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Mas…If ‘nacho cheese’ is wrong, I don’t wanna be right (photo)
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She’s a ‘young adult’ now! ‘Dora and Friends: Into the City’
New Young Adult/YA Dora the Explorer on the Horizon: Dora and Friends: Into the City to Debut! What’s Next? Dora, the Sad College Years?
Never one to say no to a good thing, Nickelodeon has opted to cash-in on their Latina golden goose! The morning mail finds our old friend Dora the Explorer all grown up, ten years old, hangin’ with her posse in the City, and, get this, now she has eyebrows.
I am actually all for the saturation of the vidiot network with pint-sized facsimiles of smart, bilingual, Latina animated stars, so I will hold the snark and just point you to some coming attractions!
Mas…She’s a ‘young adult’ now! ‘Dora and Friends: Into the City’
Watch: ‘Sh!t San Franciscans Say’ (classic NSFW video)
Since POCHO is in Southern California we have a responsibility to mock Frisco aka “The City” as much as possible. Here’s a classic video that lets typical “Baghdad by the Bay” citizens do it themselves. And believe you me, it’s no day at the beach! 😉 [NSFW adult language.]
Bush Sr. backs DREAMers, Reagan says ‘no border fence’ (1980 video)
Come with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear (1980), when Republican candidate George H.W. Bush backed the rights of kids brought into the country without documents and GOP rival Ronald W. Reagan just said no to a fence on the Mexican border.
Rosa Diaz goes ‘method’ on Charles Bukowski project (audio, video)
Philly singer-songwriter Rosa Diaz started a Charles Bukowski-themed project, and to make it authentic, she became a Method Actor — actually living the writer’s hard-drinking life style until it almost killed her.
LatinoUSA’s Nadia Reiman reports:
In this recent a capella music video, Diaz sings about Pain:
Mas…Rosa Diaz goes ‘method’ on Charles Bukowski project (audio, video)
Mexico breaks own record for world’s largest torta (video)
Dozens of cooks joined forces in Mexico City late last month to prepare a 173-foot (53-meter) monster torta as part of the opening ceremony of the ninth annual Torta Fair, thus setting the new world record for the sandwich, according to the World Record Academy.
Mas…Mexico breaks own record for world’s largest torta (video)
Public Service Video: Disabled people can be assholes, too
Disabled people are like everyone else — some are cool, some are assholes. Stop the stereotyping.
The Bodega: Attention NYC hipsters, get turnt here! (videos)
Two brothers working in their dad’s New York City Bodega try to get rich quick by turning the store’s back room into an underground “Bodega Bar” night club for hipsters. Will their plan make enough bank get them out of working at the bodega?
What happens next? Here’s episode two:
Mas…The Bodega: Attention NYC hipsters, get turnt here! (videos)
Robin Williams reads Pablo Neruda’s ‘Sonnet XVII’ (video)
In the film Patch Adams, Hunter “Patch” Adams — played by the late Robin Williams — “commits himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor to help his fellow inmates gives him a purpose in life….”
Sonnet XVII
By Pablo Neruda
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Mas…Robin Williams reads Pablo Neruda’s ‘Sonnet XVII’ (video)
Cops out of control kill Eric Garner in NYC, Mike Brown in MO (videos)
#RIPMikeBrown #RIPEricGarner & to all boys/men of color who've lost their lives to ignorance, hate & injustice. pic.twitter.com/GlimbBMhT0
— Veronica Rodriguez (@LaresNYC) August 13, 2014
Mas…Cops out of control kill Eric Garner in NYC, Mike Brown in MO (videos)
Canadian NDN group Drezus is on the ‘Warpath’ (music video)
First Nation band Drezus is on the Warpath in this single from their new album Indian Summer. “When it all goes bad,” they ask, “who’s gonna ride with me?”
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Mas…Canadian NDN group Drezus is on the ‘Warpath’ (music video)
X-rays prove Mexican Christ statue has human teeth (videos)
That awkward moment when an art restorer finds the teeth in an 18th Century Mexican statue of Jesus are human teeth. Y tambien en español:
Mas…X-rays prove Mexican Christ statue has human teeth (videos)
Be all that you can be, en la Marina mexicana (video)
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RIP Robin Williams aka Ramon the singing, dancing Mexipenguin (video)
There will never be another actor and comedian like Robin Williams, and there will never be another Ramon, the animated, singing, dancing Mexican penguin Williams brought to life in Happy Feet. Williams, 63, was pronounced dead at his home by first responders today in Tiburon, north of San Francisco.
Orbitas: In space, no one can hear you hug (video)
Down on the planet, it’s war. But for two astronauts from “enemy countries,” Orbitas is a trajectory for love. [Short video from Spanish animation school PrimeFrame.]
What is a burro? ¡Mira! (photo)
At the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, MO, last week, a question for the ages: What is a burro? [Click on the photograph to enlarge.]
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Purritos: Photos of kitties wrapped up like burritos
We don’t know what to say, really. People on the Internets wrap their kittens up in towels, paper, socks, cloth, whatever, photograph them, and then upload them to satisfy some kind of twisted craving for “purritos.”
Can I change my name to ‘Mr. New York Times Best-Selling Author’?
I’m going to change my name to Mr. New York Times Best Selling Author Lalo Alcaraz.
OK, maybe a name-changing judge won’t agree, but the book I co-created with author Ilan Stavans has been two weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List for Graphic Books, so sue me, I’m just a little excited.
A Most Imperfect Union is the culmination of over two years of back and forth haggling, drawing, changing, hacking and exasperation, but it resulted a pretty damn fine book. It is the second book famed academic and author Ilan Stavans (Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College) and I have worked on together; the first was the very successful Latino USA: A Cartoon History of Latinos in the US.
Ilan and I could be considered an odd couple, he is a Jewish chilango academic, I am a Chicano artist from the border.
Mas…Can I change my name to ‘Mr. New York Times Best-Selling Author’?
Watch: German Boy Scouts make mass quantities of ‘burritos’
“Last week we made 90 burritos in about 45 minutes in our Boy Scout tent camp,” video uploader Major Boerns explains:
Mexican / Texmex food is hardly known in Germany at all, so it was a bit of a experiment and therefore I posted this here. The children liked it very much… I know this may be some youtube stuff…but this is for the people who look for some recipes for a huge amount of guests… 🙂 Any ideas for improvement and of course any insults welcome 🙂
Shocking photos expose backstage at the Wonderful World of Disney
Pop surrealist José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros goes behind the screens at the Magic Kingdom to reveal the real Disney, the Disney the Hollywood PR machine won’t let you see. His paintings are on display L.A.’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery until the end of the month. [Photos courtesy Hint Magazine.]
Mas…Shocking photos expose backstage at the Wonderful World of Disney
Watch this Pakistani man make mega tortillas de harina
Actually, they call this flatbread “roti” or “chapati” in Pakistan and India but they’re all tortillas to me. Note: Totally tubular comal!
La Santa Cecilia picks Beatlefruit in ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ (video)
Beatle John Lennon’s song about playing in the Salvation Army’s Strawberry Fields children’s home near his casa in Liverpool becomes an animated allegory about who picks the juicy red fruits and the crop’s journey from farm to table table to farm as East Los homies La Santa Cecilia transform Strawberry Fields Forever.
Pocho Ocho rudest vanity license plates refused by the DMV
Your California Department of Motor Vehicles has standards, you know, and not every request for a personalized/vanity license plate can be accommodated, even though they still hope you’ll like them on Facebook. It’s not personal, dude, no hard feelings. K?
“Welcome to the Department of Motor Vehicles’ office of vanity plates,” SFGate.com esplains, “where three full-time state employees review some 90,000 applications for personalized license plates each year and, citing poor taste, turn down thousands.”
Here’s our list of the Pocho Ocho rudest vanity plate requests declined by the DMV:
Mas…Pocho Ocho rudest vanity license plates refused by the DMV
Political Science: How a bill becomes a law (toons, video)
Last week, the Republican-uncontrolled House of Representatives failed to pass a minimal spending bill to help with the unexpected crush of Central American refugees, adjourned, and then reconvened to approve a mean-spirited barebones measure that also would reverse President Obama’s DACA relief for DREAMers, and worse. Then they adjourned again.
Of course, the bill has no chance of passage in the Senate, let alone getting a Presidential signature.
Their obstructionist mission accomplished, the do-nothing pendejos left town for their summer hideouts in the rich white safety of their home districts.
Their Tea Party-twisted debates, however, left a lingering aroma over Capitol Hill, and it wasn’t Laspang Souchong.
SPOILER ALERT: The aroma was SHIT.
Mas…Political Science: How a bill becomes a law (toons, video)
Al Madrigal explains comedy to a pinche puppet (video)
Star of stage, little screens and even littler screens, POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal tries to stay cool, calm and collected during a Green Room interview with FUSION’s “Talking Hot Dog.” [SWF: F-bombs bleeped.]
The Gay 90s: Hot tamales on Broadway, New York City, 1894 (toon)
This cartoon, from 1894, is by Archie Dunn. The tamalero seems to be wearing a chef’s hat (?) and using a charcoal burner to keep the tamales hot. What do you think his medallion signifies? And aren’t the “Gay Nineties” couple elegant? Are they daredevils eating exotic street food or just another drunk couple with the munchies, hanging out at the food truck of the era?
Image courtesy the New York Public Library.
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Mas…The Gay 90s: Hot tamales on Broadway, New York City, 1894 (toon)