DAMES DON'T CARE!

WORLDS ARE COLLIDING

2009-06-30T18:44:00.000-07:00

...and I like it.

Pau first pitchKemp & Ariza BFFThe Machiinneeee throw ballOdom & KershawKobe & McDonaldO Dawg's head behind Odom during the playoffs♥

PADRE E HIJA

2009-06-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

Yeaaah! Double exposure and ruffled tuxedo shirts.
Love you Puchie.
Happy Father's Day!

CHAMPS

2009-06-15T20:30:00.000-07:00

A parade! I get to see a victory parade tomorrow! Not since Shaq's rendition of Rob Base & Easy Rock's It Takes Two and mormon Mark "Mad Dog" Madsen's bilingual declarations of three-peats and "cua-tro" have I been witness to one of those. Yeee!

I almost felt bad after wins throughout the playoffs. I mean, really ABC? Were all the heart breaking stories during halftime necessary? And it's always the opposing team's #1 fans that have the hard luck or inspirational story. In the w.conference finals we had uplifting Nicholas with spina bifida and that touching b-roll footage of his friendship with loveable giant Mutumbo. There was little Ryan, whose love for the Orlando Magic brought him out of his selective mutism. Then belting out the national anthem each night, a darling autistic 7 year old named Gina Marie. At some point, I think I was resigned to the fact that it wouldn't be so bad if LA lost. Stupid, right? Now I just figure, Orlando has Dwight Howard, and those kids are little...they'll see a championship. I'm gonna enjoy it now because looting and keeping Ariza vs Odom is bringing me down.

CAN YOU BUY ME THESE?!

As if I ever need a reason to throw some Teen Wolf & Lil Wayne on this ~~bitch~~ blog. . . (look for the Magic ally oop to tenor Ralph Tresvant)

I'm on the facebook now. I'm already regretting it and not for the obvious reasons. But because everytime I go on there, I'm face-to-screen with this dude. (I can't post the picture, because then he would win) Whhhhy!? Why carne asada neck face guy, even out of my peripheral it's too much. Ughhhh, it's Brujeria's Matando Güeros album cover all over again. How am I their target audience? I've never in my life even taken a sin stick to my mouth. How about a little ingenuity with the adverse-ments instead of faces of death. I'm missing those Truth ads right about now.

En Fuego...

2009-05-29T14:43:00.000-07:00

opens tonight, 7-9pm

I'll tell you what is en fuego, my stomach. Or it was yesterday on my way home from Seaside. Taking the winding hwy 1, tipping point. I sincerely apologize to the day shift of undisclosed gas station for completely demolishing their public restroom with my breakfast spew. I hope those get sprayed down with a high powered hose or something less disgusting.

Thanks to all the folks over at the gallery for their help with the install, as I just directed from my perch trying to keep from tossing my cookies. If I hadn't been dying, I would have stuck around to explore. I saw all kinds of browns, and all kinds of thrifts. Maybe in 6 weeks. Show is up 6 weeks.

Tiny 4" x 4" rings

quequito & elote

FACE!(as my nephew Vic says) & cuernito

MADRE E HIJA

2009-05-10T06:52:00.000-07:00

My Mom saaays she doesn't like me posting about about her on the internets but I don't knoooww she says the same thing about me calling her Octomom and yet curiously cracks a little smile every time I refer to her as such. You know how I know I love my Mom non-stop? I give her pedicures. FEET ya'll, that's love. Don't say I never do nothing for you lady. I really can't even describe (or joke) about the enormity of her love and sacrifice. She's the biggest blessing in my life, EVER - I win.

Slapped together this playlist for her, for the Mom's in my family and all the other baby mommas out there who ride or die for their babies.

And a would be happy Mother's day to Mammy Ramirez who so desperately wanted to become a mother he shat on his legacy and his voucher into the HOF. Now lets use his paycut and get us a starting pitcher not a belly itcher. 47 games and counting....

April 29th

2009-04-29T10:45:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER!

In honor of your birthday, I decided to blog (at your request) my separated at birth observations, playoffs edition. Not to bring up a sore subject but first up... Sharks head coach Todd McLellan (left) and Smeagol/Gollum aka Andy Serkis (right). Eww I would reference LOTR, eww I would use the acroynm for the Lord of the Rings. They both don't get their precious in the end. How sad.

Has anyone else been trying to will the baby bulls over the celtics?
Brian Scalabrine (left) and Michael Rappaport (right) haha together RapScallion. More so in the body and the gingerness but also that headband screams Paulie Kirkwood.

Got past the Jazz hands. I hope Portland isn't next.

AUCTION

2009-04-22T18:41:00.000-07:00

When I was little, I toiled the earth at a non-profit arts organization OR as my friend (then co-worker) Elena maintains, "we cleaned the bathrooms at MACLA. " Althooouuughh, towards the end of our term, once we had traversed up the career rungs, we delegated volunteers or coaxed friends into that type of drudgery. So that meant we only sometimes moonlighted as janitors. All that aside my time at MACLA was precious and I'll forever have a memory box up-top my closet shelf with pictures of us together and dried flowers pressed between my diary pages. The place holds a very special cramped place in my heart. For that reason, I donate to their art auction every year. Usually I just unload an old piece that I've been compulsively hoarding but this time they requested one of my pan dulce embroideries. I got to stitching on a new one, it's vinyl size.

Show is up right now and will remain open up until the day of the live auction on Saturday May 16th. You can buy the pieces BEFORE they go to auction for the retail price listed + an additional 50% of the retail price, something like that. Click on the image below for more info.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
510 South 1st Street
San Jose, CA. 95113
408.998.ARTE
info@maclaarte.org

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Big ups to Mona and baby Isis my favorite people to watch day time television with & Belén for partying during her lunch breaks. Cuteness tracker brought you by my new favorite poladroid.

0-0

2009-04-06T12:03:00.000-07:00

It's time for Dodger baseball! Or nearly time, 1hrs 44mins 3 seconds and counting...

My best friend and her husband are not sports aficionados. Having no loyalty to any one sports team, I feel it's my responsibility to steer little Isis in the right direction before geography (unless the A's move to SJ) or negligence (on the part of masochist Giants fans) have their way. Besides, Belén does OWN a Dodgers jacket , and there was the time that she went to a ball game up in SF and thought the Dodgers were "hotter". That pretty much equates to Belen being a non-practicing Dodgers fanatic, so it makes her offspring of the same ilk.

To be fair, we had her feel out both Dodgers and Giants colors respectively...

Aww super cute and a smart cookie. That footage wasn't even doctored. Belen & Mona didn't have to make good on threats of giving her a little pinch or hair pull. She spat on and was miserable in orange and black all on her own. The pedos, also real. Do you like the manny wig I crafted?

I made it out to the last spring training game of the season yesterday. Unlike the rest of the Dodger team that stayed back in preparation for opening day. Booo, no Manny, Russey, Raffy, Blake or O Dog. Good eats and plenty of unmerited BOLDNESS from vagiants fans thinking all bad because their regular line up edged out essentially the triple A LA squad and a wet behind the ears newly designated 5th starter, James McDonald. Lindblom was impressive, 4IP, 2 H, 3 SO, 1BB.

Bases juiced....

UP

2009-03-19T21:15:00.000-07:00

**addendum: here is another entry with some more pictures.

Half time blogging! After some googlage found these recaps of the Fifty24SF group show. Click the screen caps. If you're looking to check it out, live, it's up another week (or up until the 26th).

This time a bigger wrestling ring on canvas, so I was able to embroider her one pc.

Don't tug on superman's cape.

Detail.My cousin Little doing the obligatory Chicano crouch down in front of my wall(s).

Some hype.

That's me, MitsEy. :/ Forever bush leaguer.

SETTLESQUAREACCOUNTS

2009-03-12T13:17:00.000-07:00

Sports blog warning. I don't care none. Lil Wayne blogs about sports all the time. If it's good enough for Weazy F. Baby its good enough for me. Last night was a super lopsided affair in Mexican National sports.

The soccer scrimmage was only a friendly one, booooo. Where's this team when it counts? Stakes is high, WERE high in Mexico City for Group B SURVIVAL in the World Baseball Classic. The classic has been awesome. Great upsets, HUGE upsets. The Dominican Republic bounced by the Netherlands? Team Italy booting the Canucks? Venezuela winning Group C over the USA all stars (I can't stand 2/3 of that team). Crazy. Mexico seemed destined for the same whack fate at the hands of a baby Australian team that dealt them a humiliating 17-7 mercy rule loss in their first meeting. Confident off their win, the Aussies were already looking past the elimination match-up with Mexico, considering it a minor hurdle, quoted as looking forward to face the Cubans again for top position of the group. Mexico had other plans, plans to vindicate their squad in front of the home crowd. And that they did, ending the match in the 6th inning by way of the slaughter rule. Australia goes home, moded. Mexico, humbled, claims their ticket to San Diego for second round play in the tourney and faces Cuba for the top slot of the group tonight.

I've always loved Karim Garcia since his days in Dodger blue to the trouble he was on east coast. But I've never loved him more than last night. He went 4-4 wtih 2 jonrones and 4 RBIs. That explains being dubbed the "Latino Bambino", it might also have something to do with his ample waistline. Shaoooo! It should be no secret to you that, as Tina Fey says, I like my men like my peanut butter: chunky. There's all kinds of chunky in the brown lineup. I like it.

BLUE MAN GRIPE

2009-03-05T11:24:00.000-08:00

WIN!!!

I missed most of this Mannymania because I was up in San Francisco installing for a show. (see below) But it wasn't long before the calls poured in alerting me of the signing. I tuned into KNBR only get a bunch of vaGiants fans griping and consoling one another on failing to acquire Ramirez. Sacense. Go sign Barroids.

So tonight, opening reception for FIFTY24SF, "Mixed Messages"...you can read more about the other artists HERE.

MANNY HUNGRY

2009-02-27T06:48:00.000-08:00

I don't understand. I was under the impression that if the Dodgers beat the vagiants yesterday we won Manny. High stakes meaningless baseball, I say.

NO, I reject YOUR offer Man-child. No more Manny watch, I'm over it. Go draw walks in SF or stick it to the Sox in New York. I don't care none. Púdrete pues, greedy. Get out of my face. I'm on to cooler things like turtle Virgen...

taking full embarrassing advantage of "watch instantly" on netflix while I get some drawing in.

And tracking how cute & chunkytown Belén's little Lady is getting.

"TWO FINGER RING. . .

2009-02-10T23:26:00.000-08:00

...rag top on the ride." Here's another drawing I did for LobeRiders, that will be printed on small promotional mirrors. Check back with them in a few weeks for the release of their two-finger rings. They're customizable, what should I get? What would you get?

DOWNGRADE

2009-02-08T11:00:00.000-08:00

The newest Lakers bench warmer, Adam Morrison. Haha.

You'll be missed Radmanovic, you, your snowboarding, your streaky perimeter shooting and What?! even your fleece throw.

TOPS

2009-01-21T19:20:00.000-08:00

This is the soundtrack to my Mexicali stint. These 5 "club bangers" (that's how I talk) are on loop. All day, E'ry day. It's not annoying at all. Enjoy.

Can you buy me one or all of these?

And this too? Thanks.

My whole family gets down (that's how I talk ;) ) with the arts & crafts. Check the Brobee piñata my cousin Danny T made and the rad drowryings my nephew Viktor Vaughn draws up. Half Peter Parker, half spider man, tight.

MERCH TABLE

2009-01-13T00:03:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year! I had 50 of these wall calenders printed up in Mexicali, it's more like 45 after my family shaked me down for some. You can pick one up for just $20 +$2.95 S&H. Can you tell "Hustle more" was on my list of resolutions? And because I don't want anyone feeling flim--flammed, I must mention that the painting image is a little pixelated. I'm horrible at documenting my work, so this is the best image I had available. Let me know in the space provided if you'd like me to deface your copy with my signature or a crude vulgar drawing. If you don't want to hassle with PayPal, email me to arrange a money order or check payment. (Click the image to go get one)

GIVE & GET

2008-12-26T05:04:00.000-08:00

Hope you had a good one. I did! Lakers win. Found out the versatility of my cousin Little, he does an uncanny Morrissey and Chente croon...SOBER even. Pero se chiveo al grabar. And even though my brother jokingly said "if it's not my Dodgers jacket, I don't want it" uggghhhhh... I overlooked it and STILL gave him an autographed boxing glove signed by Ricardo "Finito" Lopez. Probably my favorite gift I gave this year, that and the morenito "lamb-haired" cabbage patch kid named Jesse Craig, I got for baby Isis.

A couple of months ago Alonso of XOCHICO hit me up after discovering we had ESP with our work. Check it. And he recently sent me a care package full of coin purses, a keychain and rear view mirror danglin' conchas. I suggest you go buy one of everything on there, aside from the faux pastries, they have shirts, housewares and accessories.

And another holiday blogging tradition... my Mom's holy trinity of la Navidad.

I leave you with this years x-mas video playlist.

If you missed it, this is last years

HOOP DREAMS

2008-12-09T13:35:00.000-08:00

I just sent these fun & simple pieces out today. They'll be available at the Rowan Morrison holiday group show in Oakland that starts this Saturday Dec. 13th and runs until Christmas Eve. They're tiny (3.5"diameter) oil & embroidery pieces.

Pick up one of these or any of the other super affordable pieces by over 30 artists. Their books are also on sale!

Learning...

BABIES HAVING BABIES

2008-12-05T16:35:00.001-08:00

My best friend of best friends, amiga del alma Baby Belén was visited by the stork in a super secret, silent ~~Scientology~~ birth a week ago. I stress the SECRET part because Belén waited 3 months to tell everyone she was knocked up and last week "going out for dinner" was really going to Kaiser. What jerks. I don't even care none because I didn't want to see her box, let alone something coming out of it. It's cool, that's why I have an imagination, this is how I picture it going down. Belen, correct me if I'm wrong.

I visited with the little one this week and she's pretty much my favorite thing right now. Vieras que chula, la niña. You'll have to take my word for it because secretive Belén doesn't want her baby girl joining online communities. The baby was asleep on the job for most of my visit. All I wanted to do was sit there and smell her neck and feel her farts on my arms but noooo.

Sooo before she was Isis, she was baptized "french fry" and remained so until her birth because no one knew if she was an innie or an outtie. I crafted this double sided smile now, cry later plush french fry (or block of cheese?) for her.

These knit CortezESES were inspired by Gary Garay's cardboard Cortez and Belén's chola phase (she didn't really gang bang, only part time, or as much as a 7th grader could, you know in between school bells). For reasons that are none of your business, on most days Belén donned a majestic black cotton jersey trench coat (not Goth. That came later) with flocked white letters spelling out "Garcia" in old english arched across her back and a pair of black nike cortez. Now Isis will do the same, once she fits them and once high tube socks don't slip off her.

But you can't really grow up and be a chola Isis, unless it's of the Bolivian wrestling type.

My God dog Ozo is also another good reason to come around. Here he is breaking in his burger that I bought him, while the rest of us had real food, Huaraches that my Mom made.

Welcome baby Isis, I'm your Tia Mitsy. I'm not as embarrassing as Auntie Bec, less of a talker than your Aunt Tree, not as hilarious and inappropriate as Aunt "T aka beauty" and less into club hits than Tia Peaches. I'm the one you can come to for help with dioramas/art projects, Spanish homework and the one that will take you to Dodger games.

FOR THE BIRDS

2008-12-04T07:25:00.000-08:00

I was given a pair of budgies. At first I thought they were males, so I named them accordingly- Lord Quas & Prince Paul. Then I was told they were ladies. So I decided to name them Fat Donna ("Raising Victor Vargas" reference) and Queenie!! ("Crooklyn" reference). My Mom doesn't like their names. Saying I named them "dona" (donut) and "weenie". . . implying I'm a pervert. She didn't do the hand motion but I know what she was getting at.

But I usually just refer to them as"...tambien ellas, las niñas" in my best Dios Eolo voice.

Hit or MISS

2008-11-24T17:41:00.000-08:00

Super rad graphic designer and electronic ally Lexx hit me up to do a feature type thing on MISS. I warned her I was a boring candidate but they never learn- Click the banner to slog on over.

There's a couple of these knit dookie ropes circulatin' on the web but I'm poor so I have to fashion my own knock offs. De alguna manera me las tengo que ingeniar - a huueevo.

SOMEONE IN THE NETHERLANDS...

2008-10-27T00:35:00.000-07:00

HATES ME .

Hmph, hah.

To keep from agonizing from what seemed like another Raiders second half collapse against the Jets last Sunday, the kids and I held a Kung Fu Panda drawing contest. Honestly, I don't even know why they try. ;) ERGO, I WIN!

SE VENDE

2008-10-23T07:30:00.000-07:00

Here's some vintage (2004) footage I dug up and edited myself out of :). It's the documentation of my graduation show that I had to turn in to receive my Big Fucken Asshole degree. Look how cheap my school looks. Reception footage, including the Trio performing and folks lined up for my Mom's tamales can be witnessed at the end. I brought the chuntiness to school with me that day. It was pretty great.

Shot by ~~M Dot Strange~~ Mike B.- Watch the high quality version here.

This video reminds me I need to let go of things...for the right price. ;) I've had a "store" section on my website since I went live with it, but I've yet to come up with a way to take your money. In an attempt to "stack paper," to fund winter months spent painting in Mexicali, taking in the 2009 Serie del Caribe and eating the best chinese food...I'm having a moving sale. If you'd like to help me realize my dreams :), take a look at this super reduced price list and see if there's anything you care for. These are some of my most favorite pieces, ever, that I've held onto for nostalgic reasons y porque, neta , soy cursi. I take cash and if it clears first, personal checks. If need be and upon request, I'll look into hitting the switches on my paypal to receive payments. Click below to check out my sales ad.

FALL(ing short of the) CLASSIC

2008-10-16T17:04:00.000-07:00

Alas, I'll always have this...
Lima time and Chicago. :)

<-----I kind of wanted to leave this whimsical graphics interchange format image on the Dodgers (of the NLCS) myspace page. Why do I even have to like things like baseball? Son of a bitch, right now. Why can't I have other interests that are less heart-breaking like hackysack, balancing a checkbook or maintaining friendships? I'm not gonna dance around it, I think the Dodgers were victim of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx. Irrational? maybe. But I don't care none! Hey Cubs fan get away with scapegoating all the time, why can't I? I can't even be mad (past this week) at LA's inopportune slumping of the 1, 2, 4...6, 7 and 8 hitters, because had it not been for their efforts during the reg. season LA wouldn't have leapfrogged the D'backs. You hear that? There's hardly any reproach and rancor in my voice. The callus on my heart must be growing thicker with corns y juanetes. I have the NBA finals earlier this year to thank for that. Flippin' channels on thursday between México trying to qualify for the World cup against some feisty Canucks helped split my frustration between Fox and Univision. Both had shitty results, but there's still hope for el Tri. Would Dodgers having won the pennant even mattered? The Rays are clearly gangster. I'll post that one next spring.----->

Lo rescatable de la serie:

Kuroda on point.
RHP James McDonald, impressive.
Loney good under pressure.
It'll be easier to say goodbye to Kent, Penny, Nomar and possibly(?) Furcal. (I say that only in anger, Raffy, I hope you come back-if you're healthy.) I wouldn't mind seeing Pierre and Jones traded somewhere.
To be fair, we only won 86 games during the reg. season
Experience

That's an open letter to people trying to clown the Dodgers by becoming new found Phillies fans (after rooting for the Cubs didn't pan out) just because their squad is never a player in the post season. Lose it. Try NOT losing 90+ games then get all riled up by way of your twitter. Stop. Hating.

Addendum: Immediately following the series, asi mero senti la decepción, cañon....

CUBBYHOLES

2008-10-05T17:15:00.000-07:00

A friend sent me a link to a review of the Oro Universal show, the image on the top left is of a recent painting. (click the image for the link)

GOOD FOR YOU CAPLE.

DODGERS WIN! :) So it's on to the NLCS against the Phillies. And because you never know when the ride will end, I'm a take a minute to revel in the sweep. Afterall, the Dodgers weren't exactly heavily (or at all) favored to win....