It's Cinco de Mayo, yo!

The Mexican-American societies were formed after the Mexican-American war (1846-1848) in response to atrocities committed by US. troops occupying the lands annexed by the US. following the war...

¡Hola, NA!

You mean the half-naked women on Sabado Gigante?

"ascendencia no tiene valor" = "ancestry doesn't have any value [to it]".

"lo digo en broma" = "I'm only/just kidding".

Ah yes, four years' worth of Spanish hard at work. ;)

cause there's always something that looks intriguing on the Spanish TV stations.

You mean the half-naked women on Sabado Gigante?

*snort* Exactly. "Sabado Gigante" indeed.

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I mean, thank God you're not getting into any novelas, because hell, I get enough of that with my mother, but... the movies. Full of hostile stares and gunslinging.

I'm someone who prefers Telemundo to Univision, BTW. At least Telemundo tries to program its channel in a similar manner to the English-language networks. Though I'm really looking forward to perhaps the first Spanish-language equivalent of "The Cosby Show" or "Frasier", if indeed that could happen. If that does happen, I am SO watching it.

In my largely Mexican neighborhood, families were having low-key bbqs in the front yard (like most warm nights, actually).

It's all about September 17th, yo.

May 5, 1862.
As Ignacio Zaragosa was routing the Zouaves at Pueblo, Fighting Joe Hooker unsuccessfully attacked Fort Magruder to the tune of 3,965 combined casualties at Williamsburg. Bottoms up on un aniversario sangriento.

I celebrate by going to a Radiohead concert.

Untraditional, but I like it. And the battle was at Pueba.

with an l in there somewhere

Puleba

drikning

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i celebrated on saturday night with a crunchwrap supreme - wrapped for maximum portability!

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Just so you know...

*Cinco de Mayo is not that celebrated in Mexico actually.
*Señor Wences was from Spain
*Sabado Gigante host "Don Francisco" is from Chile originally, and most of its cast is of Cuban origins.

Also, Ignacio Zaragoza was born in Texas! (Of course, at the time Texas was part of Mexico).

I hate Don Francisco – I keep hoping he'll get septicemia after one of his models grinds her heel in his big toe.

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SPACE NEEDLE RIP

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On the playlist: Jose Feliciano - Hitchcock Railway.

today is a good excuse for drinking micheladas!!

goddamn it i want sum of that right goddamn now

i am wearing this shirt today

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dranking a wonderful home made margarita right now.

4 years later, big ferris wheel down at the waterfront.

Cinco de Mayo festivities were done on Sunday here. I thought since it was May 3 they should have averaged out observations of May Day & Cinco de Mayo, with roasted corn and fried pig skins for workers' rights or something.

It's today!

My million dollar possibly very stupid idea of the day - a variation on neapolitan ice cream that goes from left to right, pistachio - vanilla - strawberry. Sell it in flag-shaped bricks on Cinco de Mayo (for starters) with a cheap plastic eagle and snake figure in the middle of the vanilla section.

you gonna be rich!

(checks calendar)

Damn! So it is.

I wonder if any restaurants are selling things at lower than usual prices.

TORTA AL PASTOR
TAMALES VERDES

also, jarritos tutifruti

And I'm going to a Dodger game! Vamos Dodgers!

good idea only shd be mint instead of pistach

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BTW - that Dodger game was an AWESOME experience. At least four mariachi bands in the stands, several giant Mexican flags being waved, and a LOT of really, really drunk folks.

We left early to beat the traffic.

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It’s amusing how nobody gives a shit about this in Mexico, really seems to be more of a gringo thing.

It's not their independence day, it's a pretty minor thing in Mexico

seems to be more of a gringo thing

My best understanding is that upgrading Cinco de Mayo into a gringo holiday was designed by US marketers to fill the merchandising lull between Easter and Mother's Day. it's about as generic a holiday as possible, but people like a reason to celebrate, even if they have no idea what they are celebrating, other than an excuse to eat quasi-Tex-Mex street food and to think they are honoring a Mexican national holiday of some kind.

It feels good in a vaguely liberal way and seems fairly harmless, but I'll defer to any latinx ilxors who'd like to comment further.

I saw the Mars Volta on May 5, 2005. That's as close as I've ever come to "celebrating Cinco de Mayo." I had a burrito for lunch today, if that counts.

Have some respect for the holiday

Historian Justo Sierra has suggested in his Political Evolution of the Mexican People that, had Mexico not defeated the French in Puebla on May 5, 1862, France would have gone to the aid of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War and the United States' destiny could have been different.

^ I'll guarantee you that not one in 100,000 gringos who "do something for Cinco de Mayo" think that is what they are celebrating.

Couldn't get through to my favorite local Mexican spot to place a carry-out order tonight. They had just remodeled last week so I figured maybe construction-related problems with their phone line and I drove up there to see what was going on. As I got into the parking lot, I became trapped in a line of cars that was slowly snaking its way through, but nobody was successful in finding a place to park. As I passed their storefront, there was a DJ and a guy carving pastor right there on the sidewalk. It was THEN that I realized it was Cinco de Mayo. I just gave up and went home.

xpos slightly debatable, but I guess we'll never know.. from wikipedia: Napoleon III was eager to help the Confederacy, but his two foreign ministers were strongly opposed, as were many business interests. They recognized that trade with the Union trumped the need for Confederate cotton. The Union was the chief importer of French silk, wines, watches, pottery and porcelain, and was an essential provider of wheat and potash to the French economy. As a result the economic factors weighted in favor of neutrality.

what's weird is fuckin' nobody, not my friends, acquaintances not even businesses here, have even talked about Cinco or hyped it up at all. I didn't realize it was Cinco until a few hours ago.

it was blissful