A Mexican immigrant brings a taco truck to Brooklyn, helps the neighborhood, has fun, and makes money. It’s the American Dream!
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Los Cenzontles: It takes ‘Every Kind of People’ (music video)
He was just an ordinary guy, but he had an extraordinary day. Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) re-imagine Robert Palmer’s Every Kind of People.
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Music video for Trump: “No way, pendejo, it isn’t gonna happen!”
Video creators Greñudo Productions write that No Way, Pendejo! is “a measured and thoughtful meditation on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” We’re pretty much in agreement, except we’d characterize the baboso Donald Trump as a “pinche pendejo.” [Editor’s note: A greñudo is a person with unruly, messy, unkempt hair.]
Top Taco Trucks Throwback Thursday #TTTTT (videos)
Because of you know who and you know why, we thought it would be chingon to take a look back at the taco truck videos that have graced POCHO’s pages over the years.
Did we mention we love tacos?
In no particular order:
Frankie Quiñones is “The World’s Smartest Man” (video)
POCHO regulars know comic and actor Frankie Quiñones as Creeper the Cholo, but there’s another side to his life. Quiñones is so intelligent and well-read many consider him the “World’s Smartest Man.” What can we learn from Quiñones? Well for one thing, he has some very smart dating advice.
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From Michoacan to LA: ‘Chef Al Pastor’ and his American Dream (video)
His father wanted him to stay in Michoacan, work on the family farm, and do construction, but Raul Morales crossed over from Mexico at 17 to pursue his culinary dreams. Now, at 44, he’s his own boss, and a master of tacos al pastor. “Chef Al Pastor” was interviewed at his Los Angeles restaurant Taqueria Vista Hermosa.
Sing along! ‘The Taco Trucks Anthem’ (official lyrics video)
Sing along with America! The Taco Trucks Anthem was written on a taco truck napkin by POCHO amigo JIMWiCH and performed by the U.S. Marine Band and friends:
Oh beautiful for taco trucks
On every corner YES
Fresh salsa on tortilla chips
Our country God did bless
Mas…Sing along! ‘The Taco Trucks Anthem’ (official lyrics video)
Taco trucks deserve their own haikus! Add your haiku here
Do you love tacos and the trucks that bring them to every corner?
Write a haiku to show your love!
The Japanese poetic form consists of 17 syllables, in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5.
The fundamental aesthetic quality of … haiku is that it is internally sufficient, independent of context, and will bear consideration as a complete work.
Here are a few for inspiration:
Pollo, carnitas
Different strokes for different folks
TACO USA
Mas…Taco trucks deserve their own haikus! Add your haiku here
Always look for the union label: Music vids for Labor Day
Happy Labor Day!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always look for the union label: Music vids for Labor Day
Long Weekend: Blow up your TV, throw away your paper (toons, video)
Sometimes you’ve just got to turn off the TV and walk away — and a long Labor Day weekend is the perfect excuse!
Mas…Long Weekend: Blow up your TV, throw away your paper (toons, video)
Shocking new video from Trump’s doctor reveals awful truth
Dr. Harold Bornstein — that wack long-haired doctor who wrote a weird-ass letter about Donald Trump’s health — comes clean with the whole truth and nothing but the truth in this shocking new video. [Yes, that’s STTNG’s Brent Spiner, Trekkies!]
TIFO: Why do ‘Mexican jumping beans’ jump? (video)
I had ’em, you had ’em, everybody had ’em at least once. The Today I Found Out YouTube channel’s Simon Whistler explains why those so-called “Mexican jumping beans” jump. SPOILER: They’re not beans. Also, they sorta twitch rather than jump.
Looks legit! When in Warsaw, Poland, check out Taco Libre (video)
Any sane tourist in Warsaw would want to try pierogi, keilbasa, galompkis, kasha, borscht, and a local wodka, but the Poles want more than that. Thankfully, The Taco Libre food truck looks totally legit.
Juanga: ‘Have You Ever Seen the Rain?’ (videos)
Juan Gabriel recorded this emotional performance of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic Have You Ever Seen the Rain earlier this year. QEDP.
Watsky explains this ‘Brave New World’ (NSFW music video, lyrics)
Rapper (George) Watsky offers some explanations for our Brave New World. PRO TIP: “Veneficia” means witchcraft. [NSFW F-bombs.] Video by Mexican director Carlos Lopez Estrada.
Here are the lyrics:
Mas…Watsky explains this ‘Brave New World’ (NSFW music video, lyrics)
Lowriders to the Center of the Earth! (graphic novel video trailer)
Cathy Camper of PDX writes:
OK, I confess, I’m Lebanese American often mistaken for Latina, Native American, Jewish, terrorist…no one in the US knows who anyone is!
I wrote 2 graphic novels with Raúl III (Raúl Gonzalez) called Lowriders in Space (2014) and Lowriders to the Center of the Earth (just came out this summer, July 2016). Raúl illustrated them all in Bic pen, because that’s what kids draw with in school, right? The books are aimed at kids, but adults are loving them too.
Mas…Lowriders to the Center of the Earth! (graphic novel video trailer)
Al Madrigal and the ‘Cholo Soccer Dad’ (#TBT 2010 video)
POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal – who admits to not being a very good Mexican – will never forget the parents he met when he took his kid to the park.
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Mas…Al Madrigal and the ‘Cholo Soccer Dad’ (#TBT 2010 video)
They say this is a recipe for ‘Mexican Chicken Steak’ (video)
Food Fix host Zakir shows how to prepare “Mexican Chicken Steak,” at least that’s what he says. Brought to you by the Malaysian Palm Oil of Pakistan people, which is why there is a lot of environmentally-suspect palm oil in the recipe:
Mas…They say this is a recipe for ‘Mexican Chicken Steak’ (video)
Too manly for Sleepytime® Tea? Try the Sleepytime® Burrito! (video)
Yo, dude. Yes, you, Mr. Hard-Working Macho Guy! Have trouble getting to sleep after a hard day in the coal mines? None of that Sleepytime® tea for you. You’re not a professor or a poet. You need a real man’s sleep aid — the new Sleepytime® Burrito.
Bang Data: It ain’t me, I ain’t no Fortunate Son (Fortunate Hijo) [video]
Oakland’s Bang Data puts a contemporary political spin on this remake of Creedence Clearwater’s Fortunate Son.
“Some folks are born made to wave the flag,” they sing. “Ooh, they’re red, white and blue. And when the band plays Hail to the Chief, ooh, they point the cannon at you.”
Bang Data wants you to register to vote.
POCHO does too.
Creeper, home from San Quentin, shares his ‘Cholofit Workout’ (video)
Creeper is back in the barrio — home from la pinta — and wants to share his workout tips with the neighborhood. [Video by POCHO amigo Frankie Quiñones via Funny Drop.]
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Mas…Creeper, home from San Quentin, shares his ‘Cholofit Workout’ (video)
LA restaurant’s horchata cocktail has a very special garnish (video)
When you get a horchata cocktail at Salazar Los Angeles, a little chapulin tops off your drink with special sabor.
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It’s Taco Bell Tuesday in Japan with Yuka Kinoshita (video)
Kawaii cutie Yuka Kinoshita, or Kinoshita Yuka, (it depends) taste tests a Taco Bell “quesarito” and a 12-taco party pack. Taco Bell? It’s a popular American restaurant chain that specializes in Mexican food, according to her smart phone. Click on [CC] to see the English subtitles.
Cristina Martinez: Don’t mess with this Chicana! (NSFW poetry video)
This Latinx does not want your stereotyping BS. Cristina Martinez performing Chicana at the Cherokee Man and the Mockingbird graffiti mural at Decatur Station in Decatur, Georgia. [NSFW F-bomb.]
Ruben Pardo has been an elevator operator for 40 years (video)
Ruben Pardo, 75, is the oldest manual elevator operator in Los Angeles. Six days a week for 40 years, Pardo has helped the patrons of the Art Deco Wilshire Tower building “up and down” while sharing his positive musings on the simple joys of life.
In Tijuana, Javier is el super taquero recargado! (video)
In Tijuana, Chef Javier of Tacos El Poblano on Boulevard Diaz Ordaz las Huertas serves up tacos with style and flair. [Recargado (“recharged”) is slang for “kick-ass” or “awesome”.]
Beck vs Mexican Institute of Sound: ‘WOW/GUAU’ (YouTube audio)
The cumbia-flavored remix of Beck’s WOW aka GUAU by Mexican Institute of Sound is now on YouTube and we’re sharing here so you don’t have to deal with pinche Spotify. You’re guelcome. 🙂
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Mas…Beck vs Mexican Institute of Sound: ‘WOW/GUAU’ (YouTube audio)
This is how you do it! Kid cleans nopales like a boss (video)
This kid scraping the spines from nopales (cactus paddles) knows what’s up!
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Mas…This is how you do it! Kid cleans nopales like a boss (video)
