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I've been derelict on my Macondo posts lately, though there have been many stories I flagged for the file.
My new BFF, the CEO of KWRK, is foaming-at-the-mouth mad at the former Mayor, Marty Chavez. For beating his wife. For driving a highway through Petroglyphs national monument to access property owned by him, and, I believe, Domenici, which would otherwise be undevelopable. For peddling himself as an hidalgo descendent of the vicious Spanish colonial Onate, who was sent back to Spain IN CHAINS, thunders the CEO, for chopping off the feet of all the Acoma pueblo Indian men for one teeny little uprising. S, the CEO, claims that Chavez lobbied unsuccessfully for 10 years to have a statue of himself and/or Onate erected at public expense -- and finally succeeded in getting a bronze conquistador on a horse erected in front of the art museum with Mayor Marty's own face implanted. Mayor Marty was calling it a statue of Onate -- WHO WAS SENT BACK TO SPAIN IN CHAINS -- but the city council wouldn't let him label it such. So it's just a conquistador with Marty's face on it.
Very Macondo, very megalo fascist art, actually -- I'm thinking of the victory arches Saddam had made from a cast of his right arm, holding a sword. Probably the kitschiest -- with the possible exception of the human skin lamp shade -- artifact of fascist art there is. (Fascist art and kitsch have many interfaces worth pondering.)
This piece from the ABQ Journal touches on several Macondo themes, among them that caudillismo and hidalgo pendejismo are not limited to the politicians. It extends to any number of Taos/Fanta Se institutions and indeed the whole Fanta Se phenom is very, very Macondo. In this case the wannabee hidalgo pendejos are not the Sons of Onate but the Daughters of O'Keeffe, herself a bit of a poseur. Her legatees are fixing to chop feet because, you know, Dios y mi derecho. Old times there are not forgotten.
( O'Keeffe Museum Savages O'Keeffe Elementary School Kindergartners )
( Onate's Foot and the Revenge of the Acoma )
My new BFF, the CEO of KWRK, is foaming-at-the-mouth mad at the former Mayor, Marty Chavez. For beating his wife. For driving a highway through Petroglyphs national monument to access property owned by him, and, I believe, Domenici, which would otherwise be undevelopable. For peddling himself as an hidalgo descendent of the vicious Spanish colonial Onate, who was sent back to Spain IN CHAINS, thunders the CEO, for chopping off the feet of all the Acoma pueblo Indian men for one teeny little uprising. S, the CEO, claims that Chavez lobbied unsuccessfully for 10 years to have a statue of himself and/or Onate erected at public expense -- and finally succeeded in getting a bronze conquistador on a horse erected in front of the art museum with Mayor Marty's own face implanted. Mayor Marty was calling it a statue of Onate -- WHO WAS SENT BACK TO SPAIN IN CHAINS -- but the city council wouldn't let him label it such. So it's just a conquistador with Marty's face on it.
Very Macondo, very megalo fascist art, actually -- I'm thinking of the victory arches Saddam had made from a cast of his right arm, holding a sword. Probably the kitschiest -- with the possible exception of the human skin lamp shade -- artifact of fascist art there is. (Fascist art and kitsch have many interfaces worth pondering.)
This piece from the ABQ Journal touches on several Macondo themes, among them that caudillismo and hidalgo pendejismo are not limited to the politicians. It extends to any number of Taos/Fanta Se institutions and indeed the whole Fanta Se phenom is very, very Macondo. In this case the wannabee hidalgo pendejos are not the Sons of Onate but the Daughters of O'Keeffe, herself a bit of a poseur. Her legatees are fixing to chop feet because, you know, Dios y mi derecho. Old times there are not forgotten.
( O'Keeffe Museum Savages O'Keeffe Elementary School Kindergartners )
( Onate's Foot and the Revenge of the Acoma )
