Fusion’s Pedro Andrade talked to POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz about fighting for racial justice, and Lalo spilled the beans.
Ask A Mexican: Why should we care about Ferguson? (NSFW video)
Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano recalls America’s history of police brutality against people of color in his latest video: Why Mexicans Should Care About Michael Brown and Ferguson. The author and editor (OC Weekly) reprises a 2007 toon from POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz to prove his point. One additional pregunta, though: Is Gustavo’s hoodie fashion forward, rain gear or a political statement? [NSFW F-bomb.]
Mas…Ask A Mexican: Why should we care about Ferguson? (NSFW video)
Star Wars: ‘The Force Awakens/El Despertar de la Fuerza’ (video)
Beware of El Lado Oscuro!
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Mas…Star Wars: ‘The Force Awakens/El Despertar de la Fuerza’ (video)
Let me tell you all the reasons I really, really hate Christmas
I’m so sick of Christmas and December isn’t even a week old!
Every year it’s the same crap over and over again. I mean, I wasn’t even finished pretending not to eat Halloween candy before people started playing that Christmas music — don’t even get me started on the music! It’s like, let’s take a has-been artist and have them pump out some horrible tripe and force everyone to remember why they became irrelevant in the first place, all the while pretending like we’re enjoying the tunes.
You know, all those songs were written during a time when my grandparents weren’t even allowed to go into certain restaurants. “No Mexicans, No Dogs” is what the door signs used to say. “White Christmas” indeed!
Mas…Let me tell you all the reasons I really, really hate Christmas
In Australia, they make burritos with baby bats (video)
These little guys are way cuter than we expected, but we have a question. In Australia, where the drains swirl backwards, do these bats sleep upside down or right side up?
RATM’s Tom Morello: ‘Marching On Ferguson’ (NSFW audio)
Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) writes:
I’ve witnessed countless incidents of racially motivated police brutality in my lifetime and it’s time to say ‘Enough!’ in the name of all those wrongfully killed and abused. For all the courageous men and women raising their voices against injustice in #Ferguson, and beyond, give ’em hell. This song is for you. [NSFW adult language.]
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Magic mushroom tea time in San Jose Pacifico, Oaxaca, Mexico (videos)
In San Jose Pacifico, Oaxaca, Mexico, you can take tea and see. Magic mushroom tea, that is; psilocybin. [NSFW adult language and (legal) drug use.]
Mas…Magic mushroom tea time in San Jose Pacifico, Oaxaca, Mexico (videos)
Prosecutor says ‘spirit of Porfirio Diaz’ guided Ferguson grand jury
(PNS reporting from FERGUSON, MO) St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch credits the ghost of notorious 19th Century Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz with the legal theory that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute killer cop Darren Wilson.
In an interview with PNS Sunday, McCulloch said the ghost of Diaz visited him in a dream and provided legal advice on handling the Wilson grand jury, the official body investigating the shooting death of unarmed college student Michael Brown.
Mas…Prosecutor says ‘spirit of Porfirio Diaz’ guided Ferguson grand jury
A jade stone Zapotec Aztec Mayan skull whistle sounds like this (video)
Musician Xavier Quijas Yxayotl blows a “death whistle” made from jade stone (Silvato de la Muerte hecho en Jade).
A death whistle? Huh? Via the Oregon Flute store:
Mas…A jade stone Zapotec Aztec Mayan skull whistle sounds like this (video)
NorCal school hires private dick, expels 7-year-old Latina *UPDATED
* UPDATE: School officials in Orinda have reversed their decision, according to the ContraCosta Times.
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In the true spirit of the season, the Orinda, California School Board has gone after the most egregious criminal in their school.
How did the Northern California district know this 7-year-old chica (screen cap from Merky News) was a law breaker? Well, they probably just suspected it at first, since she was one of a few brown-skinned Latina children in the overwhelmingly white elementary school. Then they hired a private investigator.
Profiles in courage!
Yes, this vicious scofflaw had the nerve to attend school with her second grade friends in the same neighborhood she lives in nearly all of the week, as the daughter of a local live-in nanny.
Mas…NorCal school hires private dick, expels 7-year-old Latina *UPDATED
Pocho Ocho top tips for surviving Black Friday
It’s brutal out there, pochos — it’s cut or be cut to save $20 on an iPhone 6 — 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.
On Thanksgiving, Texans thank Obama for immigration action
(PNS reporting from HOUSTON) Families here are thanking President Barack Obama as they sit down to their Thanksgiving meals today.
Undocumented immigrant Mario Garza, who plans to pay his fines and “get in the back of the line,” is overjoyed with the White House plans to help fix “our broken immigration system.”
“No pues está a toda madre lo que hizo el presidente Obama, y que poca madre tienen los pinches republicanos que no tienen ni corazon ni huevos para cumplir con la raza trabajadora,” he told PNS. (Translation: Garza backs presidential action but has doubts about the Republican Party’s appeal to future Latino voters.)
Mas…On Thanksgiving, Texans thank Obama for immigration action
William S. Burroughs offers a ‘Thanksgiving Prayer’ (NSFW video)
Beat icon, literary treasure, junkie, poet and provocateur William S. Burroughs offered this Thanksgiving Prayer in 1986. You don’t know Burroughs? His most famous book was Naked Lunch, and Wikipedia says he specialized in satire and “paranoid fiction.” (NSFW language.)
WKRP’s Happiest Thanksgiving: ‘OMG! I thought turkeys could fly!’
This is the video the entire POCHO family watches every Thanksgiving. It features WKRP’s Les Nessman reporting:
I can see it now — the WKRP Holiday Helicopter is coming in low over Cincinnati!
Tia Lencha’s Cocina: How ju make Mijo’s favorite Mole Poblano turkey
Hola. Is Tia Lencha here. Sorry I no give ju recetas (recipes for ju pochos) for a gwhile. Mijo’s daddy no send the cheques for the mijo support. I mad.
Then he go to my house crying because the eskelton eskank he marry left him for another viejo (old man for ju pochos). The viejo had more dinero and drive a troka (thas truck for ju pochos) with plastic bolitas hanging from the bumper. Oh gwell.
In Mexico we say mijo’s daddy got put horns. Mijo’s daddy cry and cry but he no give me my mijo support cheque. I tell him my house is no LenchaCare. He need to pay. He say need money for divorce the eskank. I have to go to the offices to get him to pay.
Mas…Tia Lencha’s Cocina: How ju make Mijo’s favorite Mole Poblano turkey
Hello, ‘I’m from Colombia,’ and I am not a cocaine mule (video)
When Yeimi Salazar came to New York City from Colombia, everyone assumed she was involved with cocaine. So she became a nose.
Mex indy rockers Reacta hear ‘The Sound of Drums’ (video)
Mexican electro-pop band Reacta — hometown Aguascalientes, Mexico — hears The Sound of Drums, en Ingles. We have no idea what the video is about. Do you?
The Chipotle Diaries: Is this pseudo Mayan ‘art’ a tribute or ripoff?
When we last visited the Chipotle Mexican Grill saga, the issue was the inability of the food chain to find any Latino writers to feature on their writer-decorated packaging.
Have they learned? An observant blogger and Mayan art geek in Philadelphia visited a Center City Chipotle Mexican Grill location and did a quick double-take when he saw the bas-relief artwork on the walls.
Here’s how University of Pennsylvania grad student Taylor Jones tells the story:
Mas…The Chipotle Diaries: Is this pseudo Mayan ‘art’ a tribute or ripoff?
Pocho Ocho little-known factoids about the first Thanksgiving
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 delivery from Uber Eats
Mas…Pocho Ocho little-known factoids about the first Thanksgiving
Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Los Lobos
We couldn’t be prouder! Congratulations to one of America’s best bands, East Los homeboys Los Lobos, on accepting the Latin Recording Academy Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award last night.
Which video to feature? How about Kiko and the Lavender Moon from the tour-de-force album of the same name, “one of the best albums ever recorded.”*
* Comic Saenz. November 20, 2014.
