Those awkward moments when
Everyone is sorry now, OK? Can we please move on?
Mas…Epic Halloween #FAILS: KKK (with torches) y ‘Mexicans’ (videos)
Thrills, chills, tetas, monsters, suspense, and more tetas are back from the dead and live on screen in Mexican Kitsch, a mashup by 3 centavos & 2 botones. How many of these cinematic classics do you recognize? [NSFW brief nip slips.]
Over the weekend, Mexi-Canadia’s The Mariachi Ghost dropped this awesome Halloween/DDLM music video, named The Marigold, after the distinctive flower of Dia de Los Muertos.
Who/what is this band, exactly? The jefe explains:
Me llamo Jorge Requena. Soy Chilango. Vivo e Winnipeg, Manitoba en Canadá. Mi banda The Mariachi Ghost ha tenido un poco de éxito por acá y estamos muy contentos.
Pero Estamos por sacar nuestro primer video. Dirigido por uno de los mejores cineastas del mundo, Guy Maddin, con premios desde un Emmy hasta un oso de oro.
In a new online gallery, Bay Area artist and DREAMer Julio Salgado reimagines some all-time TV favorites with people of color, like this screencap from an imaginary Equis Files.
“Fox Mulder and Dana Scully,” he writes, “come back in the forms of a former Black Panther and Brown Beret who investigate forgotten files that kept tabs on POC activists.”
Mas…Alternate Reality Theatre: If big hit TV shows weren’t all white (toons)
Celebrity chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain tells SiriusXM’s Pete Dominick that the restaurant industry in the U.S. would collapse if Donald Trump deports 11 million immigrants.
For 40 Halloweens, one Mexican family has been creeping out their neighbors.
New China TV breaks it down:
Mas…Mexican family’s creepy doll ‘Rosita’ marks Halloween (video)
In Viva Calaca, an animated short based on the Voltaire tune from 2007, the dead be dancin’. [Video by Ritxi Ostáriz.]
Mas…¡Viva Calaca! It’s not only Dia de los Muertos, it’s Day of the Dead, too!
* UPDATE #4 1:50 PM PST 11-02-2015: What’s wrong with this picture? [Hint: Got diversity? IG photo via @IncludeLatinos.]
* UPDATE #3 1:25 PM PST 11-01-2015: The rebeldes at Latino Rebels snagged the M-A-C video [in case it gets disappeared], embedded it via DropBox, and you can see it here.
* UPDATE #2 5:08 PM PDT 10-29-2015: The video is still on the M-A-C Facebook page — along with many negative comments. We’re not allowed to embed it, however. No response to our Tweet.
* UPDATE #1 2:12 PM PDT 10-29-2015: Since we published our story overnight, this video has been marked ‘private’ by M-A-C and therefore cannot be viewed. We don’t know if this is a mistake/glitch or something else. We’ve Tweeted M-A-C asking for an explanation.
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Marissa Jade Willinsky and M-A-C, the cosmetics company, want to show you how to do your face for Dia de Los Muertos. [UPDATE: THE ORIGINAL LINK TO THE M-A-C SITE HERE ^^^^ USED TO GO TO THE DDLM MAKEUP VIDEO. NOW IT DOESN’T.]
The beautiful Brooklyn native’s makeup tutorial misses the point of the sugar skull look (PRO TIP: Cadaverous skulls don’t wear lipstick), but includes pasted-on somethings around the eyes, which POCHO fan Belen C. B., in a private email, likened to “[pinche] peas in the guacamole.“
Of course, everything ends up smashingly, because “product.” And the TMI — Adderall product placement, anyone?!
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It’s hard to beat CUPQUAKE’s mysterious and alluring Dia de Los Muertos sugar skull calavera makeup video, which we first ran in 2012.
We still have two questions:
Mas…Day of the Dead M-A-C makeup video has TMI but no skull *UPDATED
Bacon is makin’ news because a questionably-reported study says the hot and salty candy can cause cancer – or not. They say we had to ditch the bacon, but we said, “No! No! No!”
That’s because there are Pocho Ocho Top Things You Can Eat That Are Way Worse Than Bacon:
8. Bush™ special frijoles — THE BROWN ONES™ — now with 25% more nepotism! [Editor’s Note: Our sources tell us this product may not be on the market much longer. Choose wisely.]
7. Uncle Ben Carson’s Tacos de Seso
6. Ferguson’s Gelato – You’ll be screaming, “Hands up! Don’t scoop!”
Mas…Pocho Ocho things to eat that are way worse for you than bacon
Dutch Chef Bianca Janssen makes what she calls tacos with smoked mackerel (according to Google Translate), mango, and, well, you’ll see. Why this Dutch-language video gets a Turkish voiceover and Vimeo description, we don’t know. Maybe we’ll ask the chef on her Twitter.
[Photo via Paul Coelho. Thanks!]
Is this a video of the legendary goat-sucking El Chupacabra – or what’s left of the critter – floating dead in a river in Paraguay?
The decomposed body of a humanoid figure has washed up in a stream in Paraguay – and terrified locals believe it to be mythical vampire-like creature Chupacabra.
Mas…El Chupacabra corpse found floating in Paraguay? (video)
La Marisoul and La Santa Cecilia rock their new single I Won’t Cry for You on Conan.
PREVIOUSLY ON LA SANTA CECILIA:
Mas…La Santa Cecilia: “I Won’t Cry for You” live on Conan (video)
Forget those slow-ass taco copters – so very 2012! What we need is a Taco Cannon!
The rock + a capella vocal ensemble Rockapella sing their greatest hit, the theme song for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? in this new video.
PREVIOUSLY ON CARMEN SANDIEGO:
Mas…Rockapella live: ‘Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?’
The many faces of Frida Kahlo include a somber Frida, all of 17, in a three-piece suit.
Mas…So Frida Kahlo: This Halloween you’re going as a boy? (1924 photos)
This year, for my Dia de Los Muertos altar at the Grand Park (Downtown LA) ofrenda/celebration, I built a new variation on one of my favorite motifs. Check out this photo gallery to see how the Muertos Crossing piece came together. Just click on the skeletor niño to get started….
Mas…Lalo Alcaraz: This year, for DDLM, my altar is ‘Muertos Crossing’ (photos)
Artist Scott Erickson re-imagines Star Wars iconography in the style of the natives of the Pacific Northwest:
ALLIANCE=REBELLION : ALKI TUM TUM
We each live out our lives, as an amalgam of intertwined narratives, rooted both in chance and intention, influenced heavily by our environment. The Northwest’s distinctive sense of place, stems significantly from the visual gifts of the Indigenous Tribes of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Juxtaposed against a modernizing landscape, their sacred icons are pervasive as rain, depicting narratives as much from long ago, as they are from right here and now.
Mas…In the Pacific NW, these are not the droids you’re looking for (toons)
The Selena Museum in Corpus Christi is a shrine to the famed singer Selena, the pride of Tejas.
I was there Wednesday, and it evoked many memories of a brilliant career cut short.
Mas…Corpus Christi’s Selena Museum: Memories and a surprise (photos)
If you’ve been looking for info on how they catch, cook and eat worms in Chiapas, you are in luck! Como Cocinar Zats is the how-to video you’ve been looking for! You’re welcome.
Orders were flooding in to the Caretas REV factory Wednesday (Grupo REV; Ghoulish Productions, Caretas REV, Plásticos y Vinilos REV, Todo Para Halloween, Monster House, La Karpa de la Parka) for latex masks depicting Donald Trump.
West Los Angeles supermarket Bristol Farms (formerly the Westwood Ho) has a good idea for those trying to figure out who they’ll be this Halloween.
The Chicago Reader shared an excellent obituary of artist Jose Guerrero.
