Did you know the Mexican Mole Lizard has front legs that it uses to dig borrows? It’s also a carnivore that likes to chow down on ants and termites. Nadine’s short video explains it all.
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Young Junco Canché had some issues with deadlines (video)
A year ago, before cartoonist Junco Canché joined POCHO as our Chicano Punk Rock Artesano, he was having some issues with deadlines. He’s all good now. [NSFW in Spanish.]
Taco Tuesday Music Video: ‘Mexican Hippic Sauce’ (Vegan Mix)
Belgium’s “anti-rock/ex-noisy-surf-band” The Poneymen are cooking up vegan Mexican Hippic Sauce with sombreros. That’s all we can really tell you, as our high school French didn’t cover situations like this. Horses reading horse-porn magazines, mon Dieu! [FYI: “Hippic” means “having to do with horses.”]
Don’t try this at home: How to make an ‘Obsidian Heart’ (video)
It looks easy if you know how. Mexico City master jeweler José Luis Gonzalez Bautista fashions a silver setting for an Obsidian Heart. [Video by robertopotamo.] Need some silver work? Go straight to Plaza San Jacinto 3B, San Ángel, 01000 Álvaro Obregón, DF, México.
A Tribe Called Red: Stadium Anti-Racist Pow Wow Chant (audio)
Canadian First Nations DJ Crew A Tribe Called Red mixes up traditional sounds with future sonics and they want you to use this song instead of racist mascot chants in sports arenas.
Mas…A Tribe Called Red: Stadium Anti-Racist Pow Wow Chant (audio)
Fans furious as SiriusXM deports 80% of Latin music channels
Is SiriusXM ignorant, or racist, or both?
That’s the question burning up the social media as the Latin music community reacts to the satellite channel’s dropping 8 out of 10 Latin music streams.
With little notice to listeners, labels or artists over the last few months, SiriusXM has eliminated eight out of 10 of its Latin music channels on their satellite platform.
And now some Latino civil rights groups are blasting the decision.
Mas…Fans furious as SiriusXM deports 80% of Latin music channels
Finally a legit recipe video for ‘Mexican Street Corn’ aka elotes
No pinche RONCO appliance this time, just a grill, corn on the cob, and all the fixings. Yay! As always, street not included, and bring your own Tajin.
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Mas…Finally a legit recipe video for ‘Mexican Street Corn’ aka elotes
Student survey results: ‘Gringo ESL teacher is an ignorant slob’
Gringo instructor adamant class loves him
(PNS reporting from HEREDIA, COSTA RICA) A business English language class at Intel, Inc. unanimously agreed in a recent questionnaire that teacher Bryan McNutt’s two strongest abilities are being a painfully oblivious gringo and poor wardrobe choices.
The group of six, who requested their names be withheld, filled out the survey about their teacher after complaints were filed about the quality of classes he was providing. A big part of the problem, one student explained, was McNutt’s sartorial choices.
“Every five seconds he’s grabbing his Ropa Americana and pants so they don’t fall down,” one student said. “Is it school policy for every teacher to look like a poorly-dressed Mormon missionary?”
Mas…Student survey results: ‘Gringo ESL teacher is an ignorant slob’
Shamans summon traditional spirits to make Peru great again (video)
Fruits, flowers, conch shells, special potions, and chingon hats were in season outside the National Stadium in Lima, Peru, Monday, as two sets of shamans cast spells aimed at bringing their rival presidential candidates a victory in next week’s Presidential runoff election.
Mas…Shamans summon traditional spirits to make Peru great again (video)
NSFW Video: Jello Biafra and Napalm Death ‘Nazi Trumps F Off!’
Jello Biafra, colorful frontman of legendary punks The Dead Kennedys, joins Napalm Death for a new version of Nazi Punks, F*** Off dedicated to Donald Trump, the alt-white, and their racist supporters. Biafra calls it Nazi Trumps F*** Off. This video is from a 2016 gig at Slim’s in San Francisco. [MASSIVE F-BOMBARDMENT NSFW.]
Aeromexico’s Maria Fernanda lands a 737-800 (video)
Aeromexico First Officer Maria Fernanda is cool as an aguacate as she lands a massive 737-800 at Mexico City’s aeropuerto.
Pronunciation for pochos: Cotija, tomatillo, huarache, taqueria
Pochos, by definition, can’t speak Espanish. We’re here to help.
Mas…Pronunciation for pochos: Cotija, tomatillo, huarache, taqueria
Out of the night when the full moon is bright: La Llorona (video)
La Llorona? It’s just a legend, mijo, a ghost story told by a traveling puppet show. Still, if you think you hear a weeping woman in the night, don’t come running. [Video by Matthew James Tebbutt.]
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Mas…Out of the night when the full moon is bright: La Llorona (video)
POCHO Salute: USMC Lance Corporal Emilio Albert De La Garza, Jr.
Emilio Albert De La Garza, Jr. (June 23, 1949 – April 11, 1970) was a United States Marine who was posthumously presented the nation’s highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroism on April 11, 1970 in Vietnam.
Early years
Emilio Albert De La Garza, Jr. was born on June 23, 1949, in East Chicago, Indiana. He graduated from E.C. Washington High School in 1968. He was married to Rosemary Rejon and they have a daughter Renee (Lugo). He was employed by Inland Steel Company in East Chicago (Indiana Harbor), Indiana, before enlisting in the Marine Corps.
Marine Corps service
De La Garza enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on February 4, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois. He received recruit training with the 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment at the MCRD San Diego, California.
Mas…POCHO Salute: USMC Lance Corporal Emilio Albert De La Garza, Jr.
[肥野廚房] 墨西哥莎莎醬食譜 [FAT CHICK KITCHEN] Salsa (video)
Hey, Fat Chick making the “Mexican Salsa,” aka pico de gallo: You’re double dipping!
FYI, Google translates the Chinese this way:
- 肥野廚房 = Fertilizer wild kitchen
- 墨西哥莎莎醬食譜 = Mexican Salsa Recipe
Pocho Ocho Best Ways to #MakeMoviesMexican (via Twitter)
Very late Wednesday night, I created a Twitter hashtag — #MakeMoviesMexican — and asked the Tuiteros if they had suggestions.
Huh? What do you mean? Like this:
#MAKEMOVIESMEXICAN. Gone With the Migra. White Men Can’t Cumbia. Get the idea?
(It turns out I wasn’t the first with this idea. Superstar pocho comic Felipe Esparza tried this concept in February.)
Here are the Pocho Ocho NEW Top Tweets we got in return (racist, ignorant Tweets not included — the entire thread is below.):
8. Mex In The City
7. Dude, Juarez My Car?
6. Finding Chapo
Mas…Pocho Ocho Best Ways to #MakeMoviesMexican (via Twitter)
Elotes for clueless gabachos … from RONCO (video)
RONCO, the company that sells weird-ass single-use food prep gizmos via infomercials, wants you to buy their weird-ass single-use gizmo that makes elotes, which they call “Mexican Street Corn.” Actual street not included.
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Got milk? Not without immigrant farmworkers! (video)
Check out this trailer for Farmworker: How Immigration Feeds America from freelance journalist Diana Prichard. She’s working on a film telling the story of how immigrants are critical to American agriculture.
And always remember who worked hard to get you that next glass of leche or bowl of hot queso.
NEW! Ask your doctor if Islamophobin® is right for you (video)
Are you sacred AF about those new (apparently Muslim) neighbors? Do you think they might be terrorists? Ask your doctor if Islamophobin® is right for you!
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Making Tequila Orgullo: Stoop labor under timelapse skies (video)
Making Pueblo Viejo Tequila Orgullo Añejo Viejo requires hard, back-breaking manual labor and high tech machinery. Beautiful skies, though.
ThingStarter Presents: The iNotRacist app (video)
Can a smartphone app eliminate racism? That’s what ThingStarter wants to know. ThingStarter is a startup that develops products and takes them into the real world to get real feedback from real people. Today’s focus group considers iNotRacist — the app that checks your privilege.
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New on Entrepodcast: WePupy – AirBnB for bathroom sharing (audio)
In this week’s Episode #74 of Entrepod, the podcast for wannabe entrepreneurs, host Adam Buckholtz (photo) speaks with Bay Area entrepreneur Genesee Flashpan.
She’s flushed with pride about WePupy — a new app that wipes “the sharing economy” and sanitizes it for your protection.
When you have to go, you have to go, and WePupy makes it easy to leave your cares behind at carefully curated facilities near you.
Mas…New on Entrepodcast: WePupy – AirBnB for bathroom sharing (audio)
Persian food peeps prep pretty chingon carne asada tacos (video)
Aashpazzi, a Persian food portal, knows how to make some righteous American food, like carne asada tacos, and this video is proof.
The Chavez Ravine is a SoCal band ready to ‘Touch Down’ (audio)
The three homies who comprise a band named after the Mexican barrio destroyed to build Dodger Stadium (photo) — The Chavez Ravine — are out with a new tune: Touch Down.
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Mas…The Chavez Ravine is a SoCal band ready to ‘Touch Down’ (audio)
How to make cactus salad – ensalada de nopales – in 1:50 (video)
Ensalada de Nopal is quick, easy, and delicioso, although this short video glosses over the removal of the needles part. And you can hold the chicharrones as far as we’re concerned — it’s a freakin’ salad!