Norma and Jerry Stevens met and fell in love at a taqueria in North Hollywood, moved to Ohio, and opened up Norma’s Casa de Tacos in Boardman (near Youngstown). Ten years later, their Jalisco-style Mexican food is an overnight sensation. [Video by the Business Journal Daily.]
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This is your brain on a senseless racist ‘War on Drugs’ (videos)
Rachael Leigh Cook explains that the war on drugs is a racist war on people in a remake of her iconic spot. [Video for the Drug Policy Alliance.]
Here’s an extended cut version of the original PSA:
Mas…This is your brain on a senseless racist ‘War on Drugs’ (videos)
Sure hope not, but it looks like “We’re Gonna Get War Again” (video)
The headlines made us remember this video prophecy from 2010 from Balkan Beat Box. Looks like we’re gonna get War Again. 🙁
Any weed won’t do! You need Chris Garcia, Weed Sommelier (video)
Does Chunky Diesel go well with carne asada? Is Girl Scout Cookies a good cannabis pairing for kale tamales? You won’t mess up your meal with a marijuana mistake when your Weed Sommelier is POCHO amigo Chris Garcia!
La Marisoul interviewed Cheech Marin and we’ve got the video
Two of our favorite pochos — Cheech Marin and La Marisoul Hernandez of La Santa Cecilia — sat down for a talk last month at the Los Angeles Public Library.
Kelvin Peña, the Dominican ‘deer whisperer’, has a deer squad (video)
Kelvin Peña — they call him the “Dominican deer whisperer” — has his own deer squad in the woods outside of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Cambalache’s new video: Son jarocho in another dimension
East Los Homies Cambalache takes the traditional son jarocho sound, adds futuristic costumes and settings for the stunning new video Butaquito Lindo.
What’s it all about? The YouTube page explains:
Mas…Cambalache’s new video: Son jarocho in another dimension
Jesus, please! What do you mean ‘No Easter Bunny?’ (video)
When Juanita Carmelita throws an Easter party for the kids, she’s expecting the Easter Bunny to make a guest appearance. But the costume store is out of bunny costumes, so a long-haired bearded Savior-looking guy in robes shows up instead. Dare we expect . . . . a MIRACLE? [Frankie Quiñones stars as Juanita Carmelita.]
PREVIOUSLY ON JUANITA CARMELITA:
Mas…Jesus, please! What do you mean ‘No Easter Bunny?’ (video)
Guadalupe Plata: What have I gained from loving you? (video, lyrics)
Spanish “punk blues” band Guadalupe Plata asks the age-old question, “¿Qué He Sacado Con Quererte?” Even if you can’t understand Andalusian Español, we bet you can’t take your eyes off this vertically-scrolling goth video with dissonant surf guitars.
Mira los lyrics by Chilean songwriter Violetta Parra:
Mas…Guadalupe Plata: What have I gained from loving you? (video, lyrics)
Canuckian Taco Tourist visits La Carnita in Toronto (video)
We’ve got your Canuckian Taco Tips Right Here, ey!
What to wear, what to drink, and, of course, what to eat at La Carnita in Toronto. OMG! Micheladas!
Twofer Friday: Metalachi’s ‘Hot for Teacher’ + ‘Crazy Train’ (videos)
They’re metal! They’re mariachi! They’re puro Metalachi. Get back Van Halen! Watchale Ozzy Osbourne!
Mas…Twofer Friday: Metalachi’s ‘Hot for Teacher’ + ‘Crazy Train’ (videos)
Hebrew homies Jaquann and Luis make matzo balls (NSFW video)
On Passover (“Pesach” in Hebrew), los Judios eat “bitter herbs” to remember “the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.” In this video, Hebrew homeboys Jaquann and Luis start out with a sweeter herb and then have to satisfy their munchies with matzo balls. Passover starts Monday night a little after 4:20 — sundown, to be exact. (NSFW drugs and language.)
1960s folk legend Joan Baez is back: ‘Nasty Man’ (video)
New York-born pocha Joan Baez came out of retirement to write, perform, and release a song about Trump. For some reason she calls it Nasty Man.
1970 Video Documentary: ‘How Is School, Enrique?’
This 18-minute 1970 documentary film depicted the educational and environmental problems faced by LA’s Mexican-American kids back in the day. Has anything changed?
Keep your burrito safe and warm with a Burrito Buddy™ (infomerical)
Skip the drama of dining disasters with the new Outdoor Research Burrito Buddy™, featuring the patented Burrito Heat-O Technology for both infinitely hot Mexican goodness and fingertip burn prevention.
The Burrito Buddy’s sturdy, carnage-proof construction prevents lunchtime leakage or breakage, and a convenient food fastener plays it safe with a zippered closure. Plus, the Burrito Buddy™ is enveloped by a gentle swaddling design that protects your meal with some good old-fashioned TLC. Save your sweat for the salsa – your burrito is in good hands.
So you think YOUR job is bad? Watch ‘El Empleo’ (video)
El Empleo/The Job by opusBou is an award-winning short animation from Argentina. Please don’t watch this before you leave for work, or you’ll be late for the bus.
This is a how-to-make-tacos video from Chile. Huh?
The folks from Chile’s Mundos Jumbo want you to make tacos this way, with a can of their Mexican style red beans, lettuce, ground meat, tomatoes, purple cebolla, salt and pepper, but no lime, no cilantro, no spices, and no chiles. Ya think?
Yes indeed! That surely is a mega California burrito! (video)
The Mega California Burrito from Sabor Taqueria y Mariscos in Oxnard, Califas, is made with “three large tortillas, generous portions of carne asada, beans, fries, grilled peppers, cheese, sour cream, guacamole and red sauce.” $25 feeds the whole family! Come for the burritos and stay for the micheladas. Or vice versa.
Why is it a “California burrito? It’s the San Diego-style fries inside.
Why there a ‘Penis Seat’ in the Mexico City metro? (videos)
The Mexico City Metro has installed a “penis seat” in one of its subway cars, featuring a molded likeness of a man’s torso and penis.
Por que? They hope to get men thinking about the sexual harrassment Mexico City mujeres have to put up with every pinche day.
Trade magazine Adweek reports:
Mas…Why there a ‘Penis Seat’ in the Mexico City metro? (videos)
Half-minute video: How to roll a burrito
How to Roll a Burrito by Adam Blufarb cleverly demonstrates how to prepare and roll a burrito in just a few simple steps.
Old time stereographic slides show early 1900s Mexico (video)
YouTube user Chubachus created an “animated” video using stereographic slides of life in Mexico in the early 1900s.
Tens of thousands of ‘illegal’ Americans live in Mexico (video)
Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens are living illegally in Mexico. Chinese Global TV Network reports.
Your basic bacon-wrapped breakfast burrito (‘food porn’ video)
The video’s creators call Bacon-Wrapped Breakfast Burrito “food porn”. Mmmm! Porn for breakfast! On the other hand, shouldn’t this be called a chimichanga?
Carlos was deported to Mexico for a crime he didn’t commit (video)
Carlos was deported to Mexico for a crime he didn’t commit. Will he ever see his loved ones again?
Frida Kahlo, back from the dead, serves up tacos in N. Carolina (video)
We’re happy she found work at this new restaurant, even if it is in North Carolina. Frida’s Mexican Kitchen is on Facebook, too, don’t ya know!
‘We Are America’ – Mexican, gay, straight, black, and white (video)
We Are America — black, white, brown, gay, straight, bi, old, and young. [Video by Martin De Leon and friends.]
From England: Chicken teriyaki tacos with pineapple salsa (video)
Looks pretty good, actually. A legit chicken teriyaki recipe, authentic pico de gallo/salsa made with grilled piña, and of course everything tastes better on a tortilla. We have three questions, though:
- Where did the rice come from?
- How can it be a “healthier” with a lettuce wrap instead of a tortilla? Corn tortillas are GLUTEN FREE, ENGLISH DUDE. Also, no tortilla, no taco.
- Wassup with the Christmas music soundtrack on a video uploaded March 27?
If you need a hat AND cabeza de vaca, this mercado is for you (video)
You can get anything you want at a traditional Mexican mercado like this one in downtown Mazatlán. [Video by Robert Ellis.]
FDR died before he could deliver on his ‘Second Bill of Rights’ (videos)
On January 11, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the country a Second Bill of Rights when World War II was over, but he died before the conflict ended.
America’s future security, he said, demands citizens have a right to good housing, good healthcare, good education, a living wage and more.
POCHO FACTOID: FDR never used the word “bigly” in a speech.
Transcript of his “Fireside Chat”:
Mas…FDR died before he could deliver on his ‘Second Bill of Rights’ (videos)
That time Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the Trumps (videos)
In December 1950, Woody Guthrie moved into the Beach Haven Apartments in Brooklyn. His landlord was Fred Trump, father of Donald. Trump’s greed and racism inspired Guthrie to write Old Man Trump.
Ryan Harvey updated that song, and made this video with Ani DiFranco and Tom Morello (RATM).
Here are the lyrics:
Mas…That time Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the Trumps (videos)
Oz taqueria features odd ‘Mexican’ accent in short video spot
In South Australia, a Port Noarlunga’s Tequila N Tacos video features an announcer with a “Mexican” accent. Get it right! The stereotyped fat Mexican cartoon avatar with sombrero, mustache, taco, and cerveza lacks the required serape, burro, and cactus.
Que Taco in San Antonio serves it up Mexico City style (video)
Que Taco taqueria on the north side of San Antonio takes its flavors from the heart of Mexico.