Emmanuel “Meme” del Real of Café Tacuba and Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters
Long lost brothers?
Rockero look alikes
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Category Archives: Payasadas
Puro Pedo February issue is out
If you guys aren’t downloading the latest issues of Puro Pedo Magazine, then you’re missing out. I think it’s funny, but maybe that’s ’cause I’m biased and I contribute to the magazine. Even if you don’t read it, I think it’s quite nice to look at.
To get the pdf version, click the cover to the right or click here.
To pick up a the glossy, full-color copy, visit any of these locations:
Nahui Ohlin
1511 W. Sunset Blvd., Echo Park, CA 90026
T. 213.202.6550
Teocintli
2701 E. 4th Street, East Los Angeles, CA 90033
(across from Roosevelt High School)
T. 323.266.2117
Imix Bookstore
5052 Eagle Rock Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
T. 323.257.2512
Antigua Cultural Coffee House
4836 Huntington Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90032
T. 323.539.CAFE [2233]
For future news and info on when the latest issue is released, subscribe to the email list (subscribe@NOSPAMpuropedomagazine.com). We promise we won’t send spam.
Valentine’s Day Cards by Rio
I learned a lesson yesterday. When I try do something ahead of time and not wait for the last minute, it just doesn’t work out well. While shopping with my cousins, I dipped in to a Hallmark store to look for a card for el novio. I spent way too much time looking through cards that were overpriced and unamusing. Hallmark sucks when it comes to getting a card for a boyfriend.
If I would have just waited a few hours until I checked my email, I could have found a perfect (and free!) card designed by Rio Yañez, a Chicano artist from San Francisco. I love his work, especially this stylized lotería card. Check out the rest of the set and share them with friends, enemies or frenemies on el Día del Amor y la Amistad.
Quemarropa also has some cool cards.
Puro Pedo Magazine
Next time I complain that I’m overwhelmed with all I have to do, just tell me to shut up.
My advisor is right, I do get everything I ask for, which probably isn’t a good thing. Thanks to my good luck in getting what I want, I know have to deal with being a full time student, having two jobs adding up to about 30 hours a week, and serving as the external vice president for the graduate students association. Now, that’s just the formal stuff. I still want to have a social life with my family, significant other, friends and have time to take the dog out for a walk. Phew.
¡Se me olvidó! Somewhere in all those formal and social activities, I also want to be able to write on a couple of blogs and read others’ thoughts and opinions.
I recently added one more thing, I’m a writer (plus distributor and fundraiser!) for a Chicano satire magazine, Puro Pedo Magazine. I was asked to join late in the summer and just contributed my first article for the third issue. The first two issues have been great, but it’s a small operation and the philosophy from the editor and the rest of the PP collective is that we want to remain autonomous (following the lead of the Zapatistas) and not solicit advertisements. However, we also want to give the magazines away since we believe information — and satire — should be free.
So yeah, that means we not only have to think about bringing cultural/political satire to the masses in a way that will make them pee their chonis, we also have to find a way to stay afloat without digging in to our own anorexic bank accounts.
Right now, Puro Pedo has concentrated on print distribution, but we’re also working on getting a PDF version out for the December issue. That way, you all can read it, decide you love it and donate some of your hard earned dollars.
For more information on Puro Pedo Magazine, check out the MySpace page. If you want to know about donations or have other questions, email us.
Pillagin’ an’ plunderin’ in East Los… aaargh!
Aaargh, it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, mateys! If ye landlubbers need help, check the translator, aaargh!
About three weeks ago, th’ cabinmate and another mate, Gabby, plan’d a pirate theme party. All wenches and scallywags dress’d in their finest pirate rags. If they didn’t, they walk’d the plank! Aaargh!
Aye, aye, mateys! We had a jolly good time at the paaarrrty. The vessel looked finer than a treasure chest with the fearsome Jolly Roger flyin’ high above Boyle Heights.
The rotten scallywags drank many a bottles o’ rum and grog, danc’d to a fine fancy sea shantey an’ had us a grand good time.
An’ no, nobody gave up the booty. Aaargh!
Hey, pa’ fuiste pachuco!
Anyone else think Johnny Depp drew some inspiration from early ’80s Eddie Olmos in his role as el Pachuco in the film and theater versions of Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit? Compare and contrast.
Depp is missing the hat and from this full body photo you can see that the pants are not as high waisted and as baggy as a pachuco would wear them. I also couldn’t find any photos of Depp doing the lean back with left foot forward stance. Despite the differences, the resemblance is uncanny (at least from the waist up).