2008

failed celebrity sightings

When I got off the plane and walked up to hug my tío, I swear he was sitting next to Robert Duvall! ...

I could go for a cupcake right now…but I could always...

“I hope to love somebody that long and that much.”
— mi amiga, about mi abuela,...

Whenever the commercial for the new 90210 series plays—usually during my bedtime t.v.-watching...

riotrepublic: Acid Rain, Washington, D.C., 1981 In this...

Spanish Basketball Teams’ “Slit-Eyed”...

riotrepublic: esvee: SEA CAMPAIGN : KLAS ERNFLO

scout: newmotifs: i want to see this in real life, it’s...

Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Cartoon: CEO Pay...

AP IMPACT: Seoul probes civilian ‘massacres’ by...

lalilster: “Tijuana-san diego border deaths” via...

went to see the Dodgers play against the Giants the other...

szymon: Lila Jang sofa

“You’re name really sounds familiar. And looking at...”
— f.b. message from someone i...

lalilster: curate: via www.eatgrub.org

Chinese in Mazatlan

After watching Sobrino play with his new wooden top...
me: are you feeling ok?
manito D: yea, why?
me: you're so quiet.
D: i just got to thinking.
me: what about? (thinking it's about a deep personal situation)
D: whether or not you can determine the direction of the earth's rotation from the spin of the wooden top.
My own dorkiness needs no explanation.

N.M. first state to adopt Navajo textbook

“Comunidad The community is the roadmap of hearts connected...”
— Mamita Mala - One Bad...

lalilster: “Handala (or Hanzala) is the most famous of the...

“I’m oh-so-excited to go to the beach today, I can...”
— sobrino on the way to the...

Photographer Dulce Pinzon Presents Latin Immigrants As Super...

Intersections: Women caught at the border in...

“The day after the raid, half of all students in the...”
— The Ethicurean: Chew the right...

Chinese Historical Society of America | Exhibitions | Past...

curate: “The energy and spirit that go into my work result...

LIVESTEEZ - Obama T-Shirt Sparks Assault, Lawsuit “A...

some scenarios from the state of my world: on the sidewalk:...

i12bent: Marking the birthday of Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961),...

from Intersections: The piercing cross of...

PHD Comics: The Tenure Cloud/t

una palabra.

This meme I saw here.  I’m learning to use words differently, creatively, meaningfully,...

angry asian man: “Asian triads come to Nintendo. ...

lalilster: via www.amdoc.org

lalilster: Photograph shows Chinese refugees posed in front...

Chillin’ in Little Tokyo after working hard at a cafe...

Swapmeet Chronicles: Hot Pedro Nites July 18-19

Tribe says border fence restricts sacred...

lalilster: “Welcome to the world of immigration detention,...

Checklist for Graduate Students | No Borders and...

mis amigos, sharon + dean. photos by: the image is found ....

lamusa: Art at UT Brownsville. The proposed border wall...

LA Eastside » Neighborhood Beautification

USW: Overview: Clean Car Wash Campaign “The thousands...

the things people say.

(after being introduced by mutual friend)
mexican dude: do you speak spanish?
me: a little bit
md: oh...because your eyes look a little chinese
me: that's because i am chinese
(i didn't tell him that he looked a little güero...)

Digna Ochoa - Hispanic Heritage Special

nightcereus_la: black panthers mural

“…wants to meet more men who are sexy in a grassroots,...”
— J’s FB status update. ...

The Longest Walk 2 - Spread the Word from email requesting...

Sepia Mutiny - Reading Comprehension, and the...

New Mexico's Native American Swing Vote - Off...

My new favorite TJ’s product.  You must try...

LA Metro Rail System Map

“Nights in LA smell of sweet, like honeysuckle and...”
— Heading East: Things I know...

After I got back to LA from visiting familia in...

lalilster: via ccsre.stanford.edu

then you'll get an A

sobrino: tía izzy, are you almost done yet?
me: almost.
sobrino: almost?!?!
me: in a little bit, i'll send it to my friend so she can read it.
sobrino: what for?
me: so she can tell me if i need to change anything, to make sure it makes sense.
sobrino: what if you don't need to change anything?
me: then i'll send it to the people who asked me to write it.
sobrino: then you'll get an A?
me: no, i won't get an A, but i'll get published.
sobrino: you mean like in a book??
me: yes
sobrino: so when i look at the book, it'll say, written by tía izzy quintana?
me: something like that.
sobrino: cool!

East of The L.A. River: Wisdom

Intersections: Sergio Hernandez and the mind’s...

indigen: Fighting the power plant Show features artwork...

“New Mexico is on the verge of having a modern culture,” said...”
— A Ban on Cockfighting, but the...

Portrait of Indian Life in Los Angeles...

good job, tía izzy!

(last night at dinner, after manito d picked me up from the coffeeshop)
sobrino: hey tía izzy! what you workin on at the coffeeshop?
me: an article
sobrino: what's it about?
me: Chinese and Mexican people
manito d: she's writing about us!
sobrino: whoa!!
---
(after breakfast, as i sit at the kitchen table in front of my computer, books strewn all about)
sobrino: (looking over my shoulder at my document on the screen) wow! that's a lot of words!
me: (turn to smile at him, say nothing)
sobrino: good job, tía izzy! (sweet smile)
---
(upon my return from the coffeeshop for dinner with the familia)
sobrino: did you finish your, um, article?
me: not yet, i've still got a ways to go
sobrino: how much did you do?
me: about two-thirds
sobrino: two-thirds left??
me: no, one-third left
sobrino: good job, tía izzy! (pats me on the shoulder and smiles)
---
i should bring him along to all my academic functions for moral support!

“The Great Spirit did not make the land for brothers to fight...”
— Klose-kur-beh, known also as...

Justice Department Considers Racial Profiling...

lessons for historians?

I admit that I sometimes struggle with what it is I’m supposed to be learning from the...

12 - El nun Queer Lotería Cards-check them out.

“Here, even now, aged Chinamen sit around on boxes in front...”
— Garding Lui, Inside Los...

meme: privilege

from curate: Bold the things that apply. If your father went to college; If your father finished...

do your professors know?

papá: what else is cookin? (his standard question, when he runs out of things to say)
me: i'm trying to finish an article
papá: what's it about?
me: (insert description)
papá: it's not about the railroads?
me: no, but it's related to my dissertation
papá: i thought you study the railroads
me: i changed my topic for my dissertation
papá: what? well, what's it about now?
me: (insert brief description)
papá: do your professors know you changed your topic?
me: yea, of course
papá: did they say it's okay?
me: (laughing) yea, before i moved to LA (almost 2 years ago)
papá: okay, good.
I have this exact conversation with my papá every time I come home to visit. Each time he seems very concerned about whether my profes have approved my topic--but not so interested in the topic itself. And each time I try to make my diss description sound more interesting. Maybe this time it will stick!

lamusa: Piece by Frank Garza on display at the Historic...

Central Los Angeles, 1917. via www.lib.utexas.edu (courtesy...

UCLA Scholar Seeks to Raise Awareness About...

from: FFFFOUND!

from: Badassical

i12bent: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, master photographer: Frida...

lalilster: i love this portrait. fue un regalo ver el...

Manito D and Grandma on D’s 2nd birthday. I remember...

littleorphanammo: misterpeace: butterflyeffect: (via...

curate: Documentary | 5 | THE AMERICAN BLACK FARMERS PROJECT...

Wendy introduced me to Yogurtland after we had lunch in...

curate: chelc:closeup views of sand/ go here for more!! ...

it was very hot! but good times with j + j. lamusa: june...

Temple guardian statue in Old Chinatown, Los Angeles...

LA Eastside » HP/last night a dj

“Your name sounds very familiar, but I don’t recognize...”
— FB invite from a college...

Potter, of course! 52books: Who would win in a fight: Potter...

elvira: science: Solstice Moonrise, Cape Sounion, Greece....

“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up...”
— Rosa Parks (U.S. civil rights...

Feliz Juneteenth! “Abolitionist Frederick Douglas...

My good amigas and fellow Berks conference panelists. lilia...

BRAVOtv.com : Top Chef : Season 4 :...

AL Guerrero: Artist/Humorist/Multimedia Artist

“I have learned to enjoy time to be a woman. I have learned...”
— Salma Hayek Women’s...

Zuky: South Korean Activists Show Us How It’s...

China Food Montage (via thejerk)

Factory Girl | Bitch Magazine

“Making Foots Many a foot was chopped off an African...”
— Nikky Finney From RICE (Sister...

curate: Helen Zia, right, and Lia Shigemura were married by...

Button passed out at the Texas GOP Convention

Peace & Love (via ƒreg)

Cedar Rapids Struggles To Endure Historic Flood, Thousands...

Inch Worm at Feeling Retro from my girl mags: “this is...

“i definitely like both the anonymity of looking like a...”
— adrian, in an email on volume...

one of my favorites from Pearmama’s bloga: Hello...

Image:Rosaparks.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photographs From ‘Final Salute’ - The New York Times >...

You know you’re in Kentucky if… the door at your...

I’m still obsessed with trains, even though I decided...

We stayed near Muhammad Ali Blvd in Louisville this week. ...

Even better in olive. Donald J Pliner Bowie2 

i love these! online shoe-shopping.  it never ends. MICHAEL...

Steven Vybe - Zappos

Vintage Pink Royal Typewriter Ad (via Picnic by Ellie)

Vintage Pink & Blue Dishes (via Picnic by Ellie)

My favorite part of OC’s formal commencement events...

Lilia and I are on a grading gig in Louisville.  We decided...

curate: print & pattern: PULSE 08 - esther coombs

“whatever, as the kids say…”
— k, mp’s friend from...

Day 1 in Kentucky. Discussion about bourbon.
white man colleague: you must be hispanic, i'm guessing.
me: ok
wmc: then you must like tequila.
me: ok
**
Day 2, Same place.
wmc: your parents must have loved you as a child.
me: [thinking, duh] i'm sorry?
wmc: with your big eyes. you must have been a cute little mija.

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Mejico, segun lo organizado y...

curate: The New York Times > Opinion > Image>

Japanese immigrants register as Los Angeles residents Daily...

Pistolera, 1902. “Andrea Peyregne with rifle and...

Pistolera, Maria Alatorre, 1925. Photo Database, LAPL

Hyphen Blog > John McCain: 'I Hate the...

“How much is the life of a farm worker worth? Is it less than...”
— Arturo S. Rodriguez, President...