FridayNovember092007

Journalism Lessons From 21 Year Old Daniel Canestaro-Garcia From Houston, Texas

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We love our readers. Love, love, love them like a fat kid loves falling off a branch into a muddy stream. And we love hearing from you guys, especially suggestions on how we can improve. That’s why we were so thrilled when our new BFF, a 21-year-old Houstonian named Daniel, wrote to us with a few suggestions:

You’ve got
to be kidding me.
a blog site of poorly researched material?
Some out of touch journalism grad who has yet to figure out the proper way to introduce a subject?
The very suggestion that this site is anything more than a fake, shallow grab for attention and eyeballs sickens me.
Sick, me, no health insurance. I must be a Latino.
Wait actually I do have health insurance, because unlike your piddling excuse for coverage I am neither a dishwasher nor a rockstar. Is that all latinos are to you? background help to be slyly mocked or hyper-personalities?
Unreal humans?
If you cant give yourself any respect, at least give some to your betters.
If you could imagine that my regular discourse is something other than, “wow, Nevada’s white..”
If you could try to develop a sensibility that extended beyond promulgating stereo-types if you could look out your goddamn window and notice that, hell theres a lot of things Latinos are doing in the city but no, you can’t do that.
You you can only re-spew information without context.You cannot create. Ill call you a leach.[Ed. note: And I’ll call you a …cab to my house, baby!]
good day
Daniel Lawrence Nahui Ollin Thomas Canestaro-Garcia

Thanks, D! We’ve since beefed up our research department, which previously consisted of a block of cheese and a plastic spork, and took to the internets to try to find out more about our new friend! We learned he has a “ facination for anything written, and anything with a pair of tits.” Us too!

We also try really hard not to promote stereotypes, but, rather, to point out the absurdity of relying on outdated, limiting, xenophobic caricatures of what a Latino is supposed to be. You know, like your halloween costume. Daniel, you are living performance art. With a message! A message that is sexy.

So, Daniel, once again, thanks for reaching out and touching us in our most special of places - our inbox. Guanabee ♥’s you, dollface.

Comments

ahahahah what a scumbag that dude.

does that costume mean we get to hit him with a stick?

easy on the proust, danimal.

That dudes angry. And not in like an “omg, so bitter! LOLZ” way. If he has a blog, I don’t want to read it.

Unlike you, Guanabee. <3

ja ja ja!!! I’m impressed by your research department!

oh…he really set himself up for a drubbing…it’s like he just handed us the crepe paper-wrapped stick and the blindfold.

wow. when did the spork get hired?! i must have missed that. <3

apparently he also has a fascination for incorrect spelling.

How are we not going to make fun of ourselves (Latinos) when we have dudes like him….

How are we not going to make fun of ourselves (Latinos) when we have dudes like him….

Did I just say that twice?? :-)

i’d hit that but i’m afraid that only shit would fall out.

but his flickr profile says it best:
21 year old in houston, with a facination for anything written, and anything with a pair of tits.
klassy, daniel. klassy. i mean that could be your sister you’re talking about

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