QUESTION: How can you tell when Cinco de Mayo has turned into a totally American holiday? ANSWER: When gabachos from Tennessee start making rap videos about it in broken Spanglish! Dear Hootie (AKA Hoochie) and the Brofish: Orale!
BBC Video: That time Germany offered to help Mexico invade the U.S.
As the disputes that led to World War One were building, Germany tried to enlist Mexico’s help against the U.S.A. It didn’t turn out like the Germans hoped, and the repercussions of the Kaiser’s overture are still felt today, especially at the border.
Three poems from Mexington, KY by Profe. Steven Alvarez (audio)
Steven Alvarez, POCHO amigo and Assistant Professor (Writing Rhetoric and Digital Media, Latin America Studies, English) at the University of Kentucky, teaches a course called Mexington, about the growing community of Mexican Americans in UKY’s hometown, Lexington. He’s a poet, too.
CON PAPELES / CON DIGNIDAD
0:03to my left is Appalachicano see & down the canyon just six miles in
0:07a thousand people oh it’s citizenship—
0:09one senses the isolation of citizenship in Appalachicano seen the twin mining
0:13communities nestled in the corner mountains—
0:15the history this area has been a history of struggle—
0:18labor struggle—
0:21do—
0:25do—
0:28since the turn of the century—when the club dinner in A district was the first
0:31major coal producer in Kentucky—
Mas…Three poems from Mexington, KY by Profe. Steven Alvarez (audio)
MashiMachine makes Ecuador’s president say what you want
Check out this web app where you can make a video with the words you put in the mouth of Rafael Correa, the anti-free speech President of Ecuador.
And here he thought he was the only person allowed to say anything without fear of repression. Not on our Internet, amigo.
I’d love to see a Trump version of MashiMachine!
Happy May Day 2016 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those red commie cabrones in Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive Sanders cells here in the Homeland but the lamestream media sheeple won’t tell you that).
Tomorrow, May 1, is May Day AKA International Workers’ Day, when the communist comrades sing this stirring appeal, with its hummable melody and a vague vision of making the future great again that’s hard to disagree with, except maybe the LUCHA FINAL aspect.
Mas…Happy May Day 2016 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Video Shocker! Rapists, criminals at work in California vineyards
Detras Del Muro – Behind The Wall from Kiara Ramirez reveals the shocking truth about the immigrant workers in Northern California vineyards.
Who knew? More than 200,000 U.S. Latinos are Jewish
In the first study of its kind, the American Jewish Committee has taken a comprehensive look at the Americans who claim both a Latino and Jewish identity – all 200,000 of them.
Religion News Service reports:
As a group, Jewish Latinos don’t get much attention — either from Jews or Latinos in the U.S.
Chicano Batman: Her lipstick’s black and she no longer smiles (video)
Her lipstick is black, and she no longer smiles at all. It’s a sad story and a new music video from SoCal pochos Chicano Batman.
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Mas…Chicano Batman: Her lipstick’s black and she no longer smiles (video)
Waiter at Mexican restaurant feeds man with no hands (photo, video)
Facebook member Reginald Widener was chowing down on some Mexican food in suburban Atlanta Sunday when something extraordinary happened. A photo and caption from his Facebook page tell the story:
We also grabbed this video:
Mas…Waiter at Mexican restaurant feeds man with no hands (photo, video)
Kosher for Passover nachos, and rice and beans (video, audio)
The Jewish celebration of Passover is a week-long Feast of Unleavened Bread, or “matzo” in Hebrew. Most Jews stick to matzo and avoid regular bread, wheat products, rice, corn, and beans. This may change, though, since an 800-year-old religious ban on rice and beans was just overturned.
Ingenious cooks over the centuries have found ways to make the most of matzo, by using sheets of softened matzo in place of lasagna noodles, for example, or transforming matzo crumbs into soup dumplings — so-called matzo balls. But what if you want a spicier treat, like nachos? Not to worry! This video from NBC’s TODAY SHOW has the recipe.
The rabbis’ rice and beans reprieve made NPR’s Maria Godoy a happy Hispanic:
Mas…Kosher for Passover nachos, and rice and beans (video, audio)
Meet Cassandra – Mexico’s big gay luchador (video)
Cassandra is the “Queen of the Ring,” a champion wrestler in drag – not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Gourmet kosher Mexican food makes Judíos happy in WLA (video)
Katsuji Tanabe, of MexiKosher, MR POCHO’s favorite Japanese-Mexican-American West Los Angeles kosher chef, is now serving hamburguesas made from a special blend of three cuts of beef. With beef bacon. And soy “cheese.” West Los represent!
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Mas…Gourmet kosher Mexican food makes Judíos happy in WLA (video)
Can fish skin ‘leather’ zapatos save endangered reptiles? (video)
A shoe manufacturing firm in Leon, Guanajuato, says that “leather” made from fish skin is a viable alternative to leather made from the skin of endangered reptiles. We’re just wondering if there are enough suitable fish for the production lines to scale.
I’m sorry — you’re making what? ‘Mexican eggplant tacos’? (video)
Rekha Kakkar makes “Mexican eggplant tacos” and you can too (if you have barbecue sauce, lechuga and store-bought taco shells).
This is our #2 go-to recipe for ‘Awesome Mexican Beef Curry’ (video)
The Good Food channel on YouTube video offers our SECOND favorite “Mexican curry” recipe. We like this older “Mexican curry” video better because we can understand what the guy is saying.
Los Cenzontles: Randy Newman’s “Memo to My Son” (video, lyrics)
Los Cenzontles cover Randy Newman’s Memo To My Son.
Mira los lyrics:
Mas…Los Cenzontles: Randy Newman’s “Memo to My Son” (video, lyrics)
First Person: ¡Que Viva El Bernie El Sanders!
I just came from a Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles…my car is heating up so I got a ride from my son Angelo…who is my biggest supporter…
Anyway he took me to the Bernie Sanders march on Martin Luther King Boulevard today. He dropped me off and headed back to Santa Ana… I had no idea how I was going to get back home. All I knew is that I had to go and march and rally for Bernie el Sanders.
Que Viva el Bernie Sanders.
I got there right on time the march was just getting started woohoo.
There was no TV stations no media just a bunch of Bernie Sanders supporters — pura gente claro que Si.
Trump Space Enterprises presents ‘Make Space Great Again’ (video)
Captain’s Blog. StarDate 2016.04.21:
We’ve arrived in the Bozo Sector where I shall begin my campaign to make space great again.
The struggle is real: Churro know my life! (toon)
