Trinity

Stingray has an un- PC post on the anniversary of the first atomic bomb here. I wrote to him: “Slightly irrelevant tale: I was at the site (October opening I think) and some hippies had set up an altar with a Shiva figurine on it (“I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds”.) “A ranchy- type …

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NYT on NM Cockfighting

I am sorry, but I think this article on NM’s anti- cockfight crusade can be quoted to make its own argument against the ban. “After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing …

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Bo Diddley RIP

Coming back from a sort of bloggish lunch in Albuquerque with frequent commentors and dog- in- laws Paul and Nate, MDMNM of Sometimes Far Afield, his friend Amelia, and a baby hawk, we saw that the flags on the State Police hq near Socorro were at half mast. Turns out the great old rocker Bo …

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Late (Navajo) Barbie

Reid chips in late on the NM Barbie meme, via email: “I have been so swamped I haven’t had a chance to post my contribution to New Mexico Barbies. “How about Shiprock Barbie, though her real name is Barbie Begay, and her boyfriend, Ken Yazzie. Options include Hosteen Begay’s Hogan with loom and sheep pen. …

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Walk

Last week’s walk photos, as promised. Libby on the “Rio” Salado. It can be frightening in summer floods, believe it or not, but right now we can walk in it. Desert Bighorn tracks in the bottom of the box– rounder in front than mule deers’. The proprietors of Casa Q with desert tools– pack, Swaro …

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Catron County Barbie

Peculiar has called me out on the New Mexico Barbie meme: what is Catron (Cabron, Cartoon) County Barbie like? Catron County is a strange one in our strange state– I have good friends there (next county over from me) who would be unbelievable in fiction. It is high and cold and mountainous, contains a few …

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New Mexico Barbies

This is almost too “inside”, both bloggish and totally of New Mexico– but too funny to ignore. Stingray at Atomic Nerds has taken my challenge over at Nature Blog to add a Los Alamos Barbie to the already excellent collection of New Mexico Barbies there. Here is an excerpt. “..Los Alamos Barbie often comes with …

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Opening day

Libby here on our opening day (took the shotgun for doves too but intense dog activity sort of kept them away!) “Yesterday we had a splendid, heavy rain here, which turned the streets into rivers, an then today we went out on our friend Lee’s ranch (100 sections) with the dogs and had our first …

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Panorama

The Peculiars were down last week and Mr. P. took this splendid panorama of our home town nestled beneath its foothills. The higher peaks of the Magdalena Range are obscured behind clouds to the upper left.