Diamondbacks’ Pocho Ocho top dessert concepts before the Churro Dog
Yes, they actually went there. Look for a new dessert this season at Chase Field in Phoenix as the National League Arizona Diamondbacks present the “Churro Dog.” Thankfully, no dogs were harmed in the making of this gut-busting, grand-standing heart-stopping dessert.
WTF is a Churro Dog, exactly? ESPN has the story:
The Churro Dog is a warm cinnamon churro sitting inside a Long John chocolate-glazed donut, which is then topped with frozen yogurt, caramel and chocolate sauces. Its estimated calorie count is 1,117.
But the Churro Dog concept wasn’t a random bark in the dark of night, no sir. Many ideas were thrown around the marketing infield, barking up the wrong tree, before the Churro Dog got the front office excited enough to get to third base. And you know what? Here they are — the Diamondback’s Pocho Ocho Top Rejected Dessert Concepts before the Churro Dog:
8. Willie Relleno
7. Negrito Refrito
6. Pink Cotton Candy Taco
Mas…Diamondbacks’ Pocho Ocho top dessert concepts before the Churro Dog
La Tuta to cops: I was the leader of a group of pendejos (video)
“Do you know why you were arrested?” the Mexican cops asked just-busted Knights Templar narco gangster jefe La Tuta. “I was the leader of a bunch of pendejos,” he replied.
Welcome to the San Ysidro border crossing – enjoy our light show!
Double Horizon documents an interactive light show at the US-Mexico border crossing at San Ysidro (near San Diego) that is triggered by the cars themselves. [Relax. It’s not you. There is no sound in this silent video. Also, your tax dollars at work.]
Mas…Welcome to the San Ysidro border crossing – enjoy our light show!
Dear Mom: Don’t worry, everything is great here in New York (video)
In The Letter, based on a 1947 short story La Carta by Dominican-Boricua-Mexican Marxist author José Luis González, a migrant writes home to Mom.
“Everything is super here in New York,” he tells her.
Seventy-two years later and an ocean apart, the story is as true now for the African protagonist of this video as it was for the original Puerto Rican migrant.
Did you read this short story in school? Here is the complete text:
San Juan, Puerto Rico 8 de marso de 1947
Qerida bieja:
Mas…Dear Mom: Don’t worry, everything is great here in New York (video)
I pity the vato loco who messes with a crow (NSFW video)
A homie chillin’ on the back porch gets dissed by a most unexpected character — your neighborhood smart-ass crow. [NSFW F-bombs.]
Speedy Gonzales: Los Gatos Bandidos (SNES video game)
Did you ever play this 1995 SNES video game featuring our hero, Mexico’s fastest mouse, Speedy Gonzales? ¡Andale! ¡Andale! The commercial is above, and here’s an hour-long game!
The love of mole (Por amor al mole) unites Mexico and Brooklyn (video)
From Mexico to Brooklyn, the The Love of Mole unites generations and communities. (Video by Mónica Toledo Fraginals.)
Thousands flee as Chile’s Villarrica volcano erupts violently (video)
Lava, ash and molten rock spewed thousands of feet into the air in a series of massive explosions at the Villarrica volcano in southern Chile Tuesday.
Hooray! She finally made it to New York City (NSFW selfie video)
She finally made it to New York City and you won’t believe what happened next.
Hey Vato! Are you staring at me? (NSFW video)
Hey Vato! Smiley and Chuy discuss the meaning of respect with a little help from existentialist soap tycoon Albert Camay. For a while, anyhow. [NSFW F-bomb.]
Diversity sells, but Hollywood is overwhelmingly white, male (audio)
“If you want an accurate picture of ethnic and gender diversity in the United States, don’t look to Hollywood,” says NPR.
That’s the conclusion of the “2015 Hollywood Diversity Report” conducted by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.
The report quantifies the striking — if not surprising — racial and gender imbalances in film and television, both behind and in front of the camera, by comparing the representation of minorities to their actual proportions of the population.
“At every level, in every arena, women and minorities are under-represented in the industry,” says Darnell Hunt, the study’s co-author and director of the Bunche Center. “And the only question really is how serious, how egregious that level of under-representation is.”
Mas…Diversity sells, but Hollywood is overwhelmingly white, male (audio)
El Chupacabra: Dangerous beast or mythical monster? (video)
Why are sightings of El Chupacabra on the rise? KOB 4 Eyewitness News in Albuquerque, New Mexico found an “expert” with an “answer.”
Cinema sweetie Raquel Torres stole Groucho’s heart (photos, video)
In the 1933 Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) is introduced to the fetching Vera Macal (Raquel Torres), “a famous dancer.” “I could dance with you ’til the cows come home,” Groucho tells her. “On second thought, I’d rather dance with the cows ’til you come home!”
Mas…Cinema sweetie Raquel Torres stole Groucho’s heart (photos, video)
Al Madrigal’s ‘Pocho Quest’: ‘Half Like Me’ (complete video)
POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal gets some help from POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz and POCHO Associate Naranjero Gustavo Arellano as he tries to understand what it means to be half-Mexican in America.
Mas…Al Madrigal’s ‘Pocho Quest’: ‘Half Like Me’ (complete video)
POCHO Poetry Corner: Chicano Love and Barrio Streets
A rose grows among the cracked sidewalks, of
the tear stained barrio streets, where happiness
is a luxury and can easily be lost forever. While
deep in their thoughts a young Chicano couple
are falling in love.
A painting of the Virgin looks down upon streets
which are so far from heaven, yet not so far away,
from hell. Young men strut like roosters, each
wanting to rule for the day, while their women
willingly look to sell their soul for the poison
which temporarily takes the pain away.
The Texas Tornados Live: ‘Hey, Baby – Que Paso?’ (video)
“Hey, baby – que paso? I thought I was your only vato!” The Texas Tornados perform in a 1992 BBC video at the Gruene Hall, in Gruene, Texas.
Want to sing along? We’ve got lyrics!
Mas…The Texas Tornados Live: ‘Hey, Baby – Que Paso?’ (video)
Ask A Mexican: Do all Mexiguys want a woman who cooks? (video)
Dear Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano:
Is it true that the way to a Mexican guy’s corazon is through his panza? And if so, why?
[Possible F Bomb at the tail end of this video.]
Speedy Gonzales vs Daffy Duck: ‘Well-Worn Daffy’ (1965 video)
Mexico’s fastest mouse, Speedy Gonzales, is lost and thirsty in the desert. Luckily, he stumbles across a water well. Unluckily, the well belongs to Daffy Duck.
BREAKING: Sean Penn set for Cesar Chavez keynote speech
(PNS reporting from MALIBU) Sean Penn will deliver the keynote address at the City of San Jose’s annual Cesar Chavez Day celebration March 31, friends of the actor say. The ceremony honors the late Mexican-American icon and civil rights leader on his birthday.
Penn told dinner companions here Tuesday night that he plans to open the speech at the San Jose Civic Center with some humorous anecdotes.
TV crew records purple OVNI/UFO hovering over Lima, Peru (videos)
A TV production crew in Lima, Peru, has videotaped a purple disc-shaped OVNI/UFO hovering near a construction site.
Television show Alto al Crimen was shooting an episode in the upscale Miraflores district on February 10, when the show’s host, Congressman Renzo Reggiardo, stopped an interview to allow his cameraman to shoot the strange-looking object:
Mas…TV crew records purple OVNI/UFO hovering over Lima, Peru (videos)
Watch: In the Amazon, there are monsters and there is ¡MONSTRO!
When a British scientist and his hottie Latina girlfriend embark on an exotic jungle river quest to find a mysterious Amazon monster, what they discover is more astounding than they ever imagined — ¡Monstro!