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Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXIII: Gustavo’s Summer 2019 Appearances!
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Primeramente, apologies for the delay in this canto. But I wanted to guarantee as many readers as possible, so I figured Tuesday after...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXII: Season of the Speech
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Next month, like most Junes for the past decade, I'm scheduled to give speeches --award banquets, graduations, eulogies -- where I need to...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LXI: Zacatecas Country, An Island on the Southern California Land
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If you read me long enough, you'll know that I boast at least once a week in my writings that I’m from the...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LX: A Eulogy for My Mami, Maria de la Luz...
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We buried my Mami yesterday, in a beautiful ceremony that started with over 800 people at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Anaheim on...
Gustavo Arellano’s Weekly, Canto LVIX: Swing Above Your Weight
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If you look around long enough on social media, you’ll see a whole bunch of losers claim that I'm a bigot.
You’ll find people...
Canto LVIII: Gracias a la Vida
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This might be the shortest canto I'll ever right -- I'm already late with it. But it's straight from the heart.
So the big...
Canto LVII: Why I Don’t Wear Chuck Taylor All-Stars Anymore
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“So I see you don’t wear Chucks anymore!” my tax guy told me when we met about a week ago. “Moving on up...
Canto LVI: MEChA and Me
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As a reporter, I loathe to tell the same stories in different publications. It's lazy, repetitive, and frankly boring -- and so, I...
Canto LV: You Never Know Who’s Watching
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Last week, I encountered a blast from my professional ast so HILARIOUS that it taught me, again, that not only is there a...
Canto LIV: And Now, Some Poetry!
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Somewhere, deep in my archives, is a spiral binder filled with poetry.
Mine.
In high school AP English, Ms. Sinatra did a day where she...
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