Austin Reader Meet-Up & Focus Group Tonight!
29 October 2009, 4:20 PM. By Cindy Casares
Hey, Austin Guanabees. Our Austin reader meet-up and focus group is finally happening tonight, Thursday, October 29th. Could you shit your pants?! Please not at the meet-up. Take care of that shitting of your pants on your own time, but do send an email to cindy@guanabee.com if you would like to attend. Also, San Antonio, readers, due to lack of response during our previous advertisement, your meet-up has been canceled, so no more whining about us excluding “certain kinds of Latinos,” please. We now know what kind of Latinos you were talking about and that’s the flaky kind. If you are in the San Antonio area and you want to meet some Guanabee editors, get your ass to Austin. It would probably do you a lot of good, anyway. (Oh, here we go.) As usual, there will be food and drink provided, so really, what do you have to lose but a few precious hours of your life talking to Cindy?
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This is the one that is closest to me, and I’m so bummed that I can’t be in Austin this week. Sorry!
Um, Cindy, you don’t find it odd that Hispanics in San Antonio failed to show an interest in your little focus group? I mean, the San Antonio metropolitan area is larger than the Austin-Round Rock metro area, and there are more Hispanics in San Antonio (over 60% of the population is Hispanic). Many, many GREAT Hispanic leaders and intellectuals have come from San Antonio. So what’s the deal? Why the lack of interest?
I have no clue. Maybe you guys have too many hipsters working for Guanabee? Maybe San Antonio and hipsters just don’t mix. Austin, on the other hand, is a hipster playground. Also, Austin is so full of itself…it’s annoying.
OK, really? After commenters complained, Cindy or whoever scheduled a San Antonio meet-up and apparently only one person signed up. Maybe the population of Austin better matches the kind of demographic Guanabee is going after. Is that really a problem?
I see what you’re saying, though. I am not American-born, spent half of my life living in my home country, and there are certainly some things about the whole Guanabee aesthetic that I don’t like, but then again it’s more geared towards very Americanized, second+ generation Latinos. I am not very familiar with the particular demographics of large Texan cities, but Austin has a large prestigious university, probably has a higher standard of living, and I’m sure houses a more educated, Americanized Hispanic population and a larger non-Hispanic population. San Antonio I guess is more working class, less educated, and less Americanized? Am I wrong? I guess this site is going after more “assimilated”, Americanized, educated, professional Latinos, which fit the demographics of Austin.
Most San Antonio Latinos are very Americanized, but still less affluent and educated than their Austin counterparts. I work in education and it’s amazing how complicated young Latino identity can be. They don’t really identify with terms like Chicano or even Hispanic, yet their heritage permeates their entire lifestyle (food, religion, family traditions). I’d say that people in San Antonio aren’t disconnected with their culture, they just take it for granted.
my guess is probably intelligence levels in san antonio or just a simple disinterest in their culture. for a city that has so many hispanics, it baffling how little of them can speak spanish. and knowing a selena song or two doesn’t count.
it’s called americanizado. brute.
I was referring to san antonio genius
comments with a word or two in spanish are understandable. but man if you type it all in spanish no comprende dude.
Alright, already! I’m the one person that rsvped for San Antonio! I’ve been reading Guanabee on and of for years and wanted to meet up, but I can’t make it to Austin on Thursday. I’m going to a Junot Diaz reading. (Seriously!) I’ve lived in San Antonio all my life (save for a 4 year college stint in Houston) and have spent plenty of time in Austin as well. Here’s the deal- San Antonio has a vibrant Chicano culture. Chicanos are typically defined as Mexicans born in the United States. We are American in every sense- and yes, not all of us speak Spanish. Despite SA’s amazing hybrid culture we also some serious issues- an alarmingly high drop out rate, and a significant population with no college education. Austin generally is better educated and has a different mix of people. Which city would you think reads more blogs?
It’s too bad more people didn’t want to meet up, but at least Guanabee tried. Maybe there will be more SA readers next time.
We’ll miss you! Say hi to Junot for me.
Oh man, Junot Diaz is the man, if you can, let him know that there are a shitload of Latinos who like D&D like Oscar Wao.
I saw Junot Diaz read at the New Yorker Festival earlier this month, and he was pretty awesome. I’m not sure how that compares to getting drunk with Cindy, though.
Have a shiner for me, okay? I’ll tell Junot y’all said hey. lol.
I can’t stand Junot Diaz. His writing is okay, and one of these days I might just actually finish reading “Oscar Wao”, but I dislike him for other reasons. I know this has nothing to do with the thread, but oh well.
I think we know why.
Yep, it’s because of the goatee. Makes him look like a douche.
wait…do you think it has anything to do with the fact that Oscar “made sweet love to” AVR?
yikes. bite your tongue. i was referring to the much discussed admission by Ms. Valdes-Rodriguez that she made sweet love to Mr. Diaz. Amidst many cans of Arizona tea, no less.
Honestly, Cindy, what I know about that incident is totally hearsay, and it happened way before I entered Alisa’s life. A long time ago. In fact, I was probably 15 at the time, but whatever. Anyway, let’s not lose sight of the fact that Junot Diaz is indeed a douche, regardless of what you think.
It has more to do with the fact that he willingly accepted the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, knowing that there were far better books that the judges should have chosen. “Oscar Wao” was okay, like I said, but not great.
When is the Houston group?
@The Least interesting man in the world: You’re preaching to the choir, my man.
Cool. It’s so rare that I get a chance to do so.
It was fun to see you guys tonight. I only wish we had more people show up and portraits done in front of the roasting chicken.
So…how many people actually showed up?
There was a roasting chicken involved? Man, I’m so bummed I couldn’t go!