How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names? For instance, Jos becomes Chepe, Eduardo is Lalo, Gabriel becomes Gabi, and Guillermo devolves into Memo. It’s Marcela, not Chela I want to know why Mexicans have such incongruous nicknames. In English, people have nicknames that have some relation…
It’s not exactly easy to book an interview with Ed Magedson, the self-described consumer advocate and creator of the wildly successful www.RipOffReport.com. Not because he doesn’t want to talk. Magedson loves talking, especially when the subject is his beloved Web site. It’s just that he’s so incredibly particular. Arranging one…
courtesy Sumita Tomerlin Foxy Lady: Sumita loungin’ it up… Wednesday is hard, and to get past it and closer to the weekend, we need help. That’s my thinking behind my new Wed. feature: Hump Day Honeys. Every Wednesday, I’ll feature some amazing babe from the Valley of the Sun along…
www.ktar.com Asswipe Gay-dork, after dark for a reason. Until last night, I was sure KTAR’s Bill O’Reilly-wannabe Darrell Ankarlo was the biggest butthole on the local airwaves. But then I heard Monday’s “Gaydos After Dark” program, which runs 9pm to Midnight weekdays, and I realized Ankarlo has a rival for…
Wikimedia Commons And the reorg at the Rep rolls on… Thie eve, I caught up with Arizona Republic publisher John Zidich (referred to by wags as Zee-Dick) via phone at his Scottsdale pad, and asked him about the reorganization of the Repugnant’s newsroom, which I blogged about on Wednesday. Zidich…
WikimediaCommons The crap you find online: A woodblock of some old Japanese biddy letting one fly. The first rule of fart club is: You don’t talk about fart club. The second rule of fart club is…Ok, you get the pic. Tyler Durden is a highly flatulent fellow who forms an…
See, chicks are hot even without their skin! So I got up really early this a.m. to hang out with a bunch of stiffs — specifically the mannequin-like corpses of Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds 3, on exhibit at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix through May 28. By now,…
Matt Bandy was a 16-year-old kid who’d never committed a violent crime, had absolutely no prior record, and yet was looking at 90 years in prison. Acting on a tip from Yahoo!, Phoenix police had searched the Bandy family computer in December 2004 and found 10 images of child pornography…
Chain Gangs Smash-mouth journalism: I have read New Times religiously since moving to the Valley nearly 20 years ago. Stephen Lemons’ recent article article on Sheriff Joke’s jails was spot-on, although I didn’t have quite the same experience as the person he mentioned (“Sheriff Gangbanger,” The Bird, January 18). I…
This November, a trusted employee of mine came out about his status as an illegal immigrant. Our big-box retail conglomerate’s policy clearly spells out the termination of my employment should I fail to report such an offense, but I love the mojado to death. He’s loyal, punctual, and works all…
On the early evening of April 7, 2004, an Apache Junction resident named Ruby Norman shot an e-mail over to Sheriff Joe Arpaio that must have seemed heaven-sent. “I need to talk to you about a matter that would be of great interest to you,” Norman wrote to Arpaio, then…
Oh, and after we’re finished, we’d like for you to reapply for your job. Stop the presses, while there are still presses to stop: The Arizona Republic’s currently undergoing a massive reorganization, which according to one source at the Gannett McPaper will result in the administrative shorthand, “Online first, paper…
Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom and the Power, as long as you’ve got crossword puzzles and Disney teenyboppper tripe. Five-plus years since the largest terrorist attack on American soil, and readers of The New York Times, still the nation’s most esteemed news source despite Jayson Blair’s monkeywrenching, are more interested in…
from Thenationmart.com Usually The Nation’s full of shit, but not with this cover. I’m not inclined to bitch about Duh!bya like the billion other whiney-ass libs on the Web. After all, I’m self-aware enough to know that what some blogger writes about the biggest American military mistake since Vietnam is…
from Ankarlo’s MySpace page Darrell dines out for a change… Listening to Ankar-low Brow this morning on KTAR 92.3 FM talking about how ‘rents shouldn’t spare the rod when it comes to their wayward youngins lest those youngins grow up to be assholes, I’m reminded of a little piece I…
Chuey’s greatest fantasy: To have knocked boots with Natalee Holloway before she croaked. This Friday’s wack-ass poll is dedicated to my personal hero Chuey the Rock ‘n’ Roll Midget, famous for hosting the Wed. night Wheel of Fear Factor at Giligin’s in Scottsdale. I profiled their Howard Stern-esque antics in…
When Arizona State University students filed back into the classroom this week, Bob Pettit found himself someplace he hasn’t been for a very long time: an introductory chemistry lab. Pettit is one of the top organic chemists in the world, and his cancer research is recognized as some of the…
This ornery oriole gags over the way most of the P-town press plays cocker spaniel to Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Take, for example, the myth that he’s the roughest, toughest lawman since Wyatt Earp, despite Arpaio’s dismal record handling the two main jobs of his office — process server and jailer…
Trans Action Off-color comments: I’m grateful that you wrote on this subject. Not many people write about this sort of topic (“Tranny-Gate,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, December 28). And while I do not know the individuals involved, I would like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. I believe…
I’m a 60-year-old Chicano and proud. Why do young Chicanos keep imitating blacks? They dress like blacks, talk like blacks, listen to black music, and hang with blacks. Aren’t they proud of their own culture? Why don’t they embrace Hispanic ways and learn about Hispanic history? Say It Loud! I’m…
http://www.ktar.com/ A face only Herman Munster’s wife Lily could love. Darrell Ankarlo’s KTAR 92.3 FM morning show is talk radio for people who think Dane Cook’s a friggin’ comic genius. His shtick is to appeal to the lowest common denominator while seeming reasonable and in possession of some profound mental…
courtesy M. Delgina Through a glass darkly: Michelle Delgina still wants to use the chick’s loo at Anderson’s… Michelle Delgina, one of the transgendered chicks-with-sticks who’s demanding to use the female facilities at Anderson’s Fifth Estate in Scottsdale, sent along pics of herself recently, and I thought I’d share. One…
