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Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.

Associate Professor • Chicanx-Latinx Histories • Pomona College

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14 years ago today we made it official with fancy clothes, a big BBQ, and some dancing. But it was already official to me from the first time we spoke to each other. Thank you for your love, patience, and this amazing adventure we’re on together. Happy Anniversary babe!

Drummer DJ Fontana died yesterday at 87. Along with Scotty Moore (d. 2016) on guitar and Bill Black (d. 1965) on bass the three men were the band for Elvis Presley from 1954 through the early 60s. Moore and Fontana even regrouped with him for the ‘68 comeback special. DJ Fontana was brought on after Elvis, Moore, and Black had recorded their first sessions at Sun Records. It’s not an exaggeration to say, as the great Levon Helms did, that it wasn’t rock ‘n roll until Fontana put his backbeat to it. All the members of this pioneering quartet are now dead, but what a legacy.

Working with comic books of the Vietnam War era and pleased to find a Mexican farmworker subplot in one of the issues I’m analyzing.