Gustavo Arellano
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXXV: Alcoholics Anonymous and Me, One Day at a Time
Gentle cabrones:
It looked like a typical quinceañera
reception last Saturday when I walked into Acker Hall at Garden...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXXIV: The Chiltepín of My Dreams
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There are gardening metaphors for life, and then there’s what happened with my chiltepín.
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXXIII: To My Mami, On What Would’ve Been Her...
Gentle cabrones:
Every August 25, I'd call my mom to
purposefully wish her a happy birthday on the wrong...
Do You Have a Proposition 187 Story? Gustavo Wants to Talk to YOU!
25 years ago, California saw one of its most rancorous political campaigns unfold with Proposition 187.
The 1994 ballot measure -- drafted by former INS...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXXII: Pool Daze
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It’s peak summer right now, which means everyone’s on vacation, judging by the out-of-office replies I got last time I sent out a...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXXI: Those Happy, Humiliating Little League Years
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The clearing of my late mami's garage is ongoing. But the first artifact that moved me to something approaching nostalgia, a sentiment I...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXX: Articles in the Wind
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So I was in my backyard reaping the tomato avalanche that we hatched in our garden this summer – been averaging 10 pounds...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXIX: A Quick One, While I’m Away
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OK, I'm not really away. But I might as well be.
I'm doing one wacky story, in the middle of a big one, and...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXVIII: My Life in Earthquakes
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I don't like earthquakes -- but then again, does anyone except Dr. Lucy Jones care for them?
One of the earliest memories I have...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXVII: I Trimmed it on the Grapevine
Gentle cabrones:
Yes, I didn’t send out a canto last week.
Yes, I feel ashamed.
No, I have no real excuse… Except for the grapevines.
A couple years...
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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXXV: Alcoholics Anonymous and Me, One Day...
Gentle cabrones:
It looked like a typical quinceañera
reception last Saturday when I walked into Acker Hall at Garden...
