It’s Not News to Us
Wow. There is this seasoning, Cappy, and you too, Kirsten and Brooke – there is this TAJIN seasoning for your fruit AND veggies! Spicy! Salty! Lime! Totes, like, amazeballs! It adds a ZING! to everything! I wonder where they get these ideas?
PREVIOUSLY ON TAJIN:
Mas…Hello, gringos! Eat like a Mexican (but we won’t say that)
Pictures speak a thousand (very orange) palabras, and when it comes to words, we can’t do any better than the self-penned description of Burrito, a Mexican restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, in the former Yugoslavia, right by the Nikolai Tesla Museum (see map below):
Mas…Visiting Belgrade, Serbia? Mexico is so close! In Burrito! (photos)
The family of Caesar Cardini still owns and runs Hotel Caesar’s in Tijuana, where Caesar Salad was invented.
Did you know Caesar’s original recipe calls for lime juice, not lemon? Lima, not limon?
¡Que Mexicano!
Good morning, pochos, and Good Morning Aztlan from Los Lobos, LA’s best band evah.
What will it be? A home-made “Mexican hamburger” or a ride to Burger Boy in Salma Hayek’s convertible for hamburguesas? We embed, you decide.
Cook a burger:
Mas…Cook a hamburguesa or go get one with Salma Hayek? (videos)
For one night only, August 6, Triple-A baseball team the Fresno Grizzlies will play as the Fresno Tacos.
Mas…For one night only, the Fresno Grizzlies will be the Fresno Tacos
Ozzie Monge unearthed this little tidbit of San Diego State University history — a bizarre attack on Mexican attire that ran in the student newspaper in 1922.
Foreshadowing Donald Trump, the students are quite sure about Mexico. “There,” they explain, “poverty is a profession.”
In Monge’s words:
Racism and Anti-Mexicanism at San Diego State College in the 20’s? Say it isn’t so….Anglos hating on Mexicans, hating on Indians, yet they proudly declare that their school is Del Sudoeste (a product of the imagined, romanticized Spanish past – and Eurocentrism) and will later take on the moniker Aztec from the imagined, romanticized version of the conquest they developed.
Mas…Wassup with San Diego college guys in ‘cholo pantalones?’
Earlier this week, in Columbia, South Carolina, Confederate-flag-waving Ku Klux Klan white wingers paraded downtown. The paramilitary-garbed haters were joined by an uninvited sousaphone player who provided ironic musical accompaniment. (A sousaphone is the marching band variety of tuba that wraps around the player, making it easier to carry.) Enjoy the tubalicious music (is that Wagner?) AND the play-by-play commentary from a woman who may also be the videographer/uploader. “Stupid is as stupid does,” she notes. “This is a family tree with no branches.”
Mas…South Carolina KKK Confederate flag march is better with tuba (video)
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and other Warner Bros, Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoon characters were brought to life by artist Chuck Jones. Here’s a short look at how he made his magic. Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist/a> is by Tony Zhou.
The trancifying Trouble in My Soul from self-described “Post Futuristic Rebajada Cumbia Soul Experimenter” Mexican Dubwiser was released two years ago, before POCHO reappeared online. So in case you missed it, or forgot about it, here it is. You’re welcome. 🙂
Mas…Watch: Mexican Dubwiser: ‘Trouble in My Soul’ (post futuristic cumbia)
Comic artist Axur Eneas created a series of illustrations of videogame gear, characters, mascots, logos, icons, and glyphs for a gamer convention in Mexico DF. We captioned them all for your nerdy geeky pleasure.
Mas…Mexican artist Axur Eneas: Videogame icons and mascots (toons)
Energetic and expressive Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra — they call her “la jeune chef mexicaine” — rehearses the Orchestre de Paris in Danzon n°2 by Arturo Márquez, a contemporary Mexican composer.
Mas…Madonna’s new NSFW music video ‘Taco Truck Bonita’ is puro L.A.
Hispanic, Latino and Spanish are often used interchangeably in describing ethnicity. But what’s the right terminology? Feminist, vlogger and “critical thinker” Kat Lazo sets people straight. Nice Venn diagram, too.
Mas…Latino? Hispanic? Spanish? What’s the difference? (videos)
Mexican artist Hector Zamora filled up an exhibit space in the French countryside with empty, boarded-up campers and RVs (they call them caravans over there).
Why, exactly? Julien Zerbone explains:
Mas…Mexican artist Hector Zamora: Reality and other deceptions (video)
When the going gets loco, the loco turn pro with F*ck That: A Guided Meditation, a totally NSFW video from Jason Headley.
Southwest of the island of Cuba, an underwater wonderland of sea plants and creatures thrives. It’s the natural and untouched Caribbean, protected from humanity for generations – and so-called progress.
Mas…Watch: Cuba’s underwater Jardines de la Reina are pristine – for now
By GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA
Dear Ex-local artist, writer, activist, bohemian, street eccentric, and/or protector of difference…
Imagine a city, your city and your former “hip” neighborhood, being handed over by greedy politicians and re/developers to the crème de la crème of the tech industry. This includes the 7 most powerful tech companies in the world. I don’t need to list them: their names have become verbs in lingua franca; their sandbox is the city you used to call your own.
Mas…Gentrification Notes from Technotopia, SF: On the Cruelty of Indifference
Let’s start with the first of several selfies. Here I am with Ramon Ramirez of Smarty Cartoons:
This dude? Photo speaks for itself. Maybe:
Mas…UPDATED! @LaloAlcaraz: Talk, photos, toons from Comic-Con 2015
The continued popularity of the molcajete (mortar) and companion tejolote (pestle) is a living example of the principle “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Mas…No justice, no peas? Eight excellent ways to rock the guac
Greg Krehel aka Echinopsis Freak loves Echinopsis Cacti, which are native to South America He hopes you like his cactus video, too:
A montage of a dozen types of Echinopsis cactus flowers blooming. And wilting. And just generally showing off their mind-blowing colors. My favorite cactus flowerings from the 2014 blooming season.
Isabel Ann Castro — aka the Queen of Tacos, Texas — raises desmadre and makes art in San Antonio, Texas. Last weekend she was holding hands with Frida Kahlo.
Mas…San Antonio artist Isabel Ann Castro dreams of Frida Kahlo
Compton native Rhyan Lowery grew up with Mexican friends and Mexican music, and now he sings cumbia as El Compa Negro. Maybe it helps that he can ride a horse. [Video by LAWeekly.]
Luchador El Hijo del Fantasma says he and wrestling partner Vladimir Putin would beat President Obama and Mexican Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto in a tag team match.
