TFv02 CH 07 Frogtown (annotated)

Annotations for Frogtown from Into the Forest.

## Page 180

**Richard Rodriguez**

writer, author of Hunger of Memory

## Page 181

**tumbado del burro**

knocked off the donkey

**Juarez**

the one that is like a wild dog

**perdido**

lost

**lista**

list

**firme**

firm?

**mamón**

sucker, idiot

**feria**

money

**tacos de ojo**

tacos of eyes + means checking someone out, looking at someone

**quesadillas**

food

**libros**

books

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**sobres**

remains, envelopes

**el mero mero**

the go-to guy

## Page 184

**Sleeping rainbow snake**

probably an internet place where
people spent money online, quite possibly mentioned at the Sementera
party in V1 pg 331

**Noosphere**

“the least safe (V1 335)

## Page 185

**Exxon Valdez**

an oil tanker that gained notoriety after
spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska in
1989

**Zuma**

Zuma Beach, Malibu

**Eulalia**

sweetly speaking;

**Calsilda**

?, Cally?

**panocha**

vagina

**Rufina**

“red-haired”

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**tamaluda**

probably: chubby woman (looking like the tamales food)

**tortas chamagosas**

probably something like thick oiled body

**cbj**

covered blow-job (with condom)

**Sudafed**

relieves sinus pressure, pain and congestion related to the common cold, allergies or other sinus problems

## Page 187

**tontos, lops**

idiots

**pinta**

prison

**clicas**

gang

## Page 188

**Melissa Torres**

made up internet
personality for Luther’s drug traffic

**Whittier moms**

Astair?, + Piňa worked there in massage saloon – V1 81

## Page 189

**Almoraz**

the one Luther, lying like a corpse, attacks in V1

**latoso**

unpleasant

**gat**

gun

**morritas**

girls;

**DSLs**

dick sucking lips

**es3**

ese, homie

**mecoso park**

?

**cuete**

gun

**surenos**

southerners, Mexican American street gangs

## Page 190

**Chitel**

boy who with Almo found Luther lying like a corpse

**From The Hood Boy…**

rappers

## Page 191

**El Porvenir**

Future, mentioned in V1 210

**harnero**

sift

**ocho mil**

8000

**Adolfo**

owner of El Porvenir

**raspa**

snow cone

## Page 192

**cholos**

Hispanic male

**gabachos**

white people

**maricones**

homosexuals

**40**

ounces, alcohol

**211**

Steel Reserve (alcohol)

## Page 193

**vacilando**

wander

**tizo**

?

## Page 197

**Hablan hasta por los codos**

Could talk the hind legs of a donkey – never shut up

**levantón**

lift of

**ante todo**

especially, first of all

## Page 198

**malandros**

thugs

## Page 199

**“Que carita”**

What a face

**cont.**

"Teyo says that the boy is very smart (nice, cool)."… “And
that Teyo never takes a boy that did not pass through me” (guys, I do
not speak Spanish)

**cont.**

“When will you go down again? Your old Traite (cow?) and your
 crew (plebada – slang of the Sinaola state) Or will we meet some
jainitas (Jane’s?) from El Salvador, with tits firm like girls from
preparatoria (upper secondary education in Mexico). They can do a head
stand and let you pour tequila between their legs. There’s a new place
near arenita (a diminutive of arena – sand. Small desert? Sonoran Desert
 perhaps?) Infinity pools and jacuzzi’s. You get a small room and you lick pussy until you fart from happiness.“ Or something like that :)

**Cotorreando...**

Gossiping to pass time

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**tecos**

Various sources suggest that Tecos is a short version
of Tecolotes, plural of a Mexican term meaning "owl;" however, Mexican
slang also uses the long term to refer to uniformed policemen

## Page 204

**A toda madre**

totally awesome

## Page 205

**ATF**

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms