The Club @ Mendez

teachingtoday:

Also: You’re the teacher.

Keeping up with the Joneses

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A brief history of Santa   (via)

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My thoughts exactly! All the kids at Mendez like this stuff.

iamrodnunez:

Trival Dancing. What can I say….as a first generation Mexican American let me just say I am deeply ashamed.

First of all let’s see where this originated from, the pointy boots or “botas picudas” look originated in a tiny little town of San Luis Potosi named Matahuala. It’s a little farming town, real poor, and uneducated. When the botas picudas video went viral it was mostly because of the ridiculous nature of these boots and they were generally a laughing stock across the whole Mexican culture both in the country and abroad. Since then however a small sector of the Mexican-American community here in the US, particularly in Dallas, has embraced these in a completely non-ironic way. Seriously just go to youtube and look up “botas picudas” and most of the videos are from the US. They’ve even taken to addingLEDs to them! 

Secondly the music. It’s a simple mix of the worst parts of cumbias, sped up with some simple casio-keyboard drums. Essentially it’s kinda like what D4L did with “Laffy Taffy” only every song is the same. If you look up some of the “Djs” for trival music it’s just a bunch of kids, 16 year olds with faders that took some cumbia records off youtube and looped the worst parts of it. It’s really truly bad, with no soul whatsoever.

So in summary, a bunch of kids belonging to the chicano community of the US took something that was a joke across all of the Mexican culture, chopped up good music to be awful and repetitive and have embraced it as their identity. It’s their flag, no more “SI SE PUEDE” or “Chicano Power” THIS is what they unite under.

Truly truly ridiculous. What’s wrong with the Chicano community in Dallas and other parts of the US that they don’t know enough of their own culture to know that what these kids are engaging in is NOT MEXICAN, and is truly a bastardization and diluting of our culture. Get it together Texicans. Learn about your culture, speak spanish AND english, not spanglish. Read Mexican authors, listen to Mexican music, take in Mexican art. Don’t grab onto stupid things like these to forge your cultural identity on.

…Sorry this is not usually what I post, and this is mostly to vent. but yeah…..screw that. 

jtotheizzoe:

Baby Sloth Orphanage: The Cutest Place on Earth

Guys, I can’t … put the word … words … internet … tumblr … too much.

They made a documentary for Animal Planet, airing Saturday. There’s a slideshow.

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nprfreshair:

Need an easy way to make minestrone soup broth? Use V8, says Bridget Lancaster from America’s Test Kitchen: “Somebody just mentioned, ‘Why don’t we try V8, like the commercial says?’ And V8 was perfect. It gave just the right body to the minestrone, the right seasoning. It was an 8-for-1 instead of a 2-for-1 ingredient, because it has all of those flavors in one shot.” [more tips and recipe tricks from America’s Test Kitchen]

Only 1% of Teens Are Actually Sexting

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infoneer-pulse:

According to a new study, hype surrounding the trend of teenagers sending sexually explicit pictures to one another may only be just that — hype. “Only 1 percent of kids aged 10 to 17 have shared images of themselves or others that involve explicit nudity, a nationally representative study found” published today in the journal Pediatrics, reports the AP. Roughly another 1 percent have shared non-nude but still suggestive photos, while 9.6 percent of 10- to 17-year-olds say that they have received or sent sexually suggestive images, says The New York Times — meaning that a few teens are responsible for most of the photo sexting.

» via The Atlantic

Interesting discovery, given some recent “surveys.*”

*By “surveys,” I mean obviously sensationalized collections of data from far-too-small pools of respondents.

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mothernaturenetwork:

10 awesome images of the moon

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jtotheizzoe:

National Geographic introduces you to the ten weirdest life-forms discovered in 2011, including the completely real cyclops shark pictured above.

Cyclops myths, coincidentally, might be a result of this strange developmental malfunction, termed cyclopia, likely the result of incorrect protein signaling cascades in developing embryos.

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