Puro Pedo Magazine

Hola Pachuc@s,

Is that Spring in the air or is it a new issue of Puro Pedo Magazine? Must be both because we have a brand new, fun filled issue ready for your enjoyment! Hopefully you have been following our weekly blog posts at PuroPedoMagazine.com, Facebook and the barely breathing MySpace.

There has been a lot to write about these past few months such as the health care debate, immigration reform (or lack thereof), a slumping economy, more cuts to education, racist parties at University of California campuses, Tea Baggers, and the collapse of honorary Chicana Sandra Bullock’s marriage.

In this issue we celebrate:

• Top 10 Rejected MEChA 40th Anniversary Slogans
• Low-Writers: The New Chicana/o Literary Canon
• Olmos Announces Bid for Governor
• Hogwarts to Open Charter School of Wizardry in Boyle Heights
• Lesser Known Chicana/o Firsts
• In/Out and Out/In
• Quiz: How chicana@ Are Ju?
• U.S. to Send More Private Security Forces to Afghanistan
• High School MEChA to Host First Annual Raza Elders Conference
• Comic by Adolfo Rodriguez

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The Puro Pedo Magazine team

¡Feliz Navidad y Prospero Año Nuevo!

We are excited to celebrate the end of another year and glorious decade!

As we come together with our families for the holidays and sit by the fire with our tamales and champurrado, let’s remember the less fortunate… students! As the cost of an education continues rise and quality lags, Raza students pay the highest price, especially those who are undocumented.

We don’t take much seriously, but access to education is up there with finding a decent taco truck. Puro Pedo Magazine teamed up with Adelante California, Mi Vida and the Special Brownies Art Collective to host another art show fundraiser. All money raised from ticket sales and 50% of art work sales will be donated to the Adelante California scholarship foundation. Any student — regardless of citizenship status — is eligible to apply for Adelante California’s scholarships. This month’s art show will be held on Saturday December 19th at Mi Vida in South Pasadena. Next year, we’ll host two additional shows in Oxnard and Downtown LA. Hopefully our efforts will help to make another students dream a reality.

Last, have you done all holiday shopping yet? If not, don’t worry and make sure to hit up your local grassroots anti-mall or tianguis. Stock up on Frida nichos, jade earrings and Virgen de Guadalupe tin arte.

Hopefully Los Tres Reyes Magos bring you some feria to pay for those tuition increases!

The Puro Pedo Magazine team

¡Orale Raza!

It’s been a while. I know, I know. We always say that. I know some of you think we’ve gone the way of many other magazines. Nope. We’re still going and have satire, jokes y más pendejadas.

Our latest issue is a compilation of the best from Volume 2. All the stories were chosen by you, our wonderful readers. The best of year two issue features:

• 10 signs you are dating an insecure pendejo
• Why pochos love the Raiders
• Dear Tezcatlipoca
• Aztlan’s Next Top Chola
• New guest worker program to import Chinese to build “The Great Wall of Mexico”
• Chebacca wins lifetime achievement award
• Oaxacan tall
• Ask a Chola teams up with Wet-N-Wild to launch make-up collection
• Art Laboe to retire, says he’s tired of blowing kisses to cholos
• Great moments in Chican@ history: the MEChA meeting that started on time
• LA Latina/o politicians prepare for taco war

As usual, to download the latest issue, just click the cover art above or click here for the PDF file.

If you want to pick up a hard copy, you can find us at CSUN’s Día de los Muertos event this Friday, October 30th.

Calacas y carcajadas,

Puro Pedo Staff

Q’vo Raza!

It’s been a while. We wanted to be back a few months ago, but we had some technical difficulties. We worked them out and have a new issue full of things to help you laugh and get your mind off all the crap going on in this world (not that you should ignore it, but sometimes you need a break from the talking heads).

In our latest issue we have:

• First black president also first to be racially profiled
• McCain’s bucket list
• Top 10 Mexica New Year’s resolutions
• Resolution against the tyranny of Windows Vista
• Loteria 2K9
• Concerned whites fight “Chente”fication of their neighborhoods
• Missed connections
• How to spot a fake chola
• Art for a cause

As usual, to download the latest issue, just click the cover art above or click here for the pdf file.

Remember, laughter is free!

We’re back and just in time for Halloween, Día de los Muertos and Election Day. What an exciting time of year. Our latest issue features stories on these timely issues and more:

• Ask a Chola teams Up With Wet-N-Wild to launch make-up collection
• US Apologizes for slavery out of fear of a Black President
• DIY Halloween costumes
• It’s a wonderful economy
• Chicano gamers claim trivial pursuit is racist
• Things Chicana/os Like
• Slumping economy forces Americans to migrate to Canada
• Local homeless youth wins lottery
• Obituary: Ralph de Unamuno’s hair
• Advice: Ask the hateful RA
• Ad: John McCain is The Jerk

To download the new issue, click the cover image above OR click here. If you have not e-subscribed, just send an email with your name age and city to subscribe AT puropedomagazine.com.

May la Fuerza be with you,

Puro Pedo Magazine Staff

Did you miss us? If so, then we have more comedy and pendajadas to help you get through the remainder of the summer. While you’re chilling in the shade and avoiding the heat, kick back with the new issue of Puro Pedo Magazine.

In this issue:

• L.A. Latina/o politicians prepare for taco war
• Campus Greeks confused by KPFK’s recent pledge drive
• Puro Pedo activity page by Rio Yañez
• Oaxacan tall
• 10 tips to keep Aztlan green!
• Chewbacca wins Lifetime Achievement Award
• New guest worker program to import Chinese to build “The Great Wall of Mexico”
• My revolutionary pet army
• P2 dieta and exercise plan
• Mexico lindo now Mexico gringo
• Pocho, go home! Chicano guest overstays his welcome in Mexico

To download the new issue, click the cover image above OR click here. If you have not e-subscribed, just send an email with your name age and city to subscribe AT puropedomagazine.com.

Make tacos not war!

We’re back this month with our womyn’s issue. Yes, we know we’re a little late for March’s International Women’s History month, but at least we are early for Mother’s Day.

Never fear, we have lots more pendejadas for you! In this issue:

• Great moments in Chicana Herstory: Mujeres get credit for their work
• 10 signs you are dating an insecure pendejo
• Art Laboe to retire: Says he’s tired of blowing kisses to cholos
• Advice from Tezcatlipoca
• Grey cloud follows student wherever he goes
• The Homeboy Scouts
• FWD’ing por la causa
• Cuba prepares for the handing down of the beard
• The bizarre and exotic with Dr. Philoneous Peabody: The hobbit village of Mexico
• Faces in the crowd: What did you do on César Chávez Day?
• Jarana Hero (ad)
• Temezcal Mexica Spa (ad)
• Cover art by Votan from Nahui Ohlin.

To download the new issue, click the cover image above OR click here. If you have not e-subscribed, just send an email with your name age and city to subscribe AT puropedomagazine.com.

¡Qué Viva la Mujer!

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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¡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