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Latino Field Studies: ‘Differing Perceptions of Time’ (video)
This Latino Field Study anthropology video examines a culturally-distinctive mannerism many Anglos find confusing – the difference in the way Latinos perceive time. The experts also show you how to calculate when to expect a Latino for a 5 PM appointment – so-called “Latino Time.”
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Day laborers sing ‘Ese Gúey No Paga’ (That dude doesn’t pay)
Not only is getting the work really fracking hard – you have to hang outside Home Depot and chase contractors’ trucks – but lots of times day laborers work all day and then get ripped off for their pay.
This cumbia music video from Los Jornaleros del Norte (The Day Laborers of the North) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network highlights the fight against wage theft.
“Ese gúey no paga,” they sing. “That dude doesn’t pay!”
Mas…Day laborers sing ‘Ese Gúey No Paga’ (That dude doesn’t pay)
In the name of Jesus! This Mexican kid is harassing me! (video)
Too much caffeine? A “Christian” lady in an Oklahoma coffee shop has hella angry feels. “In the name of Jesus!” she exclaims. “This Mexican kid is harassing me!” We’re confused. Do you think his name might be Jesús? The video is from 2011, but crazy H8RZ are forever.
Sex change operation helps Sarah Silverman close wage gap (video)
My girlfriend, self-admitted vagina owner Sarah Silverman, finds a way to close the wage gap between men and women – with a sex change operation. [TOTALLY NSFW VIDEO.]
If you don’t think a penis transplant is right for you, help working women close the wage gap here.
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Latino Field Studies: Understanding ‘Emotional Loudness’ (video)
This second Latino Field Study anthropology video examines a culturally-distinctive mannerism many Anglos find confusing – what the researchers refer to as Emotional Loudness.
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East L.A. Play by Play: ‘Undocumented Football’ (poetry video)
It’s the fall football classic — Garfield versus Roosevelt — the East Los high school football rivalry that has lasted generations; David A. Romero supplies the play by play.
Latino Field Studies: Understanding the ‘Lip Purse’ (video)
This short Latino Field Study video examines a culturally-distinctive mannerism many Anglos find confusing – the often hard-to-discern and sometimes confusing Lip Purse mouth gesture.
Las Clikas de L.A. according to El Popo (1970s docuvideo)
Public affairs documentary producer Charles Cahill presents Street Gangs: Challenge to Law Enforcement a 1970s training movie digitized from a 16mm film purchased on eBay, according to YouTube uploader GuilfordGhost.
Who are the OG’s in the video? Recognize anyone? Has anything changed?
Mas…Las Clikas de L.A. according to El Popo (1970s docuvideo)
It’s metal! It’s mariachi! It’s Metalachi with ‘Crazy Train’ (music video)
Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train never sounded like this. Maybe it did sound like this but it’s all a crazy dream. Metalachi makes the metal music of someone’s dreams. Or the mariachi music of their nightmares. Shhh. Quiet now. Let’s listen in …..
Ask A Mexican: Hispanic? Latino? Chicano? What’s the deal? (video)
In an Hispanic Heritage Month Latino Heritage Month special video episode, POCHO amigo Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano answers the perennial question: Hispanics? Latinos? WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?
It all begins with a touch: ‘El Contacto’ (video)
Familiar images morph into an unexpected sensual landscape of chill sound and shadow in El Contacto, a (music) video from Spanish filmmaker Francisco Montoro.
Presley’s Pantry: Halloween Mexican poutine smashers (video)
Nicole Presley smashes up potatoes and barbacoa for a scary MexiCanadian Halloween recipe. Kids: You SHOULD try this at home!
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Mas…Presley’s Pantry: Halloween Mexican poutine smashers (video)
‘El Alfabeto Latino’ (that’s alphabet for you pochos) [3 videos]
All you pochos: What are the names of the letters, besides “equis” which you only know because beer? What do you call “Ñ”?
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Mas…‘El Alfabeto Latino’ (that’s alphabet for you pochos) [3 videos]
‘What Is Hip?’ Tower of Power and Carlos Santana (video, lyrics)
We borrowed the title of this Tower of Power mega-hit for POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz’ toon about San Francisco hipsters so it’s only fair we show our true love for the Bay Area in general and TOP in particular.
Check out TOP’s performance of What Is Hip? live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006 (with guest star Carlos Santana.)
By the way, these are some hip lyrics:
So you want to jump out your trick bag
And ease on into a hip bag
But you ain’t just exactly sure what’s hip
So you start to let your hair grow
Spend big bucks to cop you a wardrobe
But somehow you know there’s much more to the tripMas…‘What Is Hip?’ Tower of Power and Carlos Santana (video, lyrics)
Ratch online dating: Because sex feels better than love (NSFW video)
They’re letting anybody fall in love and get married these days! But what if you don’t want a long-term stable, loving, mutually-supportive relationship. Try new Ratch dot com.
Belorussia’s ‘Life’ smartphones include Mexicans (video)
Every new smartphone from cellphone company Life in Belorussia includes festive Mexican mariachis! Order today!
Are you just kinda racist? Try new Diet Racism™ (video)
What’s the deal with this Hispanic Heritage Month? What we need is a White History Month, and our own soft drink!
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Letter to straight guys from a Latina vagina: I’m too sexy for my chonies
Dear Straight Dudes:
Why, hello there, I’m a Latina vagina and I have a message for heterosexual guys. Now I know what you’re going to ask me: “How well-groomed am I?”
No seas cochino! That’s none of your business, that’s personal. But I am here to, uh, talk business because I’m tired of all of these assumptions people make about me!
Mas…Letter to straight guys from a Latina vagina: I’m too sexy for my chonies
Felipe Esparza: The Seven Spanish Cuss Words (LatinoUSA audio)
“There are some words, not many, just a few — that we decided, we won’t use them all the time,” said the late comedian George Carlin in his famous routine about the “seven dirty words.” If you aren’t familiar with it –– the skit tries to pinpoint a definitive list of words you can never say on radio and television [See NSFW video below.]
Mas…Felipe Esparza: The Seven Spanish Cuss Words (LatinoUSA audio)
Hey! You’re lookin’ for tacos in all the wrong places (photos)
As POCHO amigo Gustavo Arellano pointed out in his book Taco USA, America loves tacos.
How much does America love tacos, you ask? Taco imagery is everywhere — jewelry (necklace, above), toys, drinks, desserts, babies, kitties, doggies, purses, rear-view mirrors. And how could we make a listicle without the pink taco? [The pink taco final photograph may be NSFW depending on your work. We don’t think it is, but you never know, tu sabes?]
Mas…Hey! You’re lookin’ for tacos in all the wrong places (photos)
Flashback Friday: Where are they now? (video)
Sure, they’re older now, but are they obsolete? Our childhood heroes: Where are they now? Popeye is apparently no longer “strong to the finish,” for example. What’s up with that? Is spinach too expensive for retired sailors on a fixed income?
Instant karma is alive and well in Brazil, San Berdoo (video)
“Instant karma’s gonna get you,” John Lennon sang. This is true in both Brazil and San Bernardino County.
In Beverly Hills, a cardboard gardener ‘represents’ (photos, video)
We first met West Hollywood artist Ramiro Gomez when he began placing his hand-painted cardboard figures of immigrant laborers in prominent public spaces in Bel Air, Beverly Hills and Hollywood.
Even as his audience has expanded via out-of-town art exhibits and a documentary film, he still plants cutout cardboard workers in places where their real-life counterparts have been before. Gomez’ aim? To make workers who are normally INVISIBLE become visible to passersby who look away or look but never see.
This gardener with a hose popped up Wednesday just before sunset in Beverly Hills near that famous hotel. Like all Gomez’ creations, he has a name. Meet Sergio.
Mas…In Beverly Hills, a cardboard gardener ‘represents’ (photos, video)
New Mattel-Disney dolls for ‘Crucifiction’ movie cause furor
(PNS reporting from ANAHEIM) Movie executives here are scrambling to respond to the fury over just-announced Christian religious figures re-imagined as Barbie dolls.
The Kens and Barbies are slated to promote the Mattel-Disney movie Crucifiction that “rebrands” the Passion of Jesus. The film is set for Xmas release.
The Disney reps — now on the defensive — have a heavy cross to bear.
Mas…New Mattel-Disney dolls for ‘Crucifiction’ movie cause furor