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When ‘Joe’ became ‘José’ his life changed forever (NSFW video)
Out-of-work Joe Sullivan was having a hard time finding a job until he decided to change his name to José. You won’t believe what happened next! [NSFW adult language.]
PREVIOUSLY ON JOBS:
Mas…When ‘Joe’ became ‘José’ his life changed forever (NSFW video)
José-Ariel Cuevas: Sweet Lady Añejo (poem)
I stare at my third tumbler full of tequila,
looking at it like I did the other two,
with reverence at this golden,
earth-bound ambrosia,
aged a year or more in old whiskey barrels…
Random guy sings ‘Just A Gigolo’ on Mexico City subway (3 videos)
Just another day, just another gigolo on the subway in Mexico DF — with music. How does this guy’s performance rate compared to the David Lee Roth derivative cover version — or Louis Prima’s Just A Gigolo totally happening classic original? Check out their vids here:
Mas…Random guy sings ‘Just A Gigolo’ on Mexico City subway (3 videos)
Topless Brooklyn bodybuilder’s ‘Mexican Firing Squad’ cocktail (video)
If you’re a Brooklyn bodybuilder who is gonna demonstrate how to make a Mexican Firing Squad cocktail for the Internets, make sure you’re topless and flip your man-boobs at the end of the video.
Here’s the recipe from PunchDrink.com:
Mas…Topless Brooklyn bodybuilder’s ‘Mexican Firing Squad’ cocktail (video)
Jalisco woman who ‘cooked for Pancho Villa’ is 127 years old (video)
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, reportedly the oldest person in the world, turned 127 on Sunday, at her Zapopan home in the Mexican state of Jalisco. This raw footage comes from RU.TV, the Berlin-based Russian-owned TV network.
Here’s their shot log, including translations:
Mas…Jalisco woman who ‘cooked for Pancho Villa’ is 127 years old (video)
At Cal State Northridge, MEChA is Fridalicious (photo)
We didn’t see you yesterday in Jerome Richfield 118 at 3:30, hermana. We passed out these flyers, you know.
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Anjelah Johnson: No, sorry, I don’t speak Puerto Rican (4 videos)
Pocha Anjelah Johnson from San Jose (408 shout-out!) may not speak Spanish, but she doesn’t speak Puerto Rican either. [This video was one of our most popular and then got yanked from YouTube. We just found this alternate version online, apparently video’d right off someone’s TV.]
Over at LatinoRebels.com, Bella Vida Letty says Anjelah’s new video has her performing in “brown face.”
Here’s the video she objects to. What do you think?
Mas…Anjelah Johnson: No, sorry, I don’t speak Puerto Rican (4 videos)
The Idiot’s Guide to Smart People: ‘College’ (video)
College is not so hard to understand, even for idiots like you, so long as you watch this video!
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It’s a cake! It’s a burrito! It’s a pinche CAKE BURRITO! (video)
America’s love affair with the burrito (a wheat flour tortilla wrapped or folded into a cylindrical shape to completely enclose the filling, according to Wikipedia) has moved the tubular tummy-buster from the kitchen to the bakery, as this burrito-styled cake demonstrates.
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Mas…It’s a cake! It’s a burrito! It’s a pinche CAKE BURRITO! (video)
One-minute educational video: How a frijol becomes a pedo
Frijoles, as you may recall, are good for your heart, and here’s why.
Alfonso Ochoca: Don’t hate me because I don’t speak Spanish (video)
Ever have an awkward moment when you have to pretend to be an Anglo at the taqueria because you don’t speak Spanish? Alfonso “White Boy Mexican” Ochoa reports.
‘Maybe (I Grew Up…)’ (@SchemeNavarro audio)
Last month we published the powerful essay Maybe I grew up in a Latino and African-American neighborhood by Navarro, the Chicago-based hiphop artist formerly known as Scheme. Now it’s back, with music:
A burrito is not a sandwich, Massachusetts judge rules
(PNS reporting from MASSACHUSETTS) A burrito is not a sandwich, you idiots, according to a court decision announced here last week.
Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke made the ruling as he threw out a lawsuit brought by a Panera restaurant seeking to stop White City Shopping Center in Shrewbsury from leasing space to a franchisee of the Qdoba Mexican Grill chain.
Panera’s lease prevents the center from renting space to a (competing) sandwich shop.
[The judge] cited Webster’s Dictionary as well as testimony from a chef and a former high-ranking federal agriculture official in ruling that Qdoba’s burritos and other offerings are not sandwiches.
Watch and learn: The Brazilian sport of head-butting sheep
With FIFA2014 World Cup futbol now nothing but a memory, Brazilian athletes have revived the traditional sport of butting heads with sheep. But don’t call these guys butt heads!
Will social media F*ckyer hashtag un-f*ck social media? (NSFW video)
That symbol we used to call the “number sign” or “pound sign” that they now call as “hash sign” — # — is ruining social media. All the cool kids have switched over to what we used to call the “percent sign” — % — to make social media a better place for you and me, especially me. Try the new % F*ckyer sign and find out yourself! [NSFW adult language.]
Tweet of the Day via Roberta Valderrama (@RoValderrama)
Apparently more white people believe in ghosts than in racial discrimination. Boo, mothafuckas! http://t.co/lpgODpUzHh
— Roberta Valderrama (@RoValderrama) August 28, 2014
Lalo Guerrero via Culture Clash: ‘There’s No Chicanos on TV’ (video)
The late Chicano musical pioneer Lalo Guerrero called out Hollywood on its racist casting practices on last century’s Culture Clash TV show.
Elise Roedenbeck: How to hide from drones (video)
Drones are chasing our Emeritus Editor Elise Roedenbeck (she’s @buttronica on the Tuiter) for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how she hides, and how you can hide too. [Editor’s note: I can’t tell you the right reason because then Ms. Buttronica would have to kill me and I think that could be quite painful.]
Dronestagrams: Drone photos (and one video) from Mexico
With inexpensive remote-controlled drones (typically quadcopters) mounted with small, lightweight digital cameras, previously unseen vistas can be captured and shared as videos and stills. This video shows the Monument to the Mexican Revolution in the Plaza de la República in downtown Mexico City. [Click on the photos to enlarge.]
Hari Kondabolu: 2042 — the Year of the White Minority (video)
Indian-American comic Hari Kondabolu is looking forward to 2042, when white Americans will only be 49% of the population.
Tony Montana accepts the Emmy on behalf of all Latinos (video)
In case you missed it, here is Tony Montana’s acceptance speech from last night’s Emmy Awards.
My churros are mas twisted, capitalist running dogs! (photo)
If you like my churros, try my “nacho cheese!”
Mas…My churros are mas twisted, capitalist running dogs! (photo)
Musical pochos: The Premiers rock ‘Farmer John’ (audio,videos)
Fifty years ago the biggest summer radio record was Farmer John, a cover of the Don and Dewey R&B hit by The Premiers, a group of pochos from East Los suburb San Gabriel. [Editor’s note: If you cannot access the NPR audio, blame NPR which is still using an outmoded, incompatible Flash-based media player.]
In the summer of 1964, Beatlemania was sweeping the United States, young men were burning their draft cards and race riots were raging in cities across the country — and wrapped up in all of it was the biggest hit of the summer in Los Angeles.
Mas…Musical pochos: The Premiers rock ‘Farmer John’ (audio,videos)
Pocho Ocho top Aztec deities we could sure use today
In these troubled times, God[ess] knows, we could use some help from indigenous, culturally-appropriate deities.
Here are the Pocho Ocho top Aztec gods we could sure use today:
8. Chingilipochtli, god of payback
7. Guautemoc, god of amazement and wonder
6. Spocktezuma, god of living long and prospering tambien
‘Is it the sound of coming riots?’ Outernational ‘Future Rock’ (video)
You say you don’t want to hear the same old sounds? Then you’ll like this new track from Outernational — Future Rock — produced by RATM’s Tom Morello. And we’ve got lyrics:
Mas…‘Is it the sound of coming riots?’ Outernational ‘Future Rock’ (video)
Russki electropunks Barto live at a Yucatan mezcaleria (video)
Barto, Барто in Russki, an electropunk combo from Saint Petersburg, rocks the Chalupa “Hostal & Mezcalería” in this new video. The “hostal” is in Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the Yucutan Peninsula. Also, luchadores.
Their arrival on the scene prompts the managers of wholesome pastime to just in case lock away the sound equipment. Informed by rational choice theories, my strategic tit-for-tat insistence to unlock it for a gig results in firing of the petitioner.
Mas…Russki electropunks Barto live at a Yucatan mezcaleria (video)