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https://youtube.com/watch?v=pC6Lrr4PeCY%26hl%3Den

This article appears in Mar 20-26, 2008.

6 replies on “Now See the Fruits of Our Labor”

  1. Re: T. Vanderpool’s piece
    Heads up all of you job seekers out there. We live in a paranoid society and I would say from what I see at my day job – getting people jobs – is that 85% of employers are doing background checks.

    Also state boards will tell you not to worry about a felony in your past and then when you go to apply for a job bang! the employer does background checks.

    Background checks are being done is every job area you can think of from landscaping to engineering (not the President of the US though, odd eh?)

    And don’t beleive them when someone tells you after 7 or 10 years it goes away. It doesn’t and some checks go back as far as 99 years!

  3. This notice appeared at the end of his column in New Times Phoenix. I can’t tell if he means the entire column or just his YouTube videos.

    “SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT! And with this, the Mexican formally bids adios, effective the feast day of St. Melito. It’s been a great run, cabrones, but all the hateful e-mail, all the attacks by PC pendejos and the fact that few of you have bothered to submit video questions to my YouTube channel wear on a guy, you know? Besides, like Mr. Dooley, Olle I Skratthult, and The Katzenjammer Kids before me, this column’s time has come: it’s no longer necessary to explain Mexicans to Americans because Mexicans are Americans. Gracias for all the fights, the propositions of sexy time explosion, and the slugged-back tequila shots after book signings, but there’s a little ranchito in Zacatecas waiting for me and a barefoot muchacha ready to cook dinner. Vaya con Dios, America, and always remember: Order the enchilada-and-taco combo to go.”

  4. I recommend everyone look at when the feast day of St. Melito is. It’s on April 1. Ahem …

  5. Hence the mystery if this is a poorly done prank (i.e. setting the date as April 1st) or if the guy is worn out. Honestly, I think the strength is in the writing and not in the YouTube videos.
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    However(!) I will take this as a nod that it is not ending, if the editor in the know is responding like this instead of being coy. I like Gustavo’s column, so here’s hoping it keeps chugging.

  6. Ahhhhhh he got me. I won’t spoil it, so come back around 4 or 5 p.m. today online or pick up this week’s upcoming Weekly for more.

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