Despite its title and graphics, Vampire Fever is essentially a pool table puzzle simulator. The object is to knock your ninja cue ball into as many of the vampire pool balls as you can. Hit them once and they're dead. Hit them twice, and they revert back. You've got a limited number of shots each screen to turn all the vampires at once. Good luck, spherical ninja.

In the news business (*puffs cigar, leans back in chair, puts feet on desk), I often find myself saying things like, "Seems like there should be some kind of group that could ... ". Then, months later, I'll find out there's a nonprofit in the state that fills exactly that need.

Well, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in New Mexico has gone a step further. It's compiled a comprehensive online list of New Mexican nonprofits.

The directory delivers contact information, website links, region and areas served, budget, staff size, etc.

"An estimated 6,000 nonprofits in New Mexico are conducting essential work," writes the center in a news release. These groups build "health care clinics, food banks, domestic violence shelters, job skill training programs, affordable housing, childcare, youth mentoring programs, after-school programs, arts and cultural centers, community gardens, and animal rescue and adoption sites."

The online list should make it easier for people to volunteer or make donations. You can use the search tool to find nonprofits that work in your corner of the state or on issues you care about. Plus, the center says, the nonprofits can find each other and collaborate.

Fantastic.

It’s Chuck Norris’ birthday. Of course it’s Chuck Norris’ birthday whenever Chuck Norris says it’s Chuck Norris’ birthday, too, but today is really Chuck Norris’ birthday. I hear he wants some new throwing stars: 70 of them. One for every year he says he’s been alive. Let’s take a moment to reflect on this nice clip of him kicking a guy in the nuts.You can email your birthday wishes to him at fan@chucknorris.com. For anyone living under a rock, you can read facts about Chuck Norris here. You can make your own Chuck Norris facts with these easy instructions. I did not read the instructions prior to the creation of this blog, nor shall I read them now.

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1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament, arresting nine members and throwing them in the Tower.

1887 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972) He was also known as Moko no Tora (Mongolian Tiger). Recognized as the last practicing ninja, he was employed as such by the emperors of both Japan and China.

1940 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright. My favorite, The Master and Margarita begins with Satan visiting Moscow in the 1930s, joining a conversation between a critic and a poet debating the existence of Jesus Christ and the Devil. You had me at Satan. okay, it is the only book of his I have read.

1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, D.C. of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)

1957 – Osama bin Laden, Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda is hatched.

1964 - Prince Edward, youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II is born. He will never be king, neither will Charles. That old biddy, out of her cold dead hands. Long Live the Queen.

1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Later he says, just kidding.

1993 - Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic. He was getting out of his car in the clinic's parking lot when Michael Griffin shot the doctor three times in the back.
Shannon, another asshole, began corresponding with Griffin while he was in prison. She attempted to kill Dr. George Tiller. Her shots wounded, but did not kill, and Shannon was arrested and convicted.
Paul Hill, an "activist" called Dr. Gunn's murder a "justifiable homicide," attended Shannon's trial and then got into the act himself. He killed Dr. John Britton and James Barrett in Pensacola, Florida in July 1994. Sadly, in 2009, Scott Roeder, shot and killer Dr. Tiller.

I hate these fuckface assholes. my politics, my sleeve.

1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913) Daddy of the Dude.

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The Lost Boys star had a history of drug abuse, but things seemed to be looking up for Haim lately. Just last month, he reported to a TMZ cameraman in L.A. that he was "doing well" with sobriety. He was walking with fellow 80s heartthrob Corey Feldman during that Feb. 18 sighting. After years of on-again, off-again friendship, The Two Coreys had appeared to have patched things up.

"You guys still best friends?" the cameraman asked.

“Always. Forever.” they replied together.

Haim was taken to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif., and pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. this morning. Police are still waiting for the autopsy.

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Autumn Williams has had it. She’s done researching the yeti, and explains why here for ten minutes, then continues explaining why for another two videos on her Oregon Bigfoot Blog. I, for one, am deeply saddened that she won’t be howling and banging logs in the woods anymore. Here she is in happier times discussing the yeti, and here she is playing her favorite song. And here’s a different girl performing a song about the Georgia Bigfoot Hoax. And here is the band Sasquatch.

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Bank of America is ending overdraft fees on on debit cards. Really?

China may ban eating cats and dogs.

Fat kids are the new target in the war against obesity.

RIP: Cory Haim

Teen in Colorado arrested for overdue library DVD.

Hydrolyzed vegetable protein recalled by the FDA due to salmonella contamination. What the hell is hydrolyzed vegetable protein?

Rush Limbaugh makes a promise.

Our jetpacks are ready.

O.J. wants to give the Smithsonian the suit he wore the day of his acquittal.

What's the Mc10:35? It's a new secret sandwich that Nick Brown and I must eat.

Everything you needed to know about slicing beef.

It's time for Babies WIth Laser Eyes!

This is happening? Halpert from The Office is playing Captain America????

Nerd Alert! Whatever happened to the cast of Revenge of the Nerds?

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New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) is a group of individuals that meets once a month to investigate outrageous and extraordinary claims that typically aren't backed up by scientific data. Leave no UFO sighting, Elvis spotting, ghost haunting or Roseanne Barr national anthem-singing left unturned as the Alibi's own Ben Radford leads a discussion on "Behind the Scenes on a Ghost TV Show" this Wednesday. Discover the truth behind many popular spectre-stalking reality TV shows like "Paranormal State" and "Ghost Hunters." It all starts tonight at 7 p.m. at the UNM Law School Building, Room 2402 (1117 Stanford NE). For more on the group, check out nmsr.org. (Adam Fox)

The awesomest drawings in all of Albuquerque

Every evening, my friends Nick and Nora* spend time drawing portraits of each other. It’s something they started 56-days-as-of-this-Friday-when-I-went-over ago. And it’s amazing.

Nora is getting her Master’s in Philosophy at UNM, and she has been in Albuquerque since August. But Nick just arrived recently. He came from Chicago, which is where they met and first loved one another. He’s here on an extended vacation of sorts – even though he’s working** – so that they can be together for a longer clip than any of Nora’s school vacations would otherwise allow.

A whole room of them!

They’re really making the most of it. Their office space is adorned with (actually, completely blanketed by) the products of their new nightly tradition. In one composition, Nick is Nora’s own personal Obama. In another, Nora is queen of the pancakes. The portraits aren’t polished, but they aren’t meant to be. They are quirky and creative. They are humorous and adoring. They are, when we get right down to it, love incarnate.

More than anything, they are reminders of the gloriousness of being. Particularly, of being in a relationship with someone complimentary, contemplative, constant. If we’re fortunate enough to find such a thing, we should surely revel in it. By drawing pictures of our others riding chariots with captions like strong as a mythical beast.

In fact, I’ve just imagined my own love, Alex, flying on a winged crocodile, and he has some Micron pens on his desk that will allow me to capture it perfectly. Off I go. Goodnight!

*Yes! Those are their real names! And if you think that’s neat because of something having to do with an Infinite Playlist, then… Sorry, you’re probably not a very neat person. But if you think that’s neat because of marvelous movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, then you’re probably the neatest person ever. In the whole world. Or at least one of them.

** You want proof of Nick’s productivity? Look no further than The Guild on Friday, April 2, at 10:30p. You want a preview? Look no further than his website.

The Bronx Zoo now has a spotted skunk, a Western Spotted Skunk to be precise. Check out the pic of the zoo’s newest “Mouse House” resident, released this weekend by the Wildlife Conservation Society. So cute. I didn’t even know they came in “spotted.” I sense a new pet trend. I want one now. ... Oh, wait. Something tells me that’s a bad idea.

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