Las 3 Muses: Sirenas de Madera
Red thoughts give way to bold & brazen lust. Wet lust… These are 3 Sirenas that I recently painted, which were carved by Luciano Garcia. Luciano is my friend (and fellow artist/paisano) Gennaro Garcia’s father. Luciano is an incredible Santero Read more …
Playing with Las Sirenas…La Sirena Roja
I’m not sure when “my thing” with mermaids began. I have no clue, at least not for this lifetime. I’ve always liked the beach, if that has anything to do with anything. I’ve always liked cocos helados on the beach. Read more …
Drinking with el Diablo…The Devil’s Cab and the Devil’s Pinot.
I like a good glass of red. Hell, I like the entire bottle. Mostly Pinot but I like Cab also. It depends on my mood and what I’m eating. Wine is a civilized drink, best enjoyed with friends, food and Read more …
Tacos Con Huevos
This piece is a little older and is a limited edition serigraph print produced at Self Help Graphics in East Los. The recent Nopalista movement brought it to mind. Beto immediately thought of Freddy and started to cry because Freddy Read more …
El Diablo’s Chardonnay
Pepe lay in the tub thinking in an altered manner. He listened to music, holding a remote in one hand and a glass of wine in the other hand… It was then that El Diablo approached him to converse about Read more …
La Piña de Muerte
The tale of the piña. A few years ago, my friend Flaco, who has been a Court Interpreter for many years, told a group of us the following story. He (Flaco) had some time to kill (no pun intended here) Read more …
Some Clowns Spit Blood…and other ramblings about Chupacabras and Exorcisms.
I originally saw this written underneath a bridge in large spray painted letters, somewhere between the late 70s and early 1980s. I don’t think I saw it more than twice and I’m not sure where exactly I saw it. But Read more …
Inspirations and Lame Attempts At Lunar Seduction
I was recently reminded during Lunar movements, passages and transgressions, etc., that some men try to seduce the moon. I thought we had moved beyond that. Evidently not. Some morons are still trying to seduce the moon, to which the Read more …
Peripheral Inspiration: Inspiring the Muse.
Sometimes inspiration is like calling back the moon which has already checked out a while ago. It’s gone but the afterglow is still there. You can’t exactly see it or focus on it but you can see it out of Read more …