Jalisco woman who ‘cooked for Pancho Villa’ is 127 years old (video)
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, reportedly the oldest person in the world, turned 127 on Sunday, at her Zapopan home in the Mexican state of Jalisco. This raw footage comes from RU.TV, the Berlin-based Russian-owned TV network.
Here’s their shot log, including translations:
Mas…Jalisco woman who ‘cooked for Pancho Villa’ is 127 years old (video)
At Cal State Northridge, MEChA is Fridalicious (photo)
We didn’t see you yesterday in Jerome Richfield 118 at 3:30, hermana. We passed out these flyers, you know.
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Anjelah Johnson: No, sorry, I don’t speak Puerto Rican (4 videos)
Pocha Anjelah Johnson from San Jose (408 shout-out!) may not speak Spanish, but she doesn’t speak Puerto Rican either. [This video was one of our most popular and then got yanked from YouTube. We just found this alternate version online, apparently video’d right off someone’s TV.]
Over at LatinoRebels.com, Bella Vida Letty says Anjelah’s new video has her performing in “brown face.”
Here’s the video she objects to. What do you think?
Mas…Anjelah Johnson: No, sorry, I don’t speak Puerto Rican (4 videos)
The Idiot’s Guide to Smart People: ‘College’ (video)
College is not so hard to understand, even for idiots like you, so long as you watch this video!
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It’s a cake! It’s a burrito! It’s a pinche CAKE BURRITO! (video)
America’s love affair with the burrito (a wheat flour tortilla wrapped or folded into a cylindrical shape to completely enclose the filling, according to Wikipedia) has moved the tubular tummy-buster from the kitchen to the bakery, as this burrito-styled cake demonstrates.
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Mas…It’s a cake! It’s a burrito! It’s a pinche CAKE BURRITO! (video)
One-minute educational video: How a frijol becomes a pedo
Frijoles, as you may recall, are good for your heart, and here’s why.
Alfonso Ochoca: Don’t hate me because I don’t speak Spanish (video)
Ever have an awkward moment when you have to pretend to be an Anglo at the taqueria because you don’t speak Spanish? Alfonso “White Boy Mexican” Ochoa reports.
‘Maybe (I Grew Up…)’ (@SchemeNavarro audio)
Last month we published the powerful essay Maybe I grew up in a Latino and African-American neighborhood by Navarro, the Chicago-based hiphop artist formerly known as Scheme. Now it’s back, with music:
A burrito is not a sandwich, Massachusetts judge rules
(PNS reporting from MASSACHUSETTS) A burrito is not a sandwich, you idiots, according to a court decision announced here last week.
Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke made the ruling as he threw out a lawsuit brought by a Panera restaurant seeking to stop White City Shopping Center in Shrewbsury from leasing space to a franchisee of the Qdoba Mexican Grill chain.
Panera’s lease prevents the center from renting space to a (competing) sandwich shop.
[The judge] cited Webster’s Dictionary as well as testimony from a chef and a former high-ranking federal agriculture official in ruling that Qdoba’s burritos and other offerings are not sandwiches.
Jon Stewart: The colorblind death of an unarmed black teen (video)
Now that Obama has been elected and re-elected, we’re in a post-racial society, right? And the death of an [another] unarmed black teenager at the hand of a white cop isn’t about race at all. Anti-American liberals, you see, are playing the race card again. Jon Stewart explains.
Watch and learn: The Brazilian sport of head-butting sheep
With FIFA2014 World Cup futbol now nothing but a memory, Brazilian athletes have revived the traditional sport of butting heads with sheep. But don’t call these guys butt heads!
Will social media F*ckyer hashtag un-f*ck social media? (NSFW video)
That symbol we used to call the “number sign” or “pound sign” that they now call as “hash sign” — # — is ruining social media. All the cool kids have switched over to what we used to call the “percent sign” — % — to make social media a better place for you and me, especially me. Try the new % F*ckyer sign and find out yourself! [NSFW adult language.]
Tweet of the Day via Roberta Valderrama (@RoValderrama)
Apparently more white people believe in ghosts than in racial discrimination. Boo, mothafuckas! http://t.co/lpgODpUzHh
— Roberta Valderrama (@RoValderrama) August 28, 2014
Lalo Guerrero via Culture Clash: ‘There’s No Chicanos on TV’ (video)
The late Chicano musical pioneer Lalo Guerrero called out Hollywood on its racist casting practices on last century’s Culture Clash TV show.
Elise Roedenbeck: How to hide from drones (video)
Drones are chasing our Emeritus Editor Elise Roedenbeck (she’s @buttronica on the Tuiter) for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how she hides, and how you can hide too. [Editor’s note: I can’t tell you the right reason because then Ms. Buttronica would have to kill me and I think that could be quite painful.]
I’m Señor Chang, your Spanish teacher this semester (video)
Me llamo el Señor Chang y seré su profesor de español en este semestre.
Street art from Italy: Facebook likes me, this I know (time-lapse video)
Italian artist MISTERTHOMS paints a mural in Italy.
Dronestagrams: Drone photos (and one video) from Mexico
With inexpensive remote-controlled drones (typically quadcopters) mounted with small, lightweight digital cameras, previously unseen vistas can be captured and shared as videos and stills. This video shows the Monument to the Mexican Revolution in the Plaza de la República in downtown Mexico City. [Click on the photos to enlarge.]
Hari Kondabolu: 2042 — the Year of the White Minority (video)
Indian-American comic Hari Kondabolu is looking forward to 2042, when white Americans will only be 49% of the population.
Tony Montana accepts the Emmy on behalf of all Latinos (video)
In case you missed it, here is Tony Montana’s acceptance speech from last night’s Emmy Awards.
My churros are mas twisted, capitalist running dogs! (photo)
If you like my churros, try my “nacho cheese!”
Mas…My churros are mas twisted, capitalist running dogs! (photo)
Musical pochos: The Premiers rock ‘Farmer John’ (audio,videos)
Fifty years ago the biggest summer radio record was Farmer John, a cover of the Don and Dewey R&B hit by The Premiers, a group of pochos from East Los suburb San Gabriel. [Editor’s note: If you cannot access the NPR audio, blame NPR which is still using an outmoded, incompatible Flash-based media player.]
In the summer of 1964, Beatlemania was sweeping the United States, young men were burning their draft cards and race riots were raging in cities across the country — and wrapped up in all of it was the biggest hit of the summer in Los Angeles.
Mas…Musical pochos: The Premiers rock ‘Farmer John’ (audio,videos)
It’s a long, hard road from Central America to El Norte
Escaping criminal gangs in Central America and crossing Mexico to enter the U.S. without papers is only the first step in a long journey, a journey with an ending that remains unknown.
The Intercept tells the story:
A few nights ago, Ana crossed illegally into the United States from Guatemala. Her husband paid a coyote $4,000 to smuggle Ana and their son through the lowland jungles of southern Mexico, up the San Pedro river to the Texas border.
“A gang was after us,” Ana says in a daze, digging her knuckles into her cheeks to stay awake. She and her child were just released from a 48-hour stay at a detention center where it was too cold to sleep.