The End of ¡Ask A Mexican!

In November 2004, The OC Weekly’s only Latino journalist started writing a Q. and A. column, “¡Ask a Mexican!” To his editor, Gustavo Arellano was a “surrogate Mexican for our English-speaking readership.”

To others, he was a lightning rod — for either reinforcing stereotypes or confronting anger and xenophobia. But the questions kept coming in, and he grew into a national pundit on all things Mexican.

On Thursday, he apparently ran out of answers, and patience for some of the participants in an often boiling debate. “It’s been a great run, cabrones,” he wrote, “but all the hateful e-mail, 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?”

Yes, The Lede knows.

Meanwhile, his second book is due out in September and the dream he described to The New York Times last year remains unfulfilled:

He dreams of being the host of a one-hour radio show about “The Simpsons,” which he cites as a major influence in teaching him how “to be hilarious and offer substance at the same time.”

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That's bad. It was a funny column. He might regroup and write a book about the entire run. That might get him even more notoriety.