There will be NO big enchilada at the Whole Enchilada Festival in Las Cruces this year.

Damn I missed the Grilled Cheese Invitational.

Police say an Albuquerque city employee is accused of selling Oxycontin at work.

Chick-fil-A? Let's look at Hooters.

The highest court in Michigan says it's OK to bitch out Parking Police.

JohnnyCash Cash Machine.

Someone owns a patent on cats chasing laser-pointer beams.

This is funny.

The Dangling Boris meme collection.

Roosting penguins partly responsible for historic Phoenix building's decline and slated destruction.

National Health Service in Manchester England has banned paperclips.

Sometimes newspapers don't play fair with their competition.

Today is the 120th anniversary of the Lizzie Borden Axe Murders. Let's all skip rope.

• I need to borrow a cat (cliffdweller) [ Sun Aug 5 2012 7:37 AM ]
  

The World Health Organization says diesel exhaust fumes cause lung cancer.

The arrest of seven Zetas drug cartel members from Mexico may reveal links to money laundering via horse breeding and racing in several U.S. states, including New Mexico.

The worst recent surge of killings in Iraq renews fears about sectarian violence.

Former assistant of Gabrielle Giffords will take her place in Congress after beating out conservative opponent.

Handy tip: Don't keep $1.25 million in envelopes around your apartment if the Russian security state is on your ass.

George Zimmerman's wife is now in trouble with the law, too.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. (along with approximately 7 million other U.S. citizens) is having a rough time in jail.

A newly formed public-interest reporting organization aims "to foster a stronger journalistic culture in our state."

Jay McCleskey, top advisor to Gov. Susana Martinez, obtained names and email addresses of non-union public school teachers on behalf of her political action committee. Why McCleskey wanted the list isn't clear. It's against the law for state employees to contribute to the work of PACs.

Joy Junction emergency shelter is set to expand in the midst of what its CEO calls a statewide "crisis" of homelessness.

Scientists were shocked to find algae thriving under Arctic sea ice.

Stress of contemporary life got you on the rails? Self-soothe by crawling back into the (recycled-fiber) womb.

Stevie Wonder joins the Albuquerque Isotopes! (Don't get as excited as I did at the prospect.)

• Are you kidding me? (genericabqfema​​le) [ Wed Jun 13 2012 10:10 AM ]
  

The fire in the Gila forest is zero percent contained.

"Investigative grand juries" may no longer determine whether Albuquerque Police shootings are justified. An investigative grand jury has never found an officer involved shooting unjustified.

John McAfee, founder of McAfee Anti-Virus is in hiding in Belize.

A Washington Post writer says Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown.

The Comic Sans Song.

A dude reassembled a 1925 MG that was discovered buried in pieces underneath a cattle barn.

Remembering the Easy-Bake Oven.

Some Canadians are facing a Kafkaesque post-9/11 problem in proving their citizenship.

Hawaii responds to AZ Secretary of State Ken Bennet's Obama birth certificate request by asking Bennet to prove who he is.

Young man with purpose squatted in AOL's headquarters for two months.

Steve Miller Venn Diagram.

There's going to be a Philip K. Dick festival.

There are huge student protests happening in Montreal and there is a lot of banging on pots....

Bill Murray stars in a film about walking in slow motion.

Crass Serbian seeks wife.

This mean homophobic woman defines "lowest common denominator."

Former Alibi arts&lit editor John Bear has a blog.

An oral contraceptive for men?

On this day in 1927, the fifteen millionth Model T rolled off the assembly line.

Today Egyptians vote in the first competitive presidential election in the Arab world.

The Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia may not be an isolated incident.

The Kirtland jet fuel leak could be larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Huge drop in the number of metro area meth lab busts linked to law enforcement budget cuts.

The U.S. is fast approaching a “fiscal cliff.” An M.I.T. professor thinks we should cross our fingers and jump.

A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Bin Laden was convicted of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison.

Yesterday’s commercial rocket launch could signify a new era of private sector space travel.

Morgan Stanley is investigated for sharing insider Facebook IPO information with a select group of investors.

Democratic Congress members think Governor Scott Walker may have lied under oath about his motives for pursuing an anti-union agenda in Wisconsin.

Arizona white supremacist gets a 40-year federal sentence for a 2004 Phoenix bombing.

Fox News' Roger Ailes says Jon Stewart “basically admitted” to him that he’s a socialist.

Obama and Romney are neck and neck in the polls, but the prez gets Betty White’s vote.

New Mexico Department of Tourism just paid 180,000 dollars to have their website redesigned. An out of state company was hired to do it.

Solar Eclipse this evening!

Update on the El Rancho murders case.

The saddest aquarium in America.

Unbelievably bad music video paean to Facebook, "Thank You Facebook."

The DEA wants to scan every single license plate on cars traveling on Utah's Interstate 15.

Arizona Secretary of State is not sure the President is a citizen and wants proof before putting Obama on the ballot.

Jackie Chan is retiring from action films and beginning his DeNiro phase.

Audio-book version of the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, narrated by Gilbert Gottfried.

The New York Times takes a look at Mitt Romney's religious beliefs.

The Harry Potter franchise has joined the ranks of Finding Nemo, Babe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other films that inspired people to buy pets they couldn't take care of and didn't really want.

1970's ads for mens jumpsuits.

Phonehenge West is no more. Garbage visionary Kim Fahey was fined and placed on probation -which includes five days community service at the coroner's office....

On this day in 1944, Joe Cocker was born.

Albuquerque had a great rain shower yesterday for the first time in about six weeks.

Aryan gangs on the rise in NM.

Let's catch up with the Alamogordo police blotter.

For writing quality, Rio Grande Sun's police blotter beats all though.

Bouncers at Albuquerque's Uptown Sports Bar beat up a dine and dasher. Video.

Twisted and rambling (and entertainingly stupid) rant about homosexuality by woman at a city council meeting in Nebraska.

Mitt Romney: schoolboy bully.

Neato R rated claymation!

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio ain't backin' down.

Update on Sarah Tressler, the reporter who was fired for not disclosing her second job as a stripper.

Coherent and funny Russel Brand speaks to English parliament about drug policy.

Great photo gallery of VW Beetle wrecks from decades ago.

Texas chicken farmer Carroll Shelby died last week. Oh, he also designed some of the most overpowered cars ever: Mustangs and their meaner bastard English cousin the Cobra.

• Exhiliration and camraderie - can spell "rain" though! (Pattriot) [ Sat May 12 2012 9:12 PM ]
  
• HAARLEMMERWEG?​ (Madmammajamma) [ Mon May 14 2012 4:40 PM ]
  

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A fight broke out at the last Sunland Park council meeting, postponing the process of finding a suitable mayor.

Some people won't let this sculpture in Tempe be.

The trial of former APD officer Levi Chavez is delayed for at least a year.

Ted Nugent takes more dying boys and girls on last fishing trips than anyone else.

Russians invented everything.

This bee's nectar is your tears.

Albuquerque Public Access Television meeting this Monday May seventh at City Hall.

The Whole Foods effect.

The New York Times was able to claim a staggering 73 percent increase in circulation since last March. Here's the why.

Here's a Gretsch guitar catalogue from 1961.

Arizona Governor signs bill that would cut off any funding to Planned Parenthood and other health providers who perform abortions.

One can't expect the Olympics in London to go on without a Falkland Islands flap.

Fifty hottest female inmates, the webpage.

“If an act is designed to arouse or the result is arousal, than it’s adult entertainment.”

Notman's World.

Japan took the last of its fifty nuclear reactors offline.

Suit yourself.

Connecticut passed a medical marijuana bill.

On this day in 1943 Michael Palin was born.

The American Lung Association says Santa Fe is the safest place to breathe.

Foothills area command chief reprimanded after sending an email blaming APD officer-involved shootings on schools, parents, the court system and victims, among others.

Top Pentagon leadership demands major shake-up over anti-Islam military training materials.

Bahrain hires a professed Saddam Hussein admirer to help repair its latest image problems.

Arguments begin today before the Supreme Court over the constitutionality of Arizona’s S.B. 1070, enacted to root out illegal immigrants in the state. Mitt Romney may be among the people eager to avoid the issue.

Newt Gingrich says he's willing to “be honest about what’s happening in the real world.” (Pundits predict he’ll be out of the G.O.P primary race by this time next week.)

Another sign the general election is in full swing: the president guest stars on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

Opposition to broadly-worded surveillance legislation gains momentum.

The U.S.D.A. would like to offer its assurance that only cows need to be worried about the latest case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Suuuure, lady, you may look content as you sip a beer and read a book, spooning up your minestrone all by yourself. We know that you’re really just doing a good job of masking your humiliation and sorrow.

Videogame editor declares the work of cutting-edge noodle designer “stunning.”

Customers in the Middle East will be the first to enjoy the “chicken gem”- and “special sauce”-riddled results of Pizza Hut’s crust-stuffing craze.

Speaking of gems, notorious media mogul Rupert Murdoch was full of them this morning as he testified in British court.

New Ikea camera has added benefit of being easy to smash by younger consumers who don’t know what a viewfinder is.

Lonnie Anderson

 

In last week’s paper, I interviewed Rudolfo Anaya about censorship. His landmark Chicano novel Bless Me, Ultima was boxed up and put into storage along with a host of other books in Tucson, Ariz. It’s part of a push to do away with ethnic studies programs the education department considers divisive.

New Mexico is no stranger to this conversation. Anaya has on file an article published in 1981 about an attempt in our state Legislature to set standards for schoolbooks. In that article, one state senator is quoted as saying she personally saw to it that copies of Ultima were burned in Bloomfield, N.M.

Tonight the Librotraficante caravan hauling contraband literature from Houston to Arizona will be making a stop in Albuquerque. At 7 p.m., the banned book bash will commence at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 Fourth Street SW).

Navajo Nation suing Urban Outfitters for titling some products “Navajo.”

Arizona public schools ban Bless Me Ultima, the landmark novel by local literary legend Rudolfo Anaya.

Image of Jesus appears in a tortilla in Española.

Request your FBI file.

HuffPo article on the owner of Effex, an LGBT rights activist and a Christian Republican.

Farewell, heartthrob Davy Jones.

Recycling photos from around the world.

Understanding fluffed marshmallow vodka.

The Aquabats have a TV show.

Girls make beats.

Han Solo in carbonite crayons.

50 worst baby names.

Track down criminals with Twitter.

Bank of America rolls out even sneakier fees.

Yoga championships. It’s a thing.

The life of the robot.

Is Santa Fe's art gallery industry going downhill?

Is Syria the next Bosnia?

Is Israel going to start World War Three with Iran?

Who wants to see Brigitte Bardot in a bikini?

The tiniest chameleon.

Awesome 1965 documentary featuring Buster Keaton.

Unintentionally gay rap lyrics.

There is a new version of the (open source) VLC media player and it is kick-ass.

Hitler's son.

Learn about "jiggle keys."

Design your own Porsche.

Edison was a hard-ass when it came to hiring employees. Check out some sample questions from the tests he gave prospects.

You must watch the "Walk of Shame Shuttle" commercial.

Another dickhead Arizona sheriff.

On this day in 1958 Carl Perkins ditched Sun Records and signed with Columbia.

• Elvis. Carl Perkins. Elvis. Carl Perkins. Elvis.... (TopCat) [ Sun Feb 19 2012 1:54 PM ]
  

Former Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez will run for congress.

Air quality alert issued for Albuquerque, so don't breathe between 4 and 8 tonight.

The Las Conchas fire is 3% contained.

Taliban attack luxury hotel in Kabul.

Hackers expose Arizona police officers personal info.

No one likes dollar coins.

Albuquerque named one of America's most sedentary cities.

Michelle Bachmann and John Wayne Gacy have a lot in common.

The company behind FarmVille and Mafia Wars is preparing for an IPO.

Some sort of devil jumping over babies party in Spain.

Read all about the first meteorite recorded in Egypt.

This Princess Diana issue of Newsweek is not at all weird.

Bill Clinton: Brony.

The Daily Beast could only think of eight appalling things about The Bachelorette.

Finally, a combination elliptical machine/office desk chair, and it's only $8,000!

Do gay bars make money?

Florida fishermen catch a 23-foot squid.

Your 4th of July menu.

Hipster Lord of The Rings is awesome.

One hundred mummies from the 16th century found buried in an Italian church.

Should we dig up Shakespeare to see if he smoked pot?

What is ganache?

The mothership is in London.

Happy Brithday Gary Busey!!!

• Parliament's in London? (Madmammajamma) [ Wed Jun 29 2011 5:55 PM ]