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This is a love song to Tacos El Tigre, in Colima, MX (video)
“You’re just too good to be true,” sings Frankie Valli. “I can’t take my eyes off of you.” And love is love, in the City of Colima, in the State of Colima, at Tacos El Tigre and their delicious tacos adobada. It’s obvious videographers Atempo Fotographia are in love with these tacos, and why not? Rigoberto y Leo Manzo’s family has been running Tacos El Tigre for 40 years.
It’s a tango! It’s ragtime! It’s ‘El Apache Argentino’ (videos)
What do we know about Uruguayan-turned-Argentinian pianist and composer Manuel Aróztegui? Not too much other than he wrote this crazy cool tune at the turn of the last century — i.e, 1900! Here’s the composer’s “ragtime tango” El Apache Argentino as performed by Juanjo Domínguez on classical guitar.
And here’s the same tune on ragtime style on a player piano:
Mas…It’s a tango! It’s ragtime! It’s ‘El Apache Argentino’ (videos)
Today was the day I marched with MLK; I still have the dream (video)
MLK waves to me and my posse [arrow] next to the reflecting pool.
They say the Washington, D.C. weather — typically mondo muggy in the summer — was unusually mild on August 28, 1963. But the air burned with the fire of freedom on the march, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, led by Martin Luther King.
Mas…Today was the day I marched with MLK; I still have the dream (video)
Celeb chef and lifestyle guru Marisol’s ‘Day of Self-Care’ (video)
Celebrity chef and lifestyle guru Marisol takes time off from the Pinche Rata Race for A Day of Self-Care — and you can too! [Video by Más Mejor.]
Before Fox News, ‘fake news’ was ‘yellow journalism’ (toons)
Nasty lying scoundrels, despicable peddlers of lies, and, mostly, people who published stuff others hoped would never see the light of day, were called “Yellow Journalists” in the 19th Century.
Who is the villain in the cartoon above? The sensational newspapers spinning “twaddle” about an election.
Public Domain Review, which curates public domain images like these, explains:
Mas…Before Fox News, ‘fake news’ was ‘yellow journalism’ (toons)
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds: OMG! ‘La Araña’ (video)
Ick! There is this spider — La Araña — crawling on me. In Southern Califas’ San Gabriel Valley, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds’s house party gets scary.
Straighten your back the Mexican way with the Luchapractor (video)
Got back pain? Neck pain? Need an adjustment? Rompe Espalda Luchapractic combines the latest in quack-approved chiropractic treatment with the ancient art of Mexican wrestling. They’ve got some moves for you! [Video by Crooked & Ugly.]
R.I.P. Jerry Lewis, Enchilada King (video)
Carmen Miranda (Enchilada Gal) can sing and dance, and Dean Martin (Enchilada Man) can dance and sing, but Jerry Lewis (Enchilada King) steals the show. R.I.P.
Tacos Leo truck at the carwash at Temple and Glendale? 9.4! (video)
Jose Contreras — the horse racing fan and So Cal taco lover known as Tacos and Trifectas — stops by the Tacos Leo truck, parked at the carwash at Temple Street and Glendale Boulevard. He rates it at 9.4 out of 10. Contreras is @losponies on the Twitter.
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Mas…Tacos Leo truck at the carwash at Temple and Glendale? 9.4! (video)
Make America Truck Again – in Spanglish! (photo)
Looks legit and it’s good advice, too. No passing on the right! [Stolen from REDDIT.]
Public Service Announcement: Please Don’t Bully Nazis (toon)
Don’t Bully Nazis, Please! This Community Advice brought to you by the Scarfolk Council.
Are these the best places to eat tacos in Mexico City? (video)
Where are the best tacos in Ciudad be Mexico? This video for Unknown Mexican Magazine thinks they know. Are the right?
Warner Bros vs Fascists: ‘The Ducktators’ (Looney Tunes 1942)
The world is a big barnyard in Warner Brothers’ 1942 black and white The Ducktators. When a Hitler-mustachioed duckling hatches, you won’t believe what happens next!
‘Donald Duck in Nutzi Land’ aka ‘Der Fuehrer’s Face’ (1943 video)
Der Fuehrer’s Face (originally titled Donald Duck in Nutzi Land) is a 1943 American animated anti-Nazi propaganda short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in 1943 by RKO Radio Pictures.
The cartoon, which features Donald Duck in a nightmare setting working at a factory in Nazi Germany, was made in an effort to sell war bonds and is an example of American propaganda during World War II.
The film was directed by Jack Kinney and written by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer from the original music by Oliver Wallace. The film is well known for Wallace’s original song Der Fuehrer’s Face, which was actually released earlier by Spike Jones.
Der Fuehrer’s Face won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 15th Academy Awards. It was the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor, although eight other films were also nominated.
In 1994, it was voted Number 22 of “the 50 Greatest Cartoons” of all time by members of the animation field. However, because of the propagandistic nature of the short, and the depiction of Donald Duck as a Nazi (albeit a reluctant one), Disney kept the film out of general circulation after its original release.
Its first home video release came in 2004 with the release of the third wave of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD sets.
Lady Elote lifts her lamp: Send me your hungry, your poor (toon)
We will not be denied our rights to elotes!
Immigrant street vendors are among the most cherished people in our communities. They bring two things we can’t do without: food and culture.
[Hey, pochos: This design is available on t-shirts, too! Women’s in baby blue and men’s in black on sale now. Wear this shirt with Elote Pride!]Tres de Asada at Taqueria La Mexicana in Long Beach (video)
Jose Contreras of Tacos and Trifectas (he likes “the ponies”) stops by Taqueria La Mexicana at 4th and Coronado, Long Beach, Califas, and picks up tres de asada. Spoiler: He likes ’em, he really really really likes ’em!
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Mas…Tres de Asada at Taqueria La Mexicana in Long Beach (video)
Marvel Comic’s Stan Lee: ‘Expose and destroy racism and bigotry’
Stan Lee‘s Marvel Comics characters aren’t shy about fighting racists and bigots. And neither is Stan.
From “Stan’s Soapbox”, Bullpen Bulletins, December 1970:
Mas…Marvel Comic’s Stan Lee: ‘Expose and destroy racism and bigotry’
‘When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon’ (1953 YouTube music, lyrics)
A story of cross-border romance — a mojado and a Cajun queen — are the stars of country singer’s Hank Snow’s Mexican Joe and Joli Blon, released on 78 RPM disk in 1953.
Here are the lyrics and guitar chords (via Genius Lyrics) so you can sing and play along!
Mas…‘When Mexican Joe Met Jole Blon’ (1953 YouTube music, lyrics)
Kids cross Mexican border every day for school in USA (video)
These kids — American citizens — live in Mexico but go to school in Columbus, New Mexico, a town of 1,800 across the frontier from their home in Palomas, Mexico. Some Columbus residents support the decades-long arrangement; others, not so much. [Video by Larry Lazo and Alex Brauer.]
Cómo hacer flores de mango con limon y chile (video)
Mangos cut into flowers and served with lime and Tajin. How do they do that?
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VIDEO: Bert the Turtle stars in ‘Duck and Cover’ (1951)
Hey, you pochos who are not Baby Boomers: Come with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear (1951) when Americans worried about a nuclear attack from an evil Commie dictator across the sea. Good times!
POCHO History 101: Lalo Guerrero’s ‘Ballad of Pancho Lopez’ (video)
A true life story from the Mexican Revolution and a mojado’s migration from Chihuahua to Califas come alive as our Chicano musical hero Lalo Guerrero shares The Ballad of Pancho Lopez.
Mas…POCHO History 101: Lalo Guerrero’s ‘Ballad of Pancho Lopez’ (video)
