TFv05 CH 24 "You seen my boy?" (annotated)

Annotations for "You seen my boy?" of Redwood.

**quote**

???

## Page 657

**chingado**

fucker

**nueve globos**

nine baloons. Real club is named Los Globos

**grosso modo**

approximately

**Piso 21**

a Colombian pop group

**moviéndose igual**

moving the same

**dos equis**

two X’s,
beer

## Page 658

**los dioses**

gods

**ese tufo**

that smell

**simón ése**

Of course,
dude

**manoseadas**

groped

**advertencia**

warning

**pero la facilidad**

but the easiness

## Page 659

**denso de piñatas**

dense with piñatas

**muy claro, demasiado claro**

very clear, too clear

**de su cara y cuerpo**

of her face and body

## Page 660

**Éstas son mamadas**

These are lame

**donde es easy poner tacha**

where is easy to strike

**sugiere**

suggests

**otra, y otro trago también**

another, and another drink too

**Órale vato**

Hell yeah, dude

## Page 661

**y una muy fría**

and a very cold one

**colored lights**

like the shooting at Mohonk

## Page 662

**cualquier otro pendejo**

any other asshole

**meterse**

mess

**con safos**

a Chicano term meaning "with
safety," used to mark graffiti. If such a piece was marked with "con safos," it was off limits, a
sort of trademark, and a way of indicating that a graffito was complete and
unarguable

## Page 664

**verdaderos valemadres**

true fuck givers

**cuete**

gun

**es una gran pendejada**

it’s a huge
foolishness

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**Pero estos suatos**

but these imbeciles

**escamar**

scale, scare, disturb

## Page 666

**como pesadillas**

like nightmares

**solo miraron espantados**

they just looked scary

**jodidos**

fuckers

**terriblemente viejo**

terribly old

**como si no pudiera escoger**

as if he could not choose

## Page 667

**como para ver que más hacer**

to see what else to do

## Page 668

**coreando a los demás**

chanting others

**nadie**

no one

**sonando despierto**

daydreaming

**y eso no estaria bien**

and that would not be fine

## Page 669

**de hecho**

in fact

**afeitados o con bigote**

shaved or with mustache

**las camisas abotonadas al cuello**

the shirts buttoned to the neck

**alas grandes**

big wings

**con más velos de sombras**

with more veils of shadows

**narco-corrido**

a subgenre of the Mexican norteño-corrido (northern ballad) music genre,
traditional folk music from northern Mexico. The first corridos that
focus on drug smugglers—the narco comes from "narcotics"—have been
dated by Juan Ramírez-Pimienta to the 1930s. Early corridos (non-narco) go back
as far as the Mexican Revolution of 1910, telling the stories of revolutionary
fighters. Music critics have also compared narcocorrido lyrics and style to gangster
rap and mafioso rap.Narcocorrido lyrics refer to particular events and include
real dates and places. The lyrics tend to speak approvingly of illegal
activities, mainly drug trafficking.

**se muere por oír**

dies to hear

**lo que parece un gato rose en su hombro pasa**

what looks like a pink cat on his shoulder passes

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**Estamos en un club gay?**

Are we in a gay club?

**trazando un marco**

drawing a frame, tracing a mark

**asustado**

scared

## Page 671

**se fueron directo**

they went straight

**Oye, compa, qué pues?**

Hey, friends, what up?

**cómo no**

of course, why not

**con un cliente**

with a client

**Solo pa’ estar seguro**

Just to be sure

**Quieres que te llame cuando regrese?**

Do you want me to call you when she returns?

**Te doy todas las gracias**

I thank you

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**dos brincos**

two bumps

**no puede ser**

can not be

**levantando la cabeza**

raising her head

**muy jodida**

very fucked

**La Llorona**

("The Crying Woman") is a legendary ghost prominent in folklore
of Spanish America. This myth has a tendency
to take aspects of an urban legend and is present throughout Mexican culture.
According to the tradition, La Llorona is the ghost of a woman who lost her
children and now cries while looking for them in the river, often causing
misfortune to those who are near or hear her

**Donde sea que**

Wherever

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**cuando estaba chamaco**

when he was a kid

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**su senda**

his path

**una calle de la muerte**

a street of death

**gateando para enfrente**

crawling (on all fours) to face

## Page 676

**algo muy bueno**

something very good

**porque de eso se trata todo**

because that's what it's all about

## Page 677

**Aunque ni sabe por qué**

Although he does not know why

**todos los secretos del tiempo**

all the secrets of time