Roberto Pelayo aka El Niño is one of the world’s top sneakerheads, with a collection of over 1000 pairs. He started out as a collector is Mexico City; now he buys and sells for himself and his retail operations, Globstore.
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The Circle of Life: “Nhazé” means “seed” in Zapotec (video)
The word “Nazhé” means “seed” in the Mexican Zapotec indigenous language and inspired this short animation about the cyclical nature of life and death. [Video by Chilango artist Fafer Reyes.]
On #GivingTuesday, Los Pochodores endorse these causes
It’s #GivingTuesday 2016, when all good pochos y pochas should donate dinero to the non-profit organization of her/his choice.
Here’s where Los Pochodores are sending money this year:
From France: Creamed potatoes, red onions, and cheese ‘tacos’ (video)
Home fries, red onions, cream sauce and Pont-L’Evêque cheese are the stars of this one-minute recipe video for “tacos” from Elle&Vire, a diary conglomerate in France’s Normandy region. But this begs the critical tortilla-based question: Corn or wheat? Also note that they call tortillas “galettes fajitas,” which translates as fajita pancakes. Unclear on the concept, n’est-ce pas? On the other hand, since they want you to heat the assembled dish on a griddle at 400° for five minutes, and then fold it up, it’s actually a potato quesadilla. Or something.
It’s CyberCholo Monday: Buy my 2017 Cartoon Calendar, please!
Today is CyberCholo Monday at the Lalo Alcaraz Cartoon Studio Empire, and that means I am doing my annual plug for my hilarious and historical date-packed cartoon calendar.
This is possibly the 20th Cartoon Calendar I have made, but I have so much fun making it that I’ve lost track of how many there have been.
Mas…It’s CyberCholo Monday: Buy my 2017 Cartoon Calendar, please!
For Cyber Monday (or not): Happy Hipster Holidays! (photos)
Tired of the same old same old Nativity with the holy homeless Jewish family and the animals in a manger and Los Tres Reyes Magos? So 2000 years ago, am I right?
What you need is the new Hipster Nativity Set, an actual product, available from ModerNativity.com for $129 plus taxes and shipping.
Mas…For Cyber Monday (or not): Happy Hipster Holidays! (photos)
¡Orale! We’re getting $5.2 million for Christmas! (audio)
OMG! We’re getting a $5.2 million ATM Card for Christmas! Here are the deets:
GOOD DAY MY FRIEND.
How are you, and with your family,All the arragement is done about your ATM CARD,there is no problem again
but i let you know that .Our ATM DEPARTMENT OFFICE Benin republic here are delivery your ATM MASTER CARD
with very little amount If you are ready to receive it which can cost you $100
dollar only. Now i let you know that all your total Amount of your ATM CARD is
( $5.8 MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR ONLY ) so i let you know that to Activation
fee of ATM CARD before is $200 dollar in any country in this world wide. but
the COMMISSIONNER OF POLICE And MR IYA BONI PRESIDENCE of Benin republic
held a meeting with there Cabinet the cocultion is that the activation of
ATM CARD will be $100 dollar only.
Mas…¡Orale! We’re getting $5.2 million for Christmas! (audio)
Witchi Tai To: Water spirit feeling springing round my head (video)
Hypnotic. Uplifting. Native American jazz saxophonist and songwriter Jim Pepper’s 1969 version of traditional peyote song Witchi Tai To got a slight remix and a Native dancer in this mesmerizing YouTube fan video. #NoDAPL!
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…Witchi Tai To: Water spirit feeling springing round my head (video)
This happened backstage today at a big store near you (video)
It takes a tough team of retail warriors to work at the Big Store in the Big Mall on Thanksgiving Day, and a tough manager to keep ’em in the game. [Video by Más Mejor.]
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Oh jes! Thanksgiving turkey al pastor tacos
Happy Mexican Thanksgiving Day!
Is Tia Lencha here. Gwhat is Mexican Thanksgiving Day you ask? Is Thanksgiving but with all Mexican food. What?!?! My gringo frends say. Oh no! How you can do that! Is crazy! And Tia Lencha say, no really.
When I help mijo with his homeworks, I learn that Thanksgiving come from a Puritan holiday in Englands. When it was the Reformation the Protestantes wanted to throw away all the Catholic holidays, even Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Oh jes! Thanksgiving turkey al pastor tacos
De Nalgas: We’re here to help you stop ‘f-ing up’ (NSFW music video)
Mexican punks De Nalgas are the f*ckers that have come to wake you up. Although the song is ostensibly directed at music business posers, we think it has a wider application. 😉
[NSFW lyrics in Español, adult images.]
Mira los lyrics and [official] translation:
Mas…De Nalgas: We’re here to help you stop ‘f-ing up’ (NSFW music video)
John F. Kennedy in Houston and Dallas, TX November 21-22, 1963
Tina Adame couldn’t stop smiling hours after meeting President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
The First Couple surprised Mexican American guests at a LULAC gala in Houston, and Tina went over every detail to anyone who listened the next morning at the engineering firm where she worked.
The president spoke about the importance of Hispanics in the country, she said. Then, Jackie addressed the crowd in Spanish. “It was magical,” Tina recalled.
Her boss, a Kennedy critic, overheard her talking about the visit to co-workers. “So, you got close to the president?” he asked. “Did you shoot him?”
Mas…John F. Kennedy in Houston and Dallas, TX November 21-22, 1963
POCHO’s @SaraChicaD wishes you a Happy Mexican Sansgiven (video)
POCHO’s Subcommandanta del Ñews, Sara Inés Calderón, shares everything you need to know about Sansgiven, the Mexican Thanksgiving. She’s @SaraChicaD on the Twitter.
Superman’s 1960 Refugee Policy: ‘Lend a friendly hand’ (toon)
Help the refugees, kids, said Superman in this 1960 one-page PSA. Lend a friendly hand! is from DC’s World’s Finest #111, August 1960. It was World Refugee Year on a distant planet just like Earth where people just like Americans cared about others.
Single Girl Life Alert: End those worries about being alone (video)
With Single Girl Life Alert from Sarah Hartman, you don’t have to worry about being alone. [Video by Hot Buffet Sketch Comedy.]
Can you hear me now? ‘Te escucho!’ (video)
On a dark and stormy night, a pregnant woman stumbles and falls in the rain. What can a passing stranger do? Te escucho, a 2009 entry in a Mexican cell phone company video contest, has the answer. [Video by creator and artist Alexander Da Silva.]
10-second recipe video: ‘Mexican Chicken Chowder’ (Chowder? Huh?)
Mexican Chicken Chowder is by Fresh Coast Collective. Where’s the Mexican part? Is it the avocado? What makes this “chowder”? Where’s the sound? Why does this video come from the Fly Fleet Running gym in Minneapolis? We don’t understand.
Moby’s existential angst: Are you lost in the world like me? (video)
Animator Steve Cutts rocks the Max Fleischer-inspired 1930s-looking visuals as Moby & The Void Pacific Choir sing a song of existential angst, Are you lost in the world like me? Can you relate?
Sombra of OVERWATCH: Latinx champion of a tech-forward identity
After months of secrets leaking out of headquarters, the new hero for Orange County’s Blizzard Entertainment hit game Overwatch has finally been revealed. She’s a Mexican Latina named Sombra (photo). Her name means Shadow.
But does this impact the culture of Orange County? The culture of video game development? The very essence of Mexican and Mexican-American culture?
As a first generation Mexican-American, I think Sombra represents an important and much-needed shift in thought to get Latino people into careers in which we are consistently underrepresented. She is the champion of a new tech-forward identity that uses its own skills to take matters into its own hands. But, most importantly, she’s really freakin’ cool, as you can see in this video:
Mas…Sombra of OVERWATCH: Latinx champion of a tech-forward identity
Pearls Before Swine: Meet Raul, my new Mexican friend (toon)
[Via @StephanPastis on the Twitter]
But what term is “correct”? POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz explained it all to NBC Latino
Mas…Pearls Before Swine: Meet Raul, my new Mexican friend (toon)
@UPDATED: Screw you, Trump! Esta tierra es mia tambien! (video)
Wednesday my son’s second grade class in Lemon Grove, San Diego County, California put on a “Veteran’s Appreciation Show.” When the kids began with This Land is Your Land in Spanish, I was moved beyond words.
The significance of this happening right after we elected a white supremacist to the highest office in the land was not lost on me.
Seeing these children of all colors singing this song in Spanish brought me to tears.
Toma Trump! This land is for everyone!!
[Private chef Mark Lane grew up in Lemon Grove, home town of POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz. They are still “friends” on Facebook.]
UPDATED SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 1:30 PM:
Mark Lane posted this on Facebook this morning….
Mas…@UPDATED: Screw you, Trump! Esta tierra es mia tambien! (video)
Rage Against the Machine: Take the Power Back! (NSFW 1997 video)
POCHO amigo Flavio Morales dug this oldie up out of the secret vaults that hold the treasured recordings of his groundbreaking TV program Illegal Interns:
Live concert footage from 1997 of Take the Power Back by Rage Against the Machine.
[RATM is, indeed, raging so there are many NSFW F-bombs etc. Also, if play it loud you can sing along and no one will know.]
LOS LYRICS:
Mas…Rage Against the Machine: Take the Power Back! (NSFW 1997 video)
Can Juanita and Diego survive the gentrification of ‘Highland Park’?
Los Angeles locals Juanita and Diego had a holy vision in Highland Park. Who knew Tonantzin, Aztec mother goddess, had a cousin named Concepción?
Marley’s “One love, one heart” – Let’s get together and feel all right!
The Reverend Bob Marley’s classic song delivers the word: One Love! One Heart! Let’s get together and feel all right!
Los lyrics:
Mas…Marley’s “One love, one heart” – Let’s get together and feel all right!