Rudy Mancuso wants you to meet his mom. No moms were tortured in the making of this video. [With these Vine videos, there’s an audio/speaker/volume icon that pops up when you hover over the top-left corner on the video.]
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Cultura
It’s Not News to Us
Hey, Sasheer Zamata: Could you please act more ‘urban?’ (video)
New Saturday Night Live cast member Sasheer Zamata just wasn’t black enough at the audition. [Contains N-word, girl!]
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Mas…Hey, Sasheer Zamata: Could you please act more ‘urban?’ (video)
Welcome to the Indian Store – Dream Catchers are on sale today (video)
The Indian Store has everything the White Man needs — dream catchers, spirit animals, books on coyotes and WiFi signal boosters. [F-bombs.] Video by the 1491s.
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Mas…Welcome to the Indian Store – Dream Catchers are on sale today (video)
POCHO History 101: Public Enemy, Arizona, MLK Day (video)
Twenty-one years ago Public Enemy‘s epic By the Time I Get to Arizona spotlighted the Hate State of Arizona’s failure to implement the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
My friend’s stupid Chevy Nova has Hispanic GPS (Vine video)
Rudy Mancuso’s Hispanic-voiced GPS navigation amigo knows where Rudy needs to go, even if Rudy acts stupid. [With these Vine videos, there’s an audio/speaker/volume icon that pops up when you hover over the top-left corner on the video.]
Are they really ‘Beta Males’ — slackers without a cause? (NSFW video)
Two brothers and one amigo wonder what it’s all about, being responsible adults with degrees and stuff. From Hijo De Mi Madre Productions. [One F bomb.]
America to pause Monday for Ricky Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2014
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON, D.C.) America will pause Monday to remember the life and message of Ricky Martin Luther King Jr., whose Tengo a Dream y Dance! speech changed the nation forever.
Post offices and other public facilities will be closed, banks and stock exchanges take the day off and salsa picante and sweet potato pie – his favorite snack combo – are on sale all across America. Today would have been RMLK’s 34th birthday.
Despite his tragic death in 2007 (he was shot and killed by the president of his fan club before an appearance in Dallas) King’s promotion of “love, equality, justice, innocence, malice, refuge, oppression, freedom” has continued to resonate among confused Latinos and Anglos alike.
Mas…America to pause Monday for Ricky Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2014
Photo shows illegal alien @ El Matate Tortilleria, Roswell, NM *UPDATED
A sexy green-skinned alien chica was photographed Wednesday with her hands in the masa at Tortilleria El Matate in America’s most popular UFO destination, Roswell, New Mexico. [Photo by and © Russ Contreras.]
*UPDATE JAN. 17 9:10PM:
Mas…Photo shows illegal alien @ El Matate Tortilleria, Roswell, NM *UPDATED
¡Lucha! Wrestlers never rest (video)
The match doesn’t always end at the bell, because in Lucha Libre, wrestlers never rest.
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Fund our ThingStarter for ‘Sustainable Kidnapping’ or else (video)
Richard and Alec want you to support their ThingStarter campaign for Sustainable Kidnapping — or you’ll never see your family again.
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Mas…Fund our ThingStarter for ‘Sustainable Kidnapping’ or else (video)
Survey says? Pocho Ocho top Chipster New Year’s Resolutions
To be a Chipster (Chicano + Hipster) is not a destination, but a journey, and seekers must never rest. These are the Pocho Ocho Chipster New Year’s Resolutions our readers shared with us:
8. Despite the Indio heritage that gives me a sparse Fu Manchu facial hair configuration, I resolve to grow a Chente-strength bigote in 2014.
7. Nopalitos every day keeps the doctor away.
6. Repeat after me: Tenochtitlan, not panocha flan.
Mas…Survey says? Pocho Ocho top Chipster New Year’s Resolutions
Trevor Noah: It’s not easy being mixed (NSFW video)
“Coloured” stand up comic Trevor Noah explains his mixed-race life in apatheid-era South Africa to fans in London. [NSFW adult language.]
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Nobody doesn’t like guacamole (video)
Baby Margaret sure loves her some guacamole.
Exploring the sound of the mariachi grito in ‘El Rey’ — solo (video)
Chicago artist Diana Delgado Pinada writes:
Listening to the quintessential charro song El Rey accompanied with occasional “gritos Mexicanos” or “mariachi howls” would not be an unusual event. However, when the gritos are performed by a Latina in a Midwest suburban kitchen, in full charro attire, the isolated, elongated cries or howls resonate a little deeper.
Mas…Exploring the sound of the mariachi grito in ‘El Rey’ — solo (video)
MADDEF rates 2013 a ‘Mestizo Year’ for Chihuahuas in media, online
(PNS reporting from BEVERLY HILLS) 2013 was a “Mestizo Year” for Chihuahuas in the media, according to the Mexican American Dog Defense and Education Fund’s (MADDEF) annual It’s A Dog’s Life report released here Monday.
The study carefully tallies and grades Chihuahua representations in pop culture (TV, radio, Internets, books, newspapers, magazines, videos, pop music, video games, etc.), scientifically sniffing the butt of America’s complicated relationship with the popular canine.
2013’s record was mixed, the group lamented, and the prospect of increased levels of anti-Chihuahua defamation in 2014 “remains troubling, especially in cyberspace, where mocking the perritos has become a viral ‘meme.'”
Since the death of superstar Gidget the Taco Bell Chihuahua in 2006, the image of all Chihuahuas has been on the decline, the study noted, presenting this widely-circulated and ignorantly-misspeeled illustration of an alleged “zombie” Chihuahua as just one piece of evidence (photo, right.)
Mas…MADDEF rates 2013 a ‘Mestizo Year’ for Chihuahuas in media, online
Jesus Trejo’s combed-over hair is blowin’ in the wind (video)
Long Beach homeboy Jesus Trejo started losing his hair early, so now he has a combover.
‘Think’ for yourself — all the kool kids are doing it! (video)
Think before you leap.
One (Delicious) Minute in Mexico [video]
The Perennial Plate ate some good food in Mexico and refried it into a beautiful and tempting one-minute video, One Minute in Mexico. The music is Por El Suelo by Olmeca.
Know your cultural history? What’s wrong with these pictures?
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up! On vocals, Mountain Chief of the Blackfoot.
Mas…Know your cultural history? What’s wrong with these pictures?
Artist marks rap history at Los Angeles’ intersections (NSFW video)
Los Angeles locations like Pico and La Brea, 108th and Crenshaw, The House of Blues and Dockweiler Beach were all featured in rap lyrics. Now New York’s Jay Shells wants to make sure these landmarks get the respect they deserve. [Some NSFW lyrics.]
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Mas…Artist marks rap history at Los Angeles’ intersections (NSFW video)
The Hickoids: ‘I’m A Real Cool Arrow’ (neo-polka cowpunk music videos)
He’s so rico suave, everyone says he’s a Real Cool Arrow! (Neo-polka cowpunk from Austin’s The Hickoids.)
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Mas…The Hickoids: ‘I’m A Real Cool Arrow’ (neo-polka cowpunk music videos)
Nasty Pantys: Undies that say ‘No’ so you don’t have to (NSFW video)
A ground-breaking informercial for a revolutionary anti-rape device — chonies that JUST SAY NO so you don’t have to! [Adult gags. NSFW.]
Missing: Little Julian Herrera, East Los Chicano Rock ‘Bigfoot’ (audio)
From Latino USA: Little Julian Herrera was a heartthrob singer in East L.A.’s rock and R&B music scene. But one day, he disappeared, taking with him the secrets behind his identity and his fate. A fascinating story from Alex Schmidt.
Mas…Missing: Little Julian Herrera, East Los Chicano Rock ‘Bigfoot’ (audio)
Clip & Save: Handy forms for every occasion (toon)
You’ll never be a loss for words with these handy forms for all occasions from the Bureau of Communications. (Click photos to enlarge.)
Clip & Save!
Mexicans: 7-Up is good for whatever TF that thing is you have (video)
Alonzo Alcaraz (no relation to POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz) is the spokesman in this new commercial for 7-Up.
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Mas…Mexicans: 7-Up is good for whatever TF that thing is you have (video)
[Sponsored] NSA cyber spy gear on sale now — big post-Xmas savings!
It’s after Christmas and everything must go — and our prices are INSAAAAANE!
There’s nothing wrong with any of these state-of-the-art electronic spying devices we picked up at the NSA year-end auction. They’re new, they’re still in the original packaging and they are the very best in the world, except for one thing:
They are last year’s models.
That’s just not the way your National Security Agency rolls.
So check out these two items just released for sale (click to enlarge) and if you want to see more, click on the big link below.
Mas…[Sponsored] NSA cyber spy gear on sale now — big post-Xmas savings!
Shocking live video: ICE busts motorist for ‘Driving While Canadian’
They’re on guard all across Los Angeles — the dedicated officers of L.A. Illegal Canadian Enforcement (LA-ICE) — keeping us safe from the border-crashing Canuckians hordes of the Great White North. In this episode, the LA-ICE team investigates a motorist suspected of Driving While Canadian.