Native Americans, Native American-style (photos,video)
Native American (Apsáalooke) designer Bethany Yellowtail’s latest fashions are perfect on Ojibwe model Jade Willoughby and Tlingit/Koyukon/Athabascan model Martin Sensmeier. No cultures were appropriated in the making of these garments, these photos or this video.
Out of the night, when the full moon is bright! America’s first superhero
“The Zorro story, invented in 1919 by pulp fiction author Johnston McCulley, tells the tale of an aristocrat in Spanish California who dons a mask to fight against corrupt colonial officials on behalf of the oppressed,” writes Marlon Bishop of Latino USA.
Mas…Out of the night, when the full moon is bright! America’s first superhero
From New Zealand: What exactly is ‘privilege’? (toon)
What exactly is “privilege?” On a Plate cartoonist Toby Morris breaks it down.
Hero, Marine: Private First Class Eugene Arnold Obregon (1930-1950)
A son of Los Angeles, Eugene Obregon was only 19 when he died in Korea.
Eugene Arnold Obregon (November 12, 1930 – September 26, 1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the United States’ highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for sacrificing his life to save that of a wounded comrade during the Second Battle of Seoul.
On September 26, 1950, Private First Class Obregon was fatally wounded by enemy machine gun fire while using his body to shield a wounded fellow Marine.Eugene Arnold Obregon (November 12, 1930 – September 26, 1950) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the United States’ highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for sacrificing his life to save that of a wounded comrade during the Second Battle of Seoul.
Mas…Hero, Marine: Private First Class Eugene Arnold Obregon (1930-1950)
May 2015 Designation of Legal Counsel: Sanchez Bros Attorney-at-Law
This legal notice designating an Attorney of Record is herewith, hereby and homeboy published, May 22 2015, January 2 2015, September 12 2014, August 2 2013, March 15 2012, May 29 2012, and August 31 2012 and some other days tambien pursuant the requirements of the Aztlan Judicical Unity Act (AJUA) of 1997.
For any y all legal matters pertaining to Pochismo, Inc., DBA POCHO and POCHO DOT COM, please contact
Attorney-At-Law Sanchez Bros, Pocho City, CA @ 408-POCHO-28.
What would Frida Kahlo grow? Exhibit shares her plants (video, photos)
Just opened at the New York Botanical Garden, this exhibition examines Frida Kahlo’s love for nature, as seen in her home and garden, as well as the complex use of plant imagery in her artwork.
Mas…What would Frida Kahlo grow? Exhibit shares her plants (video, photos)
POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz explains ‘Bordertown’ to ‘The World’ (audio)
Carol Wills of PRI asked POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz to explain himself and this Bordertown thing to The World.
Let’s listen in as Lalo, at Pasadena’s KPCC, talks with Carol, at WGBH in Boston….
Mas…POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz explains ‘Bordertown’ to ‘The World’ (audio)
Memorial Day: In 1918, this Latino war hero swam until he died
He was only 19 when he died in 1918, a kid who would become America’s first Latino Medal of Honor Recipient.
His posthumous Medal of Honor for heroism came in 1919, but his acknowledgement as a Latino had to wait until 1989.
David Bennes Barkley was born March 31, 1899 in Laredo in Webb County in south Texas, to Josef and the former Antonia Cantú.
He grew up with his Mexican-American mother. He enlisted in the Army when the United States entered what was then known as the Great War.
He used his Anglo father’s name to avoid being segregated into a non-combat unit.
Mas…Memorial Day: In 1918, this Latino war hero swam until he died
Hey Vato! Let me show you ‘how to talk to a hyna’ (video)
Sure that fine chica gave you her number, but what are you going to do to seal the deal? Hey Vato’s Chuy gives Smiley a lesson in how to talk to the hynas.
Racists 0, Raza 1 at ‘Support Sheriff Joe’ rally (NSFW video) *UPDATED
We don’t know this man, but we’d like to shake his hand! A (Phoenix?) demonstrator with a Mexican flag totally punked the pro-Sheriff Joe crowd in this new camera phone vid uploaded Wednesday by anti-immigration protestor Tucson William. [NSFW audio — some F-bombs.]
Mas…Racists 0, Raza 1 at ‘Support Sheriff Joe’ rally (NSFW video) *UPDATED
Amazing video demonstrates how to make toast from bread
If you don’t know how to make toast from bread, this is the video you’ve been waiting for. Next week: How to make ice from water, and vice versa.
PREVIOUSLY ON HOW TO:
I gave this Commencement Speech Sunday at Cal Berkeley
Lalo Alcaraz Commencement Speech
for UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, May 17, 2015
Hello Wurster Hall Class of 2015!
Good evening graduates and long suffering families.
CONGRATULATIONS PARENTS! YOU’RE ALMOST FREE.
And graduates, it won’t cost you anything: how about the loudest most tremendous cheer for your families?!
Good, NOW this is sounding like the Chicano/Latino graduation! Next year, may I suggest mariachis?
Rep. Sanchez mocks American Indians in talk to Indian Americans
Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, from Orange County, put her foot in her mouth on Saturday, and she used her hand to do it.
In a speech to Indian American Democrats, she whooped up an “American Indian war cry.”
She was confused, she told a group of Indian American at a party convention in Anaheim, about an upcoming meeting with an Indian American.
“I am going to his office,” she said, “thinking that I am going to meet with a” — then she put her hand over mouth and made the noise that is the stereotypical imitation of a American Indian war cry. “Right? … because he said Indian American.”
Mas…Rep. Sanchez mocks American Indians in talk to Indian Americans
Es a party time when I see ‘Mi Amigo Blanco’ (video)
Frankie Quiñones is a happy guëy — he has a white friend!
There’s a poop for that! DEUCE schedules your sh!ts (video)
The new DEUCE app is #1 when it comes to scheduling your #2s.
Mas…There’s a poop for that! DEUCE schedules your sh!ts (video)
Angry area youth calls menudo ‘yucky,’ demands pizza
(PNS reporting from ALTADENA) Javier “Flaco” Hernandez outraged his family Sunday night when he refused to eat his bowl of menudo.
“It’s yucky!” the 8-year-old shouted as he repeatedly banged his spoon on the dinner table and insisted on pizza instead.
Flaco’s refusal ticked off his mom, who had spent hours preparing the beef stomach broth in the kitchen of their tidy suburban Los Angeles County bungalow.
Neighbors complain local parrot curses in Spanish, or not (video)
Rula the parrot, from Tracy, in San Joaquin County, is a dirty-mouthed bird according to Spanish-speaking — and Spanish-HEARING — neighbors. Or not. The animal authorities have been advised of the situation, but none of their on-staff critter wranglers are bilingual.
PREVIOUSLY ON PARROTS WHO ESPEAK SPANISH:
Mas…Neighbors complain local parrot curses in Spanish, or not (video)
The plastic yellow car, a (true?) story
“Okay, podemos ir a caminar pero si te cansas, es tu problema. No cargo bebes,” Lina says meanly to her four-year-old cousin.
“I’m not a baby!” says Teresita predictably but then insists on bringing her large plastic car, a hideous yellow contraption with giant painted eyeballs instead of headlights. Teresita gets in the toy car and looks at Lina expectantly. Lina sighs and begins to push her down the street.
“This is just a stroller, you know.” Lina grumbles. “You’re not making any progress into becoming a real person.”
Teresita either does not hear or pretends not to understand the English sentence. Lina suspects that rather than being a child “confused by the dichotomies of her bilingual upbringing” as the pre-school teacher suggested, that Teresita is just selectively deaf.
We’re scared already! New Yorkers: ‘Beware the Chupacabra’ (video)
The notorious goat sucker is coming to NYC, so watch out!