Eating Tamales With Chopsticks: Known for bringing tamales to the crazy camper cookouts each year at the Manzanar Pilgrimage, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara saw shadows of ghosts in the campfires that warmed the chill of mountain nights. Rubén, of Ruben and the Jets fame and a rock n’ roll immortal, is quintessentially East Los Angeles — activist, poet, singer, writer, producer, historian and art curator.