My Favorite Taco ~ Ask a Chola
She’s beautiful, she’s intelligent, she’s laugh-out-loud funny, and she’ll carve your heart out like a Mexica Priestess jocking Huitzilopochtli, thereby allowing you the honorable death you should only be so lucky to have.
In other words, we are in love with Ask A Chola (aka Dr. Chola McGraw) and her various alter and alter-alter egos. Her varied, humorous, and insightful video campaigns dole out insight into the differences between cholas and ninjas, dying with honor, plus a chola’s place in our computer commercials. She is part Sith Lord, a former lover to Subcomandante Marcos, an aggressive backer of affirmative action for pirates, a dabbler in haiku and spoken word poetry, and the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby. Her interests are “cholacentric historical revisionism and writing the chola back into Western history where she was written out,” plus an agressive Go Green campaign. “I really want to stop global warming, so we can all just get back to killing each other.”
This shoulder-bumping beauty loves and reps Califas and East Los, so you know she knows herself something about good Mexican joints in this town too.
Hey Ask-A-Chola! What’s your favorite taco?
“My favorite Mexican food in L.A. is Burrito King in Echo Park. The tacos and horchata are the bomb at Burrito King! I love the physical location of the Echo Park one. It’s so damn noisy there on Sunset and Alvarado. And it’s like an urban island. The lighting, especially when the sun is setting, is magical. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like a blanket and I feel safe. They are open really late too. The homies working there will flirt with you, though, and ask for your Myspace. Jajaja…”
Love and respect, Chola! Now, here’s that Myspace to save the Burrito King homies some talk-time…
pita wrote:
chola are cool
Posted on 25-Apr-08 at 8:03 am | Permalink
martinsalazar wrote:
onde te puedo ver
Posted on 12-Dec-08 at 9:18 am | Permalink
Bibi Piola wrote:
Have you ever wondered who “Ask A Chola” is, behind that green guise? Do her ridiculous accents and sordid attempts at humor ever leave you doubtful that a real Mexicana/Chicana/Latina could possibly create such humiliating attempts of humor? If so, you’re not alone.
“Ask A Chola” made several ludicrous assertions about herself. Namely, she states, “I am Aztlan. I am Mexican,” when the reality is that she is white. Chloe Michalopoulos is a white woman who lives in an expensive loft in the gentrified section of Santa Ana. She was educated at Berkeley, UCLA and Harvard, and she thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to capitalize off of a particularly vitriolic form of brown face. What she cannot accept is being questioned. In other words, she’s a complete bigot. i have it on very good authority that she is greek-american, is the wealthy daughter of a prominent academic, has spent a lot of time in mexico and south america picking up slang, and lives in the gentrified part of santa ana — where mexicans and chicanos used to lives, and is now populated by whites.
This is how postmodernism goes really wrong. You can not just take on any identity without a real stake in what it means to be in that skin with all the negative and positives that come with it. I see the complexity and desire to use performance as a way to challenge truths you might not be able to do from your own body but:
Black face, brown face, yellow face. Cholas can speak for themselves. Appropriation of culture without any respect for history is lame and is exactly what it looks like. A cheap imitation.
Posted on 04-Nov-10 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
LoveGalo wrote:
This is simply gonna give her more fans…hahaha
Posted on 05-Nov-10 at 12:29 am | Permalink
Pablo wrote:
Simon! Now I know she’s hot in addition to being smart and funny. hahaha
Posted on 05-Dec-10 at 2:48 am | Permalink