Música, tirando chancla, Denver style
As Ramos mentioned yesterday: "I'll see some of you at Part 2 of the Colorado All-Star New Mexico and Tejano Music Festival at Denver's Edelweiss Club, featuring Next In Line of Commerce City, Richard Baca & Sierra Gold from Pueblo, and The Rick Garcia Band."
My wife Carmen and I did see him, and his wife Flo there and the vato wasn't kidding--it was a kick-ass baile. We left at 11:00 before the third band, but my legs were already worn out from trying to keep up with the hot sounds, anyway. Next up will be The King of New Mexico Music, TOBIAS RENE. Tickets available at EDELWEISS CLUB, 6495 Monaco, Commerce City Colo. and RICK'S TAVERN, 6762 Lowell Boulevard, Denver, 303-427-3427
Ramos also mentioned, "I may bump into some of you at the driveway party Saturday night." I'm probably going, but need some help. Anybody know where I can get some permanent marker chalk to christen that new driveway?
Alarcón (& La Bloga) strike deep in the Ariz. heartland
Mari Herreras of the Tucson Weekly ran an interview this week of Francisco X. Alarcón:
"Moved by student protests in Phoenix against SB 1070, Alarcón created a Facebook page called Poets Responding to SB 1070. Many of the poems from the page have been republished on La Bloga at labloga.blogspot.com.
In the interview, Alarcón explains: "Michael Sedano from Los Angeles is an editor of La Bloga, a blog for Latino/Chicano artists, poets and writers. The past eight weeks, we started to select poems, and every Tuesday, five to seven poems are selected and posted on La Bloga. Now we're hitting a critical mass of poets, so we want to do a hard copy. The University of California Press has expressed an interest, but I haven't presented them with a proposal ... but we've come to a decision that this is the next step."
Any billionaire out there want to underwrite free copies for anybody with an Ariz. driver's license--regardless of what kind of shoes they're wearing?
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By: Rudy Garcia,
on 7/10/2010
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By: Rudy Garcia,
on 5/22/2010
Blog: La Bloga (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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The hot Chicano comic
From Chicano vampiristico (sic?) Mario Acevedo, comes this note:
"To read about the new Felix Gomez Comic Killing the Cobra, in a special edition newsletter, click this link."
Happy fanging,
Mario"
There's two covers to this issue and I have to disagree with Mario's pocho tastes and say this one ain't the winner. Reminds me of Charlie's Angels, the vata edition.
Here's the Cover B version. I'll take votes from all readers, whether you're registered, a resident or even don't look like your legal.
Anyway, I missed Mario's debut signing in Denver--pinche! I also missed Manuel Ramos's Denver debut Tattered Cover Bookstore signing of King of the Chicanos. Still down about being job-less and had hundreds of computer entries to make on grades, tests, etcetera. (At least my wife went and got me four copies I can Ebay to subsidize my unemployment checks.)
Anyway, I'm sure you'll find something about Mario's event on his website soon and Ramos posted a piece yesterday about what my wife told me what a huge and great event. Tattered sold out of all the copies they had, which probably means King will make Denver's bestseller list for awhile. I'm just finishing the novel and suggest you get one before all that's available is the 2nd, 3rd or 4th editions.
Borrowing from the master, Lalo
Inspired by and patterned after the classic poem "Stupid America" (1969) by the late Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado (QDEP), an old friend and academico Donaldo Urioste sent us this piece about Arizona and its recent anti-immigrant/anti-Mexican mania.
Stupid Arizona
See that Mexican
Walking the streets of your cities
and the barren lands of your countryside.
He doesn't want to harm you,
he just wants to work
and earn a decent wage
but you won't let him.
Stupid Arizona,
hear that Latina
Speaking Spanish and broken English
throughout your callous c
Rudy - yeah, viejo, you missed a couple of good events; you need to get out more often. Mario's comic (eventually a graphic novel) is phat, action-driven, and entertaining; and the art matches up well, in fact, extremely well. And Donaldo's piece is right on - it should be included in the Facebook poetry project "Poets Responding to SB1070"; you might let him know about that. I think your kids are gonna miss you.
awesome posts-all the way through! great energy :) and I LOOOVE that second cover-que si quema?!
and like Manuel said, that poem totally belongs in PRSB1070!
that second cover definitely. but then, i'm a 1950s kid so maybe my taste is dated. ni modo. the first one is cheesy. and ditto manuel's comment that donaldo needs to send that to facebook
Ramos, when you doing the COMPLEAT review of Cobra?
Missing 2 great events is part of the price teachers pay.
Hopefully, Donaldo will check out yous guys recommendation about Facebook.
Some of my kids already started crying. Some moms, too.
Me, I'm too macho; I'll wait til the end.
RudyG