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So, the guys behind online store Vat 19 wanted to do something fun to celebrate the first 2 billion views on their YouTube channel. And what’s more fun than a drone piñata stuffed with cereal marshmallows?
This blogger is not going to spend much time discussing this thing. Just needed to document the insanity, because I can’t even.
Just watch:
Samantha Cristoforetti attempts to make a taco aboard the International Space Station. The ingredients? Whole red rice with peas and turmeric chicken.
Can’t wait to see her face Chris Hadfield in a space-taco-challenge-thing soon.
Taco tip: @ZackWhittaker
OK, I will not hold grudges agains Ms. Cossio, but perhaps this will open the doors for other “Senior Latina Contributors” on serious television (are you listening Stephen Colbert?)
Remember Pope Francis winning Telemundo’s first “Innovation Award for “his innovative use of social media?”
Well, the actual award ceremony is finally upon us, and this weekend poor Pope Francis will welcome a contingent of Hispanic executives and “bloggers” at the Vatican for the occasion.
Among the visitors is Manny Ruiz (aka @PapiBlogger,) founder of Hispanicize, an annual gathering of Hispanic bloggers and entertainers that can be more accurately described as an in-your-face-shameless-parade of brands. And as such, the 9-day-Vatican vacation “historic journey” would not be possible without the generous support of sponsors and brands, which promise to be at the center of the whole thing.
According to @PapiBlogger himself:
While in Rome – and Italy in general – we will be generously hosted and accommodated by our official hotel partner Best Western. Over the course of the next 9 days, we will document this historic journey and all of our adventures, history and travel insights through social media using the hashtags #HispzInRome and #ViajaConBW.
[…] May this trip be as large a blessing to our Latino community as it will be to us that will get to meet Pope Francis.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll spend my weekend praying for Jorge Bergoglio. If you want to join me, feel free to use the hashtag #PrayingForBergoglio.
This woman not only became an Internet star overnight; she has — deservedly — become this blogger’s personal favorite Mexican ever.
Ever.
INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Watch the video below. 2. Hug a Mexican. 3. Repeat. (For the monolingual crowd: scroll down for an English-language transcript of the dialogue.) Read and HUG A MEXICAN.
— M’am, how much are the empanadas?
— 10 pesos
— Can I buy them all?
— No, I can’t do that. I just left my house
— Well, sell them all to me. I want them all
— I can’t do that. Please understand.
— I want them all. I’ll pay 12 pesos each
— They cost 10!
— But I’ll give you 12!
— No. That would cost you a lot of money. I have about 40 or 35. I can sell you some, 10 or maybe 15… As many as you want, except all of them
— OK then
— OK
Move over, cocaine-filled tamales. The new wave for smuggling drugs from Mexico into the U.S. consists of stuffing up burritos with methamphetamine.
Customs and Border Protection officers this week said they arrested four Mexican nationals and two Arizona women, during separate weekend smuggling attempts at the Port of Nogales.
In one of those instances, says the U.S. Customs and Border Protection:
A narcotics-detecting canine alerted officers to the presence of drugs and a search determined the woman was carrying more than a pound of methamphetamine in two packages that had been wrapped in tortilla shells to make them look like burritos.
As a proud chilanga who does not eat (and will never eat) a burrito, I can only cheer Customs officials for the feat, and remind my faithful followers of one important fact: Nothing good has ever come out of a burrito.
Hat tip: @lechancle
The food is not as awesome as the name, but it’s OK.
Photo: Laura Martínez, 2016, Harlem
I didn’t have the courage to see the whole thing, but click here if you’re brave enough — and make sure to hold on to your calzones.
On the heels of the now infamous Taco-Bowl Trump brouhaha, the Mexican Government has decided to address the insult by going into full-on diplomacy mode and doing what it does best: Investing a ton of money on a three-minute video about … tacos.
Because… Mexico.
Filing this under #Diplomacy #Politics #Tacos and #StupidPropositions
This blogger has been super busy with tons of parties work taking place this week, so it’s always good to keep getting tips from my dozens millions of indefatigable followers.
So, without further ado, I give you Me faltó decirle, a brand new music video by Conjunto Amanecer featuring JEAN FENN and KATY DE LA TORRE, friends of the one and only Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
¡Bravo, bravo!
Hat tip: @tropicarlitos
Awww, the wonders of gentrification!
I remember when you could just go have a simple, no-frills, $1 taco around my neighborhood. But these days the Hamilton Heights-West Harlem area is rapidly filling up with posh, mostly unaffordable “ethnic” places, catering to a mostly non-ethnic crowd who has realized living uptown is not that awful after all.
Take Oso, a recently opened Mexican restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue, whose menu would be simply awesome (or should I say Ósom?) if the currency of its plates were in pesos and not dollars.
Take the “platos ligeros” or appetizers (below.) I mean, really? I don’t want to have to get a job in Wall Street to be able to afford a tostada. Give me a break, man.
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I wanted.
Corintia Cruz (above) thought it was an awesome idea to campaign under the slogan of: Corintia, la güerita que te ayuda, which loosely translates as Corintia, the little blond woman who will help you.
I have no idea what her political platform and/or proposals for the people of Veracruz are, but given the fact that she is from the PRI, I’m pretty sure she’s pretty adept at helping … herself.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering: No, my country is *not* racist.
I might have been sleeping but totally missed this week’s presentation of La Borinqueña, the first afroboricua Super Woman.
According to its creator, Puerto Rican illustrator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, La Borinqueña’s real name is Marisol Ríos de la Luz; she is a young Puerto Rican studying a masters in Columbia (Not Colombia) and living in Brooklyn with her parents. (She also has a body well suited for Hispanic television, if you asked me.)
La Borinqueña will also be this year’s guest of honor at this year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade to take place June 12 in New York City.
Via: Univision
On the heels of Donald Trump’s Cinco de Mayo Tweeter brouhaha, my people (i.e. Mexicans on Twitter) used a combination of Photoshop and hilarity to give Trump’s disgusting Taco Bowl a real Mexican flavor. The result was a thing of beauty.
![Hate me more [ódiame más]](https://miblogestublog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/tacoguru.png?w=656)
From the archives of “Mexicans: How can anyone not like us?”
Tweets by @besuqueable, @TacoGuruMx et al.
I seriously don’t know what’s worse, if Donald Trump tweeting a photo of himself on Cinco de Mayo eating a Taco Bowl (whatever that is) to say he loves Hispanics or the avalanche of serious, “investigative news pieces” from “real journalists” attempting to get to the bottom of things.
Seriously, what’s there to get to the bottom of? That the disgusting Walled-Taco-Thing was purchased in a cafe instead of restaurant? That Trump really didn’t tweet that thing today, because he’s in another city?
Man,I miss that time when stuff like this belonged to my stupid blog and not the realm of “investigative journalism.”
Hit them, Adam Weinstein
wtf just happened to us pic.twitter.com/nBdkUJOsGM
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) 5 de mayo de 2016
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