Live from her bedroom, California-native high school senior Allison Reyes explains the heartaches and joys of Being Hispanic. SPOILER: If she had to do it all over again, she wouldn’t change a thing.
‘Witch’ OVNI/UFO flies low and slow over Monterrey (2007 videos)
Remember that time in 2007 when a witch flew low and slow over Monterrey? Realidad o fición?
Mas…‘Witch’ OVNI/UFO flies low and slow over Monterrey (2007 videos)
Donald Trump: ‘What’s puzzling you is the nature of my game’ (toons)
“Please allow me to introduce myself,” he said. “I’m a man of wealth and taste. I’ve been around for a long, long year, stole many a man’s soul and faith. Pleased to meet you; hope you guess my name. But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game.”
Mas…Donald Trump: ‘What’s puzzling you is the nature of my game’ (toons)
Hollywood Casting History: The ‘Latina Bombshell’ (toons)
Time and again I have tipped my sombrero to the remarkable treasures to be found at Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine, but now he has outdone himself with a post that gibes/gels/fuses with my #textmex and #mextasy researches/art/presentations and more.
One of his latest entries is a comic book from 1951 that fictionalizes the life and times of Lupe Velez — the “Mexican Spitfire” at the heart of my research in Myra Mendible’s From Bananas to Buttocks and in my own Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America {(Quality Comics’ Love Secrets #41 (1941), reprinted from Love Confessions #9 (1951)}
Mas…Hollywood Casting History: The ‘Latina Bombshell’ (toons)
Latino USA: Trump is good for business – the piñata business (audio)
“Jennifer De Benito could have had any piñata she wanted for her 14th birthday party. She chose a piñata of Donald Trump. The three-foot-tall piñatas depict Trump in a business suit with his infamous blonde hair and they’re flying off the shelves on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border,” writes Samantha Clark.
“It all started last summer when Trump said Mexico was “bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists.”
“Jesús Márquez makes piñatas in Watsonville, a small farming town on the central coast of California. Márquez is from Mexico and says that although Trump’s comments are racist, they have been good for business.”
Maria Hinojosa of NPR’s Latino USA reports:
Mas…Latino USA: Trump is good for business – the piñata business (audio)
White Life: Eddie Murphy is Mr. White for Black History Month (video)
In a Black History Month Especial Report, Eddie Murphy goes undercover to experience life as it’s lived by White Americans.
Welcome to your future, Citizen Worker Alice. Click here (videos)
“Machines could take 50% of jobs in the next 30 years,” according to Rice University comp sci professor Moshe Vardi. What will that mean for Alice, holder of the last job on Earth?
Do not fear this dystopian future, pochos. The Last Job on Earth is a good thing, at least according to The Guardian.
On the other hand, if your job involves putting chairs back in place after a meeting in the conference room, you are out of luck. Check this video from Nissan:
Mas…Welcome to your future, Citizen Worker Alice. Click here (videos)
Rinku’s Mexican masala (dry spice mix) for tacos (video)
“There is nothing better than homemade spices…I prefer to make my spices at home,” writes Rinku of Rinku’s Rasoi (kitchen). She’s from Florida by way of India.
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Mas…Rinku’s Mexican masala (dry spice mix) for tacos (video)
Mis hermanas, this is how you ‘feel the power’ (NSFW video)
Juanita Carmelita cooks breakfast and teaches her friend Ashley how to “harness the power.” [NSFW LOL adult content, language.]
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Mas…Mis hermanas, this is how you ‘feel the power’ (NSFW video)
#TBT Throwback Thursday: Mexican bugs dropping the mic (video)
They were just singing La Bamba and you won’t believe what happened next!
Mexican car show full of bugs — vintage VW bugs (video)
¡Mira los vintage VW bugs, Karmann Ghias, VW Things, Kombis, trucks, hot rods, and more! The Mexbugs car show in November — 12 Exhibición Nacional Volkswagen Vintage had them all.
Late Night con Badía: What’s Pope Francis up to in Juarez? (video)
¿A qué viene el Papa a Juárez?
#ElLateNight #PapaFrancisco #ElPapaEnJuarez #ElPapaEnMX
Posted by El Late Night con Badía. on Sunday, February 14, 2016
En route to Juarez, Mexico, El Papa Francisco calls up Jesus Cristo to see maybe they can spend some fun time hanging out.
Frida Kahlo’s father Guillermo took these photos of his little girl
These photographs of young Magdalena Carmen Frieda, later known as Frida Kahlo, were taken by her Hungarian Jewish father Guillermo, over a period of 20 years. Baby Frida is two years old in this first shot.
Mas…Frida Kahlo’s father Guillermo took these photos of his little girl
Ultimate ‘Mexican Standoff’ movie mashup has no Mexicans (videos)
“A Mexican standoff,” according to Wikipedia, “is a confrontation among two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger.” ¡Orale! Let’s get some of those cinema standoff scenes and mash them up! [POCHO only presents this video after receiving assurances from responsible parties that “no actual Mexicans were harmed in the making of this mashup.” Your mileage may vary.]
The mashup highlights the “trio scene” from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a classic example of film editing. The 1966 Western was directed by Sergio Leone, and starred Clint Eastwood before he lost his mind, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. Check the scene out here:
Mas…Ultimate ‘Mexican Standoff’ movie mashup has no Mexicans (videos)
Taco Tuesday Trailer: Can hella hungry hermanas survive ‘The Trip’?
It’s warm inside, with TV and WiFi. There’s no food, though, so amigas Kiyah, Chloe and Tilly must now leave the house to undertake The Trip. But will they survive their “run to the border?”
Mas…Taco Tuesday Trailer: Can hella hungry hermanas survive ‘The Trip’?
Juanita Ca$h: ‘Fuego del Amor (Ring of Fire)’ (audio)
“What would it sound like if Johnny Cash had an illegitimate daughter raised in Juarez?” asks the Juanita Ca$h Facebook page. “Juanita Ca$h has come to take her revenge on her father’s music: Blasphemous, boisterous, psychedelic cumbia versions of her daddy’s classic songs.”
Uhm, huh?
Attack of the Three-Headed GOP Kaiju Monster from Hell (toon)
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Mas…Attack of the Three-Headed GOP Kaiju Monster from Hell (toon)
Barack and Richard: ‘Happy (Black) Presidents Day!’ (toon, video)
Remember the time this 2008 toon somehow turned into a 2009 cover illustration for The New Yorker?
Mas…Barack and Richard: ‘Happy (Black) Presidents Day!’ (toon, video)
SPONSORED: Wrap yourself in the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia was the King of Judicial Jiggery-Pokery — until he was taken from us at the mean old age of 74.
His spirited defense of torture, based on something he saw Jack Bauer do on television’s 24, was truly his finest hour.
Mas…SPONSORED: Wrap yourself in the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
From Dreams to Trash: ‘El Sueño Americano’ (photos)
These photographs document the personal effects of migrants apprehended in the desert by U.S. Border Patrol agents which were subsequently seized and surrendered during processing at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol facility in southern Arizona.
Life and death on the streets: ‘Los Angeles 1991’ (NSFW video)
Race relations in Los Angeles, 1991 are far from ideal. When Mexican-American Eladio goes to avenge the death of his older brother at the hands of a Korean-American merchant, he soon discovers that he’s not the only one with a reason to kill today. [NSFW adult language, F-bombs; graphic violence.]
Mas…Life and death on the streets: ‘Los Angeles 1991’ (NSFW video)
Hey Vato! It’s ‘A Cholo Valentine’ (NSFW video)
As Vatos Smiley and Chuy search for the true meaning of Valentine’s Day — and the place of amor in this troubled world — Smiley’s sister Angie sets them straight on how VDay REALLY works. [F-bomb.]
