I’ve decided on my Halloween costume for this year. I’m going as La Pequeña Hillary Hulk.
Mountain bike downhill insanity in Taxco, Mexico (video)
Slovak champion mountain biker Filip Polc strapped a GoPro camera on his helmet and recorded this insane downhill competition run earlier this month in Taxco, Mexico. Although he only came in second (!) this first-person point-of-view video will thrill you, give you vertigo or leave you shaking your head and asking, “Huh?” Polc won the Taxco competition last year. [VOLUME WARNING: LOTS OF ROAD NOISE.]
PREVIOUSLY ON TAXCO:
Mas…Mountain bike downhill insanity in Taxco, Mexico (video)
It’s out in the open now: I like to stir up trouble ;-) [video]
The New York Times got me to admit the truth. I’m a trouble maker:
Lalo Alcaraz uses his nationally syndicated comic strip, “La Cucaracha,” to highlight prejudice, challenge media representations and generally stir up trouble in humorous ways.
From Italy via the DR: Electrochill ‘Cumbia de Pierda’ (audio,video)
Cumbia de Piedra is an abstract chillaxed electro-cumbia video by Benetton’s Fabrica, for MOHS, the second album from violinist Jhon William Castaño Montoya. Animation by by Tomás Pichardo, from the Dominican Republic.
Mas…From Italy via the DR: Electrochill ‘Cumbia de Pierda’ (audio,video)
Wonder Woman and Marya la Giant fight Mexibandidos (1945 toon)
I love it when my vocation and avocation converge as they do in this wonderful comic installment of Wonder Woman from the one and only Pappy’s Golden Age Comic Blogzine. Pappy explains:
This delightfully oddball tale is set in Mexico with a beautiful eight-foot-tall señorita, bandits with bandoleros, Wonder Woman’s invisible plane, chains, bondage, and even Wonder Woman in bare feet walking over hot coals. Wow.
This Mexican melange is drawn by H.G. Peter, and is scanned from Sensation Comics #45 (1945).
An illustrator and lover of classic comics and a curator of artifacts focused on constructions of “Mexicans” in U.S. mass culture, rarely do I chance upon an artifact that blends these worlds (not to mention my not-so-secret fetish for fantastically strong women!)
Here’s a page from the issue featuring bandit “Mexicans,” Wonder Woman, freakish “Marya the Amazon maid” y mucho mas more [click to enlarge.]
Mas…Wonder Woman and Marya la Giant fight Mexibandidos (1945 toon)
Our heritage and culture are not your Halloween costume
A school in our neighborhood recently held a “Dress as Your Heritage Day.”
For one Friday, students were encouraged to wear items representing their backgrounds, and some did. Students walked around campus in a combination of family heirlooms and seemingly exaggerated symbols to reflect their racial/ethnic groups.
The rationale underlying this day was cultural celebration, and families and students were representing their own heritages in ways that they wanted. On the face of it, this seemed like good ole’ fashion fun where dressing up breaks the routine of school and students show-off their family backgrounds.
Alternate Universe: Honest Advertising Slogans (toons)
Somewhere, over the double rainbows, there’s a place on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. And Honest Slogans, perfectly realized, from the Honest Slogans Tumblr.
Texas Border Zone UFO experts fear space aliens with nukes (video)
UFO researchers gathered in Presidio, Texas this weekend for the annual Border Zone UFO festival, where Kenneth Dudley warned of a “possible conflict between the [space] aliens and humans” over “nuclear weapons.”
Mas…Texas Border Zone UFO experts fear space aliens with nukes (video)
Photo Contest: Scariest Halloween House in the ‘Hood!
Is there a decorated, haunted Halloween house in your ‘hood? Is it scarier than this one? Send your photo to info@pocho.com. We’ll share the top entries and pick the best one Halloween eve, Thursday night, October 30. Win a POCHO sticker and the admiration of your friends. Enter now!
We’re looking for photos of houses like this “ebola house” near USC in Los Angeles. [Photo via MyFoxLA:]
Meet the American Nazis who protect our US-Mexico border (video)
These Nazis wear swastikas and call themselves National Socialists, sure, but they’re not really socialists. They’re more nationalists, really, supporting the White Nation. All they want to do is to save America from the loser and quitter immigrants who gave up on their home countries to invade the U.S. of A. After all, integration was forced on the White Man at the point of a bayonet. White people get racially profiled too, you know.
Mas…Meet the American Nazis who protect our US-Mexico border (video)
An abused kid prays: ‘Please God, make me a saint’ (NSFW video)
After his mother screams abuse because he won’t go to sleep, a Mexican niño’s prayer requesting God to Make Me A Saint gets answered in a ghoulish nightmare. [This video by Victor Orozco contains some NSFW adult language — pero en español.]
Mas…An abused kid prays: ‘Please God, make me a saint’ (NSFW video)
Jarina De Marco NSFW Halloween video: ‘I Put A Spell on You’
Jarina De Marco reinvents Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ I Put A Spell On You, santeria style, in Spanglish. [NSFW language.]
Contrast and compare with the original Screamin’ Jay version:
Mas…Jarina De Marco NSFW Halloween video: ‘I Put A Spell on You’
Chile bus driver beats purse snatcher with a bat (video)
It was a bad day to be a purse snatcher on this bus in Chile. Three cheers for batman!
Before your White Privilege offends, get new Racism Insurance! (video)
White people can’t help being white — they were born that way! But White Privilege can often get in the way of harmonious social relationships.
Mas…Before your White Privilege offends, get new Racism Insurance! (video)
Dancing Tijuana Cop: The White Zone is for Moonwalking only (video)
“Police officer Jose Ruben Echeverria showed he had the moves Sunday in the Mexican city of Tijuana, dancing to some of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits while directing traffic. Numerous bystanders snapped photos of the dancing police officer, with some even joining in with him. Echeverria says he dances while directing traffic to make the experience of being stuck more pleasant for motorists and pedestrians. He also said it can help boost people’s mood and improve their attitude.” — RUPTLY.
Watch: ‘Las lecciones de Silveria (Silveria’s lessons)’
Little Silveria learns a lesson she’ll never forget in this short video from director Yolanda Cruz.
Getting discovered? It’s all about the context (infographic)
More toons like this @ Coolness Graphed.
Woman needs stricter hubby test than ‘not a drunk, won’t beat me’
(PNS reporting from SAN ANTONIO) Sandra Ceballos made a shocking discovery Friday night when she was out with her girlfriends.
The standards she’d been using to find a good husband were, as her friend Jenny put it, “appallingly low.”
Ceballos, whose family is from Mexico, was raised to believe that if a man is not too much of a drunk, works hard, and doesn’t beat you, he’s “good husband material.”
Mas…Woman needs stricter hubby test than ‘not a drunk, won’t beat me’
Pretty short list of Latina celebrities’ bra sizes (photos)
We don’t have everyone’s bra sizes, just the ones we could scrape from BraSizeHunter.com, your Interwebz source for celebrity bra sizes.
Let’s start with the site’s writeup of Brazilian-born Victoria’s Secret supermodel Adriana Lima (photo, above):
…Adriana Lima bra size is obviously one of the most important measures for a model of this type. Adrianna Lima bra size is a perfect 32D, however, there are many speculations if the size is natural. Based on the photos of multiple shoots during her career, the change was quite evident in Adriana Lima bra size, however, the super model claims that her bust is completely natural. Adriana Lima enjoys continuous attention from her fans and keeps receiving massive paychecks for the work that she does.
THE LAST KNOWN ADRIANA LIMA BRA SIZE IS: 32B
Mas…Pretty short list of Latina celebrities’ bra sizes (photos)
Presley’s Pantry: Day of the Dead Bread (Pan de Muerto) [video]
Nicole Presley of Presley’s Pantry shows off her recipe for Day of the Dead Bread (Pan de Muerto), using her sponsor’s Idaho potatoes, of course.
The Chavez Ravine’s hardcore musical tour of ‘Los Angeles’ (video)
When you’re named after an infamous chapter in L.A. history, like the band The Chavez Ravine, your musical tour of the City of Angels would be pretty hard core too! ¡Mira Los Angeles!
What’s the story on this band? Their Facebook esplains:
Mas…The Chavez Ravine’s hardcore musical tour of ‘Los Angeles’ (video)
My friend’s new movie, ‘The Book of Life,’ is lush, hilarious (photos)
The Book of Life opens today in theaters nationwide. This lush and hilarious Day of the Dead-inspired movie is by my friend Jorge Gutierrez and film giant Guillermo del Toro.
I was fortunate enough to be invited to the flick’s “red carpet” premiere Sunday, and I had the time of my life. It was a “bucket list” experience, and I want to share some of the images and sounds from that morning of movie madness.
Highlights included photobombing the stars, taking a selfie with Diego Luna, and making Ice Cube snarl.
Mas…My friend’s new movie, ‘The Book of Life,’ is lush, hilarious (photos)