BREAKING: Cain backs Gingrich, releases campaign poster

by Lucida Grandé on January 28, 2012 in El Now, Pocho Ñews Service


(PNS reporting from LA FLORIDA) In an apparent play for the VP nod, former gangster pizza mogul and serial groper Herman Cain has endorsed former Freaker of the Spouse Newt Gingrich in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Enthusiastic Cain aides leaked this prototype of their dream ticket campaign poster.

Earlier this week, the Gingrich campaign HQ released a subtitled version of their candidate’s Spanish-language TV commercial.

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Sabado Pochonte: Olvera St. 1937 (Vericolor, Cliché-o-Vision)

by Comic Saenz on January 28, 2012 in Cultura, Video


A Street of Memory (1937): You’ll meet “soft-speaking olive-skinned guides, languid in business” the narrator intones as he guides tourists in a walk through Los Angeles’ quasi-historic Olvera Street.
Brain-exploding old school stereotypes spice up this documentary by William M. Pizor – a “Vericolor production offering touristic views of  Olvera Street and the old Mexican quarter in Los Angeles, California” according to the Internet Archive.

Do you see anyone you know? Recognize any landmarks?

POCHO needs a mad genius sales jefe

by Mack Reed on January 28, 2012 in Corporate

Hey, amigos:

Yes, you, the ones with the ad agency contacts and the AlwaysBeClosing tattoos:

If you have strategic vision, sales team management experience, a thick little black book and the knife-in-your-teeth attitude of a closer, check out this job listing: POCHO wants to interview you for a job as our Jefe de Sales y Business Development.

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Peggy Lee sings ‘Mañana (is good enough for me)’ 1950

by Comic Saenz on January 28, 2012 in Cultura, Video

For whatever it’s worth, Mañana is probably the only Spanish word many Anglos knew in the 1950s. Sombrero-topped, sarape-wrapped, siesta-taking mañana. Peggy Lee sings it this 1950 TV clip. Her record of this song (she wrote it) was Number 1 in 1948. That’s right, your abuelita was born when all of America was singing this. [Mas…]

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96 Tears: Was ? and the Mysterians the first punk rock band?

by Comic Saenz January 27, 2012 Cultura
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TGIF Music Video: ? and the Mysterians 96 Tears Wikipedia says famed rock critic Dave Marsh coined word “punk rock” when he saw the band ? and the Mysterians perform 96 Tears in 1971. Here they are live 40 years later still pounding that anthemic organ riff, with special guest star Ronnie Spector. ?’s real [...]

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Al Madrigal: Mexican party stores, Sponge Tom and piñatas

by Comic Saenz January 27, 2012 Cultura
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More smart comedy from POCHO Migrant Editor Al Madrigal! Whether you’re in Guadalajara or Queens, Mexican party supply stores all look the same. Al cracks ‘em up at the Laugh Factory on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip and along the way references piñatas, hippie moms, breastfeeding, sugar-free kids, horchata and more. All nasty words are bleeped for [...]

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Shocking study links global warming and Latino immigration

by Lucida Grandé January 27, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from ARIZONA) The warmer the U.S. gets, the more Latinos live here. That’s the controversial conclusion of a scientific study released Thursday by the Demographic Climatology Trend Institute at Maricopa County Community College. “We don’t know if the warmer weather makes El Norte a more comfortable place to live for Mexicans used to [...]

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Video: Gingrich Spanish TV ad now with English subtitles

by Verdana Bold January 27, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from LA FLORIDA) As the Newt Gingrich campaign fights to win votes in the upcoming GOP primaries, his campaign has reached out to the Sunshine State’s Spanish-espeaking voters. As a public service, the former Freaker of the Spouse has prepared this version of the commercial with subtitles for voters who don’t habla Espanol. [...]

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BARACK vs. BREWER! Exclusive audio: When Obama met Brewer at the PHX airport (NSFW)

by Barney Asada January 26, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from ARIZONA) When Gov. Jan Brewer met visiting Pres. Barack Obama at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway airport Wednesday they appeared to have engaged in a testy verbal exchange. The PNS crack mobile team of forensic audiologists have managed to extract the sound of the conversation from the background noise. Here’s what Obama and Brewer [...]

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Coyote says new crop of ‘Cuban’ migrants are Mexicans

by S.J. Rivera January 26, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from LA FLORIDA) The new wave of so-called “Cuban” immigrants washing up on the shores of the Sunshine State are really Mexicanos in disguise, at least according to one coyote. In an exclusive interview with PNS, people smuggler Chivo Rodriguez says the scheme is already an open secret in Mexico and it’s only [...]

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