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)
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Our Videos, Their Videos Tambien.
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)
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.
Legal Designation of Counsel: The Firm of Sanchez Bros Attorney-at-Law
This legal notice designating an Attorney of Record is herewith, hereby and homeboy published, January 14 2014, August 2 2013, March 15 2012, May 29 2012, and August 31 2012 pursuant the requirements of the Aztlan Judicical Unity Act (AJUA) of 1997.
For any y all legal matters pertaining to Pochismo, Inc., DBA POCHO and POCHO DOT COM, please contact
Attorney-At-Law Sanchez Bros, Pocho City, CA @ 408-POCHO-28.
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.
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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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.]
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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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.
Forget that ‘Duck’ guy, Steve Yamamoto is a Free Speech Hero (video)
You can exercise your First Amendment rights as a homophobic racist fool on A&E or as an anti-corporate viral video dude on the Internets. You be the judge.
A Chicago employee of the Safeway/Dominick’s supermarket chain (which is closing 72 stores eliminating 6000 jobs) was suspended after he posted this YouTube video — Thanks, Safeway — portraying the store closings as a vicious attack by space aliens.
Steve Yamamoto was suspended Saturday, when he showed up for his last day at work.
Mas…Forget that ‘Duck’ guy, Steve Yamamoto is a Free Speech Hero (video)
‘Pinches UFOS! I’m gonna put this sh*t on YouTube’ (NSFW video)
An anonymous Palacios, TX man and his friends were so stoked by this encounter last month with UFOs that he uploaded his first YouTube video, shot on his cheap-ass Galaxy Note 2 [NSFW language.]
He also reported his encounter to the National UFO Reporting Center:
Mas…‘Pinches UFOS! I’m gonna put this sh*t on YouTube’ (NSFW video)
Have a chill 2014! (video)
Have a chill 2014, and and may the only ICE you encounter be the ice in your adult beverages.
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Who will you kiss at the stroke of midnight? (video)
Happy New Year? Ring out the old, ring in the new — who will you be kissing when the clock strikes 12?
Eddie Murphy (Trading Places) Video: Merry New Year!
Eddie Murphy, always fly, wishes everyone a Merry New Year! Beef jerky?
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.
News Blooper of the Year: Sabrina Rodriguez, baboon friend (video)
Fox 40 (Sacramento) reporter Sabrina Rodriguez made a friendly baboon’s day at the Lodi Grape Festival.
Could be worse — she coulda been Gustavo Aldomovar:
Mas…News Blooper of the Year: Sabrina Rodriguez, baboon friend (video)
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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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.]
NASA 2013 Highlights: From Earth to Deep Espace (video)
Oh my God — it’s full of stars!
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.
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.]
Terror on the Moon: “2014 – A Space Odyssey” (30-second video)
Houston, this is Civility Base. The Beagle has landed.
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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.