Cold and wintery where you are? Check out these animated GIFs of blooming echinopsis cacti. It gives us those prickly feels. The GIFs are from this video.
Mas…These blooming cacti prickly make the heart grow fonder (GIFs)
Los Hip Hop Hoodíos fire up ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (videos)
Feliz Hanukkah from POCHO and the Hip Hop Hoodíos! Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sunset Sunday night and ends at sunset on December 30: Ocho noches, therefore Ocho Kandelikas.
This salsa version of Ocho Kandelikas comes from swingin’ L.A. Cantor Kenny Ellis. The lyrics are in Ladino, the Sephardic language with roots in Spanish and Hebrew:
Mas…Los Hip Hop Hoodíos fire up ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (videos)
American as apple pie: Chanukah avocado latke breakfast tacos
When a nice Jewish girl from Connecticut moved to Austin for a job, she quickly fell in love with a Texas tradition: breakfast tacos.
And when Chanukah came around, she knew just what to do with the traditional treat of fried potato pancakes — breakfast latke tacos, of course!
Mas…American as apple pie: Chanukah avocado latke breakfast tacos
Did an OVNI/UFO make ‘crop circles’ in Honduras? (video)
Why is there a giant depression (crop circle?) in a sorghum field outside of Victoria, Yoro, in Honduras. Some folks point to a UFO/OVNI.
Mas…Did an OVNI/UFO make ‘crop circles’ in Honduras? (video)
If not now, when? (GIF)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? — Rabbi Hillel the Elder. [GIF creator unknown.]
El Mariachi Manchester: ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ (videos)
Morrissey/Smiths mariachi tribute band El Mariachi Manchester covers There Is a Light that Never Goes Out. Alexandrossey on vocals.
Los Smiths’ version:
Mas…El Mariachi Manchester: ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ (videos)
This is how my abuela makes those legendary tortillas (video)
My grandma’s tortillas are legendary in my family; she’s been making them since she was a little girl and has been feeding her family with them ever since. I thought I’d shoot a little video of her making them as she passes the tradition down to her great grandkids. — Video creator Rich Lee.
This cute niño really loves his frijoles refritos (video)
Mealtimes with baby can be a messy experience.
When Kayra Rosario Tisdell took her son to a Mexican restaurant in Clearlake in Northern California, she thought a plain quesadilla would be the perfect non-messy menu choice. Not so fast, Mom! This kid sure loves him some beans!
British rapper M.I.A. hates ‘Borders’ (music video)
In her new music video Borders, Brit rapper M.I.A. (Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam) says “No More Deportations” — #Not1MoreDeportation –– for the refugees.
1950s Forbidden Love: White woman ❤️ Native American man (toons)
Forbidden to Love Him (1953), features a handsome Native American guy who can “pass” as white and his sweetie, a hot blonde. No biggie, eh? In 1950s America, interracial marriages were maligned by racists and actually forbidden by some states’ anti-miscegenation laws.
Check out these highlights via Pappy’s Golden Age Comics Blogzine:
Mas…1950s Forbidden Love: White woman ❤️ Native American man (toons)
Ted Cruz’ Canuckian countryman are invading El Paso (photo)
I spotted a car full of foreigners from Canadia in El Paso Sunday. Do you think they’re here to smuggle in more sketchy refugee families — families like Ma and Pa and Ted Cruz?
Pocho Ocho top tips for surviving Black Friday 2015
It’s brutal out there, pochos — it’s cut or be cut to save $20 on an iPad Pro — and that’s why we’ve compiled the Pocho Ocho best ways to survive Black Friday:
8. In the event store security confiscates your Mace®, pick up some Aqua Net™ on Aisle 3.
7. Shoppers who carry their own rolls of yellow “crime scene” warning tape can easily discourage other shoppers from entering the Home Entertainment Department.
6. Successful shoppers are well-equipped shoppers. Must-have items include snacks, a gas mask, body armor where available and a small knife (plus a newspaper to hide the knife.) Experienced shoppers only: Weaponized chanclas.
Pocho Ocho amazing little-known first Thanksgiving factoids
See this painting that is supposed to depict the first Thanksgiving? It’s wrong wrong wrong. What really went on at that epic feast so long ago? We’ve got eight little-known factoids right here:
8. The frozen string beans in the casserole were past their sell-by date
7. Pilgrim Zephaniah Winslow = silent but deadly
6. Squanto’s succotash was really takeout from Chipotle Mexican Grill
Mas…Pocho Ocho amazing little-known first Thanksgiving factoids
Happy Mexican Thanksgiving – Sansgiven – from @SaraChicaD (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.
The Cluttered Mind of @buttronica: Thanksgiving social anxiety (video)
Back when our MiJA Elise Valderrama was on Fusion, she shared her Thanksgiving survival tips. You say you’ve never explored The Cluttered Mind of Elise, aka @buttronica on the Twitter? You’ll be glad you did.
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: 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: Thanksgiving turkey al pastor tacos
Meanwhile, in America, the debate goes on (toon)
This was just text on Facebook….
Archaeologists: Skeletal remains linked to pulque god (photos,video)
Archaeologists in Tlaxcala, Mexico have discovered skeletal remains of a high-ranking figure in Aztec ruins that are linked to the pulque god, as well as “the cooked vertebrae and ribs of at least three different infants.”
Excavations at the Zultépec-Tecoaque archaeological site, home to the Acolhua between A.D. 1200 and 1521, have uncovered human remains in a cistern, a throne made from volcanic rock, and a cylindrical stone carved with the image of the Aztec god Ometochtli.
Mas…Archaeologists: Skeletal remains linked to pulque god (photos,video)
A scene from the ‘First Thanksgiving’ (toon)
[There’s lots more from Alex Garcia de Aztlan here.]
La Cucaracha: It’s beginning to look a lot like turkeys (toon)
Happy Thanksgiving from La Cucaracha!
