Tag Archives: Juan of Words

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Tiliches!

Pos for me they’re anything but useless, but for some they might as well be trash.  Thrown right in there with all of the other undesirables that we find no use for anymore right before…

Musica De Vara – The Music Of My Mexico!

Actually it’s called a huapango arribeño.  In my neck of the serros in Mexico – El Sauz to be precise – my parents just called it música de vara.  It came back to me this…

Happy Cinco de Mayo… NOT Mexican Independence Day

So y’all know today is NOT Mexican Independence Day verdad?  Just want to make that absolutely clear as it always seems we do a lot more celebrating for Cinco de Mayo than we do for…

Edgar Chose Selena Quintanilla Perez For His Social Studies Project: We’ve Got Material For That!

Se los prometo that he made the selection entirely on his own!  En serio.  For reals.  No, but like for reals.  Yesterday when I got home the first thing Edgar told me when I got…

Mexi-Vocabulario: ¡Chorro!

As in a lot.  No, not just a little bit of a lot.  But a lot of a lot.  ¡Un chingo!  Some might say.  ¡Un chorro!  To be more color de rosa with our choice…

Latino Filmmakers Shined At Hispanicize 2013

So besides Filly Brown, this year, Hispanicize 2013 featured a slew of Latino films that dealt with everything from immigration to brujeria, even a little rockabilly and technological singularity.  There were so many films premiering…