Puro Pedo Magazine

We’re back with more satirical stories and laugh-inducing graphics. To download this issue, just click the cover art above or click here for the pdf file.

In this issue:

• Aztlan’s Next Top Chola
• Why Pochos Love the Raiders
• Activist Caught at Wal*Mart While Drinking Coke
• Search for Carmen San Diego Ends in Guantanamo
• Special Valentine’s Day Cards by Rio Yañez
• Puro Pedro: 20 questions with Efren Ramirez
• Great Moments in Chican@ History: The MEChA Meeting that Started on Time
• 10 Tips to Help Barack Obama get the Elusive Latino Vote
• Indigenous Group Sues Disney for Copyright Infringement
• Writers Strike Ends, Comedian Relieved
• Lonely Hearts advertisement
• Mariachi Road Crew by Jerry Gonzalez

We still need to pin down the list of locations where you’ll be able to pick up this issue. When we have more info, we’ll post it on the blog.

¡Disfruten!

Puro Pedo Magazine is back with our Best of Year One issue. In November, our fans voted for the best issues from our first year. We’ve compiled these in to the Best of Year One issue, which features:

• Man Shoots Self While Posing for Picture
• Now Deporting for Spring Break
• 10 Signs Your Curandero/a Might Be a Fake
• Graduation Speech Inspired by Chicano Cult Classic Film
• Xicana/o Haiku
• LeCHE Ad
• Quiz: What Chicano Decade Do You Belong To?
• Latino Kid from Sandlot Found
• You Know You Are An Old School Mechista if…
• Local Militia Protects Echo Park from Hipsters
• Pope to Bush: Pulling Out Best Method… In Iraq
• 20 Signs your Barrio’s Been Gentrified
• How to Run a Chingon Chicano Militant Workshop

Finally, in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America writer’s strike, we’ve included some survival tips for surviving a strike.

You can download the pdf copy by clicking the cover image above, visiting our blog, or clicking the link to the pdf file.

We’ve also dropped off copies at Teocintli in Boyle Heights, Nahui Ohlin in Echo Park, Antigua Cultural Coffee House in El Sereno and available wherever Chicanos hang out at Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Dominguez Hills. More locations to come!

We await your love/hate mail!

Puro Pedo Magazine Staff

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It’s been a little over a year since we’ve launched Puro Pedo Magazine. We’d like to celebrate our first birthday by publishing a “best of issue” and we want you to pick what articles, fake ads, comic strips or lists will be in the Best Of issue. To fill out our web survey, click here.

¡Usando nuestros frijoles pasa más pedo!

Summer is over and with its demise, a new school year has begun. I can’t wait for our teachers to ask us what we did this summer. Thanks largely to the efforts of the laughter insurgency led by Puro Pedo Magazine, the walls of Babylon have begun to crumble. This summer our satirical assault has led to the resignation of almost all of Bush’s cronies, most notably the evil scientist Karl Rove and the “Hispanic Piñata,” Alberto Gonzales.

Aside from bringing down the White House, we’ve also rubbed shoulders with some celebrities of the Chicano world like El Vez and Zack de la Rocha.

In issue #7:

• From the desk of Alberto R. Gonzales
• Pope to Bush: Pulling Out Best Method… In Iraq
• El Vez: King of Mock n Roll
• Sex and the City Hall
• Karl Rove Quits to Spend Time with Family
• 10 Signs Your Curandero/a Might be a Fake
• Los Bitles
• Mariachi Road Crew comics by Jerry Gonzalez
• Bodega Avenue Comics

To download a pdf of the latest copy, click the cover image above or click here

Check our blog or MySpace page soon for a list of events and locations where you can pick up a copy of Puro Pedo Magazine.

Love, peace and chicharrón grease,

Puro Pedo Magazine Staff

Yeah, yeah… we know few people actually graduate in July and we’re kind of late to make this the June issue, but we’ve got good reasons for the delay! Our editor-in-chief and one of our staff members, Jake and Esbeydy, were busy getting married. Yes, Puro Pedo Magazine staff members are romantics at heart, sorta.

Anyway, this issue is about congratulating the class of 2007, whether you earned a BA/BS or just finished 8th grade. ¡Felicidades!

In this issue:

• Graduation speech inspired by Chicano cult classic film
• The Institute for the Frida Kahlo Obsessed
• Dodgers officially change name to “Los Doyers”
• California education board unveiles Ese-T’s
• Local militia protects Echo Park from hipsters
• 20 signs your barrio’s been gentrified
• Hillybilly misinterprets constitutional right to bear arms
• Cavaliers blame God for NBA championship loss
• Faces in the crowd: What did you do on May 1st, 2007
• Comic by Lalo Alcaraz

The issue is ready for download, but we still need to distribute it around LA. We’ll post locations of sites where you can pick it up soon, so check the blog for information.

To download, click the image above or click here to open up the pdf file.

¡Disfruten! Congratulations to the class of 2007!

Another NBA season has come and blown away and with it an exciting NBA Championship series. This year, the talented San Antonio Spurs swept the up and coming Cleveland Cavaliers. While the champagne drenched San Antonio Spurs praised God for their 4th NBA Championship, On the flipside, the enraged Cleveland Cavaliers blamed God for their loss.

During the NBA Championship wrap up press conference, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach, Mike Brown, congratulated the Spurs for a great game and win. “My hats off to the Spurs. They played really well, but its obvious God loves them more. I’m sure I prayed just as hard as Spurs head coach, Gregg Popovich.”

While the Spurs now have four NBA Championships, the Cleveland Cavaliers were in the Championship series for the first time. Series MVP Tony Parker couldn’t be happier. “This month a NBA Championship ring and next month a Wedding ring (referring to soon to be wife Eva Longoria). On the other hand, a very upset LeBron James stated, “It would be nice if God would stop kicking us while we are down. We lose the biggest series of our lives and have to sleep with butter face chicken heads. I truly hate Tony Parker!”

Many Cleveland Cavaliers fans have decided to boycott God and church in outrage for the Championship loss. Father Timothy O’Sullivan supports the protesters. “Our boys played their hearts out, but God messed it all up. He made us miss free throws, travel, foul and miss key 3 pointers. He is a very vengeful God.”

A young Cavs fan, Haily Davis, asked us the question: “If there is a God, why would he let such a bad thing happen to good people?”

While we couldn’t answer Haily’s question, we know one thing seems sure: Cleveland fans are not going to forgive God for the loss very easily.

– Jake Prendez

We’ve changed our advertising rates as we’ve shrunk the magazine a little. If you’re interested in advertising with Puro Pedo Magazine, leave a comment and we’ll email you.

Thanks for waiting patiently. We reformatted the magazine so that the pagination isn’t all wonky and accessible to our online readers.

In this issue:

1. Chicanos Create New Cultural Holidays
2. Man Shoots Self While Posing for Picture
3. Hey! This Was Supposed to be Our Year!
4. The Rant Pack Hits Vegas
5. CBN Unveils Hugo Chavez Voodoo Doll
6. Dear Tezcatlipoca
7. Now Deporting for Spring Break
8. Pat Buchanan Uncovers Mexican Plot to Grown Mexicans in US
9. Comics by Jerry Gonzalez

You know what to do to download it. Just click here for the pdf.

We hope you like it and appreciate any feedback.

Jake’s (Puro Pedo Magazine editor-in-chief) reactions to the police brutality at yesterday’s May Day immigrant’s rights march and rally:

Esbeydy, Ralph, Victor and I from Puro Pedo Magazine attended the Los Angeles Rally’s on May 1st in honor of May Day. We were very excited since we just released our 5th issue of Puro Pedo Magazine and were eager to pass them out to a lot of people who probably wouldn’t have access to the magazine other wise.

The First rally to the Courthouse was short and sweet. Never mind what people are saying about the numbers. It was packed and gente despite attempts to scare them with threats of deportation still showed up in force!

The second March to MacArthur Park’s seemed weird from the start. First off the police would not let anyone on the streets and made us march on narrow sidewalks. The Cops seemed ruder than usual. Perhaps this corresponds to reports that cops were agitating people. We had a good time at MacArthur Park. Saw old and new friends and hung out and caught up with people. On our way out people told us that the cops were driving their motorcycles through the crowds and because of this there were some small altercations between cops and bystanders. When we left at around 6pm cops were all in riot gear outside the park. The people inside the park were in good spirits and peaceful so I didn’t think anything would happen.

After we all got home and soaked in hot baths (not together), we started getting the reports that Cops had begun shooting people with rubber bullets and kicking everyone out of the park.

This is ridiculous! I know we are a Satire magazine but we are pissed! This was basically a festival full of families. Our community has been peaceful in getting our message out. Cops would not have behaved so inappropriately if we were not brown folks. The community will no longer stand for this and we are already forming committees to address the police violence. We need to check them as a community and not tolerate this abuse of power.

As for Puro Pedo Magazine part…trust us the chota will be clowned in our next issue!!!!

To get a sense of how crazy things got, check out this video from Telemundo’s coverage.