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7 de Mayo, 2008

Symbol and Essence: Part 4.5

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GRACIAS to Jessica Wakeman, who interviewed me yesterday for her Cinco de Mayo article at mainstreet.com. Thanks, Jessica, for doing just what you promised by putting some focus on certain points I hoped to stress. Even if that geography wasn't originally in your plan. What? My tacky chile pepper...

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30 de Abril, 2008

UMX State of the Tortilla

Categorized under Acción , Arte , Blogando , Foto , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , ,


IT'S BEEN PRETTY QUIET here, overall. You know what I mean. Less posts, less text, easy topics. (Aside from "anal bleaching," I suppose.) That's because I'm actually closing in on this massive knot of work that has been bottlenecking my peace of mind and daily schedules. It's always a...

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26 de Abril, 2008

Tus Mensajes [Around the Riverbend]

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FROM THE MAIL: Do you know anything of the blogger of Baghdad Burning? She was at http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com. I have seen that some of her story has been made into books and plays - yet when her family became refugees, they have disappeared since last Oct. Just thought maybe we were...

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14 de Abril, 2008

The Thieving Weave

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TWO TOPICS have stuck out in my reading over the last day or two of words now Internexically stored in this crystallized pixelized box o' societal memoria. Appropriation and Torture. We will leave torture for tomorrow's dawn, and for this post I will write on Appropriation, Plagiarism, Intellectual Theft, Society,...

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12 de Abril, 2008

Let's Do This

Categorized under Blogando , Kevin , Literatura , Palabras , The CyberXicano | Tags: , , , , ,


Nezua and crew have graciously invited me to guest post here at the UMX blog. I figure that before I bust up in here with all sorts of shenanigans and hijinks I should introduce myself. Hey, Y'all! I'm Kevin. That was easy, but I suppose doesn't really say much, now...

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16 de Marzo, 2008

Nezua Gets Good Ink [Register Guard writeup]

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WELL, as I told you before, the local paper did a writeup on yours truly, and though I carry the sting from reporters with agendas to this day (after a couple disappointing lessons that came my way via interviews I gave in the past on various things), I was...

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The Perks of Being in D.C.

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Man Eegee | Tags: , , ,


Met with some congressional staffers Friday and took the opportunity to ask about the SAVE Act, which the GOP is itching to get pushed through the House for a vote to create a wedge issue for the election campaign. Pro-migrant bloggers have been concerned that the enforcement-only campaign would be...

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12 de Marzo, 2008

Unapologetic Bandit@s

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ESTA FIN DE SEMANA, this weekend, begins a new phase of The Unapologetic Mexican blog. 87% of participating readers indicated that they wuz down wit tha guest blogando, and so it shall begin! Come around Saturday and Sunday, and weekends thereafter, and you will sample the best game of...

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2 de Marzo, 2008

Support FunHaving

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MI AMIGA and helper in many things is taking some time for herself to have some fun and visit Califas. She is having a fundraiser, and given the caliber of her online work, I certainly feel a donation is a fair trade for soaking it up. If you agree,...

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25 de Febrero, 2008

Dia de la Bandera 2008

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FELIZ DIA DE LA BANDERA, though I'm a day late. I was away from the box for a couple, so big thanks to M and Carmen for filling in while I was gone. And I still plan to greatly expand the weekend guestvat@ roster and functionality as promised a...

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11 de Febrero, 2008

La Calle Unwinding

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A READER who hasn't been around for a while asked me about changes in my blog. I want to answer briefly. The early stages of my blog (first year) were concerned with the original purpose of this blog. A journey of self discovery, ethnic pride, pushing back against the anti-Mexican...

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9 de Febrero, 2008

UMX! Now Fatter, Longer, and Uncut.

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THERE HAVE BEEN a few times that your gracious host has actually listened to feedback from the lovely and motley horde that make his comment threads some of the most intelligent on the Intranix. One time was when a reader implied (on another blog) that my having a small...

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4 de Febrero, 2008

Naranjita

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THANK YOU, catchaz....

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3 de Febrero, 2008

Announcing: Autography

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A NEW BLOG, made of fotos and self portraits and maintained by the illustrious and brilliant Theriomorph! I'll be appearing there occasionally, and latest up is Chris, the Science writer extraordinaire. A man with a black bird and way cool hair! Mark it. Link it. Get it while it's shot....

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30 de Enero, 2008

You Can't Raze the House of Nezua!

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THOSE OF YAZ who read my more non-politicalish blog House of Nezua may have noticed that the site is down for a couple days. I don't know all of what's going on, but for a basic explanation and the new location, go here. UPDATE: oh...its back!! hmm. okay. i'm going...

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28 de Enero, 2008

Target: Selling Ass and Mimicking Dying Institutions

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Target to the blogosphere: you’re irrelevant. That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYouth.org, a blog about the impact of marketing on children. Early this month, the blog’s founder, Amy Jussel, called Target, complaining about a new advertising campaign that depicted...

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17 de Enero, 2008

Unapologetic Posse?

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HERE IS A POLL measuring your reaction to the idea that on weekends, there could possibly be guest bloggers here in 2008. Of course, this is the House of Nez. I'm not just talking about any bloggers. I'm talking about rock stars of the locasphere. The menudo of the virtual...

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7 de Enero, 2008

Keeping Up Shop (Open Thread)

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While Nezua is handling his biznass in NYC to represent the (mean?) streets of Oregon to the fullest, he's asked me to make sure you're not randomly assaulted by flesh fluttering poetics, anagrams of pointless proportions, online apothecaries, marketing (insults to) sonnets, and good-for-nothing under-the-bridge-dwellers. And in general, keep UMX...

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6 de Enero, 2008

The Unapologetic Mexican: 2008

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , ,


WELL, WE ARE DOWN TO T-minus1, and tomorrow is our launch date. So this is as good a time as any to let ya know what's up for this blog in 2008. I planned to have this post ready on January 1st, but sometimes that's just the way the taco...

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29 de Diciembre, 2007

Our First Year's End Best-of List!

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THAT'S RIGHT, peeples. Walk it like ya mean it. It's your glory, too. Gracias mil to marenda.biz and LIving Life Abundantly for including The Unapologetic Mexican in your 50 Best Blogs of 2007! Hell yeah. Living life abundantly. I'm feelin that. Also shouts out to see Racialicious, Latinasoyme Latinitasoyme, Field...

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20 de Diciembre, 2007

Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Chronicles of Nezua , Medios , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , ,


SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I'm sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted...

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11 de Diciembre, 2007

Feed the Blog

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TEMPORARILY speechless. But playing good music. Keep on....

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7 de Diciembre, 2007

XP Wins Texas Progressive Alliance 2007 Silver Star!

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AND I JUST GOTTA post propz to mi hermano y blogmigo XP: Edmundo Rocha. Blending lends heavy-handed social critiques, local and national politics, and a heaping dose of common sense in his blog, Edmundo Rocha tackles heavy topics like imigration, teenage pregnancy, racial and gender politics, and backs up everything...

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30 de Octubre, 2007

Another One Bytes the Dust

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LIZA, amiga and soldadera para la causa, needs our help! Computer down! Computer down!...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

Decide the Tagline

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DECIDE FOR GOOOOOD N ALL who holds sway over these here five pernts! Voting closed! See last update below. Take the pollFree Poll by Blog Flux Ahem. Regarding this post, I'd like to draw on the experience of ustedes. Unlike in some other elections, your vote really does count (unless...

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24 de Octubre, 2007

The Green, Green, Benzene Scene, Take 2

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AS YOU KNOW, in turning in the video for MTV's vlogger competition, I had rushed like a madman to meet (what I thought was) the original deadline—as it had been (at least to me), unclear. That's the day I tried to do three crews' worth of work in 19...

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14 de Octubre, 2007

Citizen Orange Now With Extra Pulp!

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KYLE'S new blog, Citizen Orange, the sequel to Immigration Orange, is now fully operational. Blogroll that bad boy, hook up those feeds, go chill in the one of the hippest new virtual sanctuary sites for migrantes and allies and general orange-lovers around town. Me, sigh, I've got other work to...

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11 de Octubre, 2007

Out of Site, man.

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SOME NEW DESIGNS I've been working on. I've actually been very busy for weeks on end. And I am finally putting a cluster of jobs behind me, which is very good. I let myself get a little too overbooked there....

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3 de Octubre, 2007

EOH@theunapologeticmexican/Open Threadiness

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A REMINDER that tomorrow is the question and answer post with Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Otherwise, Open thy Thread at will....

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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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8 de Septiembre, 2007

Nez Flies to NYC for Immigration Strategy Meeting

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I AM FLYING OUT to New York early tomorrow morning. I was asked to give a 10-15 minute presentation at a strategy meeting being held by many immigrant advocate groups (e.g., NCLR (National Council of La Raza--or "La Raza," as Señor Dobbs always says), National Immigration Coalition, others) on...

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2 de Septiembre, 2007

Comment Moderation Now More Aggressive

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I HAVE STEPPED UP moderation on the blog. I regret that a few trusted commenters are getting caught up in the moderation, but I have about had my fill of disgusting robot graffiti showing up on my site or in feeds that people subscribe to, so I appreciate tu...

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23 de Agosto, 2007

Caucusoidus Rex [Nez Crashes YearlyKos Pt. 7]

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RACE MAY NOT exist, but what do exist are the thoughts and value systems and histories of all the peoples of this land. And therein are told many stories. And stories are still being told. The celebrated and well-distributed and well-known stories are not the entire truth. They are not the only stories, and if they are the only stories we are reading and speaking, then we spread falsehood. If those formats and framings and hierarchies of reference are the only legends we pass down, then we pass down ignorance.

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29 de Julio, 2007

Preparando

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AS NEZUA'S JAUNT TO CHI-TOWN is fast approaching, I must now use any available time on the few projects on hhhhhwhich I am working. I am not ruling out a five sentence post here or there, but for the most part, I imagine this blog will go a bit...

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28 de Julio, 2007

Rudder is an Ugly but Important Word

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IF ONLY I could find a way to keep in touch with what was happening out there without constantly reading news. I just feel I'm getting mired in that energy again. I didn't intend that. It's important stuff, but...time to get back to some classic categories. Switch up a...

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14 de Julio, 2007

SPAM of Teh Week!

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(links stripped) As slang, grammatical usage of the word teh is somewhat fluid. Besides being an alternate spelling of the, teh also has grammatical properties not generally applied to the; in general, it is used somewhat like an intensified "the". The spelling derived from a typographical mistake seen as the...

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Nezua Jumps Borders of YearlyKos Convention

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AND SO THE MOST UNEXPECTED of things has happened, and that is that yours truly has been given—completely unexpected and unforeseen by me—both a Registration grant and a Last Mile grant and so am heading off to the YearlyKos convention in August! Chi-town, baby. Imagine this. So, big thanks...

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9 de Julio, 2007

Nezua Gets Feministic

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THIS IS THE WEEK that I'm doing a temp gig where blonde girls wave guns. I'll still be blogging here, when there is a moment and in that moment, inspiration. I may not crosspost here what I do there. Keep it fresh....

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7 de Julio, 2007

Markos Moulitsas Revealed

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WHOA. This article sort of throws a new light on Mister "poor immigrant" DailyKos Moulitsas and his Humble Salvadoran Family story. Maybe others who are familiar with DailyKos know about this, but it sure is news to me. And important news, given the size of his blog and the...

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3 de Julio, 2007

Special Maintenance

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INTERESTING....

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15 de Junio, 2007

The King of Powder Blue Irony

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THE KING of irony....

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Gilliard, Brittney, and the General

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