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Esquivel: Have A Space Age Bachelor Pad Christmas in ¡LIVING ESTEREO!
All the kool kats and kitties dig this playlist o’ videos from the Esquivel Christmas LP. Man, they dig it the most! Plus, it’s in ¡LIVING ESTEREO!
Merry Video Christmas: Virtual Flaming Yule Log with Bub the Cat
Loosen your belt, take off your shoes, and relax in front of the virtual fireplace with little Bub, the sleepy kitty, star of the mega viral hour-long 2013 video. Over three million viewers can’t be wrong!
John Oliver: How to avoid New Year’s parties that suck (video)
New Year’s Eve is the worst. John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) has some great excuses for getting out of it.
Me? I’m dreaming of a ‘Pulp %&*^$#$ Christmas’ (NSFW video)
Do you know what they call frackin’ Santa Claus in Italy? [NSFW adult language.]
El Bob Dylan en Estilo Norteño: ‘It Must Be Santa’ (music video)
Who’s got a beard that’s long and white?
Santa’s got a beard that’s long and white
Who comes around on a special night?
Santa comes around on a special night
Special night, beard that’s white
Must be Santa, must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Claus
Pocho Ocho best Christmas presents for Mexican yuppies (Muppies)
Looking for that special gift for your successful Muppy friend who already has everything in the Brookstone catalog?
POCHO scoured the interwebs for the Pocho Ocho best Christmas presents for Mexican yuppies. Check our list:
Mas…Pocho Ocho best Christmas presents for Mexican yuppies (Muppies)
Lalo Guerrero: Pancho Claus (Santa’s cousin from south of the border)
It doesn’t get more pocho than this! Lalo Guerrero, the father of Chicano music, tells the story of Pancho Claus, Santa’s cousin from south of the border, in this 1956 classic.
All she wants for Christmas is an hombre (video)
All she wants this Christmas is a man.
Let me tell you all the reasons I really, really hate Christmas
I’m so sick of Christmas and December isn’t even a week old!
Every year it’s the same crap over and over again. I mean, I wasn’t even finished pretending not to eat Halloween candy before people started playing that Christmas music — don’t even get me started on the music! It’s like, let’s take a has-been artist and have them pump out some horrible tripe and force everyone to remember why they became irrelevant in the first place, all the while pretending like we’re enjoying the tunes.
You know, all those songs were written during a time when my grandparents weren’t even allowed to go into certain restaurants. “No Mexicans, No Dogs” is what the door signs used to say. “White Christmas” indeed!
Mas…Let me tell you all the reasons I really, really hate Christmas
(I’m dreaming of a) ‘Pulp Christmas’ (NSFW video)
Do you know what they call Santa Claus in Italy? [NSFW adult language.]
What’s it like growing up named ‘Jesús’? (LatinoUSA audio)
In Latin America, it’s a name like any other. But here in the U.S., Jesús is a name that could still raise an eyebrow. So Latino USA producer Michael Simon Johnson spoke with a handful of Jesúses to find out what it’s like to grow up with the holiest name in the book.
PREVIOUSLY ON JESÚS:
Mas…What’s it like growing up named ‘Jesús’? (LatinoUSA audio)
Bob Dylan, Norteño-style: ‘It Must Be Santa’ (music video)
Who’s got a beard that’s long and white?
Santa’s got a beard that’s long and white
Who comes around on a special night?
Santa comes around on a special night
Special night, beard that’s white
Must be Santa, must be Santa
Must be Santa, Santa Claus
(Listen closely as Bob Dylan lists Santa’s eight reindeer — names not in the official lyrics: “Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon; Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton”.)
Thanks to Bill Vitka for the link.
Pocho Ocho worst Christmas presents
The latest Hey Vato! video prompted a little soul searching by the Pochodores.
What are Pocho Ocho worst presents you could get or give this Christmas?
8. A used shank
7. Threefried beans
6. Governor Jan Brewja Doll
I really, really hate Christmas – let me tell you why
I’m so sick of Christmas and December isn’t even a week old!
Every year it’s the same crap over and over again. I mean, I wasn’t even finished pretending not to eat Halloween candy before people started playing that Christmas music — don’t even get me started on the music! It’s like, let’s take a has-been artist and have them pump out some horrible tripe and force everyone to remember why they became irrelevant in the first place, all the while pretending like we’re enjoying the tunes.
You know, all those songs were written during a time when my grandparents weren’t even allowed to go into certain restaurants. “No Mexicans, No Dogs” is what the door signs used to say. “White Christmas” indeed!
Pocho Ocho worst Christmas presents evah
Maybe it’s me. I mean no one else gets presents like this, do they? This year, mi cholo got me action figure condoms!
Hard to believe I know, but it’s been worse. Here’s my list of the pocho ocho worst Christmas presents evah:
8. Flan-flavored vodka
7. Wine bra
6. Makeup kit from Rite Aid
Tia Lencha’s holiday survival secrets for Mexicans in New York City
Is Tia Lencha here! Feliz Navidad!
So people ask me, Tia Lencha do you have recipes for Christmas? Not really, I say. Instead I have some Secretos for celebrating the Navidad in New York City. There are no mucho Mexicans here so you have to be esmart about it so you don’t have the stress. And you need to have a Metro Card.
First, the are too many mucho peoples out chopping for presents. Tia Lencha don’t like standing in line for an hour to buy a sweater.
Thas why I use more time to buy my mijo his presents, I give to him on January 6, the day of the Tres Reyes (three kings for you pochos.) Mijo writes a letter to the three kings to tell them what he wants for his present. Instead of leaving cookies for Santa Claus, mijo leaves some grass in his shoe box under the bed for the camels of the three kings to eat. Then his present is put in the box with the grass for the camels. Like magic no?
Mas…Tia Lencha’s holiday survival secrets for Mexicans in New York City
Merry Christmas from ‘Pancho Claus’ and Lalo Guerrero (videos)
Pancho Claus? He’s Santa’s cousin from south of the border! Long before he recorded novelty tunes, Lalo Guerrero was a star. Some call him the Father of Chicano music.
Mas…Merry Christmas from ‘Pancho Claus’ and Lalo Guerrero (videos)
Exposed! MTV’s Satanic-Masonic War on Christmas (video)
Oh sure, the MTV spot looks like your average Lame Stream Media pandering Christmas-related promo — until you look a little bit closer. Then you see that it’s really a commercial for the Devil!
When radio was king: Stan Freberg’s ‘Green Chri$tma$’ (video)
It’s hard to imagine a time when clever satirists like Stan Freberg were regularly on the radio, but there he was, in 1958, with this epic Green Chri$tma$ bit. Santa doesn’t shoot cigarette commercials anymore, but everything else is pretty much right on. This is a fan video utilizing the original vinyl.
On Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive, it looks a bit like Christmas (photos)
Ramiro J. Gomez is a West Hollywood installation artist who makes and places cardboard avatars of immigrant laborers around Southern California’s richer neighborhoods; his mission is to make normally invisible people visible, if just for a short time.
Monday around 4:30 Gomez was busy populating the cardboard labor force on Beverly Hills‘ famed shopping street, Rodeo Drive, where it’s beginning to look a bit like Christmas — Beverly Hills style, that is. Weather? Sunny, with temperatures in the low to mid 60s ℉.
Here’s what he posted on Facebook:
Finished with the cardboard installation spree today. My heart inevitably was racing, especially when I placed the cutouts on busy Rodeo Dr. but that is the most liberating and rewarding aspect of my project, the ability to go in plain sight and creatively make a statement.
Eloisa is the elote seller, Rodrigo is the paletero, and Mayra is the woman with the balloons. Here’s the view from Gomez’ camera:
Mas…On Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive, it looks a bit like Christmas (photos)
I really, really hate Christmas and here’s why
I’m so sick of Christmas and December isn’t even a week old!
Every year it’s the same crap over and over again. I mean, I wasn’t even finished pretending not to eat Halloween candy before people started playing that Christmas music — don’t even get me started on the music! It’s like, let’s take a has-been artist and have them pump out some horrible tripe and force everyone to remember why they became irrelevant in the first place, all the while pretending like we’re enjoying the tunes.
You know, all those songs were written during a time when my grandparents weren’t even allowed to go into certain restaurants. “No Mexicans, No Dogs” is what the door signs used to say. “White Christmas” indeed!