Cleaning up afterwards was a drag, though.
Cultura
It’s Not News to Us
Happy New Year from Elmo’s Mexican cousin Pepe (video)
Hitting a piñata until the goodies fall out is hard work, but somebody’s got to do it. Los Sesame Street Muppets wish you a Happy New Year!
This Tweet just in from @MexicanMitt Romney (photo)
BUY MY BOOK BEECHES, IT'S FINALLY PRICED FOR MEXICANS pic.twitter.com/wwf6AT0V7q
— Mexican Mitt Romnee (@MexicanMitt) December 29, 2014
John Oliver: How to avoid New Year’s parties that suck (video)
New Year’s Eve is the worst. John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) has some great excuses for getting out of it.
Los Cenzontles: ‘¡Soy México Americano!’ How about you? (video)
Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) are México Americano. Y ustedes tambien? [Words and music by R. Fuentes.]
Mira the lyrics:
Mas…Los Cenzontles: ‘¡Soy México Americano!’ How about you? (video)
Adventures of Kim Jong-Un: He so talent, he so strong (video, photos)
Just a few seconds into The Adventures of Kim Jong-Un, it’s clear he so talent, he so strong. Give the guy credit.
And before the Kimster blows us all to Hell, please enjoy these photos our reporter in North Korea (moi) smuggled out earlier this year:
Mas…Adventures of Kim Jong-Un: He so talent, he so strong (video, photos)
Quattro: Heavy a cappella acoustic classical ‘Feliz Navidad’ (video)
It’s jazz, it’s metal, it’s acoustic, it’s classical, it’s Quattro: Feliz Navidad.
Will Shakila become the next ‘Christmas Idol’? (video)
The Christmas Idol panel of judges is as tough as a grand jury. Santa Claus, Lady Sharoun the Purple, and Jesus H. Christ Himself can make a contestant’s dreams come true or break her heart. Can Shakila — Roberta Valderrama — win them over with her hot hot hot version of Feliz Navidad?
POCHO wishes all you pochos a Merry Christmas (toon)
Merry Christmas from Los Pochodores: Lalo Alcaraz, Jefe-in-Chief; Dennis Wilen AKA Comic Saenz, Jefe de Content; Sara Inés Calderón, Subcommandanta del Ñews; Beto Mesta AKA Eres Nerd, Texas Burro Jefe; Elise Roedenbeck, New Jack City Burro Jefe (Emeritus); Celina Martinez, Food and Gwine Editor; Al Madrigal, Migrant Editor.
Me? I’m dreaming of a ‘Pulp %&*^$#$ Christmas’ (NSFW video)
Do you know what they call frackin’ Santa Claus in Italy? [NSFW adult language.]
El Bob Dylan en Estilo Norteño: ‘It Must Be Santa’ (music video)
Who’s got a beard that’s long and white?
Santa’s got a beard that’s long and white
Who comes around on a special night?
Santa comes around on a special night
Special night, beard that’s white
Must be Santa, must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Claus
It’s ‘Christmastime for the Jews’ (Darlene Love SNL music video)
Diva Darlene Love’s classic rock operatic anthropological study of how non-Christians deal with/avoid/cope with the biggest (second biggest?) Christian holy day of the year.
Mas…It’s ‘Christmastime for the Jews’ (Darlene Love SNL music video)
Pocho Ocho best Christmas presents for Mexican yuppies (Muppies)
Looking for that special gift for your successful Muppy friend who already has everything in the Brookstone catalog?
POCHO scoured the interwebs for the Pocho Ocho best Christmas presents for Mexican yuppies. Check our list:
Mas…Pocho Ocho best Christmas presents for Mexican yuppies (Muppies)
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Roasted Red Hanukkah Christmas Kwanzaa Salsa
Hola. Is Tia Lencha here.
Ju want to give presens to eberyone on your Chrismas list or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or Reyes Magos or Chinese Year but ju are short on dinero? No worry! Tia Lencha is going to give ju recipe for to make the oven roast red salsa!
Is nice! Is a good gift for the peoples! And is easy! No like making mole for Turkey Day.
I make this salsa to give to my comadres and the lob it. They have little hearts in their eyes when they see my salsa. They eat with almost eberything. They say they fight their childrens and viejos to eat the last drops of it in the jar. Is that good. Oso, it don’t matter if the peoples are no Mexican. The peoples at my job are no Mexican and they ask me for the salsa.
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Roasted Red Hanukkah Christmas Kwanzaa Salsa
Lalo Guerrero: Pancho Claus (Santa’s cousin from south of the border)
It doesn’t get more pocho than this! Lalo Guerrero, the father of Chicano music, tells the story of Pancho Claus, Santa’s cousin from south of the border, in this 1956 classic.
A Christmas Carol: ‘I’m Dreaming of a White Privilege’ (video)
I’m dreaming of a white privilege, just like the one y’all seem to know.
All she wants for Christmas is an hombre (video)
All she wants this Christmas is a man.
Video Hall of Montezuma: Esteban Colberto’s Greatest Latino Hits
He’s gone from the Report, but Esteban Colberto will always be in our hearts, and online, as long as these video links stay alive.
Check ’em out:
- Save the planet, stop illegal immigration (Colbert Report video)
- Hispanic Heritage Month with Fox News y Esteban Colberto (video)
- Stephen Colbert, John Malkovich: ‘Cesar Chavez’ hates America (video)
- Colbert Report: Do Hispanics cost trillion$ and have low IQs? (video)
- Stephen Colbert: I pity the poor immigrants (video)
- Stephen Colbert exposes the ‘Attack on Columbus Day’ (video)
I guess we’re not in those cotton fields back home anymore! (video)
It’s a biopic! It’s history! It’s a music video!
It’s long and complicated, so we’ll let them explain:
Algodón y V.I.N.O. is a music video written and directed by Jeremiah Joe Ocañas that follows a 12-year-old boy’s days of working in the cotton fields of Danevang, TX, to following his dream of moving to California and today, while living that dream in the mural adorned Highland Park, he reminisces on the journey as an adult.
Mas…I guess we’re not in those cotton fields back home anymore! (video)
In Mexico City, clowns go on parade for Our Lady of Guadalupe (video)
Hundreds of devotees of La Virgen de Guadalupe formed a clown procession in Mexico City Tuesday, with a carnival promenade to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
PREVIOUSLY ON LA VIRGEN:
Mas…In Mexico City, clowns go on parade for Our Lady of Guadalupe (video)
Los Hip Hop Hoodíos light ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Hanukkah (videos)
Feliz Hanukkah from POCHO and the Hip Hop Hoodíos! Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sunset tonight and last for eight days: Ocho noches, ocho kandelikas.
Mas…Los Hip Hop Hoodíos light ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Hanukkah (videos)
I killed that African-American kid in self defense (1876 toon)
This editorial cartoon, In Self-Defense, by cartoonist A. B. Frost, ran in Harper’s Weekly on October 28, 1876, on page 880.
The HarpWeek blog explains:
This image dramatically condemns the brutal racism of some white Southerners against blacks. The white man has killed a black child, and his plea of “self-defense” exemplifies the perspective among Southern whites that Reconstruction had led to “black rule.” The cartoon appeared just a few weeks before the presidential election.