Vatos Chuy and Smiley made up a Christmas wish list, but they’re checking it twice!
LISTEN: All you want for Christmas: ‘Buñuelos a monton’
É Arenas, bass player for Chicano Batman, cooks up some cumbia for Christmas in this new song
Buñuelos a Monton, and he includes all your favorite fiesta Mexmas specialties:
Come mija hay mucho mas
Porque cocinamos muy tradicional
Tamales de elote, de puerco,
De queso, champurrado
Barbacoa y jamon
Con su salsa verde y arroz
Tambien menudo con pata,
Librillo y su tendon
Y buñuelos a monton
This image of a ‘Tamalada’ is in the Smithsonian collection (toon)
Tamalada, a lithograph by Chicana artist Carmen Lomas Garza, is in the collection of the Smithsonian. Looks sorta like your family, right, primo?
Creeper, the ex-con ‘CholoFit’ vato, meets Santa (Christmas video)
Everyone’s favorite reformed cholo and personal trainer, Creeper, finally gets to meet Santa Claus. Will he be naughty or nice? Frankie Quinones stars as Creeper.
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: I Teash You How to Make the Three Kings Bread
Hello! Is Tia Lencha here! Today I teash you to make the Three Kings Bread, ju know, the one with the Baby Jesus in it? Jes, tha one.
I haf many things to celebrate, m’ijo get good grades, he has good healthy, he still helps me put my recipes on the google, and oso, Tia Lencha has a novio. Jes, a new one. Don’t jodge. His name is Axl Rosen. He is a Jewish. He didn’t know what the Three Kings Bread is, so I make for him.
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: I Teash You How to Make the Three Kings Bread
Peep this glorious picture postcard from Peru (video)
It’s not just Machu Picchu and women in traditional Andean dress and penguins and llamas and/or alpacas. Peru is amazingly beautiful. Also our MiJA, Elise Valderrama, is from there. PRO TRAVEL TIP: Summer’s just starting in Peru! Andale!
WATCH: This pussycat has a job: ‘Gato Carpintero’ is here to help, sorta
The Gato Carpintero, the carpenter cat, is here to help, in his own kitty-like way, of course. [Video by Mar Gmz based on the song by Cri-Cri.]
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…WATCH: This pussycat has a job: ‘Gato Carpintero’ is here to help, sorta
Supercut Video: Our hero Speedy Gonzales yells “Yeehaw!”
Mexico’s fastest mouse, our hero Speedy Gonzales, yells “Yeehaw”” over and over in this three-minute supercut cartoon video. SPOILER: The various gatitos and perritos are not amused.
“When you’re rich, they let you do anything!” (music video)
“When you’re rich, they let you do anything!” said The Man in the Big Leather Chair. Music video by Gary Burr.
Taxi driver videos a UFO/OVNI over Villa Mercedes, San Luis, AR
Dude was out driving his taxi last week in Villa Mercedes, in the province of San Luis, Argentina, when he started having electrical problems with his car. First the radio went crazy. Then the car died. Then he saw this thing in the sky. But what was it? Doh! It was an UNIDENTIFIED flying object — an objeto volador NO IDENTIFICADO.
More at INEXPLICATA, the Journal of Hispanic UFOlogy. FWIW, Inexplicata locates the incident in San Luis, MX, but we think that’s wrong.
Why presidential pendejos don’t know they’re pendejos (Ted-Ed Video)
Stupid people are so stupid they think they’re smart; ditto for pendejos who think everyone loves them. This well-documented phenomenon — the Dunning-Kruger Effect — is most evident in a gigantor vortex of bullshit that’s darkening the skies over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.
Looking to get lucky on ZOOSK? Fill your dating profile with guacamole!
Looking for love with the dating app ZOOSK? That’s why God created aguacates y guacamole! Members with guacamole in their dating profiles got 142% more inbound messages than other would-be lovers.
“…We analyzed 3,733,185 dating profiles and 364,609,566 first messages to find out how mentioning different foods and food-related phrases changes online daters’ romantic interactions. In addition, we also surveyed over 7,000 singles to get some insight into how food and dating intersect.
Mas…Looking to get lucky on ZOOSK? Fill your dating profile with guacamole!
(NPR Audio) Racism can literally make you sick, studies show
He had just left a fancy restaurant, celebrating a big achievement, a Ph. D. degree, when he encountered racism, racism that can hurt your health.
Mas…(NPR Audio) Racism can literally make you sick, studies show
Grinding corn for tortillas in Mexington and the American Dream (video)
In the growing Latino community of Lexington, Kentucky (aka Mexington), immigrant Laura Patricia Ramirez and her family suspected the new “Spanish” influx into town might mean they could earn a living providing comida Mexicana to the neighbors. First they imported fresh tortillas from Chicago, and then started making their own. Now they own a tortilla/taqueria even the gabachos love — they come for the asada and stay for the lengua. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Ramirez has the first Southern drawl-spiced Mexican accent we’ve ever encountered. God Bless THIS America, land that we love.]
Thanks to our amigo Profe Steven Alvarez for the link.
Has anyone seen Dio the chameleon from ‘Prickly City’ lately? (toon)
[Thanks, Scott and GoComics. Whatever you do, don’t go to the PRICKLY CITY webpage and read the comments.]