Puro Pedo Magazine

We’re back and just in time for Halloween, Día de los Muertos and Election Day. What an exciting time of year. Our latest issue features stories on these timely issues and more:

• Ask a Chola teams Up With Wet-N-Wild to launch make-up collection
• US Apologizes for slavery out of fear of a Black President
• DIY Halloween costumes
• It’s a wonderful economy
• Chicano gamers claim trivial pursuit is racist
• Things Chicana/os Like
• Slumping economy forces Americans to migrate to Canada
• Local homeless youth wins lottery
• Obituary: Ralph de Unamuno’s hair
• Advice: Ask the hateful RA
• Ad: John McCain is The Jerk

To download the new issue, click the cover image above OR click here. If you have not e-subscribed, just send an email with your name age and city to subscribe AT puropedomagazine.com.

May la Fuerza be with you,

Puro Pedo Magazine Staff

Did you miss us? If so, then we have more comedy and pendajadas to help you get through the remainder of the summer. While you’re chilling in the shade and avoiding the heat, kick back with the new issue of Puro Pedo Magazine.

In this issue:

• L.A. Latina/o politicians prepare for taco war
• Campus Greeks confused by KPFK’s recent pledge drive
• Puro Pedo activity page by Rio Yañez
• Oaxacan tall
• 10 tips to keep Aztlan green!
• Chewbacca wins Lifetime Achievement Award
• New guest worker program to import Chinese to build “The Great Wall of Mexico”
• My revolutionary pet army
• P2 dieta and exercise plan
• Mexico lindo now Mexico gringo
• Pocho, go home! Chicano guest overstays his welcome in Mexico

To download the new issue, click the cover image above OR click here. If you have not e-subscribed, just send an email with your name age and city to subscribe AT puropedomagazine.com.

Make tacos not war!

We’re back this month with our womyn’s issue. Yes, we know we’re a little late for March’s International Women’s History month, but at least we are early for Mother’s Day.

Never fear, we have lots more pendejadas for you! In this issue:

• Great moments in Chicana Herstory: Mujeres get credit for their work
• 10 signs you are dating an insecure pendejo
• Art Laboe to retire: Says he’s tired of blowing kisses to cholos
• Advice from Tezcatlipoca
• Grey cloud follows student wherever he goes
• The Homeboy Scouts
• FWD’ing por la causa
• Cuba prepares for the handing down of the beard
• The bizarre and exotic with Dr. Philoneous Peabody: The hobbit village of Mexico
• Faces in the crowd: What did you do on César Chávez Day?
• Jarana Hero (ad)
• Temezcal Mexica Spa (ad)
• Cover art by Votan from Nahui Ohlin.

To download the new issue, click the cover image above OR click here. If you have not e-subscribed, just send an email with your name age and city to subscribe AT puropedomagazine.com.

¡Qué Viva la Mujer!

We’re back with more satirical stories and laugh-inducing graphics. To download this issue, just click the cover art above or click here for the pdf file.

In this issue:

• Aztlan’s Next Top Chola
• Why Pochos Love the Raiders
• Activist Caught at Wal*Mart While Drinking Coke
• Search for Carmen San Diego Ends in Guantanamo
• Special Valentine’s Day Cards by Rio Yañez
• Puro Pedro: 20 questions with Efren Ramirez
• Great Moments in Chican@ History: The MEChA Meeting that Started on Time
• 10 Tips to Help Barack Obama get the Elusive Latino Vote
• Indigenous Group Sues Disney for Copyright Infringement
• Writers Strike Ends, Comedian Relieved
• Lonely Hearts advertisement
• Mariachi Road Crew by Jerry Gonzalez

We still need to pin down the list of locations where you’ll be able to pick up this issue. When we have more info, we’ll post it on the blog.

¡Disfruten!

Puro Pedo Magazine is back with our Best of Year One issue. In November, our fans voted for the best issues from our first year. We’ve compiled these in to the Best of Year One issue, which features:

• Man Shoots Self While Posing for Picture
• Now Deporting for Spring Break
• 10 Signs Your Curandero/a Might Be a Fake
• Graduation Speech Inspired by Chicano Cult Classic Film
• Xicana/o Haiku
• LeCHE Ad
• Quiz: What Chicano Decade Do You Belong To?
• Latino Kid from Sandlot Found
• You Know You Are An Old School Mechista if…
• Local Militia Protects Echo Park from Hipsters
• Pope to Bush: Pulling Out Best Method… In Iraq
• 20 Signs your Barrio’s Been Gentrified
• How to Run a Chingon Chicano Militant Workshop

Finally, in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America writer’s strike, we’ve included some survival tips for surviving a strike.

You can download the pdf copy by clicking the cover image above, visiting our blog, or clicking the link to the pdf file.

We’ve also dropped off copies at Teocintli in Boyle Heights, Nahui Ohlin in Echo Park, Antigua Cultural Coffee House in El Sereno and available wherever Chicanos hang out at Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Dominguez Hills. More locations to come!

We await your love/hate mail!

Puro Pedo Magazine Staff

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It’s been a little over a year since we’ve launched Puro Pedo Magazine. We’d like to celebrate our first birthday by publishing a “best of issue” and we want you to pick what articles, fake ads, comic strips or lists will be in the Best Of issue. To fill out our web survey, click here.

¡Usando nuestros frijoles pasa más pedo!

Summer is over and with its demise, a new school year has begun. I can’t wait for our teachers to ask us what we did this summer. Thanks largely to the efforts of the laughter insurgency led by Puro Pedo Magazine, the walls of Babylon have begun to crumble. This summer our satirical assault has led to the resignation of almost all of Bush’s cronies, most notably the evil scientist Karl Rove and the “Hispanic Piñata,” Alberto Gonzales.

Aside from bringing down the White House, we’ve also rubbed shoulders with some celebrities of the Chicano world like El Vez and Zack de la Rocha.

In issue #7:

• From the desk of Alberto R. Gonzales
• Pope to Bush: Pulling Out Best Method… In Iraq
• El Vez: King of Mock n Roll
• Sex and the City Hall
• Karl Rove Quits to Spend Time with Family
• 10 Signs Your Curandero/a Might be a Fake
• Los Bitles
• Mariachi Road Crew comics by Jerry Gonzalez
• Bodega Avenue Comics

To download a pdf of the latest copy, click the cover image above or click here

Check our blog or MySpace page soon for a list of events and locations where you can pick up a copy of Puro Pedo Magazine.

Love, peace and chicharrón grease,

Puro Pedo Magazine Staff

Yeah, yeah… we know few people actually graduate in July and we’re kind of late to make this the June issue, but we’ve got good reasons for the delay! Our editor-in-chief and one of our staff members, Jake and Esbeydy, were busy getting married. Yes, Puro Pedo Magazine staff members are romantics at heart, sorta.

Anyway, this issue is about congratulating the class of 2007, whether you earned a BA/BS or just finished 8th grade. ¡Felicidades!

In this issue:

• Graduation speech inspired by Chicano cult classic film
• The Institute for the Frida Kahlo Obsessed
• Dodgers officially change name to “Los Doyers”
• California education board unveiles Ese-T’s
• Local militia protects Echo Park from hipsters
• 20 signs your barrio’s been gentrified
• Hillybilly misinterprets constitutional right to bear arms
• Cavaliers blame God for NBA championship loss
• Faces in the crowd: What did you do on May 1st, 2007
• Comic by Lalo Alcaraz

The issue is ready for download, but we still need to distribute it around LA. We’ll post locations of sites where you can pick it up soon, so check the blog for information.

To download, click the image above or click here to open up the pdf file.

¡Disfruten! Congratulations to the class of 2007!

Another NBA season has come and blown away and with it an exciting NBA Championship series. This year, the talented San Antonio Spurs swept the up and coming Cleveland Cavaliers. While the champagne drenched San Antonio Spurs praised God for their 4th NBA Championship, On the flipside, the enraged Cleveland Cavaliers blamed God for their loss.

During the NBA Championship wrap up press conference, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach, Mike Brown, congratulated the Spurs for a great game and win. “My hats off to the Spurs. They played really well, but its obvious God loves them more. I’m sure I prayed just as hard as Spurs head coach, Gregg Popovich.”

While the Spurs now have four NBA Championships, the Cleveland Cavaliers were in the Championship series for the first time. Series MVP Tony Parker couldn’t be happier. “This month a NBA Championship ring and next month a Wedding ring (referring to soon to be wife Eva Longoria). On the other hand, a very upset LeBron James stated, “It would be nice if God would stop kicking us while we are down. We lose the biggest series of our lives and have to sleep with butter face chicken heads. I truly hate Tony Parker!”

Many Cleveland Cavaliers fans have decided to boycott God and church in outrage for the Championship loss. Father Timothy O’Sullivan supports the protesters. “Our boys played their hearts out, but God messed it all up. He made us miss free throws, travel, foul and miss key 3 pointers. He is a very vengeful God.”

A young Cavs fan, Haily Davis, asked us the question: “If there is a God, why would he let such a bad thing happen to good people?”

While we couldn’t answer Haily’s question, we know one thing seems sure: Cleveland fans are not going to forgive God for the loss very easily.

– Jake Prendez