You’re Soaking in it, pen and ink doodle on graph paper, doodle © 2007 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Madge: Ei, alá, you’re so-king in it…
Client: ¡Chale! ¿De véras?
Madge: Sí, hombre, te digo la verdad.
Client: ¡Oralé! ¿Qué pasó? Was there a ganga at Dollar Store?
Madge: Bitche, how did you know??
-Inspired by Topic post, Cleanliness.
-Related to post, Everything I Know About Cleaning I Learned From My Mother.
What If Madge Were Chicana?
August 31, 2007 by ybonesy
Posted in Art, Culture, Doodling, Film / TV / Video, Laughing, Practice | Tagged chicana identity, Madge the manicurist, Palmolive dishwashing liquid, What If So-and-So Were Chicano series, ybonesy doodles | 15 Comments
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Ringing of the bells has announced the beginning of the new school year today. The 1st September is the holiday that knocks to every door all over the land and leaves no one inactive. I’m over fifty already, my children are grown up too, but 1st September don’t pass by me too. As I turned on my computer today, I have found the picture What If Madge Were A Chicana? It was so symbolical. The squared paper of the background of the drawing made my 1st September’s memoirs the tangible. Wow, while looking at your picture I have felt myself sitting in the school desk and the incredible warmth have overfilled me. Your picture catches my eyes and touches the heart. The drawing captures in a literal sense of a word. Your picture was drawn not with a pen, but the love and that’s the highest mastery. Thank you for the unforgettable view.
My comments may have anything in common with the theme of your design/your original intentions, but ‘What If Madge Were A Chicana?’ has reached me in the light of 1st September. It pierces totally everything around with 1st September’s bells and everything we are looking at obtain the new meaning today- reveal the essential joy to learn and to share what was grasped. That’s participating in life’s feast. Thank you for the wonderful ball. It was great pleasure to review your drawing – to try to put on paper my emotions. I would like to invite you to visit my pictures too. The 1st September points to the need of mutuality in all we do. That demand is the greatest joy. Thank you once more. You are heartily invited to click on my link http://captains-bridge.blogspot.com . I hope you will have a good time while discovering what my “Captain’s bridge” is all about.
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Ha! Too funny, ybonesy! You’re great with facial expressions! And textures. I love the texture of Madge’s shirt.
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Yes, I always associated 1st of September with the start of school. We always seemed to start the Tuesday after Labor Day, although nowadays the kids here start earlier. But something symbolic, nonetheless, about 1st of September. This morning the sun was shrouded by clouds, and it did seem like a whole new season.
Y de Madge, pues, she has a way of invoking memory. I doodled her while sitting on the plane to San Jose, and the guy in the seat next to me said, I’d recognize that big, oversized mouth anywhere. She was an icon in her own way.
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This is really cute! I look forward to seeing your doodles and brushing up on reading in Spainish too. I will be sharing these with all my chicana friends and family.
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The headband! I recognize the headband.
This is too funny.
I saw clips for the remaking of Desperate Housewives for Latino audiences…with similar, but different, actresses and names for characters. It’s great. You’re Madge would be a shoe in for the first commercial spot…
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/02/26/housewives-latino.html
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So…wondering if you’ll translate for the non-Spanish speaker. I see “Dollar Store” in the text, so know it can’t be verbatim from the 70s. 🙂
I looked Madge up online after seeing this, I had forgotten her face. The photos on the web had the familiar startled/surprised/wide-eyed look I remember. Do you recall how every conversation she had with clients at the salon was essentially the same exchange of words? The same bowl with dishsoap, the same jerking-hand-out-of-bowl-upon hearing-it-is-soap movement, the same way she would pull out the bottle of Palmolive. from behind her work table. Shoot, it makes me want to go buy some Palmolive…I’m feeling sentimental.
I’m enjoying the memories you’re conjuring up from old TV, ybonesy. First Ada and Rachel, now Madge.
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Sometimes there’s just no getting away from not being American!
Hi yb – this carpet thing gave me the idea of bunging bits of heritage on my blog from time to time – first one (textile but not carpet) at http://94stranger.wordpress.com/
I guess you artists are always nosing about looking for stuff to steal from i.e. be inspired by – so maybe ethnic has possiblilities
Enjoy
cheers
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Here’s a YouTube link to an older Palmolive commercial:
In this one Madge talks about why she became a manicurist, and eventually talk turns to Palmolive dishwashing liquid, which Madge’s client is soaking in.
The Chicana Madge has a different conversation altogether, which is hard to translate, as it uses some Spanish slang. It picks up at the point where Madge divulges that the client is soaking in dishwashing liquid, and goes something like:
Madge: Ay, you’re soaking in it…
Client: No way! Really??
Madge: Yes, man, I’m telling you the truth!
Client: I’ll be. What happened, was there a sale at the Dollar Store?
Madge: Bit*h, how did you know??
Glad you found inspiration, stranger.
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The YouTube was great fun to watch. Madge is fabulous.
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ybonesy, your translation is great! And so are the Madge video links. Madge is definitely an all-American icon. It makes me wonder what’s changed – as I look at the cleaning and tampon commercials geared toward women today, Madge could probably still air on TV and be just fine!
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Yb
apart from the bit in the commercial where she explains that with palmolive you get multiple orgasms (or would that be organisms?), I got the whole thing!
art object three on view – I’ve been fiddling with the format to reduce the file size, as you suggested.
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Hey YBones
Quieres Camping!! Y no that’s too much! Que lastima – ala.
Your Madge and Southwest guy made me laugh out loud – as usual you make me laugh.
DD
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Orale Denise! Si, quiero camping. Especially los roasting marsh-MALOS. Aunque no me gustan when mi familia makes me wash the pans in the river. Y, ala, I tell them, you’re so hateful!
Laters.
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