Eddie Murphy, always fly, wishes everyone a Merry New Year! Beef jerky?
Cultura
It’s Not News to Us
A Very Merry Mexican New Year from Sesame Street (video)
Hitting a piñata until the goodies inside fall out is hard work, but somebody’s got to do it. Happy New Year from Sesame Street!
‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters (East Los 1965)
It’s 1965 and big hair and girl groups are all the rage.
In East LA, sisters Rosella, Ersi and Mary Arvizu, who had been singing and playing music together all their lives, thought they had the right stuff to be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They call themselves The Sisters.
¡Wachale! POCHO Public Service New Year 2014 Punctuation Alert
The tilde — don’t leave home without it! Please share!
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Epistle to the Internets: ‘Jesus Had A Jewish Mother’ (toon)
“Mom, how many Jews does it take to change a lightbulb?”
“Don’t worry about me, Sammy, I’ll just sit here in the dark.” [RIMSHOT.]
Was it any different for Jesus of Nazareth and his Jewish mother Mary?
Cartoonista Idan Schneider answers the kvetching question as the toon continues here: Jesus Had A Jewish Mom.
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Hermes and the ‘Futurama’ crew wish you a Happy Kwanzaa (video)
Culture, food, history, tradition and humanoids from the future join the Kwanzaa party at Hermes’ house.
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Mas…Hermes and the ‘Futurama’ crew wish you a Happy Kwanzaa (video)
Please dispose of your Christmas tree properly (video)
There’s a right way and a wrong way to get rid of your Christmas tree. This how-to video should help.
A message on ‘El Contestador (The Answering Machine)’ (NSFW video)
WTF? It’s an old answering machine — a gift from Mom — with a disturbing voicemail message from Abuelita. What to do? [NSFW adult language en Espanish.]
Oy vey! It’s ‘Christmastime for the Jews’ (SNL music video)
Oy vey! From SNL, it’s 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…Oy vey! It’s ‘Christmastime for the Jews’ (SNL music video)
A very special color Christmas with the Ricardos: ‘I Love Lucy’ (video)
America’s favorite interracial family — Lucy, and Desi and Little Ricky — have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do as they get ready to welcome Christmas.
POCHO wishes you a Merry Christmas (toon)
Merry Christmas from the Pochodores: Lalo Alcaraz, Jefe-in-Chief; Dennis Wilen AKA Comic Saenz, Jefe de Editorial; Sara Inés Calderón, Subcommandanta del Ñews; Victor Payan, Subcommandante de la Cultura; Beto Mesta AKA Eres Nerd, Texas Burro Jefe; Santino J. Rivera, Florida Burro Jefe; Elise Roedenbeck, New Jack City Burro Jefe (Emeritus); Melanie Ruiz, Director of Marketing; Al Madrigal, Migrant Editor.
Jesus Re-Branded: ‘Capitalism is the reason for the season’ (video)
Push the Sacred Heart of this Re-Branded Jesus Action Figure and he’ll tell you the New Gospel:
You can both serve God and money — go forth and profit. The love of money is at the root of … all successful entrepreneurs. If they’re hungry, sell them something to eat!
On sale now at a mall near you.
(I’m dreaming of a) ‘Pulp Christmas’ (NSFW video)
Do you know what they call Santa Claus in Italy? [NSFW adult language.]
What’s it like growing up named ‘Jesús’? (LatinoUSA audio)
In Latin America, it’s a name like any other. But here in the U.S., Jesús is a name that could still raise an eyebrow. So Latino USA producer Michael Simon Johnson spoke with a handful of Jesúses to find out what it’s like to grow up with the holiest name in the book.
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Terror on the Moon: “2014 – A Space Odyssey” (30-second video)
Houston, this is Civility Base. The Beagle has landed.
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Construction Zone: Must wear hard hat and mustache (photo)
¡Peligro! ¡Bigote! From two years ago, photographer and location unknown, found on Imgur
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Mas…Construction Zone: Must wear hard hat and mustache (photo)
Gustavo Arellano at ASU: The Glories of the Arizona Latino
POCHO amigo Gustavo Arellano (he's the ¡Ask A Mexican! guy and editor of the O.C. Weekly) delivered this keynote speech at Arizona State University's biannual Hispanic Convocation Wednesday. The photo (below) shows him at his day job.
Gracias, Arizona State, for asking me to be this year’s Hispanic Convocation keynote. I’m sure it’s a mercy offering to UCLA, after your Sun Devils demolished my Bruins this year in football. No hard feelings–hey, at least we both kicked the nalgas of USC this season, right?
When I announced that I was giving a speech here today, congratulations came from across the country. But also invading my inbox were the inevitable insults–not toward me, but toward the state of Arizona. “Don’t forget to take your papers!” was the most obvious dig. “Watch out for Sheriff Arpaio!” was another one–that one I took to heart, because he did have my former bosses at the New Times arrested a couple of years back. But the slams that I found especially egregious were those that insisted I shouldn’t bother coming to this so-called evil estado in the first place.
Mas…Gustavo Arellano at ASU: The Glories of the Arizona Latino
Bob Dylan, Norteño-style: ‘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
(Listen closely as Bob Dylan lists Santa’s eight reindeer — names not in the official lyrics: “Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon; Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton”.)
Thanks to Bill Vitka for the link.
Foot star Selena Gomez is top tootsie on wikiFeet (photos)
It’s on the Internets, so it’s got to be true. Actress and singer Selena Gomez’s “gorgeous, five-star” feet are the most popular celebrity tootsies on wikiFeet, the all feet, all the time website (screen cap).
Here are just two of the photos that got foot star Gomez to the top of the wikiFeet charts:
Feets don’t fail me now! How about some Jessica Alba (tenth most popular) foot action? (Just so you know, “the foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion,” according to Wikipedia.) OK, back to Jessica Alba:
Mas…Foot star Selena Gomez is top tootsie on wikiFeet (photos)
Pocho Ocho worst Christmas presents
The latest Hey Vato! video prompted a little soul searching by the Pochodores.
What are Pocho Ocho worst presents you could get or give this Christmas?
8. A used shank
7. Threefried beans
6. Governor Jan Brewja Doll
They told Stevie Wonder he was in Brazil (video)
The Girl from Ipanema is watching Stevie Wonder.
Hey Vato! What we really, really want for Christmas (video)
Vatos Chuy and Smiley made up a Christmas wish list, but they’re checking it twice!
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Jesus is cool but Guadalupe is better (toon)
This brand new toon (yesterday!) is by artist Gustavo Abascal. We had to make a square “thumbnail” for layout purposes on the home page, but don’t be scared, the full image is here:
Everyday racist bullsh*t (AKA ‘racial microaggressions’) [photos]
Fordham student Kiyun asked her school friends to “write down an instance of racial microaggression they have faced,” then she took their photos.
Here are (what may be/could be/possibly look like) four of the “Latino” photos [click to enlarge.] The rest are here and here.
Mas…Everyday racist bullsh*t (AKA ‘racial microaggressions’) [photos]
Latino Stereotypes 101: Arsenio Hall and Felipe Esparza (video)
Arsenio Hall and (Last Comic Standing) Felipe Esparza head to Santee Alley in L.A.’s Garment Fashion District to see if they can pin down some Latino stereotypes. Hot sauce, Home Depot and “No hablo ingles” here we come!
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@SaraChicaD’s Virgen de Guadalupe nail art (video)
POCHO Subcommandanta del Ñews Sara Inés Calderón (@SaraChicaD on the Twitter) is like a Virgen, manicured for the very first time. She calls her video Guadalupe Nail Art – Decoración de Uñas Virgen de Guadalupe. Yes, it is a silent video.
Top five appearances by La Virgen de Guadalupe
You know you’ve heard the story before. A grandmother in a faraway place has found La Virgen on her tortilla or her window or her ceiling or wherever it is that she found her.
Don’t pretend like you haven’t looked for things shaped like La Virgen before! It’s all a part of our culture, but because it’s also a recurring and hilarious part, we wanted to round up the list for you.
- A Tortilla – This is one of the most common ones, close second to Jesus on a piece of toast.
- A Tree – I wrote about this one when I was a reporter on the border, but I’m not the only one.