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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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Mas…Hey Vato! What we really, really want for Christmas (video)
Advanced Mexican leaf blower powers new Pentagon/Google robot
(PNS reporting from GUANAJUATO, MX) State-of-the-art leaf blower technology developed in Mexico’s Silicon Barrio is at the heart the Pentagon’s latest robot warrior, PNS has learned.
The PopoPotencia leaf blower engine powers the WildCat, a Boston Dynamics combat robot (video) built for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Mas…Advanced Mexican leaf blower powers new Pentagon/Google robot
Mexican legislator strips to protest PEMEX legislation (video)
The plan to end the government-owned PEMEX oil monopoly got Mexican congressman Antonio Garcia Conejo, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, so angry he needed to strip to his chonies to get his point across.
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Uruguay gets high with a little help from the law (video)
Marijuana has been legalized in Uruguay. Let the stoner hidden camera video hijinks begin!
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Mas…Uruguay gets high with a little help from the law (video)
Area man scores 12 cases of Sriracha, hopes to Get Rich Quick (videos)
(PNS reporting from CULVER CITY, CA) Westside entrepreneur Pico E. Sepulveda tries not to count his pollos before they hatch, but he will admit to being stoked about the profit potential of the 12 cases of Huy Fung Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce he purchased at Smart & Final Iris here Thursday morning.
“Now that the State of California has joined the City of Irwindale in cutting off the supply of America’s favorite hot sauce, the sky’s the limit on these babies,” the Mar Vista man told PNS. “When I pulled out of the store’s parking lot onto Venice Boulevard, I actually started chair dancing in my car and even broke out the maracas!” (Sepulveda’s excitement was captured by a POCHO reader who emailed us this VINE video, right)
“I got a dozen 12-count cases of the 28-ounce bottles,” Sepulveda explained, “for $35 each — for a total for $420, which I thought was good omen. This could be bigger than Bitcoins, if Bitcoins had a trailer for a video on demand download on Vimeo!”
Mas…Area man scores 12 cases of Sriracha, hopes to Get Rich Quick (videos)
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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Mas…Latino Stereotypes 101: Arsenio Hall and Felipe Esparza (video)
@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.
Cuban Reds say Raul Castro-Obama handshake betrayed Revolution
(PNS reporting from HAVANA) El Presidente Comrade Raul Castro’s handshake with imperialist war criminal Barack Obama at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in South Africa was a slap in the face of the workers of the world and a betrayal of Cuba’s Communist Revolution, an old school Communist Bay of Pigs veteran charged Tuesday.
“That handshake marks a Day That Will Live in Infamy,” Ernesto “Little Che” Altacaca, 76, told everyone hanging out at People’s Barbershop #245 on Calle de Los Cadres. “It is like the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact (photo, below) combined with a very special episode of Chico and the Man.”
“Did El Presidente demand the Yanqui perro return Guantanamo?” the long-time area resident asked. “No! Did he demand an end to the embargo that has penalized the people for half a century? Nyet! Did he insist Obama recognize the workers’ rights to self determination without capitalist exploitation and immediately send six dozen complete gasket sets for 1954 Chrysler New Yorkers? No way! And what about Pete Seeger remitting that record business royalty money for the song he stole from the poor people of Guantanamera?”
Mas…Cuban Reds say Raul Castro-Obama handshake betrayed Revolution
Visionary behind Doritos Locos Tacos dies at 41 (photos + video)
Todd Mills, who came up with the idea for Doritos Locos Tacos, lost his battle with cancer on Thanksgiving. The Little Rock, Arkansas father of two was 41 (photo, above.)
Mills started the Facebook page “Taco Shells from Doritos Movement” in 2009, encouraging followers to “tell Frito-Lay that we demand nacho cheesy taco shells!”
On the page, Mills posted photoshopped images of well known figures including Albert Einstein with a cheesy taco shell in a thought bubble, Steve Jobs holding a Macbook with a cheesy taco shell on the screen and Chuck Norris doing a karate kick while holding a cheesy taco shell….
Mas…Visionary behind Doritos Locos Tacos dies at 41 (photos + video)
Will Shakila’s ‘Feliz Navidad’ win the next ‘Christmas Idol’? (video)
The Christmas Idol panel of judges is a tough one. Santa Claus, Lady Sharoun the Purple and Jesus H. Christ Himself have power to make a contestant’s dreams come true. Can Shakila (Roberta Valderrama) win them over with her hot hot hot version of Feliz Navidad?
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Mas…Will Shakila’s ‘Feliz Navidad’ win the next ‘Christmas Idol’? (video)
Ecuador’s Swing Original Monks party in ‘Fiesta Popular’ (video)
This is how they party in Quito, Ecuador. Clowns, luchadores, stilt-walkers, magicians, fireworks and music all get screen time in Swing Original Monks’ Fiesta Popular.
Bad Accent Video Theatre: ‘El Amor de Mi Amante’ (My Lover’s Love)
Student film? Bad Accent Video Theatre? Whatever! El Amor de Mi Amante is mini-telenovela brought to you by Taco Bell and this year’s hottest new fragrance — Twist!
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Mas…Bad Accent Video Theatre: ‘El Amor de Mi Amante’ (My Lover’s Love)
Was Brazil’s Antônio Villas Boas the first UFO abductee? (video)
Antônio Villas Boas reported that the space aliens kidnapped him from a field he was plowing, brought him aboard their UFO/OVNI, stripped him naked and then a female ET raped him. In 1957, this made him a pioneer — way before the Betty and Barney Hill were abducted in New England in 1961. NPR reports:
According to Villas Boas, he was plowing fields with his tractor when he was taken against his will by a group of ETs measuring about 5 feet tall. On their spaceship he was put in a room where he saw some kind of gas come out of the walls, making him sick. Then a very attractive female, naked, with long platinum-blonde hair, fire-red pubic hair and deep-blue cat eyes, came to him and forced him to have intercourse….
Mas…Was Brazil’s Antônio Villas Boas the first UFO abductee? (video)
Video: Before there was ‘Gravity,’ there was ‘Gravedad’ [1966]
Coincidence? Copyright violation? The blockbuster film Gravity – with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney – may not be as original as we’ve been led to believe. Check out the 1966 trailer for the Mexican movie Gravedad.
Aamer Rahman: What’s the deal with white people? (video)
Australian comic Aamer Rahman — half of Fear of A Brown Planet — discusses the pitfalls of trying to joke about race, color and ethnicity.
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Mas…Aamer Rahman: What’s the deal with white people? (video)
In Madrid, Spain, dog poop steps on you! (video)
Madrid, Spain, had a caca de perro problem, until they started rubbing the dog owners’ faces in it.
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Hurricane Marco Rubio on path of destruction, havoc (video)
Hurricane Marco Rubio is headed up the East Coast, bringing havoc and destruction wherever he makes landfall.
Are you estuck with turkey day leftovers? Try this big-ass burrito (video)
When you’ve got a lot left over, you need a big beautiful burrito! Jerry Springer reports.
Key & Peele: Mr. T has a PSA for you about respect (video)
Kids today need to learn to respect others, and Mr. T explains why.
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Mas…Key & Peele: Mr. T has a PSA for you about respect (video)
@Omgitseddieg is thankful: ‘Soy pocho, y que?’ (video)
Eddie Gee (@omgitseddieg on the Twitter) is all about the pochismo and explains why. Don’t miss the quick graphic shoutout to POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz.
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William S. Burroughs: ‘Thanksgiving Prayer’ (NSFW video)
Beat icon, literary treasure, junkie, poet and provocateur William S. Burroughs offered this Thanksgiving Prayer in 1986. You don’t know Burroughs? His most famous book was Naked Lunch, and Wikipedia says he specialized in satire and “paranoid fiction.” (NSFW language.)
WKRP’s Happy Thanksgiving: ‘OMG I thought turkeys could fly!’ (video)
Les Nessman reporting, live!
I can see it now — the WKRP Holiday Helicopter is coming in low over Cincinnati!
¡Japi Januka! A kosher carnitas y nopales burrito inside a donut (video)
The signature foods of Chanukah, which begins tonight, are potato latkes — as prepared by Hebrew homeboys Jaquann and Luis — and sufganiyot, Israeli-style donuts. Both foods, tu sabes, are fried in oil, commemorating the milagro at the heart of the Chanukah story.
Which is why, two years ago, before we thought of Mexican Turducken-style gag dishes we could attribute to Rick Bayless, Mexikosher chef (and Chopped winner) Katsuji Tanabe created a nopales and kosher carnitas burrito stuffed inside a donut/sufganiyot. Really.
Hip Hop Hoodíos light ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (video)
Happy Chanukah the Hip Hop Hoodíos! The Jewish Festival of Lights begins at sunset tonight and ends at sunset on December 5: Ocho noches, ocho kandelikas.
Mas…Hip Hop Hoodíos light ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (video)
Hebrew homeboys make Chanukah potato latkes (NSFW video)
The Jewish holiday of Chanukah חנוכה starts Wednesday night, so Hebrew hermanos Jaquann and Luis prepare potato latkes (pancakes) one of the season’s signature treats. This year Chanukah and Thanksgiving coincide, so all the Pochodores wish you a Gobble Tov! (Totally NSFW adult language.)
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Mas…Hebrew homeboys make Chanukah potato latkes (NSFW video)
Mujeres: How to do your hair and makeup like Frida Kahlo (video)
Ooops, we’re being heteronormative with “mujeres” in the headline. Pochas y pochos! You too can have hair and makeup like the esteemed feminist and artist including the iconic monobrow (AKA unibrow) and mustache (AKA bigote.)
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Mas…Mujeres: How to do your hair and makeup like Frida Kahlo (video)
Moms Mabley: ‘Abraham, Martin and John’ (video)
Fifty years ago today, Pres. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, TX. JFK’s killing, and then MLK’s, inspired Dion DiMucci, mostly known for his doo-wop work with Dion and the Belmonts, to record a ballad about the lost heroes of a generation, and the song became an unlikely hit for Dion and others (including Marvin Gaye.)
In this clip from the old Merv Griffin show, comic Moms Mabley, known mostly for her “blue” stage act, sings an emotional version of Dion’s classic, Abraham, Martin and John. Moms had a Top 40 hit with the song in 1969. Her version includes Bobby Kennedy.
Old school George Lopez: Loco Comedy Jam (NSFW video)
He’s sexist, rude, not safe for work and very funny. This video (2003 vintage we think) showcases a young George Lopez talking about the homegirls he dates. Lopez manages to squeeze chichis, nalgas, pedos, fat chicks, chanclas, Vicks and swap meets into one short routine. [NSFW adult humor.]
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Arcade Fire’s new video ‘Afterlife’ is awesome and full of Raza
It’s new, and awesome, and Raza-filled. Check it out.
Golf great Chi-Chi Rodriguez hits a rare ‘ball in one’ (video)
Boricua golf great Chi-Chi Rodriguez was trying to break a pane of glass 20 yards away on a recent taping for the Golf Channel. And while he hit the target, the glass didn’t break and the golf ball bounced back straight to his cojones for an amazing Ball in One!
Mas…Golf great Chi-Chi Rodriguez hits a rare ‘ball in one’ (video)