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ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 9.02.12 “PEARL GONZALEZ AGAIN”

By the time I was fifteen years old I had come to terms with being a Mexican Zombie and had settled into the quiet unassuming life of a loner in Lincoln Heights. I did moderately well at school, kept … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

September 3, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 8.12.12 “MY HEART CONDITION “

One of the advantages of being the living dead is that you don’t have to worry about getting sick. As I was growing up and began to have friends my age, I noticed that many of them would catch a cold, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

August 12, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 8.06.12 “MY GANG INITIATION – NOT”

When I was thirteen I was asked to join a gang. And I found out a sad truth about myself. It was after the terrible Scouting Incident–and I’m not going to get into it here. Let’s just say it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

August 6, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 7.22.12 “HOW I LEARNED ABOUT LYING”

When I was twelve years old I joined the Boy Scouts and that’s when I learned about lying and just how difficult it was going to be for me to be a Mexican zombie AND a Boy Scout. One day when I was … [Read more...]

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July 23, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 6.10.12 “MY SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE PROJECT”

One of the worst things about being a Zombie is people think you are stupid. Have you seen those movies where the Zombies stumble about and come close to killing the hero of the film but somehow they … [Read more...]

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June 8, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIAIRES 1.12.14 “PLAN OF ATTACK!’

PLAN OF ATTACK! “Oñate is vain,” Mr. Nez intoned, as he adjusted the display of a power point presentation projected on a large posterboard screen behind him. “It’s a weakness we will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, Zombie Mex Diaires, Zombies

January 12, 2014 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 12.15.13 “CAMP HASCAWALLA”

CAMP HASCAWALLA “Listen up! Everything you are going to learn in the next few weeks is a matter of life and death. YOUR life and death. We’ll soon be heading for the Oñate compound --pay attention … [Read more...]

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December 15, 2013 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 12.01.13 “ATTACK OF THE RED SASH”

ATTACK OF THE RED SASH. I was awakened by the blaring of a loud and persistent wailing alarm. I stumbled out of bed and made my way to the door. Alarm? What was going on here? I could hear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Lazaro De La Tierra, Mexican zombies, Zombie Mex Diaires

December 1, 2013 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 6.09.13

PLAN OF ATTACK! “Oñate is vain,” Mr. Nez intoned, as he adjusted the display of a power point presentation projected on a large posterboard screen behind him. “It’s a weakness we will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Mexican zombies

June 9, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 5.12.13

MOTHER DAY REDUX. “All aboard!” The van was running and ready to leave for the Mother’s Day picnic. The other zombies quartered at the secret Joshua Tree military training camp who were going to … [Read more...]

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May 12, 2013 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 5.05.13

CAMP HASCAWALLA “Listen up! Everything you are going to learn in the next few weeks is a matter of life and death. YOUR life and death. We’ll soon be heading for the Oñate compound --pay attention … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, growing up Chicano, growing up Hispanic, Latino zombies, Mexican Zombie, Zombies

May 5, 2013 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 4.28.13

THE WORSE DAY OF MY LIFE. At seven on the dot there was a group of about eight of us sitting around a large conference table in room 27 of the secret Mano Poderosa underground laboratory under the … [Read more...]

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April 29, 2013 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 2.10.13

OLVERA UNDERGROUND. No sooner had I stepped through the doorway into Mr. Nez’s cavernous zombie hide-out hidden under Olvera Street than I heard a familiar voice. “Lazaro!” It was Pearl … [Read more...]

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February 10, 2013 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 12.09.12

MORE REVELATIONS. Pearl and I stood for a long silent moment in front of the One Hundred building at Wilson High. Around us a few students walked by, on their way to their Mexican American normal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Mexican zombies, teenage zombies, Zombies

December 9, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 8.26.12 “TATTOOS, SCIENCE FICTION AND ME”

By the middle of my first year at Lincoln Middle School, the buzz was all about tattoos. I was in the seventh grade then and everyone seemed to have them--gang boys, study boys, nerd boys and, yes, … [Read more...]

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August 27, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 7.29.12 “MY FIRST CAMPING TRIP”

Several weeks after I joined the Boy Scouts, Mr. Brown, our Scoutmaster, announced that we were going to go on our first week-end camping trip at the Boy Scout camp in Big Bear. My first camping trip … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

July 30, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 7.16.12 “WHAT I LEARNED FROM CLASSICAL MUSIC”

I got my first library card at the Benjamin Franklin library on East First Street in Boyle Heights. Then we moved to Lincoln Heights–nearby but a whole new neighborhood.  One of the first things I did … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

July 16, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 7.02.12 “A ZOMBIE FOURTH OF JULY”

I never really appreciated the Fourth of July until I was 11 years old. That’s when my teacher, Mrs, Rosewell, invited me to her home in South Pasadena for a bar-b-que dinner, to meet her two kids, … [Read more...]

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July 2, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 6.24.12 “MY ZOMBIE ROLE MODEL”

When I was 13 I became acutely aware of the need to have a zombie role model. By then my mom had moved us from the run-down house in Boyle Heights. The house was infested with cockroaches (which I … [Read more...]

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June 24, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 6.03.12 “LUNCH AT SCHOOL”

Pearl González giving me back my dollar bill and telling me that she didn’t need money to be my friend made me realize, in my eight year old mind, that perhaps romance was not out of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

June 4, 2012 by JT

ZOMBIE MEX DIARIES 5.20.12 “MY CUMPLEANOS PARTY – NOT”

As I may have mentioned before, it’s not easy being a Mexican and a Zombie. It’s caused me to be a bit of a loner–not out of preference, mind you, just kind of the way things turned out. I think  it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, Zombie Mex Diaries Tagged With: Chicano zombies, Latino zombies, Mexican zombies, zombie mex diaries, Zombies

May 20, 2012 by JT

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