What kind of researcher am I!? How did I never hear about or run across Lupe Velez in DW Griffith's Lady of the Pavements, an artifact of pure #textmex cinema!

Disgusted that his fiancée, Diane (Jetta Goudal) has been cheating on him, Karl (William Boyd) says he'd rather marry a "street walker" than her. To get back at him, Diane arranges for Nanoni ("Little One") (Lupe Vélez), a singer at a sleazy bar, to pretend to be a Spanish girl, from a convent, to fool him.^[3]

Here is the full movie:

Very excited to see this morning that the Christmas special that opens my piece on Speedy Gonzales in Tex[t]-Mex is back on the internets!

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISSGtY9-gE

The streaming version appears below and my essay on Speedy and other manufactured "Mexicans" in American mass culture can be read free here; or, not so free, in Tex[t]-Mex here.

A little Christmas time "cheer" from Diane Arbus and Francesca Woodman, two photographers whose haunting traces--born of genius, chemicals, and light--inform my Spring #americansubterranean25 experiments.

More on Arbus and Woodman:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/design/francesca-woodman-photographs-gagosian.html

The Spring '26 experiment: https://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/2026/spring/

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