Fuck Bobby Jindal and everything about the state of Louisiana, including food, except zydeco, Mardi Gras Indians, blues, mestizaje and jazz (and fuck those free people of color, that is to say nostalgic slavocrats, too).

The time has come to get real. Axé.

Germaine Montero

Germaine Montero, immortelle; my first singer and the best. Eres como la rosa de Alexandria, morena salada Colorada de noche, blanca de día; Toda la noche estoy, Niña, pernsando en ti; Que yo de amores me muero, desde que te vi, morena salada; desde que te vi. Axé.

California forever.

Dear Administration, Everything you have heard about me, namely that I am a devil from the University of California, is true. That sturdy Golden Bear, whose football games I disdained back in the day, watches me from the sky even now. If you give me the faculty I want from this campus, I can recruit … More California forever.

Viaje a Aztlán

This is from the Codex Boturini and I found it on Wikipedia. Moctezuma I tried to find out where Aztlán was and so did the 16th century Fray Diego Durán. People have been working on this ever since; Aztlán could have been near Florida, or at a Mississippian site in Wisconsin, or somewhere north of … More Viaje a Aztlán