Joaquin “Junco” Canché
He’s POCHO’s Chicano Punk Rock Artesano and Special Assistant to Lalo Alcaraz.
New generation defends San Diego’s Barrio Logan, Chicano Park (video)
It’s been five decades since San Diego’s Barrio Logan activists (like POCHO fave Chunky Sanchez) fought for Chicano Park. Now a new generation is stepping up to make sure this vital community resource thrives. One of them is POCHO’s Chicano Punk Rock Artesano Joaquin “Junco” Canché who is concerned with the effects of gentrification. (His segment starts at 5:35.) [Video by Voice of San Diego.]
Freaky Frightful Friday #FFF: The Tzitzimitl (toon)
Today’s creature is the tzitzimitl. Tzitzimitl (plural: tzitzimimeh) is a feminine spirit that looks like a skeleton with disheveled hair, sharp talons on its hands and feet, and a vicious personality.
Freaky Frightful Friday #FFF: The Chaneque (toon)
Mexico has its share of stories about the little people known as chaneque (Nahuatl) and alux (Maya).
Their appearance varies; sometimes they look like children, other times they have animal-like or deformed extremities, or are reported wearing traditional garb native to the area.
Freaky Frightful Friday #FFF: The Ahuizotl (toons)
Today’s featured creature is the ahuízotl. In the Florentine Codex, written years after the Conquista, it is described as an amphibious, medium-sized dog with a dark pelt, hands like a monkey, and a long tail with a human-like hand at the end.
Freaky Frightful Friday #FFF: The Nahual (toons)
The nahual is a human who can shapeshift or manifest in the form of an animal.
Feliz Frijol Friday: ¡Fuerza México! #FFF (toon)
Want to help? Famed DF rescue brigade TOPOS needs your dinero donation.
El Grito de Independencia w/ Miguel Hidalgo, José María Morelos (toon)
¡Aquí estamos y no nos vamos!
