Argh! The whole Halloween/Día de los Muertos/Dead Daze (see Smoking Mirror Blues ) complex snuck up on me this crazy year, under the ...

Chicanonautica exposes racsim in the original Tom Swift novels over at La Bloga . Tom Swift i s considered to be popular Am...

Growing up in West Covina, California, voting was no problem. The folks in charge of our local precinct knocked on our doors and let us...

It's recomboculturism versus cultural appropriation in Chicanonautica , over at La Bloga . Who's afraid of dealing w...

It was a dark and stormy night. Really. And the sky turned white in the middle of the night, just like in Captain Beefheart's “ The...

It's the story of a joke in Chicanonautica , over at La Bloga . I also give some rare writing advice: Get ...

We continued our detour up to Utah. There was a place called Valley of the Gods on the map that sounded interesting. Meanwhile, we cr...

Em decided that we should head home through a place we had never been to. So we went north on Highway 84 to Farmington. We had never bee...

Around the El Malpais Visitor's Center, signs warned of rattlesnakes. A millipede crossed our path before we headed to Truchas thro...