On the ground floor of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, Tacombi Tacos Chef Oscar Hernandez serves fish tacos two ways. Looks legit!
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Pocho Ocho top activists’ pickup lines for Valentine’s Day 2018
Love is in the air for Valentine’s Day.
Is there a way for the politically active pocha or pocho, Chicano, Chicana, Chican@ and/or Latinx to get lucky AND make the world a better place?
Yes, there is, in our list of the Pocho Ocho Top Activist Pickup Lines you can use for Valentine’s Day:
8. What do we want? A quiet romantic dinner for two! When do we want it? Wednesday night — what do you think — 8-ish?
7. What’s a nice girl like you doing in a MEChA like this?
6. Is that a GMO-free organic sustainably-raised earth-friendly heirloom local family farm non-corporate elote in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Mas…Pocho Ocho top activists’ pickup lines for Valentine’s Day 2018
Everyone sing along now and ask for ‘Uno Mas Cerveza’ (audio)
When he taught ESL, POCHO amigo Eric Holland learned that a song is a great way to teach students a new language. He wrote this song to teach English-speaking [adult] gabachos a few useful words en Español.
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Mas…Everyone sing along now and ask for ‘Uno Mas Cerveza’ (audio)
It CAN happen here: 20,000 Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden (video)
There’s a former American Nazi Party official running on the GOP ticket for United States Congress in Illinois. Trump defended the Nazis who marched and murdered in Charlottesville. His administration demonizes and criminalizes the lives of people of color, non-Christians, LGBT citizens, and immigrants.
And in 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in Madison Square Garden to support the Nazis. It can’t happen here? IT ALREADY HAS.
Metal AF music video: The Chavez Ravine present ‘Citywide’
When this video arrived it was accompanied by this message, and we couldn’t say it better:
Mas…Metal AF music video: The Chavez Ravine present ‘Citywide’
Buy this house near Houston and get $250 in tacos, too! (video)
Nicole Lopez is a real estate agent who knows what people want — TACOS!
Paraphrasing the ABC13 Eyewitness News report,
Mas…Buy this house near Houston and get $250 in tacos, too! (video)
Los Tradicionales Tacos de la Pepsi en Obregón, Sonora, Mexico (video)
Speaking of Pepsi halftime shows, next time you are in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, spend your halftime at Los Tacos de la Pepsi. Or start with this video — it has us convinced! — and then visit their Facebook page here for more info. Looks like they have a Valentines Day special.
And now for a special Superb Owl Pepsi-inspired slogan or two:
Mas…Los Tradicionales Tacos de la Pepsi en Obregón, Sonora, Mexico (video)
Chicano Park Autodefensa: ¡Victoria!
They came, on Saturday, they saw, and they were escorted out, as the home team chanted “fuera”… Once again.
Attempting to re- ignite the alt-right revolution with greasy pizza, local hater Roger Ogden and the Border Town Patriots, Inc. (sic) came down to San Diego’s Chicano Park to host “Patriot Picnic 2.0” promising to bring in a large number of supporters — all 25 of them — to stand up against the hundreds from the Chicano Park Autodefensa.
Unlike their response during the first confrontation last October, San Diego Police Department closed Logan Avenue and placed barricades, insuring that both “Patriots” and Autodefensa members remained separate (keeping the “Patriots” enclosed for a few hours until once again escorted out by SDPD).
$8 tacos? Sure–with micro-cilantro, uni, and legit masa (audio)
POCHO amigo Javier Cabral, aka freelance food writer TheGlutster, talked to Southern California Public Radio’s Larry Mantle about why $8 tacos may be worth it. Cabral wrote about this for our compas at L.A. Taco. Frankly, you had me at the uni.
Pocha’s Guide to CDMX: Where to go, how to get robbed, what to eat
Last Sunday night my dad picked me up at the San Diego Airport after my nine-hour, one stop in Houston, flight from Mexico City, and my uncle called over the Bluetooth and started chatting about his recent visit to my city of residence.
“At first I was afraid to be walking around el Centro, but after a few days I got over it.”
If a Pocho who lived in CDMX for over 20 years fears a short trip back to Mexico City, then what are the rest of us Millenial Poch@s out here supposed to do to conquer this? Have no fear!
The Pochas Guide to Mexico City is here!
Mas…Pocha’s Guide to CDMX: Where to go, how to get robbed, what to eat
New Mex restaurant used to be Chinese? No problema! (photo)
So your new Mexican restaurant is taking over a space formerly occupied by a Chinese restaurant and there’s a big pandas mural painted on the wall? No problem! (Snagged from REDDIT.)
Stereotyped Mexican bandido says ‘Prepare to die, amigo’ (toon)
Sometimes you think your job is done — after all, having written a book that attempted to chronicle the history of “Mexicans” in American popular culture, you think you’d get a break.
But, of course, that’s naive.
If anything, in the age of our Dumpster Fire POTUS, Mexican stereotypes are the rage! This MAMMOTH WESTERN “Mexican” is Exhibit #1 — if you ever wonder why you can’t turn on the TV (or your streaming, throbbing thingie in your pocket, your phone!) without seeing a narco, well, meet his grandpappy, the inspiration for Trump’s BAD HOMBRE racist,xenophobic slur.
You can buy this 1949 comic for under $100!
- Professor William “Memo” Nericcio is a regular contributor to POCHO and an all-around swell guy, or so we’ve heard.
Open your mouth and close your eyes it’s raining tacos (nude video)
Alex sure does love those tacos! [Video by Broderick, who we hope is Alex’ dad.]
Watch and learn: The Mexican way to kill a fly (video)
Do you have a problem with flies? Don’t worry, because now you can kill them easily — the Mexican way. [No flies were forced to drink tequila during the making of this video.]
Everything tastes better with opera: EL TACO, the video
When you make tacos, play opera music too. [Video by the mysterious Mangle Media.]
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PAPAS: ‘This is where my people are from’ (video)
Papas is a short video by DFW, Texas creator German Torres. He explains it much better than we can:
Are SF’s best burritos served at La Taqueria in the Mission? (video)
This video claims the best tacos and burritos in San Francisco are served at La Taqueria in the Mission. Four hundred pounds of carne asada every day can’t be wrong, amirite?
The 2018 Enclave SUV proves Buick’s cutesy ads tell the truth
So you remember those cutesy Buick commercials from the past couple of years, the series that featured a chirpy synth soundtrack and beautiful people being surprised that beautiful people drive the General Motors brand and they all say “Is that a Buick” or some phrase of disbelief?
And how you laughed at the commercials, because no way on Earth would strangers or friends really congratulate you for driving a Buick?
Mas…The 2018 Enclave SUV proves Buick’s cutesy ads tell the truth
If Latina moms were docs, checkups would be like this (video)
What if real doctors took their cues from the remedios used by Latina moms? It might look something like this….
The Mitla Cafe in San Bernardino is where Taco Bell was born (video)
When in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles in the Inland Empire, be sure to stop by the Mitla Cafe, the restaurant where Taco Bell was born. [Video by Katrina Parks]
The time MLK sent a telegram to Cesar Chavez (photo)
“I am deeply moved by your courage,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, wrote to UFW founder Cesar Chavez in 1966.
“As brothers in the fight for equality,” he wrote, “I extend the hand of fellowship and good will and wish continuing success to you and your members. The fight for equality must be fought on many fronts –- in the urban slums, in the sweat shops of the factories and fields. Our separate struggles are really one — a struggle for freedom, for dignity and for humanity.”
See more at Stanford’s King Encyclopedia.