Would the nominees at the OSCARs be any different if Academy voters had seen this cowboy version of Straight Outta Compton when it came out in 2009? How about Donald Trump’s B.E.T Awards? [Totally NSFW adult lyrics, F-bombs, N-word, etc.] (Video by CowboyGangstaRap.)
Cultura
It’s Not News to Us
Crunchy Thai treat in a bag makes you magically Mexican! (video)
What are they eating? Chips? Rolled taquito-looking snacks? Does she say “Mexican sweet chile?” We don’t know, but how can you go wrong when one crunchy bite magically turns this attractive Thai couple into tango-dancing Mexicans! [Mariachis not included.]
PREVIOUSY ON “MEXICAN” CHIPS IN EXOTIC FOREIGN COUNTRIES:
Mas…Crunchy Thai treat in a bag makes you magically Mexican! (video)
Sometimes you just need to break the cycle
I always said I wouldn’t grow up to be like my mother.
When I saw her, I saw a woman who wouldn’t leave her husband. A woman who didn’t put her children first.
I grew angry that my father’s temper prevented me from having teenage sleepovers. I grew resentful that they wouldn’t let me go to my high school football games. And I grew bitter as I got older, because she chose not to leave him.
Is this what Ted Cruz calls ‘New York values’? (video)
Pulled over by the NYPD, a New York driver calls the officer “bro,” but the cop is all like, “Don’t call me bro.”
Looking for tacos and mezcal in Malmo, Sweden? Try La Raza (video)
When in Malmo, Sweden, half-way decent-looking tacos and comida Mexicana can be found at La Raza Street Food & Tacos. And if the food sucks, they have mezcal!
There’s also a Mexican grocery store, MexGrocer that looks legit. (FYI, one KRONER = 15¢):
Mas…Looking for tacos and mezcal in Malmo, Sweden? Try La Raza (video)
MexiArabian gente know what’s good; y burros tambien (video)
True story! In a cantina in the deserts of MexiArabia, the customers ate so many Cheetos Flames that their lips turned red. To cover up, they grew mustaches, and the donkeys too.
For those keeping track, a donkey in Arabic is “alhimar” الحمار . [Gracias to POCHO amigo BAF in Q8 for the translation help.]
Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
As a Mexican court considers overturning a ban on GMO corn, farmers continue the uphill struggle to preserve traditional seed varieties.
PREVIOUSLY ON MAIZ DE MEXICO:
Mas…Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
White Wing Theme: ‘Let’s take back America – to 1955’ (video)
In a sketch from November, 1997, when this was still a joke, MadTV’s country music diva Darlene McBride (played by Nicole Sullivan) announced a concert tour to Take Back America (to 1955).
Vanessa Del Fierro is a coyote on a ‘Mexican Train’ (music video)
San Antonio sensation Vanessa Del Fierro is the alt.mariachi chingona behind Las Coronelas, whose mega-viral David Bowie cover almost blew up POCHO’s servers this week.
Vanessa also stars as an immigrant-smuggling coyote in a new video for her original composition Mexican Train. It’s a love song; too bad she’s in love with the wrong vato. Extra firme oldies points for the doo-wop backup girls, the triplets feel, and the tubular bells:
Mas…Vanessa Del Fierro is a coyote on a ‘Mexican Train’ (music video)
Do we have El Chapo y Kate del Castillo piñatas? Claro! (video)
Do you have El Chapo and Kate Castillo piñatas? Claro! Coming right up! Euronews outlet RT explains:
Mas…Do we have El Chapo y Kate del Castillo piñatas? Claro! (video)
Paramota Studios Presents: Fast Times at Chapo High (toon)
New L.A. restaurant promises taco delivery by drone (video)
TacoFix, a new family Mexican restaurant that opened just yesterday (Wednesday) in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood, promises they’ll soon be delivering tacos by drone. Watch this proof-of-concept video where a drone makes a delivery to a customer — a hungry guy who just happens to live at 420 Someplace Street. God Bless America.
PREVIOUSLY ON FOOD DELIVERY:
Mas…New L.A. restaurant promises taco delivery by drone (video)
Marilynn Montaño is embedded in her migrant father’s rough hands
Orange County poet and activist Marilynn Montaño’s poem His Machucada Hands is a “testament to the ways that being undocumented has taken a physical toll on her father’s body. The title, she said, came from noticing his hands on the steering wheel every morning as he drove her to middle and high school,” according to the PBS News Hour.
Mas…Marilynn Montaño is embedded in her migrant father’s rough hands
In rural Mexico, where there’s a will, there’s a well (video)
A bomba de mecate is a rope pump for water wells. In San Miguel del Valle, Díaz Ordaz, Oaxaca, Mexico, you can build one if you know how. Maybe! 😉
Here’s how you do it, at least according to YouTube:
Mas…In rural Mexico, where there’s a will, there’s a well (video)
Mariachi Las Coronelas: Bowie’s “As The World Falls Down” (video,lyrics)
David Bowie was an inspirational artistic entity from the multiverse, creating musical ripples in the spacetime continuum and, thankfully, in South Texas as well.
Listen in as San Antonio’s all-women, category-breaking Mariachi Las Coronelas wins over a skeptical crowd in this stunning performance of Bowie’s As The World Falls Down. [Live club audio with video slideshow.]
Lyrics:
There’s such a sad love
Deep in your eyes.
A kind of pale jewel
Open and closed
Within your eyes.
I’ll place the sky
Within your eyes.Mas…Mariachi Las Coronelas: Bowie’s “As The World Falls Down” (video,lyrics)
I wear black lucha libre chonies because that’s how I feel inside
Speaking of underwear, I wear black lucha libre chonies because that’s how I feel inside. This is a real product, as manufacturer WrassleRoos esplains:
Mas…I wear black lucha libre chonies because that’s how I feel inside
Too cool! Los Angeles 2016 No Pants Subway Ride (photos,video)
A Floridian transplanted to Los Angeles, Te-Erika Patterson video’d Sunday’s No Pants Subway Ride — it was her third year stripping down and riding the rails for fun. If you think this is for you, check out her MovingToLAToday.com blog.
Videographer and photographer Dan “The Steel Shark” Cooke also braved the chilly 50° L.A. weather Sunday to take his pants off and ride the subway. Click on any photo to start the gallery:
Mas…Too cool! Los Angeles 2016 No Pants Subway Ride (photos,video)
Pocho Ocho Top Ways You Can Tell El Chapo Has ‘Gone Hollywood’
El Chapo’s secret meetup with Sean Penn was just the tip of the iceberg, Goldberg, whatever.
The notorious drug lord is a whole new vato now — and here are the Pocho Ocho Top Ways You Can Tell El Chapo Has “Gone Hollywood”:
8. He’s dating Kate Hudson
7. He’s on an all-cactus juice cleanse to drop weight for the upcoming pilot season
6. He just reached 200k followers on Instagram
Mas…Pocho Ocho Top Ways You Can Tell El Chapo Has ‘Gone Hollywood’
It’s time to elect our first woman President – Olive Oyl (video)
Popeye’s beloved, the willowly Olive Oyl, thinks the country would be much better off with a lady president — President Olive Oyl!
Her platform includes housing the homeless, a shorter work week, sweet sexy dreams, more silkworms, more drumsticks per chicken, and nuking a recalcitrant Congress with love darts.
We agree!
Mas…It’s time to elect our first woman President – Olive Oyl (video)
A funny thing happened on the way to ‘Bordertown’
Hola. I’m Lalo Alcaraz. You might know me.
I have been a Chicano political cartoonist forever. I know, I know, it’s God’s work, you’re welcome. Now, all of a sudden I’m a primetime TV writer and producer. Huh? Yes, the last two years in my life have been a super WTF. With ten percent LOL. #facepalm
Like it or not, I am now part of a historic pop culture moment: the first season of the first animated primetime TV show featuring a large cast of Mexican and Mexican-American characters: Bordertown.
You can’t be too careful these days
Here’s what we saw when we opened the cyberwindow tonight at the POCHO Ñewsroom in downtown Rancho Pocho, CA.
Face of Jesus appears on flour tortilla in San Antonio (photo, video)
Jesus Cristo has appeared on a tortilla in San Antonio, Texas. His burnt, crusty face showed up (photo) on a homemade flour tortilla just after his mom, La Virgen de Guadalupe, appeared on another flour tortilla in nearby Mexifornia.
Mas…Face of Jesus appears on flour tortilla in San Antonio (photo, video)
Cholo Electronics Show CES 2016 spotlights latest in High Aztech
(PNS reporting from LAS VEGAS) The very latest in High Aztech is on display at the fifth annual Cholo Electronics Show (CES) opening here today.
Generating the biggest buzz is the new “freemium” app Chologram™ from Oakland’s Firme Junior Systems.
The free at first Instagram challenger showcases La Vida Loca Lifestyle® image effects, including the one-tap application of teardrop tattoos to a facial image.
The premium version ($5.99) features one-tap removal of teardrop tattoos from a facial image.
Mas…Cholo Electronics Show CES 2016 spotlights latest in High Aztech
Sweet Los Reyes Magos cartoons en Español — just for you
¡Feliz Dia de Los Magos! And Epiphany. And Dia de Los Tres Reyes.
En Ingles for you pochos: The first documented case of stage names…And what do you guys think of ‘Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar’? It just feels like ‘Hugo, Paco, and Luis’ lack punch.”
Mas…Sweet Los Reyes Magos cartoons en Español — just for you
Roots of Chicano Satire: Lalo Guerrero and Culture Clash (videos)
Before there was Bordertown, there was The Culture Clash show. Only about TWENTY-SOMETHING YEARS AGO, so SUCK IT humorless haters!
(It was my first showbiz writing gig!) Big props and eternal thanks to the Culture Clash guys!
And before all of us, there was LALO GUERRERO doing Chicano satire, hell, INVENTING it! Check out Guerrero’s singing There’s No Chicanos on TV!
Mas…Roots of Chicano Satire: Lalo Guerrero and Culture Clash (videos)
Meteorologist Chris Farley: I’m El Niño and I’m coming (video)
Weatherman Chris Farley is El Niño and he’s coming your way. But what does “El Niño” even mean, though?