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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCXVI: My Speech to UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology

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Gentle cabrones:As I said last week, the canto this week is a day late for a reason:I had to give a commencement speech to UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology.I always like to publish such talks — except the one that b...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCXV: Luis J. Rodriguez Runs for Governor of California

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Gentle cabrones:Before we get to Luis, I gotta start with chisme.This past Friday, I was supposed to accompany the award-winning author to a lecture he was going to give at Manual Arts High School in South L.A. It was a...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCXIV: Be a Keeper

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Years ago, I went to the funeral of a guy.A good guy. Gone too soon. About my age. I went more out of respect to him and our profession than anything — we were friendly, but not friends.So I thought.At one point during ...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCXIII: The Real Lesson of “Taco USA”

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Gentle cabrones:A decade ago, I landed in Tucson with something to prove.I was a couple of weeks into the debut of my third book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. The first two signings were well attended b...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCXI: Take the Armenian Beatdown

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Gentle cabrones:Tonight, Canelo Álvarez will fight before a sold-out crowd, and hundreds of thousands more people watching at home via pay-per-view or Twitter. It’s the annual tradition of a big boxing match for the Cin...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCX: Water Deep

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Gentle cabrones:This past Thursday was the third anniversary of the death of my mother from ovarian cancer. But I didn’t visit her grave on that day — I did what she would’ve want...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCIX: Help Frog

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Gentle cabrones:There was once...someone. Used to like me until they didn't — then they hated me.They would talk shit about me behind my back and in front of me. Got worse once my...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCVII: Bien Vestidito

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Gentle cabrones:“Ven bien vestido,” my dad said before we went to go visit my Tío Gabriel yesterday.Come well dressed.It’s something my mom used to tell me too, although she would...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCVI: Check Your Hoses

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Gentle cabrones:Soon after we bought our house about a decade ago, we began to buy rain barrels.We must’ve been in a drought at that point — and haven’t we always been in drought ...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCV: Los Que Vengan, Vengan

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Gentle cabrones:Spoke at Concordia University in Irvine this past week — it went okay, I think.I was asked to speak to the question “What is Truth?” — a heady topic, but par ...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto CCIV: See Me/We Read My/Our Book/Books!

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Gentle cabrones:This might be the shortest, most unimaginative canto you'll ever get, because it has just one purpose:SEE ME/WE/READ MY/OUR BOOK/BOOKS!Truth in advertising, you kn...
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