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Speaking of National Taco Day and Clueless Fox News Hosts
As I was saying…… today is National Taco Day, so it was a perfect opportunity for a clueless Fox News host to ask his Nicaraguan colleague -whom he actually thought was Colombian- to discuss tacos (because, after all, all Latinos were brought up eating tacos. I know I did.)
I’m super busy to go hunt for the original video and post it here but you can always click below and see this masterpiece in the following link.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday said he assumed that the network’s Latina meteorologist “grew up on tacos,” even though it is not a traditional food in her native country of Nicaragua. To celebrate National Taco Day, Fox & Friends asked…
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Daft Punk Comes Out of Mexican Closet… At Last!
Please don’t pretend you don’t know Daft Punk’s Lucky is a song about Uruapan and Mexican Lucky stuff.
This is clear from the French duo’s very Mexican lyrics.
Like the legend of the Phoenix,
All ends with beginnings.
What keeps the planets spinning,
The force from the beginning.
We’ve come too far
To give up who we are,
So let’s raise the bar
And our cups to the stars.
She’s up all night to the sun,
I’m up all night to get some.
She’s up all night for good fun,
I’m up all night to get lucky.
We’re up all night to the sun,
We’re up all night to get some.
We’re up all night for good fun,
Uruapan Mexican Lucky
Uruapan Mexican Lucky.
Uruapan Mexican Lucky.
Uruapan Mexican Lucky.
Here’s the full Spanish-language version, via @gabardina:
The t-shirt is -of course- the work of the always brilliant Máscara de Látex.
Photo and h/t: Richo González
MetroPCS Doesn’t Want You to Lose Your Shirt [or Habit]
MetroPCS has released a series of new Spanish-language commercials showing what can happen when your mobile data plan is very expensive.
The work is from Richards/Lerma, a Dallas-based advertising agency, which recently took the smart step of hiring my buddy Aldo Quevedo as Principal and Creative Director.
What do y’all think?
via: AdictivoMagazine
Chris Christie’s Spanish-language TV Spot Has Been ‘Endorsado’ by Bad Spanish
I don’t know you, but last time I checked, the Spanish translation for “endorsed” was patrocinado, respaldado, promocionado or even endosado.
But according to this spot, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s re-election campaign has been “endorsado” by some Latino leaders the Garden State, who need to brush up on their Spanish.
Watch the full ad below:
The Aflac Duck Speaks Spanish, Is Fluent in Clichés
In an effort to lure more Hispanics to its insurance plans, Aflac this week launched Rehearsal, a 30-second spot in which we see the Aflac pato trying to pronounce Aflac using the tone and accents of Mexico, Brazil and Spain.
No, I’m not going to go all mean on them, because I actually think it’s a pretty fun ad, except I don’t really understand why the duck’s trainer is a Spaniard, but I guess I’ll have to think about it for a while…
Watch and leave your comments. What do you think about this ad?
♪ ♫ Ojalá que llueva ( McCafé ) en el Campo ♫ ♪
Hispanic Heritage Month is in full swing, and with it comes the flurry of pandering Hispanic marketing opportunities to reach my people. From culturally relevant print publications and invitations to celebrate our heritage by eating pizza and drinking Pepsi to taking part in the Miss Gay Hispanidad Beauty Pageant, everyone’s in a fiesta mood. ¡Ajúa!
The latest to join the festive fray is Juan Luis Guerra, the Dominican icon who gave us Bachata Rosa, La Bilirrubina, Si tú te vas and other glorious merengue classics. Guerra has partnered with McDonald’s NYC Metro to take Latinos on a journey of spicy flavor that “will culminate with a surprise concert to be announced at a later date in New York City.”
I don’t know you, but I can’t wait to get my hands on an authentic Hispanic McDonald’s meal and dance to the tune of: ♫ Ojalá que llueva McCafé en el campo…. lah, lah, lah…♪
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The ‘Miami Herald’ is About to Get Muy Caliente…
Ah… Hispanic Heritage Month is not even here and marketers and publishers are already getting very excited.
Take the Miami Herald, which is already hyping up interest for Caliente, a free Spanish-language tabloid featuring stories that most concern my people (i.e. gossip, bikinis, fútbol) and other relevant, up-to-date news items (Who could have possibly killed Natalie Wood?)
According to the Random Pixels blog, Miami Herald publisher David Landsberg, has been sending out an email to the newsroom announcing that the paper had come up with a new publication catering to the Herald‘s most neglected and overlooked demographic: Hispanics.
But didn’t they already have the El Nuevo Herald to cater to the most neglected and overlooked demographic? I’m confused.
Hat tip: @HispanicTips
‘Gossip Girl Acapulco,’ Stupider than Regular ‘Gossip Girl’
This post has been updated today (9/13/2013) to reflect the unavoidable fact that the series will premiere Sept. 20 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on UniMás.
And just when I thought I had seen it all, Mexican producer Pedro Torres has come up with a “tropicalized” (literally) version of Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl Acapulco it is co-produced by Warner Brothers International Television Production and will air on the CW channel very soon, reaffirming once again that Mexico is the cradle of the surreal –and of First Class Stupidity. Torres, however, seems to be real excited and all.
“The drama has become tropical without losing its essence,” Torres told Notimex.
Yeah. What’s next? Dr. House IMSS Azcapotzalco? Sex & La Merced?
Watch. Cringe. Don’t Repeat.
It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! Time for the ‘Miss Gay Hispanidad’ Beauty Pageant
Every year, Latinos and non-Latinos across the U.S. celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a monthlong extravaganza of all things Latino that has included a bash in the White House (I wasn’t invited;) a Cielito Lindo singing collage over at Southwest Airlines and -of course- an invitation for Latinos to enjoy their heritage by eating pizza and drinking Pepsi.
This year, though, this blogger would like to take a moment to highlight an upcoming beauty pageant that promises to become the event of the year (in the Dallas area, that is.) It’s the Miss Gay Hispanidad contest, offering Hispanic gays (presumably only men) the opportunity to make $2,000 by presenting themselves in a typical “Latin” outfit, bathing suit or gala dress.
Miss Gay Hispanidad takes place Sept. 26 at -where else?- the Kaliente Discotec [sic.]
Calling on my Hispanic gay friends: Will-You-Please-Take-Me????
Hat tip: Carlos Tourné
Kobe Bryant’s ‘Mexican Blanket’ Nike Shoes, Not as Cool as ‘Cinco de Mayo’ Sneakers, but they’re OK
I totally missed this (it must be the exhaustion from working extra hours doing nothing) but the almighty Kobe Bryant finally released the $110 Mexican Blanket Nike shoes, which -as everybody knows- are as cozy and sporty as a real Mexican blanket; except that you can buy a Mexican blanket in any Mexican flea market for about 30 pesos.
Nevertheless, the Nike Kobe 8 Mexican Blanket shoes are available for purchase online, and while they look totally awesome, I think they are not nearly as cool as the Cinco de Mayo sneakers.
What are you waiting for? Pick a pair and get ready to go ‘dunking’ á la mexicana.
¡Ajúa!
At Last. A Culturally Relevant, Cocktail-Themed Toothpaste
Latinos don’t always brush their teeth, but when they do, they brush them with a mojito mint-flavored toothpaste.
Because, really, what else were we going to use?
Are You ‘Hombre’ Enough? Las Deportadas Want to Know
In its ongoing quest to position itself as the beer for real hombres, Tecate today launched the Are you hombre enough? challenge, basically asking guys -Latinos and non-Latinos- to prove their manhood.
The challenge, led by a pair of sportscasters known as Las Deportadas (a tongue-in-cheek moniker to show they are Hispanics and sports specialists) basically aims at testing guys’ manhood by asking them “super revealing” questions. For example:
Fans are encouraged to quickly answer a series of questions designed to test their hombre-hood, including “Your girlfriend asks you to hold her purse. What should you do?”
Because as everyone knows, carrying your girlfriend’s purse will make you look like a sissy, something your macho compadres will never approve of.
What I don’t quite get from the whole promotion is how expressing your love for Tecate Light will make you hombre enough. All the real hombres I know (and those I’m attracted to) will most likely gulp down liters of mezcal, tequila or aguardiente while actively refusing to carry your purse and urging you to take your top off.
Watch Las Deportadas do their thing as they go to “Dallas” (no pun intended.)
New Hispanic Venture Launches in Lorem Ipsum-Language
Hispanic online media has grown to be so sophisticated, that we have web properties targeting English-dominant, Spanish-dominant and even Spanglish-dominant Latinos.
But a new contender, www.LatinaMadre.com, wants to disrupt the whole industry by launching a page in Lorem Ipsum, which is great, really, considering it’s going to be about Latina moms, and Latina daughters and Latina moms and daughters, which all sound like blah, blah, blah to me.
(Or rather, like lorem ipsum, lorem ipsum, lorem ipsum to me.)
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