Gustavo Arellano
Con su pluma en la mano
Canto LIII: Don’t Let Them Win
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Lot of misery right now. That stupid college-admissions scandal. The massacre of 49 Muslims in New Zealand. Friends whose family members got sudden...
Canto LII: …Pull the Weeds
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Are you into Marie Kondo? I'm not.
Scratch that: I've never seen her show, so I can't say if I'd like it. But I...
Canto LI: Plant Seeds, and…
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Everyone has their confessor, if not multiple ones. On the academic side, my keeper of secrets is Cal State Fullerton Chicana/o Studies professor...
Canto L: Answers Away!
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Happy 50th canto to me -- kinda.
This is actually the 52nd newsletter I've sent out, according to my archives -- so I have...
Canto XLIX: The Voice
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Almost from the time I was born, I was told I had a Voice.
My mami still revels in telling everyone I hissed whenever...
Canto XLVIII: Ask a Mexican with Glasses ANYTHING!
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The biggest transition I've had to make so far in my professional career is that I'm not a professional columnist anymore.
From 2002 until...
Canto XLVII: This is 40 (Going on 85)
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Another canto missed -- I know! I don't plan to make it a habit, but couldn't do it last week due to a...
Canto XLVI: The Valle is Lovely, Dark and Deep…
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Apologies for skipping last week -- deep in the salt mines. I've got three long stories lined up for the Los Angeles Times,...
Canto XLV: Who’s Gus?
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Sending this two days late because I'm still recovering from New Orleans, where I got a new nickname from White Power Randy: Category...
Canto XLIV: Gracias to the Real Chingones of 2018!
My 2018 was different than yours.
It began on Oct. 14, 2017, the day after I left my dream job at OC Weekly.
It ends on...
Recent Posts
Do You Have a Proposition 187 Story? Gustavo Wants to Talk...
25 years ago, California saw one of its most rancorous political campaigns unfold with Proposition 187.
The 1994 ballot measure -- drafted by former INS...
