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The Idiot’s Guide to Smart People: ‘Music’ (video)
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Michoacán tornado home video: ‘¡No manches!’ (NSFW)
A tornado hit the town of Tangancicuaro in the Mexican state of Michoacán on March 22, damaging over 250 homes. This unedited, single-take home video features great play-by-play voiceover while the camera documents flying chonies and other debris. And enjoy the narrator’s colorful vulgar interjections! [NSFW Spanish audio.]
America’s Shame : 12-year-olds pick our fruits, veggies (video)
Children as young as 12 are still working in America’s fields alongside adults — bent over all day in often-dangerous conditions — just so there’s enough money to put food on the table and pay the phone bill. Although this Human Rights Watch video is from 2010, the practice continues, and is defended by some farmworkers themselves.
#FFF #FelizFrijolFriday: The ‘Blazing Saddles’ campfire scene (video)
Can we have some more beans, Mr. Taggart?
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Mas…#FFF #FelizFrijolFriday: The ‘Blazing Saddles’ campfire scene (video)
For Cain Lopez, cholos ruin everything (NSFW video)
Cholos ruin everything, according to stand up comic Cain Lopez. [NSFW language.]
Briton Jim Tavaré is a comic and cholo playa (video)
A lanky British guy got lost driving in L.A. because Google Maps; lucky for him, he ended up in friendly East Los Angeles.
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Lucha libre + garage band punk = Grito-Fest 2014 (video)
Looks like hella fun was had by all at Grito-Fest 2014 last Saturday night in Alicante, España. When lucha libre meets punk rock in a night club, what could go wrong?
Here’s the video from Matias Alhambra:
Mas…Lucha libre + garage band punk = Grito-Fest 2014 (video)
Naranjas, Señor?! Oranges for sale! (video)
Post by Being Chicano.
The naranjero works hard for his money, so hard for it, honey.
As much as this street-vending orange seller looks like POCHO amigo Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano, it’s not him.
Here’s Arellano at his weekend gig:
And now a generic commercial from some brand (video)
At [insert company name here] we care about the __________, the __________ and the ___________ so you and your family can ____________ and the world _______________.
[Your mileage may vary. This product is meant for educational purposes only. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. Void where prohibited. Some assembly required. List each check separately by bank number. Batteries not included. Contents may settle during shipment. Use only as directed. No other warranty expressed or implied. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment.
Attention Latino ‘Millennials’: Is this your story? (video)
Telemundo says it knows the secret to attracting the Millennial generation — so advertisers and marketeers can sell more product. (Spoiler: The secret word is 3BALL MTY.) What do you think? Is this video about you?
But wait! What does Univision have to say?
Mas…Attention Latino ‘Millennials’: Is this your story? (video)
Vatos Locos International: Meet Thailand’s ‘cholos’ (NSFW videos)
What do a Buddhist meditation teacher and a Thai policeman have in common? They both think they are “Mexican gangsters” because tats, Pendletons, leaning like a cholo and saying “Fuck the popo!” [NSFW lyrics and explicit subtitles in English.]
Ditto two Armenian gang-bangers who were deported from Southern California back to the Old World; these vatos locos are fighting for Bashar al-Assad in Syria:
Mas…Vatos Locos International: Meet Thailand’s ‘cholos’ (NSFW videos)
Danny Trejo: Action movie star, ‘Breadanimal’ maker (video)
We don’t know what to make of this video from Danny Trejo, where the machete-wielding movie tough guy reveals an improbable hobby: making Breadanimals. It’s a promo, somehow, for his new flick, Bullet, but it seems less funny than awkward and forced.
He doesn’t look like a happy camper to us. What do you think?
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Mas…Danny Trejo: Action movie star, ‘Breadanimal’ maker (video)
Up close and personal with Chilean Rose, full-body stripper (video)
So Chilean Rose, what’s up? That’s a good tarantula. Calm down now. What? Is something wrong? You seem nervous. Take it off. Take it ALL off!
Lisa Lisa/Cult Jam: I Wonder If I Take You Home (video)
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam is an iconic Latino group. At the forefront of “freestyle,” Lisa Velez fronted the group, which released the album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force.
Women’s History Month: The Shrine of the Boob (video, photos)
They’re not Salma Hayek’s breasts, but slight, elegant Japanese tetas. They deserve a shrine of their own — a boob shrine.
Located in Soja City, in Japan’s Okayama Prefecture, Karube Shrine is dedicated to Chichigamisama, the Goddess of Breasts.
Mas…Women’s History Month: The Shrine of the Boob (video, photos)
Puro Pinche Oldie: Brown Brothers of Soul’s ‘Ese Cholo’ (video)
This groovy instrumental featuring a Hammond organ, very much in the late 1960s early 1970s Green Onions and Shotgun groove, is from the The Brown Brothers of Soul. It’s called Ese Cholo.
Mas…Puro Pinche Oldie: Brown Brothers of Soul’s ‘Ese Cholo’ (video)
BBC Video: Early spring nourishes bumper Swiss spaghetti crop
Global warming — and an early warm Spring — means a bountiful spaghetti harvest in Switzerland’s pasta-growing regions near the border with Italy. The BBC reports.
Denis and Gabrielle dance a pre-teen cha-cha for Spring (video)
It’s Vernal Equinox 2014 — the beginning of Spring. Let’s dance, like pre-teen “Latin Dance” competitors Denis and Gabrielle.
Mexican company intros plug-in electric moped (video)
Armadillo Motors has begun production and sales of the very first hecho en Mexico electric vehicle, La Hybridus, a bicicleta electrica. And it looks from the company’s Facebook page that they’ve got some local police departments on the delivery list:
It’s not so easy being ‘Invisible’ in Bogota, Colombia (video)
Sure, being Invisible is chingon and all, but what if you meet that special woman you’d like to get to know a little bit better … but she can’t see you?
The Irish heroes of Aztlan: The San Patricio Batallón (music videos)
This corrido by Orange County Celtic-rock homies The Fenians tells the brave and tragic story of the San Patricios, the St. Patrick’s Battalion, formed and led by Jon Riley, a unit of 200 or so mostly Catholic Irish immigrants who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War. Most of the battalion’s members had deserted or defected from the United States Army. (Wikipedia.)
Scots-British post-punk The Wakes Band offer their version of the story next. The video’s not much to look at but the lyrics are killer, so read along below:
Mas…The Irish heroes of Aztlan: The San Patricio Batallón (music videos)
One Canadian’s Opinion: Sen. Ted Cruz for President (video)
Cuban-Canadian-American Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is the best man for the next President of the United States, you Yankee hosers. With Sarah Palin as VP.
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Mas…One Canadian’s Opinion: Sen. Ted Cruz for President (video)
Scientists say wild axolotls may be doomed to extinction (video)
Unless the pollution in the lakes and swamps of Mexico City isn’t drastically reversed, scientists say, there will be no more of the cute little axolotl salamanders living in the wild.
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Mas…Scientists say wild axolotls may be doomed to extinction (video)
Lalo Alcaraz: How to draw a cartoon character (video)
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz offers a quick lesson in creating and drawing your own cartoon character.
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Expectation Management: Secret path to happiness (video)
Elise Roedenbeck (@Buttronica on the Twitter) reveals the one little secret to happiness that can change your outlook forever. After all, the lower your expectations, the less chance you have of being disappointed.
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Mas…Expectation Management: Secret path to happiness (video)
The Idiot’s Guide to Smart People: ‘Politics’ (video)
Did you know that “politics” is the smart person word for “yelling about the government”? Watch and learn.
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Rare color footage from the 1940s: Frida Kahlo dances (video)
Although Frida Kahlo was seriously injured in a traffic accident as teenager, she never let her physical challenges hold her back. “I was born a bitch. I was born a painter,” she said. In this recently-discovered color footage, most likely from the 1940s, the artist revealed herself as a provocative dancer — with a signature style.
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Mas…Rare color footage from the 1940s: Frida Kahlo dances (video)
Retro rockers Cutty Flam go to the prom: ‘Robot Heart’ (video)
Suburban band Cutty Flam, the Rock n’ Roll sound track to a 1950’s B-Movie starring Ritchie Valens opposite Betty Page directed by Quentin Tarantino, offer this new video for Robot Heart. It’s about life, loss, death and going to the prom, plus it’s easy to slow-dance to. (Video by Jose Emmanuel Varela for BrotherScienceTV and Cutty Flam.)
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Mas…Retro rockers Cutty Flam go to the prom: ‘Robot Heart’ (video)
Lowe’s Home Improvement, Latino style (Vine video)
It’s Rudy Mancuso, for Lowe’s. [Hover and click on the top left corner of the image to hear the audio.]
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Comrades: Do not ash what Cuba can do for you (video)
In Havana late last month, Cuban cigar smokers competed to determine who could maintain the longest (unbroken) ash.
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Can you dance like a Mexican? Here’s how! (video)
California cultural ambassador Joseph Alvarado wants you to learn How To Dance Like A Mexican.
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