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RIP y QDEP: Ramón ‘Chunky’ Sanchez, pocho hero of San Diego
I was sad to hear that San Diego and Barrio Logan Chicano icon Ramón “Chunky” Sanchez passed away Friday at the age of 65.
Born in 1951 in Blythe, California, Chunky learned to play music from his family, and lived his childhood as a migrant farmworker. He left the farm he worked with his father soon after hearing the owner tell his dad that Chunky would make a great foreman when he was gone.
He decided to go to college, and eventually landed at San Diego State. Chunky and his brother Ricardo’s band Los Alacranes Mojados were a fixture when I was a MEChista at San Diego State; I can’t tell you how many events they played for us and for the entire movimiento.
Mas…RIP y QDEP: Ramón ‘Chunky’ Sanchez, pocho hero of San Diego
Donald Trump’s campaign bus breaks down in Florida (animated GIF)
[From the Internets. Author unknown. Thank you, though.]
POCHO HISTORY 101: The invention of sour cream (toon)
- More great toons from Jake Likes Onions here!
CRUMBLES: School to prison pipeline hurts kids of color (music video)
They’re just kids. And the system makes them into criminals. Crumbles, a remake of the title song from Akira Boch’s film The Crumbles, was written and sung by Maya Jupiter and features live hand-drawn art by POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz.
Mas…CRUMBLES: School to prison pipeline hurts kids of color (music video)
ON THIS DAY 1492: Strangers arrive from beyond the sea (toon)
On November 8, PUSSY GRABS BACK – the NSFW music video
On November 8, PUSSY GRABS BACK!. [Music video by Kim Boekbinder.] (NSFW F-Bomb.)
Cuidado driving that rocket bike in the desert or you’ll ‘Suffer’ (video)
In Suffer, from GastarBetter, repeats a valuable lesson: Keep your eyes on the road, especially if you are wearing a crazy sombrero and driving a rocket bike across the desert.