POCHO is auctioning off my AZTEC SK8R painting starting Wednesday night, June 10, at 7PM PDT. Check back here tomorrow for the details and the link that could make this painting your own!
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Hey Vato! Chuy needs to go but Angie is all ‘Chola Selfie’ (video)
It’s time for old girlfriends, secret tears and family dynamics in the latest episode of Hey Vato!
When Chuy’s sister Angie hogs the bathroom taking selfies, Smiley interrupts the subsequent sibling discussion with insight from author, artist and poet e.e. cummings.
Mas…Hey Vato! Chuy needs to go but Angie is all ‘Chola Selfie’ (video)
Pet or piñata? What’s to become of ‘Hola Llamigo?’ (video)
When you’re the son of a ranchero, you are supposed to accept that livestock are not pets, and someday they’ll end up as a human’s dinner … or worse.
Mas…Pet or piñata? What’s to become of ‘Hola Llamigo?’ (video)
Demons attack Christian pastor during Nicaragua exorcism (video)
Set your Magic Holy Water Squeeze & Spray Plastic Atomizer on Maximum Ojo as a “Christian Pastor Is Attacked By Evil Spirit On Camera,” according to the LiveLeak uploader:
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA (Central America) 6 dolls made from cloth and drenched in unknown blood were left on the frontyard of a house, the residents claim that now the house is inundated with evil spirts [sic].
Mas…Demons attack Christian pastor during Nicaragua exorcism (video)
Monsanto is murdering the native maiz of Mexico (video trailer)
The millenia-old native species of Mexican maiz are being forced from the Earth by GMO seeds foisted on growers by international food cartels like Monsanto. The trailer for the upcoming documentary Sunu takes a look at the problem.
Mas…Monsanto is murdering the native maiz of Mexico (video trailer)
Cristela Alonzo: Get your racist stereotypes right, people! (video)
Before she was a TV star, Cristela Alonzo wanted to make sure the haters and racists got their stereotypes right!
Mas…Cristela Alonzo: Get your racist stereotypes right, people! (video)
Mr. Manager: WTF is this ‘Hispanic Option Dr Pepper’? (NSFW video)
Excuse me, Mr. Store Manager in San Antonio, Texas. I see you’re selling Hispanic Option Dr Pepper. Is it good? Do you have White Option Dr Pepper? Black Option? Korean? Chinese? [NSFW adult language.]
Mas…Mr. Manager: WTF is this ‘Hispanic Option Dr Pepper’? (NSFW video)
TGIF with Toby Keith: ‘I’ll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again’ (video)
They’ve got some big problemas down in Texas — starting with asshole Senator Ted Cruz (R-PENDEJO).
Thank God for national treasure Willie Nelson, seen here enjoying a serenade by Toby Keith and Scott Emerik.
It’s a mournful lament called I’ll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again.
Looks legit: Help the wealthy with American Gold Cross (video)
It’s a tragedy that happens every day – but it doesn’t have to be that way. Please reach deep in your pockets to help the extremely wealthy, with American Gold Cross.
California Feetwarmers and LA Shag: Dance to ‘San’ (#TBT 1920s video)
Throwback Thursday #TBT takes us back to the “jazz age, the Roaring Twenties” as The California Feetwarmers perform live in DTLA’s historic Union Station with the dance troupe LA Shag. The song is San:
Mas…California Feetwarmers and LA Shag: Dance to ‘San’ (#TBT 1920s video)
I’m painting an Aztec skater to auction off – stay tooned!
I started painting an Aztec skater Tuesday afternoon for an a planned auction to benefit the mirth-making here at POCHO. Here’s how he looks so far:
Mas…I’m painting an Aztec skater to auction off – stay tooned!
Cartman of ‘South Park’ and JLo, who eats tacos y burritos (video)
Bootleg video of a South Park scene (it looks to be cellphone video of a TV screen) shows Cartman’s presentation for the Latino Endowment Committee, featuring special guest star Jennifer Lopez, who eats tacos y burritos, even though she is Puerto Rican. The actual, official clip is here, but for some reason they don’t allow embedding, so neener.
Santa Clara de Juarez, MX, the pueblo that lives on tortillas (video)
The 3000 indigenous residents of Santa Clara de Juarez make a living by making tortillas, starting with non-GMO corn they grow in their own fields. An Australian tortillero went to the town to document the process.
Mas…Santa Clara de Juarez, MX, the pueblo that lives on tortillas (video)
Scientist’s quest to reproduce abuela’s mole recipe ends in failure
(PNS reporting from RIVERSIDE) After a decade-long quest to duplicate his Oaxacan abuela’s mole poblano recipe, UC Riverside food scientist Miguel Jimenez, 33, declared defeat Sunday.
Microbiologist Jimenez had hoped to identify the ingredients in the mysterious chocolate chile sauce his abuela puts on chicken.
“She won’t give anyone the recipe!” said Jimenez, as he kicked his chair and wiped away tears at UCR’s Chucheria Research Facility. “Abuelita just pinches my cheek and tells me to portarme bien and go to church more.”
Mas…Scientist’s quest to reproduce abuela’s mole recipe ends in failure
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England gets a burrito bar (video)
On the island city of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, on the southern coast of England, some hard-to-understand blokes are bent on world domination. Will their Al’Burrito restaurant be the vanguard of a Mexican food revolution in the United Kingdom? Even though they apparently discovered Mexican food in Australia, they say they import ingredients from Mexico. Are you in Portsmouth? Have you ever been?
Mas…Portsmouth, Hampshire, England gets a burrito bar (video)
MORE COWBELL! The Mexican Juligans twang a tune for ‘Parral’ (video)
Twangy guitar-wielding Chilangos The Mexican Juligans name-check places all over the country in a surf-spaghetti-western-movie-theme music video inspired by classic cowboy flicks. And they especially ❤️ Parral, Chihuahua.
Mas…MORE COWBELL! The Mexican Juligans twang a tune for ‘Parral’ (video)
The problematic retirement of El Rey, greatest luchador ever (video)
When El Rey, the greatest Luchador ever, leaves the ring to live a normal life, things don’t go as planned. Nevertheless, VIVA LUCHA!
Mas…The problematic retirement of El Rey, greatest luchador ever (video)
How to sell stuff to passionate, emotional Hispanics (1-minute video)
You’re passionate, Mr. and/or Ms. Hispanic, and emotional. You like stories, and web video stories under one minute long especially. Do we have some stories for you! Also tacos, which all Hispanics love, futbol ditto, and la musica, piñatas and burros tambien. HEY! WHAT ABOUT SPICY?
Mas…How to sell stuff to passionate, emotional Hispanics (1-minute video)
White Mountain Apache getting more visits from ‘Big Hairy Man’ (video)
You call him Bigfoot. The Arizona White Mountain Apache Nation call him the Big Hairy Man. In this suspiciously-truncated and undated local video news report, eyewitnesses including law officers say the tall humanoid is venturing out of humanoid territory and into human territory lots more lately. The reports seem to date from 2009 with scant news since. Coincidence…or conspiracy?
Mas…White Mountain Apache getting more visits from ‘Big Hairy Man’ (video)
Native Americans, Native American-style (photos,video)
Native American (Apsáalooke) designer Bethany Yellowtail’s latest fashions are perfect on Ojibwe model Jade Willoughby and Tlingit/Koyukon/Athabascan model Martin Sensmeier. No cultures were appropriated in the making of these garments, these photos or this video.
Out of the night, when the full moon is bright! America’s first superhero
“The Zorro story, invented in 1919 by pulp fiction author Johnston McCulley, tells the tale of an aristocrat in Spanish California who dons a mask to fight against corrupt colonial officials on behalf of the oppressed,” writes Marlon Bishop of Latino USA.
Mas…Out of the night, when the full moon is bright! America’s first superhero
From New Zealand: What exactly is ‘privilege’? (toon)
What exactly is “privilege?” On a Plate cartoonist Toby Morris breaks it down.
Hero, Marine: Private First Class Eugene Arnold Obregon (1930-1950)
A son of Los Angeles, Eugene Obregon was only 19 when he died in Korea.
Eugene Arnold Obregon (November 12, 1930 – September 26, 1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the United States’ highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for sacrificing his life to save that of a wounded comrade during the Second Battle of Seoul.
On September 26, 1950, Private First Class Obregon was fatally wounded by enemy machine gun fire while using his body to shield a wounded fellow Marine.Eugene Arnold Obregon (November 12, 1930 – September 26, 1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the United States’ highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for sacrificing his life to save that of a wounded comrade during the Second Battle of Seoul.
Mas…Hero, Marine: Private First Class Eugene Arnold Obregon (1930-1950)
What would Frida Kahlo grow? Exhibit shares her plants (video, photos)
Just opened at the New York Botanical Garden, this exhibition examines Frida Kahlo’s love for nature, as seen in her home and garden, as well as the complex use of plant imagery in her artwork.
Mas…What would Frida Kahlo grow? Exhibit shares her plants (video, photos)
POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz explains ‘Bordertown’ to ‘The World’ (audio)
Carol Wills of PRI asked POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz to explain himself and this Bordertown thing to The World.
Let’s listen in as Lalo, at Pasadena’s KPCC, talks with Carol, at WGBH in Boston….
Mas…POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz explains ‘Bordertown’ to ‘The World’ (audio)
Memorial Day: In 1918, this Latino war hero swam until he died
He was only 19 when he died in 1918, a kid who would become America’s first Latino Medal of Honor Recipient.
His posthumous Medal of Honor for heroism came in 1919, but his acknowledgement as a Latino had to wait until 1989.
David Bennes Barkley was born March 31, 1899 in Laredo in Webb County in south Texas, to Josef and the former Antonia Cantú.
He grew up with his Mexican-American mother. He enlisted in the Army when the United States entered what was then known as the Great War.
He used his Anglo father’s name to avoid being segregated into a non-combat unit.
Mas…Memorial Day: In 1918, this Latino war hero swam until he died
Hey Vato! Let me show you ‘how to talk to a hyna’ (video)
Sure that fine chica gave you her number, but what are you going to do to seal the deal? Hey Vato’s Chuy gives Smiley a lesson in how to talk to the hynas.