Staff Writer
HARLINGEN, Texas - The short and violent life of free-lance writer Toni Chapa came to a weird end this morning, when officials of the immigration detention center where she was being held finally planted her into the ground in a pre-dawn burial ceremony attended by a small group of fellow dwarfs.
The smallish body was initially scheduled to be flown to Managua, but The Tribune covered costs for a local funeral mass and burial at a site not revealed to the public.
A soulful mariachi played Las Golondrinas as prison workers lowered the tiny coffin into the ground shaded only by the craggy branches of a dying mesquite. Nearby, two cows played at looking interested as gravediggers shoveled, but soon ambled off toward a better-looking meadow yards away.
"May you rest in eternal peace," said a prison chaplain ordered to supervise the burial. "You fought for something all your life and it is in your next stop where the chit will be cashed. Toni Chapa, may your soul travel light and may you be re-born to do good for Mankind."
Somewhere, better-off people were off to church or to the local cafe for a breakfast of huevos rancheros or rising from the movida's bed to go home. Here, on a beaten, cow-chip covered piece of harsh Rio Grande Valley ground, Toni Chapa was settling in...
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16 comments:
Ja, ja, ja. ja, ja. Great story with good music. sera Chapete para siempre.
Good Story, boot hill is where Toni belongs and buried beneath cow chips, is about right for the Chapas of Harlingen. Ni mas ni menos, que descanse.
So long chapa! Adios, bro. We won't miss you.
The man is a child. Enough of his short ass. Let's get on with the new year.
This stuff is good for a movie. Toni chapa, what a fool.
Chapete is saying the Tribune is one of the worst blogs in valley. que pendejo. he doesn't even how bad he is. can't write, spell or grow up. Sonso.
ANONYMOUS:...Tony Chapa calling us bad is expected. He would have no way of knowing what makes a Blog good, having been the overflowing cesspool of Valley blogging for an entire year. We forgive him, however, as we forgive the staff dog's doo-doo. His comments are a joke; it's just him commenting. As for counting stories, well, he doesn't write his. We do one - sometimes two - but we write them. We remember an email he sent us when we took a break last summer ahead of a trip to New york, when he said "blogging is dead without The Tribune." So, we take him at his angst. Chapa is an unquestioned loser, and he can crow about his make-belief numbers and he can have his massage boy Jake attack us at every turn...but he's still an amateur... - Editor
uh, Tony, The Tribune has many more comments than you do. Most of us know you post false numbers. it's just you and Jake and no one else. get real, chapa. Everybody's laughing at you, man.
His errand boy, or slave boy, Jakester, a low life like himself, is trying to get the dead blog going by making comments.
About 2 comments on 4 stories. So much for number one. He reminds me of the Saddam Hussein spokesman, who kept saying they would win the war.
Toney Chapete, is what it is, puro chapete. Junto con toda la vola de cabroncitos that still stick to him and believe in him. Puros Losers. Rejects, fracasos, better still flonkes.
What a loser that Tony Chapete and his slave boy wonder, Jakey, or Jack, or ralphy, or june, or july, or august. Whatever, some reject who claims to have retired from ice. Ice employs janitors and yard people you know. I wonder!!!!
Patrick, he can't write, he puts together fragments and calls them sentences. Then he strings them together and calls them paragraphs.
Es Loser el senor chapetongo longo, el y sus movidas.
Antonio, eres un loser, oyelo, y entiendelo, puro cool-aid, puro cool aid.
Que vivan los Cowboys, asi debian de jugar todo el tiempo.
ANONYMOUS:...Tony Chapa is reacting like a cornered dog. He is lashing out at people and he is allowing wildly questionable comments from his chief blogger Jake that may yet land Tony in court. In a way, we feel sorry for him, because perhaps he doesn't know how to get out of the storm. What we've told him is that all he has to do is apologize with sincere humility and get to doing what he set out to do with his Blog - help Harlingen become a better city. As his Blog is these days, all readers see is a man flailing at everyone who checks in. No one will take him seriously so long as his sole motivation is to criticize those who arrive with a different perspective on the topics he posts. It's on him... - Editor
I am curious, is that song dedicated to the now deases Toni Chapis.
La Golondrina is on the Tribune dedication request. I didn't know dwarfs like that type of music.
I thought dwarfs had no intellectual abilities. Por eso son enanos.
That killer picture of rice and beans is making me hungry. Better head to me rancho and get me a full plate. Then back to my novel. The Tribune sure knows how to stimulate the apetite. Got to go, oh, I just remember they are open 24-7.
Hang in there, good man Partick, your staff is doing a great job with your articles, don't let the dwarf bother you. He is just a pest, out of 9 comments 5 are his. So much for his crapy bull. The former harlingenblog did a survey,and t/c was voted the most annoying person in Harlingen. That ought to tell it all, es un enanito, que no vale lo que pesa.
The big dawg has him shaking, with the tail between his legs, es miedoso.
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