Archive for January 5th, 2010
Cuban Memory Lane: Teofilo Stevenson
5 Jan 2010I was surfing around my sports stuff today and came across this clip of legendary boxing great, Teofilo Stevenson.
I am a secret fan of boxing. I actually dig the shit out of it, but don’t often admit it because I am, after all, anti-violence etc. Also, lately boxing is not that interesting–there are no real personalities and boxing on the whole seems to be suffering from the same thing every other sport is suffering from: too many people thinking they can do that–and really nobody can. Diluted talent is what I think it’s called.
Watching this old clip made me remember why I love(d) boxing so much. There is beauty in the perfect hit, but even more so, there is humanity in the story of sports. Remember the olden days when the story of a person’s life mattered just as much as his/her successes (or lack of) in sports? And not in a “Tiger Woods is the cleanest and neatest non-Negro” sorta way–but in an earthy-never-gonna-keep-me down sorta way?
Images back during Teofilo Stevenson’s time were not carefully crafted by handlers–but pretty much all that the athlete had outside of his/her skill. The human being still sits underneath the crafted image these days (as Tiger Woods has shown us)–but for some reason we are addicted to the idea that our athletes are perfect beings that make no mistakes. Back in the old days, the mistakes and the situations we didn’t understand and the drama behind the scenes were what made us love them.
I wonder what caused that change. And I want the old days of sports to come back.
JLo Catsuit: Hit or Miss?
2:56 pm By la Macha · Uncategorized · 2 Comments
5 Jan 2010
I don’t watch much television on New Years–honest to god I’m usually asleep before the big bell rings. So I missed JLo being all “revealing” in her catsuit.
And the reactions have been mixed–is she a hideous old lady who looked more like an elephant than a woman? Or a fab supa hot piece of Marc Anthony loving behind?
I think the whole debate is rather humorous myself. J Lo is, like, *so* 90s. But I guess “revealing” your body is as good as a way as any to get people to forget that.
Homelessness Up Among Day Laborers in NYC
11:57 am By Maegan La Mala · economy|Immigration|Labor · 6 Comments
5 Jan 2010According to an article in the NYT (who still thinks it’s ok to use “illegal” as an adjective), homelessness is up among day laborer in Queens.
Mr. Ruano, 38, who had drawn his living from 69th Street and Broadway for six years, has been on the streets since. He and other hard-luck day laborers have slept wherever they can: in the emergency room at Elmhurst Hospital Center, in unfinished buildings abandoned by bankrupt developers and under bridges along the freight railroad tracks that slice through western Queens, where dirty mattresses and work boots lay on the rocky ground one recent morning.
“The only reason we don’t go hungry is because there are people who offer us food,” Mr. Ruano said on a snowy Saturday as he clutched a cup of soup from a group of Pentecostals feeding day laborers at a park on Woodside Avenue.
With their isolation and day-to-day existence, the laborers are perhaps the most invisible and hardest-to-reach victims of the recession, advocates and city officials say.
The invisible comment got to me. I have lived in an immigrant neighborhood for a number of years and there is nothing invisible about this trend. There is a small plaza three blocks from casa mala where laborers who aren’t working hang out and more and more I have seen more people there, and yes sleeping.
It’s amazing to me really how visible day laborers are when they are allegedly peeing and drinking on “white streets” but in POC/immigrant neighborhoods, their not having a home is suddenly invisible.
CLERGY AND GRAMMY-AWARD WINNING ARTIST RALLY TO FREE JEAN Supporters Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Rights Leader on Hunger Strike
9:56 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration|New York City · 1 Comment
5 Jan 2010I know it’s cold outside people, pero if you are in the NYC area and are able to, please represent.
WHAT: On December 30th, ICE detained for deportation to Haiti Jean Montrevil, a green card-holding immigrant since 1986, father of four U.S. citizen children and renowned immigrant rights activist. Two days later, Montrevil, now held in Pennsylvania’s York County Prison, has begun a hunger fast to protest the deportation and detention system that tears families apart. At the rally, Montrevil’s children will demand from ICE that their father be released and clergy will join youth in vows of fasting and other forms of resistance until the government releases Montrevil and the immigration system is reformed.
WHO: Janiah Montrevil, Jean Montrevil’s 11-year-old daughter
Janay Montrevil, Jean Montrevil’s wife
Additional children of immigrants facing deportation or already deported
Rev. Robert B. Coleman, Chief Program Minister at The Riverside Church
Dan Zanes , Grammy Award winning Family Music Artist
Over 100 community supportersWHEN: Tuesday, January 5th, at 12:30pm
WHERE: Varick Street Detention Center
201 Varick Street (at Houston Street)
New York NY 10014
Call for submissions for 2010 Gay Latino Fiction Anthology
9:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Books|GLBT · 5 Comments
5 Jan 2010Call for submissions for 2010 Gay Latino Fiction Anthology
Deadline: January 11, 2010
Lethe Press’ new imprint for LGBT writers of color, Tincture, has announced a call for a gay Latino fiction anthology.
The anthology is seeking unpublished fiction (short stories, novel excerpts, short-short stories and flash fiction) by queer Latino writers to take the pulse of contemporary gay Latino literature, stories, experiences and perspectives. It will present a who’s who of queer Latino men writing fiction today. Authors of selected stories will be modestly compensated.
The collection is slated for publication in September 2010 and the submissions are due by January 11, 2010.
A summary and full description of the brief are given below.
Guidelines
• Unpublished short story or novel excerpt of up to 7500 words (No multiple submissions in these categories)
• Unpublished Flash Fiction or short-short stories (up to 3 stories no more than 1000 words per story in these two categories only)
• Non-genre-specific
• Gay centric theme or LGBT characters
• Written primarily in English (Stories translated into English from Spanish are acceptable)
• Thought-provoking and original
Submission procedure
• Submission deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on January 11, 2010.
• Please submit work to LatinoLethePress@gmail.com.
• Include a brief bio (no more than 200 words) of the author as a cover page. In the top left corner of the cover page, include: submission title, category, author’s name, address, phone, e-mail and (website, if available).
• Submissions should be sent as a Microsoft word or RTF document.
• Format: Single sided, dbl. spaced, 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins.
• Please submit unpublished, publication ready pieces only.
• All submissions will be reviewed by the editor.
Tincture is an imprint of Lethe Press and publishes work by LGBT writers of color.
Martes Morning Musica : Rest in Peace Sandro
5 Jan 2010From BBC:
The singer, whose real name was Roberto Sanchez, began his rock career in the 1960s in the style of Elvis Presley.
He later developed into a ballad singer with a distinctive manner and a strong following across Latin America.
Among his hits were Mi amigo el Puma and Rosa, rosa. In all, he recorded dozens of albums and starred in 16 films.
He was the first Latin American artist to sing at Madison Square Garden in New York.Early in his career his dancing style, with its Elvis-style pelvic thrusts, scandalised conservative opinion, and his first TV performance triggered protests, Efe news agency reports.
Never was a fan pero I know he had a huge following.
Hola!
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