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December 24, 2006
Segundo Barrio Artists Spread Blight:
Members of the Uncreative Class (a.k.a. "Los Losers") strike at night
by Jaime Ojo
AS A WILLFUL ACT of defiance to the city of El Paso “fathers” and other concerned patrons of El Paso’s future, Chicano artists began a new mural on the front of the Sagrado Corazon Catholic Church gymnasium last night.
The mural is believed to contain images of various revolutionaries, among them, Father Rahm, Pancho Villa and the Virgin de Guadalupe.
By the cowardly stealth of night and without actually asking for permission of the above mentioned “fathers,” these artists willfully began to sketch out the outline for what is to be “just the beginning” of adding to the blight of the Segundo Barrio.
The artists did have permission of Father Garcia of Sagrado Corazon. However, eventually the Legal Counsel of The City of El Paso, the attorneys for the Paso Del Norte Group and the attorneys for other Developer Groups will be consulted. It is rumored that Father Garcia does not have the right to grant permission because the property is in private ownership (the Catholic Church, headquarters in Rome, Italy, is the owner of the property), and private ownership is no longer a valid defense against The El Paso Downtown Plan, recently approved by City Council.
Nonetheless the rabble Chicano artists, assisted by dissident neighbors and a few other “losers,” began the mural and have claimed nothing will stop them from further attempts to blight the neighborhood.
An emergency meeting of the Katherine Brennard Arts Cartel, that has been self appointed to oversee all Art, Artists and sensitive emotions south of the Chase building, was called into emergency session, chartered a bus to tour the area of conflict and is organizing yet another “Arts Walk,” that is rumored to offer approval of the project if a plaque will be put on the finished site with the names of all participants of the Richard Florida “Creative Class,” arts group, and, on the condition the Brennard Arts Walk Cartel is allowed to administer the site in the future in perpetuity.
One anonymous artist at the site of the guerilla activity was asked if he would cooperate with the City, the PDNG and Brennard’s Art Cartel, replied, “Over my brown ass!”
Further elaborating, he went on to issue this dire threat to order and progress: “We are dedicated to not only continuing the downtown blight, but we intend to add to that blight every opportunity we get. And if we don’t get the opportunity—does someone want to offer us some dinero/Geld—we’ll find other losers (like the church) to help us carry on our rasquache (sic) activities.”
Behind him the other artists—none of them willing to reveal their names—murmured a collective “Seguro que si. Como no, hell yes.”
They also shrugged their shoulders threateningly.
With these words, City of El Paso Police units were called and the group dispersed.
Mayor John Cook, allegedly vacationing in Darfur as the guest of The Verde Group, and the Economic Development Council, made a preliminary call to the Texas National Guard and the Texas Rangers in case further disobedience persists.
(DISCLAIMER: After a few concerned inquiries from our readers about the above article, we feel it necesarry to clarify that the piece was written by a member of newly-formed Paso Del Sur Group humor committee. His real name is not Joe Ojo. In other words, puro toriqueo compas.)
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Surreptitious photographs by Jaime Ojo.
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