19 de Marzo, 2007

Mi Familia [6] - El Niño Perdido

Categorized under Mi Familia , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: familia, Farming, JFH, Mexicans, Mexico, My Life

IT IS REMARKABLE, this spirit we inherit, this blood we inherit, these dreams and these roads that we wake to find wound around our wrists and across our cheeks like war paint, like sleeplines, like shooting stars tattooed as gentle but indelible reminders. We are children for so long....

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 4:32 PM.
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31 de Enero, 2007

It Started One Tuesday

Categorized under Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Hope, indigenous, Mexico, Power to the People

A HISTORIC SUMMER STARTS WITH A TINY SLICE OF DAWN at the end of a long, dark night. An avalanche begins with a flake of snow. A flood begins with the White House saying it has everything under control, and a mountain begins with a dreaming mole. It is...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 5:44 AM.
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16 de Enero, 2007

Journeys of Hope

Categorized under Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: borders, Califas, Capitalism, historia, Manifest Destiny

THE JOURNEY that we undertake with hope in our sails can lead us anywhere. Today, we sail under the Fifth Sun toward the distant and shimmering golden horizon. In 1848, when the news broke that California—a land still technically belonging to Mexico but under American military occupation—was a land...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 10:13 AM.
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27 de Diciembre, 2006

Going Back to Cali. To Cali. To Cali.

Categorized under Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Califas

CALIFAS. Always somewhere in the rear view mirror. A U-turn always waiting. Sooner or later. I always knew I'd be back. I've always felt—even when it was nothing more than just a feeling without reason—that I would not be Done until I at least made it back to California....

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:07 AM.
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10 de Diciembre, 2006

A Cruel Dimension of Reality

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Globalización , Historia , Latin America , Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Chile, Pinochet

WITH THE DEATH, FINALLY, OF AUGUSTO PINOCHET, self-appointed "Supreme Head of the Nation of Chile," I am soothed. While nothing can undo the untold amounts of pain and suffering that his coup and junta brought about, at least we were able to watch him become wracked with disease and...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:21 PM.
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28 de Noviembre, 2006

A Very Wild Life

Categorized under Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Califas

DROWNING AND SURROUNDED by a shuffling mosaic of Wi-fi, neon, concrete, political discourse, unexplained cancers, Clean Air Acts, television award ceremonies, hypnotic advertisement riffs, and jungles of synthetic material--"success"--we feel our lungs tremble when the moon boldly shows herself outside our window. We feel our heart whisper (a lovestruck...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 6:13 AM.
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5 de Noviembre, 2006

Built of Bones

Categorized under Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Antepasados, borders, historia, The Haunted Land

NOT CONTENT TO LIMIT OUR AWARENESS to "congressional" "oversight," the benefits of the two-party system and the last week's worth of mediatric spinnypulp, we strive to understand this world we have been born into. We want to know what the true law is. Who rules me? What do I...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 7:20 AM.
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2 de Noviembre, 2006

hurling ideas of redemption

Categorized under Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: EZLN, Format, indigenous, LA Riots, Oaxaca, Power to the People

UNDETERRED BY DISTRACTION and commercials for more gloss, human smell-killer, blemish-hider, instant snax and war without end, we feel our toes sink into the maize and blood-colored path that twists into the woods, through the blistering sands, and finally leading up that stepped path to the stars....to the fifth...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 11:47 AM.
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27 de Octubre, 2006

El Quintosol

Categorized under Literatura , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags: Califas, Chicanism@, Quintosol

YOU WILL RECALL TIMES in our short (but dear) past when we spoke of Chicanism@, and the literature that intertwines. It is some powerful and beautiful art. The corridos, the stories, the poems, the paintings. Amazing. And I think we (meaning i) can get a look at the idea...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:45 AM.
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29 de Septiembre, 2006

Little Sister Born in This Land

Categorized under Globalización , Poesía , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags:

EN ESTO VIERNES HERMOSO, as the sun beams down, as the sky opens her azul-a-glimmer eye, as the bees begin to cycle their ebon velvet engines, as the horribly unhealthy woman circles my block one more time with her horribly small and high-yipping dog, I bring you a poem written...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:07 AM.
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25 de Septiembre, 2006

Chicanism@, the boat ride.

Categorized under Palabras , Road to the Fifth Sun | Tags:

I AM GOING TO TALK LESS about there being no Chicanismo Decider, and do more quoting of, and having discussion about writers and artists who had a lot to say during el movimiento of the late 60s and early 70s. You and I can figure it out together. Not...

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The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 9:19 PM.
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