor, Alejandro Encinas, had made capturing this serial killer his top crime-fighting priority. In other good news, police also announced that they had captured Raul Osiel Marroquin, an alleged serial killer, who confessed to the press that he had killed at least four homosexual men, apparently after picking them up at bars.

Ready, set, jump

An Austrian daredevil parachuted off Mexico City’s tallest building, the Torre Mayor, on January 30th. After his feat, 36-year-old Felix Baumgartner paused briefly to speak with onlookers and the press at the foot of the 225-metre (738-foot) building, before speeding away in a Hummer to avoid authorities—in typical fashion, he had not obtained a permit for the jump. The city government has been split over whether to punish the building’s management for allowing Mr Baumgartner to evade security measures. Mayor Encinas wants to fine the management firm 7,000 pesos ($670), while district officials wish to let matters lie.
Though it towers over the city, the Torre Mayor was only a medium-sized jump for Mr Baumgartner. He has parachuted off the world’s tallest building, the 450-metre Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and holds the cheeky world record for the shortest parachute jump, a mere 29 metres, from the top of a statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro.

Raging bull

In the annual festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, the city unleashes six bulls onto its streets and the foolhardy run for their lives. This spectacle was unintentionally reproduced in Mexico City on January 30th, when a 503kg (1,108-pound) bull named Pajarito (Titmouse) cleared two fences and jumped into the stands during a bullfight. The stands were full, but miraculously no one was killed; seven people were injured—at least one seriously—before a bullfighter followed Pajarito into the stands and killed him.

Built 60 years ago, the city's bullring is one of the world's biggest, holding 48,000 spectators. Mayor Encinas is in talks with local officials to figure out the best way to make the stadium more secure. The bull had little problem clearing the metal bars that are meant to keep the animals in the ring.

Phil Kelly

Until March 4th 2006

This small exhibit proves that a bold dash of paint can sometimes convey more than a thousand tiny strokes. Phil Kelly, an Irishman who lives in Mexico, creates paintings that are testaments to the power of suggestion. Aggressive strokes and vivid colour bring vistas to life, giving a kinetic energy to otherwise clichéd landscapes such as Paris’s Seine and Mexico’s beaches.

Perhaps the best of these, “Mar Can-Cún”, features a pair of furled beach umbrellas that look more like plaintive sentries than workaday blights on the sand. The exhibit also includes a series of yellow-tinted portraits, which recall Matisse. One work, “The Historic Centre denuded after the rain”, unites the portraits and landscapes, as it combines the undulation of a woman’s legs with a stretch of Mexico City’s old downtown.

Alliance Française Polanco Sócrates #156 Col. Polanco. Open: Mon-Fri, 9am-8pm; Sat 9am-1.30pm. Tel: +52 (55) 1084-4190. See the exhibit’s website.

Later eses ... I'm on my POCHO way ...

The Race To Watch ... (listening to Forget Me Nots)

2006-02-10T10:56:00.000-08:00

The best political race to keep an eye on is between L.A. City Councilmember Alex Padilla and Califas Assemblymember Cindy Montañez ... both are from San Fernando ... served on their city councils very young ... are well connected in Califas ... and are running for a State Senate seat currently held by Sen. Richard Alarcon ...

Padilla, an MIT alumni, was first elected to the Los Angeles City Council in June 1999, becoming the third-youngest person ever elected to City office. He was re-elected to serve a full four-year term after running unopposed in the April 2001 elections, and was first elected to serve a two-year term as City Council President in July 2001. Padilla was unanimously re-elected as Council President on July 1, 2003 ... today, Padilla, 32, is not only the youngest member of the Los Angeles City Council, but also the most senior member. His leadership abilities have not gone unnoticed. He was recently elected Chair of the Los Angeles Leadership Council of the American Diabetes Association and in October 2005 Alex Padilla was elected President of the League of California Cities ... Both U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have endorsed him ...

Montañez’s career in politics began in 1999 when she was elected the youngest person ever to the San Fernando City Council ... in 2002, at 28, she was elected to the Califas Assembly, the youngest women to ever win an Assembly seat. In February 2004, at the age of 30, Montañez was appointed by the Assembly Speaker as chairperson of the powerful Rules Committee, becoming the first woman ever appointed to that influential position. As chairperson of the Rules Committee, Assemblymember Montañez is a gatekeeper to every piece of legislation introduced in the Capitol, holding bills or referring them to the appropriate policy committee ... Her dedication to public service is borne out of a strong sense of social justice and equality, which she demonstrated during her first year at UCLA through her leadership role in the historic 14-day hunger strike that established the Cesar E. Chavez Center. ... SEIU recently endorsed her ... this means tons of cash ...

Initially, SEIU was neutral on both candidates ... then ayer SEIU jumped and endorsed Montanez ... Sister Sam reports que 'since finding out about the endorsement, Padilla has allegedly been leaving "screaming voice mail messages" for Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. "The boy is melting down," our tipster says.There is also speculation that Montanez could be close to grabbing the endorsement of the County Federation of Labor ...'

And there's more ... the candidate who does not get on Mayor Villaraigosa's endorsement train will surely be blown out ...

Pues ... OK ... so it's not Naranjaville politicos ... BUTT it's the best YOUNG POLITICAL BATTLE of our generation ... young, connected and influential ... they smell sangre and are fighting for social justice, strong institutions, money and power ... que mas quieren ...

Kurt Pringle of Anaheim ... K's ... (listening to Bun E. Carlos)

2006-02-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

A Naranjaville jury, in a 9-3 verdict, allows Angels to remain in a cultural crisis ... they can keep the slick Rocky Delgadillo LA identity ... AND can continue to tan in their rolled-up pantelones at Crystal Cove Beach tambien ... gueys ...

Recuerdas ... Angels' owner Arte Moreno shocked OC gabachos out of their loafers when he changed the team name from Anaheim Angels to Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim in order to improve the team's marketability ... pues, it's working firme ... since Moreno purchased the team, the number of season ticket holders has jumped from 12,000 to 30,000, with a waiting list this year for the first time in team history, the LA Times reports ...

Meanwhile, back at the rancho, Anaheim Mayor Kurt Pringle claimed the name change was a breach of contract between the team and ciudad ... swiiiiing batter ... read article aqui ...

Arte Pounds Away ... (listening to Rage Against the Machine)

2006-02-08T16:09:00.000-08:00

There's a story about deceased University of Califas, Riverside Chancellor Tomas Rivera ... the UC Prez had a dinner for him ... over the meal, the Prez make a crack about the Chancellor's house being too small for a large family ... Rivera joked back that he had placed sheets all over the mansion, just like home ... pues ... California Angels owner Artie Moreno is spreading his sheets all over tambien ... hey ... they'll always be de Califas ... not anacrime or el lay ... or Pringle's amigos ....

Anyways ... check it out ...

A partnership led by Arte Moreno, owner of The Angels, today agreed to purchase and assume the operations of Radio 830 KMXE, the nation's largest Spanish language AM radio station.
The partnership plans to complete acquisition of the station from Radiovisa, LLC upon approval of licensing by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Radio 830 KMXE currently produces and syndicates 24-hour programming, including Spanish language news, talk and sports. The station is also home to live coverage of University of Southern California football, NASCAR and The Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA soccer.

Under the new ownership, Radio 830 KMXE will serve as the flagship Hispanic radio broadcast outlet for Angels Baseball, staring with the 2006 season. In addition, the new ownership plans to convert to a bilingual format and expand the station's sports broadcast line-up.

"The acquisition of Radio 830 KMXE provides a new opportunity to bring play-by-play commentary and Angels game coverage to a large audience of Hispanic Major League Baseball fans," said Dennis Kuhl, a partner in the Radio 830 KMXE acquisition. "Once the transaction is complete the station's sports broadcast line-up will be expanded to a bilingual format, providing Hispanic sports enthusiasts with access to exciting regional, national and international sporting events. It will also provide an opportunity for advertisers to reach an audience with a buying power of more than $105 billion."

Broadcasting at 50,000 watts, Radio 830 KMXE boasts the largest Hispanic AM radio signal in the nation, providing programming to fans in the greater Los Angeles metro market.

Arte Moreno bought The Angels in 2003, making him the first Hispanic majority owner of a Major League Baseball team. The following year Moreno was named No. 1 on the Sports Illustrated list of 101 Most Influential Minorities in sports.

... pues did you see it ... "The Angels" ... "Angels Baseball" ... the link es de Hispanic Business ... y-que ... check out 830 KMXE ...

Whiff of the Day ... (listening to Life By The Drop)

2006-02-08T14:05:00.000-08:00

Interesting quote from LAist interview with Theresa Duncan ... firme blogger behind Wit of the Staircase ...

LAist: If you were to make a perfume that embodied the essence of Los Angeles, what would it smell like?

Duncan: My cologne is called Santa Ana after the powerful winds that bring desert heat and faraway smell into the city.

It smells like: Celluloid and sand, coyote fur and car exhaust, contrail cloud and chlorine, bitter orange and stage blood and one bushel of ghostly, shivery night-blooming jasmine flowers like blown kisses from the phantoms of the ten thousand screen beauties who still haunt our hills every full moon because they think it's a stage light.

... pues ... it's always available ... whether you're at Prentice Park or en downtown ... read the full interview aqui ...

The Who ... (listening to Fifth Dimension)

2006-02-08T10:39:00.000-08:00

Hey ... check this out ... there's another book on "the others" ... simon ... ever feel like writing as a person you're not ... simon ... ever want to write as a Japanese sumu ... an owner of a '77 Monte Carlo ... or how about one returning from a KKK rally ... pues ... now it may be possible ... simon ... there's a new book for writers that tackles the tricky issue of writing characters of other racial backgrounds, sex, or sexual orientation ... simon ... I always wanted to take the perspective of Charo ... coochi, coochi ...

Writing The Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction ... the book is titled ... with workshops available ... RIGHT!! ... that'll do it ... an Ivy League Princeton dude can now be a junkie prostitute ... a Southwest UC Chicano can now be Barry Manilow ... hmmmm ... and the tensed James Woods can now play sanTana mayor Miguel Pulido for ABC ... this is too trippy ... I'm pinche shocked considering both authors are mujeres and one is an Afro-Americana ... chingow ... for decades or centuries ... you choose ... we've been schooled to "write" and "learn" and even "act" European ... and for decent reason ... tu sabes ... mainstream ... integrate ... NORMAL ... ASSIMILATE ... eses US math methods are too pinche lengthy ... there are short cuts ... and while there's been some suces ... pela "the other" c and s ... there's been una chinga de tensions and shittttt ... low academic performance ... high drop out rates ... racial tension por los ninos ... workplace issues ... as a result of many things including an antiquated social structure butt most likely from forcing nosostros to act like not nosotros ... Gracias but I've got a pinche tamal in the microwave ... quieres uno ...

If the graciousness of laws and regs can't make us AS ONE ... this book might ... assuming we're all pinche anonymous bloggers ... good idea ... but if Hollywood or "writers" need a pinche wetback voz ... there's plenty to shoes from ... if I need pink fruit ... that's out there too ... so let's retitle that libro ... Writing the Others, Just Don't Hire Them ...

The link is from Boing Boing ...

And don't dress like the others ... according to the San Bernardino County Board of Sups ... a new dress code policy outlaws Levi jeans ... tattoos ... sweat pants ... facial jewelery ... come-fuck-me high heels ... and I imagine brown skin and any name ending in Z ... oops, sorry the last two are somewhere in those paperless policies ... ESES ... INFORMALITY RIFA!! ...

BUTT it's not the devil's fault ... chale ... it's GOD ... dice Gregory Rodriguez ...

AND that pic ... THAT'S A CLASSIC ... WELCOME TO NARANJAVILLE, STAY UN POCO ....

sanTana: An Isla On An Isla ... (listening to Van Morrison)

2006-02-07T17:49:00.000-08:00

sanTana’s finally getting the good rap it deserves … report after study shows that this part of the pinche universe is “hard to live in” … povered a la chingada … and is the worse place to live … BUTT WHY … research just shows that it’s “undesirable” or that the pinche “quality of life” just ain’t there … hey, just say it … to many pinche Mexicanos …

BUTT aqui at Recycledcholoknows … it's always been claimed that those pinche one-liner gineau reports just don’t serve any justice for any pinche cockroach … in fact, we never believe those reports … you shouldn’t either … sanTana has incredible dynamics to offer that just can’t be documented but are noticeable… so put your pens y pads away, cabrones … there’s poverty here and everywhere … prostitution, spousal abuse, child abuse, baby-shaken syndrome, cock-shaken syndrome … transvestites a la chingada - OC’s best … 52 year old perverts making out with teenagers on top of their caruchas at midnight as I make a comida run … great comida … beautiful Latinas … the courts … the Board of Sups … $15 guayaberas … $30.5 million in transportation funds … a foxy DA councilmujer … a councilman with great hair … a lively and safe 4th street downtown crowd … a pot-holed Standard Ave. … a McFadden Ave whose curvy design and planning never made sense … a McFadden Ave/Baker resident who proudly sports a spicy 6’X6’ Mexican Flag IN FRONT … chilangos with SUVs … chilangos que fregan … 15 barrio multi-millionaires you’ve never heard of … stashed cash … a pinche bitching 4th of July and you’re all invited … a Home Depot that charges $72 for mini-blind installation, Costa Mesa’s charges $33 … Minnie Apartments … soon to be Minnie Apt Housing Authority … paycheck-to-paycheck street and truck vendors and ice-cream trucks who must now pay thousands in fees just to set up shop … a Latino-majority council who does this to vendors … a seat on AQMD … a seat on OCTA … another on the Great-Rally-Park Board … a council that gives cash to non-profits (El Centro) yet makes it impossible for them to set-up shop, hmmmm … and so much non-very-visual type cochinada …

BUTT now another study is out … that focuses on sanTana’s “informal economy” … meaning … back alley deals … movidas … cash deals … it’s the ECONOMIA FUN … the economy that also deals with pessimism and optimism … but that tends to make 99.9% of the players permanently optimistic … til their found in a car trunk … then that individual tapado is permanently pessimistic … it’s the economia fun that also has somewhat of a consumer price index … but this index puts out … keeps an eye out … wears a pink wig … it’s the economy that builds $100K second story housing additions for $40K … Levi 501’s for $15 … it has wedding planners … gold merchants … warranties … insurance … dental … vision … some of it votes too …

BUTT more so … this new study by Social Compact, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit research group that gets funding from financial and real estate companies says that there’s more money held by sanTana residents than previously believed or documented by other sutdies and the US Census … “Unlike the census, which gets its data from household surveys, Social Compact "drills down" to little-used sources of data to create an economic portrait of urban neighborhoods, studying utility usage, property transactions and credit records. Its specialty is to model an area's "informal economy," such as street vendors and day laborers, that isn't captured by tax records,” the Register reports …

“The study found that two-thirds of the households in the two neighborhoods have no documented credit histories or banking relationships. It estimated the informal economy at $183 million, or 17 percent of the area's total economy.” … I could see that or even see that figure being bigger in economia fun … in my calle alone … at least 10 casitas suaves have added a second story … and they are add-ons that look very good … they stuck with the housing style … chingow … I was expecting MGM lions on massive rot-iron gates … fish ponds … and pinche tons of alters with lights in front and backyards … hay chingow, here it comes, I thought … I was expecting the international style décor casitas to be all Home Depoted out to the max … todos feos and plastic … and that all remodeled casitas would look the same … but that’s not the pinche case … the construction was well thought out … they all look good and “normal” and they were all done with pinche permits … the permits are a new one … except one tapado … he added a second story onto a house built during the ‘40s … he had the framing done … the roof done and was ready to basically plaster then move in … then came the wonderful city … they had no permits … it had to be torn down … and the 1st original story just collapsed … it’s now an empty lot … pobres …

Butt the study on the informal economy is good noticias and is not new noticias to us … and on any Saturday at noon, if you park your car around here … get out and walk around … you’ll see the cash that flows aqui … it's a business cycle centuries old ... it's incredible ... it's business as usual ... hell, you might even meet those pinche stuck-up millionaires you never heard of … you might even find a pinche new lover or lovers … you might even find yourself a-pinche-doring this place … I mean … if you’re as cultured as you claim ...

A Viejo ... (listening to Rose Royce)

2006-02-07T15:15:00.000-08:00

As a kid, whenever I'd ask my grandpa where he was going ... he'd say "A viejo" ... cruise this poema by La Bloga's Gina MarySol Ruiz ... Cien años ... it's a classic tribute to her granfather and is in the current issue of peoticdiversity ...

“Cien años”
You would say
In that
Raspy, gruff
Yet curiously gentle
Voice
“Voy a vivir cien años”

“Naci en el 1900”
You’d tell me
As together we sat
In the patio filled with my
Grandmother’s plants
Playing
Canicas, marbles that
Lived in the bright
Green MJB
Coffee can

“Cien años”
Square, determined jaw
Resolute cara de nopal
Face of un indio
Beloved grandfather
Affectionately called
Papa

“Deje Mexico durante el revolucion”
Sadness and shadows
Flittering through your warm
Brown eyes
That must have seen
So much
Loss and pain
Brave, brown man
Strong and honest
A working man

“Cien años”
As we hoed the neat
Rows of
Corn, chiles, cilantro, tomate
Bright red strawberries
Freckled like me

“Conoci al Al Capone en Cheecago”
Proud, smiling lightly
As we picked the lemons, membrillo and laurel
Destined for
Grandma’s kitchen
To become intoxicating smells
Of a distant land.
Later
I learned of
The stockyards, the stench
Backbreaking work
Racism and hatred
He never once spoke of

“Cien años”
Rolling massive flour tortillas
In three quick thumps
Of the
Rolling pin
Sas! Sas! Sas!
And hands a perfectly round
White moon
To Grandma standing
At the comal

“Somos Aztecas, indios”
Crinkly eyes flashing
Big dimple showing
In your left cheek
Same as mine
Only deeper, much deeper
The “X” marks the spot
In a treasure map of a smile
As we watch
Los Voladores perform

“Cien años”As you sat at the table
With the ever present
Playing cards
Shuffling with all the
Finesse of a
Vegas dealer
And told me
Of the first time you worked
With your father
At age 3
And earned
Tres centavos
One you bought an olla with
Gave it and the remaining
Centavos
To your mother

“No cobramos por ayuda”
Every time someone tried to pay
For the sobadas
Given
By the healing hands
Of a sobador, a huesero
Those same hands
That carved a cherry stone
or a porous rock
into the face of a monkey

“Cien años”
Body racked with nausea
Losing your thick black hair
Fighting
That asbestos-caused evil
Cancer
From working in that place
That manufactured dishes
Gave you a turkey a year,
Franciscanware
The apple pattern
Desert Rose
And the “Big C”

“Dios te lo pague, hija”
Each time
I did something
For you
Or my Grandma
Out of love
For no other reason
But to lighten your load
Do something for those
That gave me so much

“Cien años”
As you kissed the
Forehead of your bride
Still in love
After decades of marriage
Dancing with her
To a bolero reminiscent of
Times past

“Tengo que trabajar”
After seven major surgeries
The month after
My grandmother’s death
As we tried to get
You to stop
Working
The hard muscle
Of your indio labor
Tucked under the wrinkled
Mask of frailty

“Cien años”
When the hospital
Sent you home to die
A thin man hiding his
Pain
Looking like
A woodcut
By Guadalupe Posada

“No tengo hambre”
As I parade your favorite foods
Chicharones en chile verde
Frijoles del olla
Burnt blackened tortillas
I never understood
Why you liked them that way
Almost 86
On that April Fools
Sunny day
I called to see how you were
And found you had gone
To Mictlan just a half hour before my call
"Fitting," I said
As I held my children and cried
Fitting for the practical joker
You were

Today
A great, great grandson
Came backwards into this world
Bearing your name – Salvador
In the Aztec veintena of
Tlaxochimaco
The Offering of the Flowers
In his name
Aidan Cesar Salvador
Ehecatlpochtli
I gift to you this
Flower, this poem
This bittersweet tear
May you live on
In our memories, our stories
Our hearts and dreams
Por much mas que
“Cien años”

SAUSD Whips MALDEF

2006-02-01T12:31:00.000-08:00

You probably already know ... but last week ... the federal courts told former Lathrop Jr High principal Gloria Nogales-Talley to shut the fuck up ... simon ... it was that bad ... Ms. Nogales-Talley sued sanTana school superintendent, Dr. Al Mijares, claiming he terminated her employment because of her support for former Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education member Nativo Lopez during the February 2003 recall election ... Nogales-Talley was represented by MALDEF attorneys ...

According to the district ... "The jury reached a unanimous verdict finding Ms. Nogales-Talley could not prove that her support for Mr. Lopez to defeat the recall election was a substantial or motivating factor in the decision to terminate her employment."

So ... is Nogales-Talley really a bitch or is Mijares just admin happy ... pues ... OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano wrote about her "reign of terror" back in 2003 and shit ... Arellano wrote "OC Weekly first wrote about Lathrop Intermediate School principal Gloria Nogales-Talley’s reign of terror a month ago ("Principal Gone Wild!" Nov. 14). Since then, Nogales-Talley, who served barely a year as principal, threatened teachers and staff she viewed as opponents, encouraged her supporters to visit Lathrop during school hours and yell at opponents real and imagined, and tried six times in six months to nullify a teacher advisory committee election even though the most recent vote was overseen by district and teacher union officials. And a master plan detailing the Lathrop budget that was due in district offices more than two months ago? Nogales-Talley claimed she completed it but refused to hand it over—with no reason given."

She was and may still be a bitch ... some gente in my barrio recall her ... vecinos say that she was just "locita" and didn't make school fun or accessible ... that's too bad but the good news is that she's out!!

Dog Day Taco ... (listening to Cameo)

2006-02-01T12:14:00.000-08:00

A few days ago, I went to my regular taco stand on Main and St. Gertrude, right across from the very sloppy Bank of America. I had ordered their delicious crispy and soft tacos with a bottled Coca-Cola. I was given all that plus three slices of lime, jalepenos and carrots and a straw. All the napkins were on the table. It’s a small joint, with tables outside and its patio is enclosed with thick plastic type coverings. The covers keep the wind out but it still gets cold at night. I read the chamber’s CITYLINE newpaper as I waited for my food.

The paper mentioned the chamber’s new digs, coming soon, to be at 501 Main St, near the Alano … Richard Torras was the new chair … then on page 3, there was written talk about the chamber’s new development task force …

Seems chamber members have influenced city council to adopt its preferred agenda for the city’s planning and building process … from establishing a subcommittee on land use … to developing a specific development plan … to updating the city’s general plan … to preparing a comprehensive update to the city’s zoning ordinance … the chamber lobbied locals and sat them down in September to adopt new rules for planning and building in sanTana ….

Not bad for a body that's been alive for 116 years ... even though we're older and wiser ... but just not as organized ... oh yeah ... and not as well off ...

BUTT back to my comida … decades ago, this chante was a gas station … then a taco stand … then another taco stand … and now a nice clean place to get decent food, I guess. Anyways, on this dog day afternoon, I was eating my tacos … it was about 2pm. I couldn’t help notice but the the very old buildings surrounding this section of Main St. and St. Gertrude … old single story buildings that house hair salons, insurance co’s, flower shops, furniture tiendas, toy stores, jewelry shops … ETCETERA … and one store that requires a bi-weekly visit by an armored vehicle … que pues.

I doubt this location is one that generates tons of revenue or has any hope of offering great wages to workers. Gente walk by the business but because they’re on their way elsewhere. Cars pass by tambien. In the 20 minutes or so I was there, probably a good 100 cars passed by … all going somewhere else. And this taco stand is doing well because it’s just that … a place to buy a good cheap taco … not clothing, music or anything else. I wouldn’t open anything in the area and wouldn’t recommend anyone to either. It just seems this part of Main Street is destitute for new blood that will only come with the unfortunes of some type of redevelopment. Who knows what will happen to the properties and who knows what will happen with this part of Main Street with the $30 point algo million sanTana rec’d from OCTA gente for road repairs.

BUTT this part of town is just sitting and waiting … just sitting and waiting … if you head further up and pass Edinger Ave … there’s so much more life … there’s the perverted St. Anne’s Church where I was baptized and did my first communion … there’s a Sav-on drug stores where cars get broken into siempre … there’s Red-Wing shoes … a very busy ARCO gas station … across from this is my barber, Ringside Barber … which sits next to a tire/mechanic shop … it’s all just OK …

Then if you go in the other direction … and hit Warner … there’s a newer McDonalds … the new Esqueda School … and commercial properties that make dingy goods and workers dingy … that’s all … I would go into the residential chisme but I'll leave that for your Sunday drive ... it's housing and gente and vendors ...

Chingow … this place is nowhere on anyone’s map for nada … for redevelopment … development … or new tenants … it’s just that place to grab a taco … you don’t even use the ATM aqui … and the new development task force … they’re out of here ….

KLOS, Dolores Huerta, UFW in the Same Sentence ... (listening to Genesis)

2006-01-25T10:17:00.000-08:00

Yesterday ... a few minutos before los dos en da PM ... KLOS sexy rocker hina RITA WILD did a public announcement ... infommercial ... commercial ... FYI ... type cosa ... she mentioned DOLORES HUERTA ... and the UNITED FARM WORKERS ... and all the pinche GOOD they've done en la communidad ... she didn't jump on the bad-wagon ... this PINCHE-MERCIAL lasted about 30 seconds ... I couldn't find anything on the KLOS web ... maybe they're still updating ... BUTT I did find the following press release reminder ...

95.5 KLOS/LOS ANGELES ANNOUNCES REVOLUTIONARY FUSION ROCK FORMAT FOR ITS HD2 CHANNEL

Los Angeles, CA (January 19, 2006) – 95.5 KLOS-FM will create and broadcast the first Fusion Hispanic/Anglo Rock format in the world when the station premiers its HD2 digital radio channel in July of this year, it was announced today by KLOS Program Director, Rita Wilde.

The bilingual Fusion Hispanic/Anglo Rock format, which is being created and implemented entirely by KLOS, will be launched in July 2006 and made available without commercial content and cost-free to those who have HD digital radio receivers. Described as a unique music-intensive format that will appeal to a wide audience of rock music fans, the channel will blend a mix of American and British rock with Spanish rock, creating a revolutionary new sound that will forever change the landscape of terrestrial radio in southern California.

“This new sound will reach out to anyone who loves rock music with a harder edge,” said Wilde. “We will feature the best of international rock music with an emphasis on Hispanic/Anglo elements – a hybrid that has never been introduced to any audience in the world until now.”

Listeners will be taken on a musical journey unlike any other, with a dynamic lineup of artists from Metallica to Mana, from Judas Priest to the Jaguares and from U2 to Ozomatli. “We’re creating this fun and exciting new sound with our ears and our hearts,” said Wilde, “rather than replicating something that is already available.”

“We wanted to produce a unique format on the KLOS HD2 side channel that, together with the dynamic new sound quality of HD on KLOS, will make listeners want to receive and enjoy HD radio,” said President & General Manager, John H. Davison. “We believe we’ve come up with a sound that compliments the classic rock format of KLOS, and is properly suited for the musical tastes of the ethnically diverse market that is southern California.”

KLOS, an ABC/Disney-owned station, joined the HD Radio Alliance earlier this year. The Alliance is made up of broadcasters throughout the country who have joined together in an effort to accelerate the introduction of HD digital radio to consumers and to dramatically increase the diversity of radio programming across the country.

For more information, please contact Steve Sheldon at (310) 840-4943.

Pues ... should be interesting ... seems like they're going STILO JACK RADIO ... play anything ... the other day I heard Hendrix ... The Copacabana ... and Chaka Khan ... in tha pinche order ... on JACK ... too trippy ... BUTT is seems KLOS is narrowing its pinche CHOICES ... para nosotros ...

WHATSA real trip are the DIVERSITY COMMERCIALS ... perhaps none is more famosa than the Impala car one ... it's your ordinary BLONDE commercial ... car on the curved road ... BUTT with BLACK drivers and TEMPTATION MUSIC ... I guess that little pinche brown-tweak does it ...

There's others ... and just as estupido ... how about the allergy medication one ... with the Mexican family at the theatre ... the hijo has a runny nose and doesn't blow his pinche naris ... instead ... this PUTA pops out of the mom's purse to give the menso kid meds ... that'll cure him cuz he'll never learn to blow his chinga naris ... we're all mocosos, right ????

I guess a reality commercial would include a family watching these commercials ... laughing at their insane BITES and saying "whatever" or "you wish" or "that's retarded" ... then clicking off the TV, throwing the remote en la basura ... then heading to DOWNTOWN SANTANA for some CULTURA LOVE ... UNA EMPENADA ... $15 GUAYABERAS ... UNISEX BELTS ... ROASTED POLLO ... MEXICAN SODAS ... FIGHTING FOR A PARKING SPACE ... the DON'T BE STUCK UP, BABY man ... HOME MADE NIEVE ... A HOT DOG WITH FRESH GRILLED ONIONS AND A TAMAL AND A MEXICAN ORANGE SODA ... simon ... all the makings of RAZA PR-MERCIALS ... no music necessary ... believe me ... there'll be plenty in the background ... RAZA PR, INC ...

BUTT KLOS' move can be cool, even if Mark y Brian stick around, porque aside from all the MINUTE(SHE)MEN HEADACHES ... we need a good rock estacion ... ROCK DIVERSITY ... ROCK PR ... that's what good rock is ... and one that goes out and finds NEW ROCK BLOOD ... whether en ingles ... espanol ... sign language ... chorro lengua ... Naranjaville pocho talk - what's up ... NADUH (nada, ese) ... Puerto Rican lisp ... carney asadey talk ... or there goes the barrio screams ... it be cool if they had a FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE GIG type cosa where they'd air live local bands cada viernes for 30 minutos or so ... they could CRUISE gigs aqui en BARRIO NARANJAVILLE X 13 ... tambien EL LAY ... or the Palms Springs Coachella Valley lugares where the Coachella fest has harvested good RICHIE VALENS garage bands and cochinada ... they can then camp out with litigious CRLA or the UFW following in the area ... they're not all bad ... but they are all committed ...

KLOS link es aqui ... lower ...

Como Tequila Sunrise ... (listening to It's Not Unusual)

2006-01-24T12:36:00.000-08:00

Ondale … last week I rec’d mas UNIQUE sanTana JUNKMAIL … simon … an 8 ½ x 11 sucking incher was cramped rudely into my pinche tight, clean and innocent mail cajita … it had a cross … un angel … and said “Su Calendario Gratis de 2006” … este fue mi pinche millionth calendario de sanTana negocios … uno por el frig … otro por da desk … otro for the garage … ETCETERA … y ahora this one to count the time down …

Simon … this calendario was de FAMILY MORTUARY … aka … FUNERARIA FAMILIAR … hayyy chingow … this calendario fue mas mejor que ese real estate homie’s whose part of the AMERIQUIST home financing scam … but nada compared to the marketa who pounds out calendarios with pics of oysters surrounded by cerveza … the Virgin Vary … and Aztecas … and WHORE RED carnations … anyways … the mortuary cosa is too cool to put away …

What’s freaky is there is a tab to complete and mail back to the pinche mortuary … simon … “me interesa saber mas sobre … servicios funerales … traslados a mi pais … cremacion … benefecios del seguro social …” … chingow … all that’s missing a pinche recipe for chili verde … don’t know why BUTT I associate the aroma of steamy PORK with DEATH … here's why ... years ago, there was a young couple who bought a large turn of the century casita aqui en sanTana ... on Orange and Beverly which becomes Wisteria ... one day, the house caught fire and burned ... they burned ... she worked with my mom and had made chili verde just days before the tragedy ... my mom brought me a plate ... days later my friend and I rode our bikes by the house ... it smelled ...

BUTT since that calendar arrived … I’ve had a trippy dream … dos noches in a pinche row … I’m at a handsome friends casita … and he has a HYOOSH (huge, ese) back yard … an olympic pool … ivy everywhere … HYOOSH white columns … a clear bright blue sky … and a BAR … a well stocked bar … and we’re pounding away … hablamos … and we begin walking down this beautiful sidewalk … if there’s such a thing … and we’re walking through the HYOOSH columns covered with beautiful healthy ivy … entonces … we pass a 1940 algo FORD FLEETLINE … it’s gold with a black hard top with a picture of LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE on the trunk … it’s total LOWRIDER MAGAZINE material and shatt …. this is to my right … then … we walk another 5 yards and there’s an ivory white piano … on top of it sits another FLEETLINE … this one is various colors … yellow ... green ... blues ... but mainly silver metallic … black hard top and a mural of the VIRGIN MARY on the front passenger door … totally decked out … we continue to walk … and I continue drinking gin and tonic … I’m sure I was licking my pinche lips in bed cuz the drinks were firme and unlike anyone I’ve ever had … I can still taste them …

This whole time my handsome HOMIE had on a Greek like gown … his hair had grown … and he was wearing sandals and had a 6 foot cane … I was drinking with JESUS … or the vato just fell off the wagon … anyways … I pushed myself into this dream … discreetly feeling and touching TODO … pushing my limits in da sleep … opening puertas … pulling ivy … pinching my homie’s naris … I also let my drink slip and the glass cracked everywhere … both of our feet got wet and turned bloody as we walked on the glass … I poured the gin on the floor which quickly spread to burn our pinche feet … “Gracias … I was about to do that…” … he said … “We're dreaming … so tell me … what’s up” I said …

We stopped at another yard bar … must have been the 5th or 6th one … he then ordered a drink that was peach colored on top … clear in the middle … and bled red something down to the bottom of his glass … he drank it and gave a hard whiskey cara … he gave the vaso back to the bartender for another … “It’s my great grandmother’s juices …” he said … “Carlos Castaneda dreams of his mother’s juices … but I only know my great grandmother’s …” he said … “What’s with the gin and tonic” … he wanted to know … “It’s your sister’s juices … she enjoys the splashes … “ … I said …

He wanted to know about me and love with his hermana … I said … “Beauty can really suck … she let’s me hold a gun to her head as we love like pretenders … she’ll do anything for me … you know that … even if it involved your ass …”

He chuckled and the bartender poured more bleeding something …

“What do you dig about her … ” he asked

“I stepped on her floor heater once … she rubbed ice on my foot … I rubbed ice on her boobs … she held me at gunpoint and demanded I roll my cock on that heater … she then filled her mouth with crushed ice … she likes to slam once or twice cada ano … on windy days, she likes cock kites … she’s a pinche slice of Yale … she looks like you … she makes me your drink … but with a bruised bottom …” I said …

Then wind woke me ... I poured another gin y tonic for 3am ...

Drinking & Writing ... Esta Legal ... (listening to Golden Years)

2006-01-23T15:45:00.000-08:00

LAist has trippy interviews … these spills always focus on happy-go-lucky communications type gente … tu sabes … writers … bloggers … PRs … ETCETERA … one pregunta the blogista always throw in is … Drinking, driving. They mix poorly, and yet they're inexorably linked. How do you handle this conflict?

Here are responses from those communications typos … tu sabes … LOS WRITERS-TO-THE-MAX …

I drink early on, then gradually sober up as the night moves along … Janet Fitch

Simple: I don't drink. … Paul Zaloom

I’m never the designated driver and know the curb in front of the HMS Bounty very well. There are better drinkers in this world but I drink easily knowing I can always get a lift from a friend should I need one. By the way, the drive-thru daiquiri bars in New Orleans are awesome! … Eric Lynxwiler

I always tried to be the designated driver back in college, although that tends to backfire when someone tosses their cookies in your car. … Karie Bible

Hand the keys off to the nearest water drinker. … Kiino Villand

It’s a conflict? … Gustavo Arellano

Don’t do it. … Kitty McNamee

Ask me when my insurance rates come back down to earth. … Jim Ruland

Cozy up to my designated driver. … Lisa Teasley

I don’t drink so there ain’t no issue with me. … Daniel Olivas

Very poorly. … Jade Chang

I have people over to my house. … Lisa Napoli

LA Taxi. 310.412.8000. Okay, that’s a lie. I’ve only taken a taxi to or from the airport. In truth, I’m too much of a control freak to get drunk in public, so drinking and driving has never really been an issue. … Tamara Gregory

Well, lets just put it this way; we've all found a different agent of intoxication. Have you ever tried a marijuana cigarette? We do a lot of walking, anyway... everything is so close, if you think about it, from the Haunted House near Hollywood & Vine, all the way West to the Cock 'n' Bull Restaurant on the Strip. Fairfax is right in the middle of that... it's all walking distance. … Domenic Priore

People should do their drinking before they drive, not during. … Johnathon Zheltov

I drive a Volvo, slow and underpowered. I figure if I’m going to do it, I should drive as slow as I can in a car that’s built like a tank. … Craig Havens

I handle it in the worst way, by taking it on the case-by-case. But the last person who should be making decisions about whether or not to drive is a drunk person. I think personal breathalyzers could help. Every person who gets a drivers license should be given a breathalyzer key chain. Even better, how about this (http://www.engadget.com/entry/8391853541896164/)? … Gabrielle Middaugh Pascoe

It’s a yellow – sometimes green – vehicle with four tires and a Middle Eastern man behind the wheel. I think they call it a taxi cab. … Rodger Jacobs

I just say no to drinking unless it's an emergency. And I say no to driving whenever I can avoid it. … Joy Nicholson

It’s tough… but so far so good. … Lorcan O’Herlily

Drinking and bike riding is my solution. If I fuck up at least I can’t really hurt anybody but me. … Mark ‘The Cobrasnake’ Hunter

I really don't like alcohol that much. It is a depressant and I don't need any help in that department. … John Chase

I don’t feel that they’re inexorably linked. It’s a personal decision that people make. Having had my school located next door to a popular bar for 6 years gave me a window into this behavior. Drinking is not breathing. It’s not something that an individual absolutely has to do. You may need to drive in LA, but you don’t need to drink. … Charles Zembillas

My liver can not tolerate more than two alcoholic beverages at any given time so drinking and driving is usually not a problem for me. I do believe in capital punishment for a second DUI violation, however; none of this three strikes bullshit. … Seth Greenland

17 years without a drink. I am an ever-designated driver. … Michelle Huneven

By taking out the beverage holders in my car, thus reducing the temptation of storing open beer cans in them. … Mark Lisanti

Oh, dear. When I was single this was more of a problem. Now my boyfriend and I make deals about who gets to drink. If I have to go hang out with his friends, I get to drink, and vice versa. There are also some bars within stumbling distance from my home. The margaritas at El Conquisador are really quite tasty. … Lauren Tuekolsky

I am an occasional drinker but mostly at home. If I take the bus or train somewhere then I may indulge. … Angle Orozco

Check out more interviews aqui … gueys …

Ese ... You Talkin' To Me ... (listening to She Swallos It)

2006-01-20T08:32:00.000-08:00

Pues ... unfortunately ... sanTana City Council approved a $6 million deal with a Honda dealership Tuesday to demolish el famoso former strip club Mr. J's and expand the city's auto mall ...

Dice El Register ... "After three weeks of heated debate and two failed votes, four council members pushed the deal through by changing the voting rules for the redevelopment agency. By cutting the number of votes needed from five to four, the same council members passed the deal with Honda Santa Ana for the city to buy the leasehold on an adjacent site that previously belonged to the Mr. J's topless bar."

Simon ... "The Honda deal faced opposition from council members Claudia Alvarez and Lisa Bist, who questioned the price tag for the leasehold, which Honda bought from Mr. J's for less last year. They also challenged the decision to change the voting rules for the redevelopment agency, which is made up of council members. I am not even going to question the ethics of this. It is so obviously unethical," Bist said.

PUES ... changing the voting structure by public agencies to get their agendas through is a BAD TRIPP ... simon ... for years ... even today ... Califas Transportation Commissions (CTC) including OCTA, RCTC, SANBAG, MTA and VCTC tried to get local voting reglas changed tambien ... as these agencies battled and organized their campaigns through public outreach and education efforts to renew thier 1/2 cent sales tax for transportation projects, these gente pushed legislation BIG TIME to change voting reglas ... current law dice que the 1/2 cent sales tax measures (including OCTA's Measure M) must be appoved by 2/3 of registered county voters ... CTC's wanted to get this changed to a simple majority ... this simple majority legislaiton was shot down because a 2/3 vote would make the mocoso CTC's work harder and be held somewhat accountable for their pinche linen table cloth mundo ...

AND now sanTana changes its local redevelopment voting rules ... does Califas redevelopment law allow this ... sure it does ... Califas RED LAW ensures the continuous development and jackal-like strengthening of these agencies ... ESES ... ESAS ... SIR ... MADAM ... ESTUPIDOS ... TRANSFER THE REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OVER TO NOSOTROS ... the transfer is legal ... we'll redistribute its power ... that's legal to ... WE'LL REDEVELOP REDEVELOPMENT ... we'll restructure ... aqui ... well rename it the MINNIE APT REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY POR VIDA ... all legal ... y-que ...

AND NOW ... there's a promise to bring on a class action suit against sanTana ... why favor Honda ... BUSTED ... but we tax payers will foot the bill ... hey ... throw in a couple round trip tickets to France ... chingow ... might as well get a TRIPP out of it ... and throw in a new menudo pot por mi ama ...

THEN sanTana gabachos get JIGGY ... there's a NATIVO LOPEZ TYPE THREAT to sanTana Mayor MIGUEL PULIDO ... simon ... in today's Letters to the Register ... sanTana Chamber of Commerce vato Rick Ferguson writes Definition of 'blight' may come back to bit Pulido ... in the culo, right Rick ... Dick ... tiki tavee ...

Ferguson writes, It seems that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido's personal agenda took priority over ethical behavior at the last Santa Ana City Council meeting ["Honda dealer's lease pushed through," Local, Jan. 18].

After two failed previous votes to approve the redevelopment of the former Mr. J's strip-club property, the City Council, led by Mayor Pulido, changed the voting rules of the redevelopment agency.

The city redevelopment agency, which is controlled by the City Council, decided to reduce the number of votes required for approval from five to four to buy the leasehold on the strip-club property. How convenient.

Kudos to council members Lisa Bist and Claudia Alvarez for their position on the "redevelopment" of the former strip-club property. And kudos to Bist for publicly saying that the rules change was "obviously unethical."

If the class-action lawsuit dust settles and the city of Santa Ana and the Honda dealership are found guilty of collusion, who will foot the bill? The taxpaying citizens and businesses of Santa Ana will.

Mayor Pulido says that he "considered Mr. J's a blight." Well, Mayor Pulido, when Santa Ana's next mayor takes the City Hall reins, you'd better hope that he or she doesn't consider grimy muffler shops a blight to the city.

NEXT MAYOR ... quien es el or ella ... and GRIMY MUFFLER SHOP ... PINCHE OUCH!!! ... that's true ... a Dodge truck's been parked out front since DA BC ... and Pulido, DA MAYOR ... pues ... he might be looking in the mirror the next few days ... asking ... "Ferguson ... you talkin to me ... you talkin to me ..." ...

Wanted: Screen Printer ... Dead or Alive

2006-01-17T20:28:00.000-08:00

Eses ... si conoces un pinche screen printer ... have this person contact me at my email .....
barriomarlonbrando@sbcglobal.net

If I go with your referral ... una camisa on the chante para usted ... or is that ti ...

Orale y gracias ...

Mexican Square Biz ... (listening to Hey Jude)

2006-01-17T15:58:00.000-08:00

"Perhaps Mr Fox's biggest mistake has been his failure to lobby effectively over migration on Capitol Hill. Andrés Rozental, who heads the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations ... notes that this contrasts with the effort made to secure passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, when Mexico used its network of over 40 consulates to lobby Congress. Another unused channel of influence is the one-in-12 people born in Mexico who now live in the United States (see chart). Most are there legally and many are eligible to vote." ...

Simon ... this is from Shots Across the Border ... in the current issue of The Economist ... how will candidates treat immigration or spin this cochinada during the Mexican Presidential race in July 2006 ... not "as justification for anti-American rhetoric of the kind that has become common farther south. Mexico's ties to the United States are too important for that" ... dice this article ... check it out aqui ...

Go Freak Yu'self ... (listening to She's Not There)

2006-01-17T13:43:00.000-08:00

Eses … everything can go wabby … si los dejes … a few weeks ago … before dysfunctional familia members made their X-MAS visits … SBC … the telecommunications cochinada … mailed me, and maybe all you pinche ustedes, CONECTATE … simon … a glossy 24 pager magazine en espanol glamorizing the firme mundo de technology including DSL, CABLE TV, CELL PHONES, ETCETERA … simon … it’s actually 48 pages when you count the flipsided English version … SBC has new pinche customer packages and they created a booklet IN COLOR ... full of caras café to show how happy WE can all be if we SBC’d out our firme casitas …

Simon … it seems SBC has new products that continue to label to the MAXX … mira ... the magazine advertises CONEXION MUDIAL … which allows unlimited local and long distance calling … simon … the same service you can get at the 7-11 telefono, the only pinche diference is, of course, with SBC, your’e in your warm casita sipping algo Mexicano ... and you don’t have to buy MILO pisto … ondale … tambien … this phone co has satellite TV deals for the LOVERS … simon … pues … if you’re rich … for X-MAS, you get the LOVER a Mercedes and a diamond ring … si lover no quiere el ring, lover can drive and return it … if you’re poor, the lover gets CHANKLAS and a CHROME VIBRATOR … simon … if lover hates the vibrator, pues lover can go FUCK ITSELF … BUTT LOVELY RAZA … we, apparently, want satellite TV … and it's no pinche ordinary satellite package …

CHECK IT OUT … DISH LATINO … is available for TV junkies … and SBC is the pusher vato … DISH LATINO includes 25 channels en espanol … and 6 Latino music channels … pinche YEAHHHH!!! … that’s for the poor vato, of course … the middle of the road vato can get DISH LATINO DOS …YIPPEEE!!!! … this cosa has the same as the first BUTT includes 150 channels en ingles … GRACIAS LOVER!!!! … anden … anden … hay DISH LATINO MAX for el pinche PLAYER … simon … you can walk around with your fucking 25 pound medalla hanging out of your wife-beater AND have what DOS has plus 45 more channels en ingles … PINCHE LOVER, VEN AQUI!!!! …

PERSONALLY and shit … I prefer the chanklas and vibrator for X-MAS … CHROME VIBRATOR, excuse me … with the CHANKLAS and toy … opportunities come … I can go out and get the papel and keep my big feet clean … I can swat imaginary moscas … I can write my name on the side with my new SHARPIE permanent pluma, my other barrio X-MAS regalo … then paint permanent black eyebrows above my brown ones … freaky! ... BUTT consider it over time!!! ... if the chanklas happen to be pink or burgundy with flowers, I can act like a HOTO IN sanTana HEAT when no one is watching … tu sabes … close the blinds … blast MADONNA … act like MEG from MARRIED CON PINCHE NINOS FEOS … or I can play HINA … lite un frajo at the mesa … remove my chankla and hit my imaginary vato, EL FLACO, in his imaginary scarred face and say "HAY TU FUCKING CABRONE" then throw myself INTO THE ROOM ... the opportunities are pinche endless with chanklas and a vibrator … chrome vibrator, excuse me …

BUTT LATINO DISH … DOS … MAX … AND BALLS … we ain’t escaping nada or doing no pinche MARKET BUILDING PARA NOSOTROS ... or nothing to produce y preserve our long-term economic interest … chale … it’s more labeling to the pinche MAX … simon … why LATINO … besides … what’s wrong with ordinary cable or satellite … and why 25 Mexican channels when we don’t even watch one … PURO BEDO … it’s another movida to build a second tier system for nosotros … divide our customer preference and forecast our consumer habits as though we're sister-kissing trading blocs …

DON’T get me wrong … tech is firme and good for you … I think … but to continue to build class differences in the name of consumer preference and choice in the name of TECHNOLOGY under our name … is … is … well, is not building anything good or worth nuestra fidea …

Radical Administration 101 ... (listening to Vodoo Child)

2006-01-12T12:53:00.000-08:00

Pues … apparently … sanTana unified escuelita district will be making some cutbacks … simon … seems the district expects to bring in less state funding this year and in the near future … ondale … pues … it’s all push and pull cochinadas pushing the pinche mighty public sector economia en todo lados … and the ninos will pay the price …

It seems that during 2003, 18 of OC’s 27 school districts have seen a pinche decrease in estudiante enrollment … simon … in 2003, there were 505,666 ninos mocosos in OC escuelas … then dropped to 501,499 in 2005, according to the beloved Register … BUTT other districts have seen dips tambien … El Lay … San Diego … Monterey … all the firme ciudades … then a-pinche-gain some condados have seen un pinche CHORRO de increases of estudiantes … this is especially true for Riverside and San Bernardino … especially in ciudades como Moreno Valley, Temecula, and now Banning and Beaumont …

Es que … the pinche COST PARA VIVIR or the cost of living is through the pinche MEXICAN TILE ROOF … we all know the story about the housing cost en Califas … hay un pinche casa on Halladay Steet, aqui en sanTana built in 1956 or ’57 … clean … decent sized yard …probably 1,100 sq feet … new ventanas … right in the Naranjaville barrio … $600K … then there’s a similar casita near Memorial Park for $800K porque it has a PUTA JUNE CLEAVER washroom y AC … so numbers like this push gente out to the Inland Empire where prices are as pinche ridiculous …

Yet … work and jobs pull gente back into OC through commuting … renting rooms … breaking familias … ETCETERA … and anyways … this makes FACILITY PLANNING difficult and shit for PLUSH school administrators … this complex and guessing numbers game cramps their style and interferes with those pinche candle lit pot lucks … simon … it’s a tough job guessing … quieres uno ….

AND … it’s a scary gamble for sanTana cuz we have over $300 million tied up in current school construction, campus renovations and improvements, like Valley HS, and planning and design cochinada for future construction …

So … in all this bullshit numbers game … the estudiantes lose … es que … THE MAN builds new schools with more estudiantes in mind … AND … administrators, through the natural beauracracy process, have driven up their operating cost to support a large student body … pues, now with fewer mocosos around, operating cost apparently remain the same … REMEMBER LAUGHTER …makes some sense … I mean … utilities and shit stay on regardless of estudiante numbers … BUTT some numbers will fall … fewer libros to buy … less on disciplinary admin cost … ETCETERA … and less maestros needed … so less sals y bennies … this will hurt … there’s eve talk about closing down some schools … that’s crazy … and the spin me da osco …

One thing mocoso school administrators can do is RENT out space … simon … this push and pull tiempo is prime time for administrators to BECOME CREATIVE, PROGRESSIVE AND FINANCIALLY RADICAL with their pinche admin skills … FORM PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS … MAKE PUBLIC SERVICES MORE ACCESSIBLE … school administrators should push to bring in more county agencies into the schools … from the County Health Dept to the Social Services Agencies … some might even argue Probation and law enforcement … these services can be housed closer to the gente … in schools to serve not just estudiantes but the surrounding residents as well … with good planning and safety … Children’s Mental Health services can be provides to estudiantes right there on site … this would save the County funds … staff wouldn’t have to travel …A BIG COST … communications cost would be reduced … ANOTHER BIG COST … perhaps the biggest gap in cost for health services is MISSED APPOINTMENTS … simon, missed appointments means less productivity and less actual billing time for clinicians ... hey, this unproductive time could be reduced and students could just be seen on campus during the day ... and with NARANJAVILLE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR LOU CORREA pushing to get thousand of ninos health insurance … pues where else … hey LOU, bring it directly to the gente … don't let no one get you down, El Lou ... bring it on campus … and then there's OLDER ADULT SERVICES FOR OUR ABUELITOS ... another pinche stinky gap in our barrios ...

Pues … it gets better … check out the GOALS of Naranjaville’s Social Service Dept …

1. To provide services to help vulnerable adults and children in need to receive health care, food, shelter, and clothing;
2. To promote independence and self-sufficiency by helping the unemployed, underemployed, and emancipating youth achieve and sustain stable employment;
3. To promote the safety and well-being of vulnerable adults and children through the availability of child and adult abuse prevention, intervention, and supportive services; and,
4. To lead and support a shared community responsibility for the prevention of child and adult abuse and support of families.

Ondale … where else can these COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS be achieved in pinche FULL UTILITY but by going into the communidades … with the gente … NOT ALWAYS DOWNTOWN, BABY … house the staff and operations alli … services become MORE ACCESSIBLE … I mean, that's what the ESTADO WANTS ... que no, MAS ACCESS ... more gente are seen and the Health and Social Service Depts generate more revenues … and the School districts get rent and the estudiantes get all pinche toodle-fucking-oo with health services in their pinche backyards … it’s a WIN-PINCHE–WIN … NO-WRONG-PUERTA-SYTEMS approach … que no ...

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