Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Oh jes! Thanksgiving turkey al pastor tacos
Happy Mexican Thanksgiving Day!
Is Tia Lencha here. Gwhat is Mexican Thanksgiving Day you ask? Is Thanksgiving but with all Mexican food. What?!?! My gringo frends say. Oh no! How you can do that! Is crazy! And Tia Lencha say, no really.
When I help mijo with his homeworks, I learn that Thanksgiving come from a Puritan holiday in Englands. When it was the Reformation the Protestantes wanted to throw away all the Catholic holidays, even Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: Oh jes! Thanksgiving turkey al pastor tacos
De Nalgas: We’re here to help you stop ‘f-ing up’ (NSFW music video)
Mexican punks De Nalgas are the f*ckers that have come to wake you up. Although the song is ostensibly directed at music business posers, we think it has a wider application. 😉
[NSFW lyrics in Español, adult images.]
Mira los lyrics and [official] translation:
Mas…De Nalgas: We’re here to help you stop ‘f-ing up’ (NSFW music video)
John F. Kennedy in Houston and Dallas, TX November 21-22, 1963
Tina Adame couldn’t stop smiling hours after meeting President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
The First Couple surprised Mexican American guests at a LULAC gala in Houston, and Tina went over every detail to anyone who listened the next morning at the engineering firm where she worked.
The president spoke about the importance of Hispanics in the country, she said. Then, Jackie addressed the crowd in Spanish. “It was magical,” Tina recalled.
Her boss, a Kennedy critic, overheard her talking about the visit to co-workers. “So, you got close to the president?” he asked. “Did you shoot him?”
Mas…John F. Kennedy in Houston and Dallas, TX November 21-22, 1963
Dear Trump Voter Ashley: We are real people, not your ‘Taco Tuesday’
Dear Ashley,
I don’t really know you very well. I met you for the first time when my family and I travelled to Rogers, Arkansas to see you marry my nephew. I knew my nephew at some point. I saw him grow up here in Los Angeles until my brother and his wife thought the streets of Woodland Hills too gang-infested and uprooted their entire family to the enclaves of my sister-in-law’s home state.
Shortly after, sometime in the 1990s, my mother and I travelled to Arkansas on an Amtrak train for two days (don’t ask – I still haven’t forgiven my mother for refusing to fly) to visit and see our family’s new dwellings.
You weren’t in the picture yet – your husband was still a teenager. Despite the torturous train ride, we relished the opportunity to spend time with my brother and his family. We were even excited to see a new part of the country.
Mas…Dear Trump Voter Ashley: We are real people, not your ‘Taco Tuesday’
POCHO’s @SaraChicaD wishes you a Happy Mexican Sansgiven (video)
POCHO’s Subcommandanta del Ñews, Sara Inés Calderón, shares everything you need to know about Sansgiven, the Mexican Thanksgiving. She’s @SaraChicaD on the Twitter.
Songwriting therapy: When everything is f—-d, keep on going (audio)
I wrote a little pep talk, for myself and for anyone else who needs one, as we wade through the fuckedness of all this. Catchy and short and angry and upbeat and exactly a minute long. [NSFW F-bomb.]
[Music and art by METAFILTER main man CORTEX aka Josh Millard.]
Superman’s 1960 Refugee Policy: ‘Lend a friendly hand’ (toon)
Help the refugees, kids, said Superman in this 1960 one-page PSA. Lend a friendly hand! is from DC’s World’s Finest #111, August 1960. It was World Refugee Year on a distant planet just like Earth where people just like Americans cared about others.
FTP Local #207 taps ‘Mainstream Media’ for 2016 Golden Dookie Award
(PNS reporting from BEVERLY HILLS) Local #207 of the Federation of Turd Polishers (FTP) has chosen “The Mainstream Media” as the recipient of their 2016 Golden Dookie Award, PNS has learned.
The union will cite the news media’s whitewashing of Donald Trump’s hate, xenophobia, racial prejudice, misogyny, lies, bullying, sexual assault, fraud, and foreign entanglements as “the new normal.”
“They polished the shit right off of that turd,” one FTP official told PNS.
Mas…FTP Local #207 taps ‘Mainstream Media’ for 2016 Golden Dookie Award
Loyalty and Loathing: Is Donald Trump the new Fidel Castro?
Since Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to power, there is only one other public figure I can recall that has drawn such extremes of loyalty and loathing: Fidel Castro in his prime.
I will no doubt get an avalanche of criticism from my fellow Cuban-Americans for making this observation. But that simply proves my point. Although at opposite ends of the political spectrum, both men are lightning rods for polarization. Their similarities are in political style, not ideology.
“…THEIR IMPULSIVE PERSONALITIES WERE CATNIP TO THE MEDIA.”
Mas…Loyalty and Loathing: Is Donald Trump the new Fidel Castro?
Single Girl Life Alert: End those worries about being alone (video)
With Single Girl Life Alert from Sarah Hartman, you don’t have to worry about being alone. [Video by Hot Buffet Sketch Comedy.]
Pocho Ocho Top Tunes on Obama’s forthcoming jazz CD
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON D.C.) President Barack Obama will launch a new career when his term ends — a career as a jazz saxophonist, PNS has learned.
Insiders at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue say the president has been spending almost every weekend for the last six months practicing his tenor saxophone, a gift from former President Bill Clinton, rehearsing, and recording with his band. His first CD — Barry Blows the Blues — will drop January 21, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Sources tell us these are the Pocho Ocho Top Tunes — recorded in “Living Stereo” — featured on Barry Blows the Blues:
8. Yes, I Kenya
7. Livin’ in a Cracker’s Paradise
6. Michelle
Can you hear me now? ‘Te escucho!’ (video)
On a dark and stormy night, a pregnant woman stumbles and falls in the rain. What can a passing stranger do? Te escucho, a 2009 entry in a Mexican cell phone company video contest, has the answer. [Video by creator and artist Alexander Da Silva.]
10-second recipe video: ‘Mexican Chicken Chowder’ (Chowder? Huh?)
Mexican Chicken Chowder is by Fresh Coast Collective. Where’s the Mexican part? Is it the avocado? What makes this “chowder”? Where’s the sound? Why does this video come from the Fly Fleet Running gym in Minneapolis? We don’t understand.
People say: ‘Tia Lencha, what does ju say about Donal Tromp?’
I say there are racists, or Marxists, or Russia-level fascists
An orange glo-worm that hashes and dashes.
“Hey Beaner,” said the weiner, “go back to Mexico!”
Three gueros in a car. I yell back at the guero,
“Oh yeah? Thas not bery far.”
And the white people say, there’s no racists, or Marxists,
Or Russia level fascists, no orange colored glo-worm
That hashes and dashes
Mas…People say: ‘Tia Lencha, what does ju say about Donal Tromp?’
Moby’s existential angst: Are you lost in the world like me? (video)
Animator Steve Cutts rocks the Max Fleischer-inspired 1930s-looking visuals as Moby & The Void Pacific Choir sing a song of existential angst, Are you lost in the world like me? Can you relate?
Sombra of OVERWATCH: Latinx champion of a tech-forward identity
After months of secrets leaking out of headquarters, the new hero for Orange County’s Blizzard Entertainment hit game Overwatch has finally been revealed. She’s a Mexican Latina named Sombra (photo). Her name means Shadow.
But does this impact the culture of Orange County? The culture of video game development? The very essence of Mexican and Mexican-American culture?
As a first generation Mexican-American, I think Sombra represents an important and much-needed shift in thought to get Latino people into careers in which we are consistently underrepresented. She is the champion of a new tech-forward identity that uses its own skills to take matters into its own hands. But, most importantly, she’s really freakin’ cool, as you can see in this video:
Mas…Sombra of OVERWATCH: Latinx champion of a tech-forward identity
Pearls Before Swine: Meet Raul, my new Mexican friend (toon)
[Via @StephanPastis on the Twitter]
But what term is “correct”? POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz explained it all to NBC Latino
Mas…Pearls Before Swine: Meet Raul, my new Mexican friend (toon)
@UPDATED: Screw you, Trump! Esta tierra es mia tambien! (video)
Wednesday my son’s second grade class in Lemon Grove, San Diego County, California put on a “Veteran’s Appreciation Show.” When the kids began with This Land is Your Land in Spanish, I was moved beyond words.
The significance of this happening right after we elected a white supremacist to the highest office in the land was not lost on me.
Seeing these children of all colors singing this song in Spanish brought me to tears.
Toma Trump! This land is for everyone!!
[Private chef Mark Lane grew up in Lemon Grove, home town of POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz. They are still “friends” on Facebook.]
UPDATED SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 1:30 PM:
Mark Lane posted this on Facebook this morning….
Mas…@UPDATED: Screw you, Trump! Esta tierra es mia tambien! (video)