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Pocho Nerd Pride Alert: The Maya counting system is awesome (toon)
The Maya, as we all know from Stand and Deliver, were bad ass – one of few ancient civilizations to create the concept of zero.
Since I am an awesome Latina nerd myself, I must share this awesome official Chilean government education ministry photograph of an actual ancient awesome Maya dude counting some stuff out in front of a chart of the awesome Maya counting system.
Mas…Pocho Nerd Pride Alert: The Maya counting system is awesome (toon)
Tlaloc, sweetie, you get a little hostile when you’re hungry (toon)
Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t!
Para reír un rato.
Posted by Teotihuacan on Thursday, September 3, 2015
Mas…Tlaloc, sweetie, you get a little hostile when you’re hungry (toon)
It’s almost as if Escher animated a Kafka story: ‘The Guardian’ (video)
A wandering Everyman arrives at a metaphysical gate, controlled by a fearsome Guardian. He tries to pass through, but is denied.
Everyman and Guardian, however, are the same person. Each of us must confront his own fear, or else the shapeless Guardian who controls us will close the doors on the possibilities of our lives. We have nothing to fear, tu sabes, but fear itself. (Also mind killer.)
Mas…It’s almost as if Escher animated a Kafka story: ‘The Guardian’ (video)
Clip y Save: Fall screenings of ‘Bordertown,’ maybe near you *UPDATED
If you follow POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz and me, POCHO Associate Naranjero Gustavo Arellano, you know that we’ve been shamelessly promoting the upcoming FOX animated cartoon, Bordertown.
In case you’re just some random Googler who stumbled across this page, here’s the synopsis: BORDERTOWN satirizes life on the U.S.-Mexico border — la migra, changing demographics, religion, the drug war, and so much more.
Yeah, part of it is shameless self-promotion — I’m a consultant, while Lalo is a staff writer. But we’re doing it because we truly do believe this series is the Great Brown Hope: the network program that will finally show raza in all our hilarious, proud, chingón glory and that will become a ratings smash that’ll allow the beginning of #televisionreconquista.
Mas…Clip y Save: Fall screenings of ‘Bordertown,’ maybe near you *UPDATED
This is a test of the emergency bugpest system (toon)
In the event of an actual emergency tune your device to a bugpest near you. [Image via the Internet, original artist unknown. Hella thanks, however!]
La Cucaracha: Coming soon to a hood near you (toon)
Based on a true story: The adventures of ‘El Coyote’ [NSFW]
Every day, twice a day, Monday through Friday for six months, the coyote (or human smuggler) concealed and transported migrants across the border from Mexico to Los Estados Unidos. El Coyote — based on a true story — has some NSFW words in Spanish and English. There’s lots more about filmmaker Javier Barboza and the making of this stop-motion and animated video at Barboza’s website.
Mas…Based on a true story: The adventures of ‘El Coyote’ [NSFW]
I’m Donald Trump and I approved this hateful message (toon)
This toon originally appeared in the San Diego Free Press. Gracias!
That time when Sylvester Stallone was a Mexican cover boy (toons)
With all the press he is getting, you would think that Pendejo-of-the-Century Donald Trump had invented all the twisted tales of Mexicans floating on the interwebs.
But our pasty-faced, combover fatboy is not the first and not the last of the foolios who will get rich (and famous) for spouting hate-laced bon mots on the hygiene, sexual practices, and criminality of Mexicans or any other Latina/o for that matter.
Here, in some graphics from the 30s, we see some early 20th Century meditations on Latina/o/Hispanic subjectivities from the pages of Argosy Weekly.
As you can see, pulp magazine editors and illustrators were not ethnographers and whether the subjects depicted are Spanish, Argentine, or Mexican (or Italian — Sylvester Stallone?) is impossible to determine — though I am pretty sure the Buzzard Bait issue features some prehistoric Califas bandidos, and Señor Flatfoot’s “pampas” rogues look like they stepped out of the Mexico conjured in John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (which had not been made yet! Time travelers?)
Mas…That time when Sylvester Stallone was a Mexican cover boy (toons)
