The Flying Chancla Report

Hola Chulas y Chulos! It’s time for your weekly chanclazo from The Flying Chancla Report. My fearless chancla has been all over the internets to find things you will give a flying chancla about. Check ‘em out!

• Uh, how is it that my chancla and I missed that in 2007 Diego Luna played a Michael Jackson impersonator in the film “Mister Lonely”…did you see it? The only reason my chancla and I are even aware of it is because we stumbled across this throwback clip.
  

• Speaking of Michael Jackson, did you hear that Joseph Fiennes was cast to play the part of Michael Jackson in a movie about a road trip that Jackson supposedly went on with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brandon? Keep in mind that unlike Diego Luna Fiennes was cast as Michael Jackson and NOT a Michael Jackson impersonator. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a big fan of Joseph Fiennes, but WTF? Joseph Fiennes is a white British man and I don’t care how light skinned Michael Jackson ended up being, he was a black man and I think that kind of matters a teensy bit, but no one put me or my chancla in charge of casting this film so I guess I don’t get a say.
  
  

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  Credit: jeff.foote.5/Facebook

 

• My chancla and I read on Munchies that the University of Kentucky is offering an undergraduate course this semester called “Taco Literacy: Public Advocacy and Mexican Food in the US South.” Man, how I would have loved to take that course when I was in college. The class involves eating a lot of tacos and then writing papers about the tacos you ate. Doesn’t that sound like the best homework ever? The class is taught by Steven Alvarez who is an assistant professor in the school’s department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital studies. He says, “At the very end of the course, my students will be generators of knowledge, have a portfolio full of multimedia food journalism, and they will be over the fajita stage of Mexican food.”
   

  IG friends, I’ve enrolled in a #TacoLiteracy course at UK that involves me tasting and posting pictures of delicious Mexican food from local eateries. I’ll be posting a bit more than usual (which isn’t hard to do), showing you some of my mouth-watering discoveries! If you see my #MexKY hashtag, you’ll know that these dishes can be found right here in Lexington! Yummy!

  A photo posted by Rachel Dixon (@racheld222) on Jan 25, 2016 at 2:26pm PST

• Check this out: you can book a Netflix and Chill Airbnb in NYC’s the West Village. The room runs $400 a night and is exclusively for only two people so don’t be getting any ménage à trois Netflix and Chill ideas. The one bedroom meme come to life was created by Tom Galle, Moises Sanabria and Alyssa Davis. Galle works in advertising, Sanabria is an artist and Davis is an engineer. If you are wondering why these folks created the room, Galle told Mashable  “A lot of our work revolves around Internet culture or popular culture. We loved the idea of bringing a meme to life and offer it as a real experience.” If you are interested you should probably book soon because it’s not going to be around forever. The listing should be up for a few months.

  go rent it it’s really cute link in bio A photo posted by Tom Galle Soft (@tomgalle) on Jan 27, 2016 at 2:39pm PST

• My chancla and I wanted to end with this woman and her fierce moves because we wish everyone would dance in public as fearlessly and joyfully as she does.

That’s it for this week’s The Flying Chancla Report. I love you mucho and remember, spread love, not chanclazos!