Señor Lingus: Come for the food and stay for the mariachis (video)
At Señor Lingus — the Mexican restaurant chain with live music — you’ll come for the food and stay for the mariachis! Check your Yelper Pages for a Señor Lingus in a shopping mall near you.
Pocho Ocho most alarming symptoms of RNC Treasonnaires’ Disease
(PNS reporting from CLEVELAND) Jailhouse emergency wards here are filling up with RNC delegates placed on 72-hour mental health holds following “disturbing the peace” arrests.
Clevelanders have been swamping 911 with reports of out-of-town Republicans incoherently screaming, “acting all hatey ‘n’ shit,” and/or “dreaming impossible dreams” after being ordered to cease and desist.
“If the cops don’t immediately drop whatever they’re doing and investigate Michelle Obama’s ‘connection in ISIS who gives her steroids,’ for example,” one ER intake psychiatrist told PNS Sunday, “these GOP loconauts accuse the police of treason. That’s why we’re calling the mass derangement syndrome Treasonnaires’ Disease.”
How can YOU tell if a delegate to the Republican National Convention might be suffering from Treasonnaires’ Disease?
Here are the Pocho Ocho Most Alarming Symptoms:
8. PARANOIA: Scared of real-life encounters with “those Negro actors” who starred in The Cleveland Show.
7. ACTING OUT/ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR: “Open carries” an AR-15, drinks Heinz 57 and huffs WD-40.
6. VIOLENT VERBAL OUTBURSTS: “Who let Obama in my mama jama’s ding dong?” one patient asked, over and over. Bless his sweet heart.
Mas…Pocho Ocho most alarming symptoms of RNC Treasonnaires’ Disease
Ask your doctor if Slapping NDN Medicine Man is right for you (video)
When the White Man’s medicine isn’t working,it’s time to see the Slapping Medicine Man. Video by The 1491s.
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Mas…Ask your doctor if Slapping NDN Medicine Man is right for you (video)
Texans in trucks ambush Fort Bliss soldiers with Mexican MREs (video)
In El Paso, mechanized squads of senior citizens sneak up on soldiers and offer them exotic foreign “Meals, Ready-To-Eat” with origins South of the Border. These metal-encased MREs are called “burritos,” according to the truck people. And the Fort Bliss soldiers like them!
Mas…Texans in trucks ambush Fort Bliss soldiers with Mexican MREs (video)
‘Study Abroad’ gringa is slow to realize she’s really in Califas
Tip from ex-Facebook friend breaks bad news
(PNS reporting from SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA) A “Study Abroad” student received some upsetting news last week when she realized nothing around her looked like the Lonely Planet guidebook she was carrying.
Becky Miller, a 21-year old geography major from Louisville, KY, was scheduled to spend three months in San Jose studying Spanish as a student with Veritas University. Her plans are now very much in doubt after she blew most of her savings in central California on San Jose Shark hockey games and visiting the Winchester Mystery Mansion.
Mas…‘Study Abroad’ gringa is slow to realize she’s really in Califas
DTTX (Bobby Ramirez) and LSOB: ‘Sunday Afternoon’ (1990 video)
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Inland Empire hiphop pioneer DTTX aka Bobby Rivera of Lighter Shade of Brown LSOB. Sunday Afternoon is from Brown & Proud, 1990
New stamp honors Profe Jaime Escalante (‘Stand and Deliver’)
The United States Postal Service picked the 87th conference of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Wednesday in Washington, D.C. to premiere its stamp honoring Jaime Escalante, the East Los high school math teacher who was the hero of the film Stand and Deliver.
Edward J. Olmos played Escalante in the film (video below).
Mas…New stamp honors Profe Jaime Escalante (‘Stand and Deliver’)
#TBT 1999 Video Classic: Delinquent Habits ‘Tres Delinquentes’
East Los homies Delinquent Habits made people pay attention with Tres Delinquentes, the music video for a song on their self-titled first studio album. This music video has it all! English, Spanish, Spanglish, hiphop, rap, mariachi, moshing, hynas, scratching, lowriding, little people, Blaxicans, and, of course, burros.
Traffic Stop: I almost got killed for ‘driving while black’ (NSFW video)
African American Alex Landau recounts how he nearly lost his life after a Denver police Traffic Stop. He and his white mother Patsy say that night changed them both forever. [NSFW F-bomb.] Video by StoryCorps
BREAKING: Bernie Bros’ exploding heads spur FBI zombie alert
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON, D.C.) The FBI is warning citizens to be on the lookout for hungry zombies attracted by the brains spewed from the exploding heads of diehard Bernie Bros.
Bernie Sanders supporters’ brains, the Feds said, are piling up on the streets of gentrified neighborhoods across America.
The brainiac explosions followed Sanders’ endorsement of Democratic presidential nomination rival Hillary Clinton this morning.
“These zombies especially love the entitled taste of Bernie Bro brains,” FBI spokesman Whitman “Ken” Jump told a press conference here today (photo). “We’re calling them Zombros.“
Mas…BREAKING: Bernie Bros’ exploding heads spur FBI zombie alert
Taco ‘Bout It: North Hollywood’s Tacos El Venado, meat mecca (video)
Get down with your carnivore bad self and some tacos de carne asada and al pastor at Tacos El Venado in North Hollywood. J9 and Vick One star as enthusiastic, taco-loving explorers.
Batsh1t crazy TX Rep. Louie Gohmert: Beware of gays in space! (videos)
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) has deep feels about his gay brothers and sisters in space because an asteroid killed the dinosaurs and what about extra-terrestrial colonies like Matt Damon and God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. He shared his concerns on the floor of the United States House of Representatives in late May.
Mas…Batsh1t crazy TX Rep. Louie Gohmert: Beware of gays in space! (videos)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: ‘Wake Up, Everybody’ on ‘Soul Train’
Teddy Prendergrass takes the lead vocal as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes sing their 1975 smash hit Wake Up, Everybody on Soul Train. If there was ever a time to get woke, that time is now.
Here’s the full-length LP track with lyrics:
Mas…Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: ‘Wake Up, Everybody’ on ‘Soul Train’
Adult Coloring Book: Police victim of the week (toon)
[Check out more images from artist Ricardo Islas here.]
La Chingona Sandeh stitches to empower mujeres (photos)
“Sandy Perez picked up her first embroidery hoop three years ago, and what started as a hobby quickly turned into a passion project as she stitched empowering feminist messages and humorous pop cultural references into her designs,” Huffington Post explains.
MADåPPLE goes down to ‘Mexico’ — they still got respect for the dead
Los Angeles-based analogelectroclash blues band MADåPPLE — the insane lovechild of Stevie Wonder and Tom Waits — goes down to Mexico in this music video. Why Mexico? They’ve still got respect for the dead. New Orleans, too.
It’s a miracle! Meet Our Lady of Springfield, aka Margelupe (toon)
Margelupe is an original painting by Montebello, CA, artist Ariel Torres. This 16″ by 20″ acrylic on canvas mashup is not for sale yet, but will be soon. Torres still needs to shoot that one perfect photo of the painting so he can make reproductions, he told POCHO via email. After that, fine art prints AND the original canvas could be yours. Stay tooned!
Half-fast country music classic: Jim Reeves ‘Adios Amigo’ (video)
The country music legend Jim Reeves had a lot of big records, but we like this “half-fast” April 16, 1964 live-in-Norway version of his hit Adios Amigo. He died later that year behind the controls of a small plane that crashed in Tennessee during a violent thunderstorm. He was 40 years old.