COMIC SAENZ
Veterans Day 2024 Video: ‘Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam’
Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam is a half-hour documentary based on the book of the same name by Charley Trujillo.
POCHO salutes all our veterans for their valor and sacrifice. Yes; we proudly share this video every year.
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2024
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2024
L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
This 1981 single from WAR was the first time many non-Latinos heard of Cinco de Mayo. This photo shows the original guys at the Sunset Grill (7439 Sunset, next to their offices (Far Out Productions) at 7417 Sunset. The Guitar Center swallowed up 7417 a while back.
L-R: Charles Miller (sax, RIP), Lonnie Jordan (keyboards, the only original member in the new WAR), Howard Scott (guitar, Lowrider Band), Harold Brown (drums, Lowrider Band), B.B. Dickerson (bass, RIP), Lee Oskar (harmonica, Lowrider Band). Not pictured, Papa Dee Allen (RIP, percussion).
Mas…L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
Happy Star Wars Day: May the Fourth Be With You! (toons y videos)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz brought Star Wars into the La Cucaracha universe. And the Fourth was with him…and with you!
Mas…Happy Star Wars Day: May the Fourth Be With You! (toons y videos)
¡Feliz César Chávez Day 2024!
Cesar Chavez Day is a U.S. federal commemorative holiday, first proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2014.
The holiday celebrates the birth and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez. [Wikipedia.]
Who was Chavez?
Early spring nourishes bumper Swiss spaghetti crop (BBC video)
Global warming — and an early warm Spring — means a bountiful spaghetti harvest in Switzerland’s pasta-growing regions near the border with Italy. The BBC reports.
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The San Patricio Batallón: Aztlan’s Irish heroes (4 music videos)
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This corrido by Orange County Celtic-rock homies The Fenians tells the tragic story of the San Patricios, the St. Patrick’s Battalion.
The unit of 200 mostly Catholic Irish immigrants deserted the United States Army and fought with the Mexican Army against the U.S.A. in the Mexican–American War.
Scots-British post-punk The Wakes Band offer their version of the story next. The video’s not much to look at but the lyrics are killer, so read along below:
Mas…The San Patricio Batallón: Aztlan’s Irish heroes (4 music videos)
For Equal Pay Day, Batgirl tells Batman: Equal pay for equal work!
Batgirl tells Batman she wants to get paid as much as Robin for the same work.
Today we observe Equal Pay Day, the date in the current year that represents the extra days a typical woman working full-time would have to work just to make the same as a typical man did in the previous year.
America pauses for Ricky Martin Luther King Jr. Day
America will pause Monday to remember the life and message of Ricky Martin Luther King Jr., whose “Tengo a Dream y Dance!” speech changed the nation forever.
Post offices and other public facilities will be closed, banks and stock exchanges will take the day off, and salsa picante and sweet potato pie – his favorite snack combo – will be on sale all across America.
Today would have been RMLK’s 41st birthday.
Despite his tragic death in 2007 (he was shot and killed by the president of his fan club), King’s promotion of “love, equality, justice, innocence, malice, refuge, oppression, freedom” has continued to resonate among confused Latinos and Anglos alike.
58 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
Fifty-eight years go – 1965 – big hair and girl groups were all the rage with the cool kids in East Los Angeles.
Sisters Rosella, Ersi, and Mary Arvizu believed they could be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They called themselves The Sisters.
Mark Guerrero, son of Chicano music legend Lalo Guerrero, tells the story:
Mas…58 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
Los Hebrew Homies cook Hanukkah latkes de papas (NSFW video)
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah חנוכה starts Thursday night, December 7 this year, so Hebrew hermanos Jaquann and Luis are cooking up some potato latkes (pancakes) — one of the season’s signature treats. (Totally NSFW adult language.)
Manic Hispanic: ¡Adios, Cholos y Hola, PAISAS! (music video)
If you wanna be a paisa, you gotta look the part, and here’s how, according to Manic Hispanic:
Mas…Manic Hispanic: ¡Adios, Cholos y Hola, PAISAS! (music video)
Veterans Day 2023 Video: ‘Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam’
Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam is a half-hour documentary based on the book of the same name by Charley Trujillo.
POCHO salutes all our veterans for their valor and sacrifice. Yes; we proudly share this video every year.
Manic Hispanic: A Message to You, Chunti (music video)
A special MESSAGE TO YOU from Manic Hispanic:
Clean up your act, Chunti.
It’s A Mexican Hat Dance, But It’s Metal: Del Castillo Shreds ‘El Sombrero’
According to Tejas rock veteranos Del Castillo, all a guy needs, really, is his boots, his guitar, and his sombrero. And if his lady leaves, well, he’s still got his boots, his guitar, and his hat.
Brothers Mark and Rick Del Castillo are hard rockin’ up front, and those are our amigas Mariachi Las Coronelas you see in the background.
Check out the band at Annafest (Anna, TX) this Saturday, October 7.
In East Los, They Call It Puppet L.O.V.E.
They’re folks we all know, in a barrio near you. Will El Triste and La Smiley (puppeteer Cain Carias, and his wife, artist Mayra Plascencia) ever find the true meaning of L.O.V.E.?
The answer comes into focus in this silent short from our amigos at Lone Stars Entertainment Jeremiah Ocañas and Gabriela López de Dennis.
POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz Meets with Area Students, Shares Advice
POCHO boss man Lalo Alcaraz met with local students today, and discussed his work on COCO, Latino representation in the media, and how kids can help clean up the environment.
WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5784
Enjoy this musical Happy Jewish New Year greeting from our friends at Temple B’Nai Pocho.
The Jewish High Holiday of Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5784 years since the Creation of the World, starts tonight, at sundown.
Happy New Year y Shanah Tovah tambien.
Mas…WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5784
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2023
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2023
POCHO is finally out of Facebook jail and back online
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(EAST LOS, AZTLAN, 31 de agosto 2023)
POCHO.COM’S FACEBOOK PAGE FINALLY RESTORED TO RIGHTFUL OWNERS
The POCHO.COM Facebook page is now back in the hands of POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz and POCHO Jefe-de-Content Dennis Wilen (aka Comic Saenz).
The page was hacked, disabled, and then stolen in a series of exploits that started in 2020.
Happy May Day 2023 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those commie cabrones in Russia and Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive LGBT drag queen story hour grooming cells here in the Homeland but the lamestream media won’t tell you that).
Today, May 1, is May Day AKA International Workers’ Day, when the comrades sing this stirring appeal, with its hummable melody and a vague vision of making the future great again that’s hard to disagree with, except maybe the LUCHA FINAL aspect.
Mas…Happy May Day 2023 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Hebrew homies Luis and Jaquann make Passover matzo balls (NSFW)
Every Passover for the last 2500 years +/-, los Judios eat “bitter herbs” to remember “the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.”
Mas…Hebrew homies Luis and Jaquann make Passover matzo balls (NSFW)
¡Feliz César Chávez Day 2023!
Cesar Chavez Day is a U.S. federal commemorative holiday, proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2014.
The holiday celebrates the birth and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez. [Wikipedia.]
Who was Chavez?
DARK BRANDON and the Malarkeys Drop First Single: ‘Chinese Spy Balloon’
He shoots, he scores!
DARK BRANDON and the Malarkeys promised to drop a big one to start the year, and here it is: Chinese Spy Balloon!
57 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
Fifty-seven years go – 1965 – big hair and girl groups were all the rage with the cool kids in East Los Angeles.
Sisters Rosella, Ersi, and Mary Arvizu believed they could be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They called themselves The Sisters.
Mark Guerrero, son of Chicano music legend Lalo Guerrero, tells the story:
Mas…57 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
Los Hebrew Homies cook Hanukkah latkes de papas (NSFW video)
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah חנוכה starts Sunday night, December 18, so Hebrew hermanos Jaquann and Luis are cooking up some potato latkes (pancakes) — one of the season’s signature treats. (Totally NSFW adult language.)