Today through Thursday it will be partly cloudy with a high of about 82° and not much of a chance of precipitation throughout the day. Friday will be sunny with a high of 83°. Saturday thunderstorms should pop up across the world, particularly on the East Side of Albuquerque, causing damnation for about 50-90% of the Earth's population (pesky holy water monsoons). Skies clear up for the end of the weekend on through to next week. See you next week, sinner!
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Third Albuquerque Toynbee Tile Found
It was a Wednesday afternoon like any other. Business took my comrade and I to the intersection of 4th and Gold streets in downtown Albuquerque. Parking on the north side of Gold, across from the historic Simms Building, I ran across the street to deliver Alibis to a certain donut shop that operates out of the fifties-vintage steel/glass enclosure currently best known as the DEA offices on "Breaking Bad." On my return dash across the street I was keeping my eyes peeled for found money on the ground when lo and behold my psyche was confronted with the unmistakable color, shape and message of a third Albuquerque Toynbee Tile.
Cleverly deployed for decades onto streets around North America and the world, Toynbee Tiles appear to have arrived in Albuquerque sometime in 2011, the same year the excellent documentary film Resurrect Dead was released. Read the original story here and find out where the second Albuquerque Toynbee Tile is here. The coda to this most recent find reads "TIME'S UP!" and there's a nifty ashtray to the right. Keep looking down.

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Never-ending CONSPIRACY!
A second Albuquerque Toynbee Tile
My good friend Pierre LaFarge rides his Mexican-Italian bicycle through the intersection of Copper and 2nd Street just about everyday, so when he says this Toynbee Tile was not there last week, I am inclined to agree. The message reads:
HOUSE OF HADES
ONE MAN VERSUS
AMERICAN MEDIA
IN SOCIETY '2011
The tag below the tile may indicate that this tile was laid down a couple years after being made (i.e. in 2011):
well its getting kind of late
cut [sic] its been fun!!!
The tile is in the northbound lane of 2nd Street just north of Copper:
If you haven't seen "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," drop what you're doing and watch it -but first, be sure to reread this post about Albuquerque's other Toynbee Tile located at the intersection of Tijeras and 3rd Street.

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The National Treasure films weren’t good by any conventional definition of the word, but they were fun. After all who doesn’t love a globe-hopping treasure hunt—especially when it comes wrapped in a conspiracy and painted over with a few layers of historical significance? Just ask Indiana Jones. Or Tom Hanks in that Da Vinci thing. These clue-dropping treasure hunts aren’t something episodic television has had much luck recreating. But ABC’s new thriller “Zero Hour” certainly gives it the old college try. And if the pilot episode is any indication, the network might have something halfway decent on its hands.
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CONSPIRACY!
Albuquerque Toynbee Tile
A friend hipped me to the location of a Toynbee Tile in downtown Albuquerque on Tijeras just east of Third St. The message on this particular tile appears to be of the "Hades/anti-media" ilk and is partially missing:
HOUSE OF HADES
ONE MAN VERSUS
AMERICAN....?
In the early eighties when the tiles started appearing in Philadelphia, the message on these small, public screeds was:
Toynbee Tiles, or at least the first generation of them, seem to be the work of a single man who believed he had discovered the secret of immortality in the writings of historian Arnold Toynbee, found confirmation of this possibility in the death sequence at the end of the Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and felt an obsessive need to inform the human race that we could resurrect the dead. I can't remember what Jupiter has to do with it, but I like to think it's got something to do with Sun Ra.
The method for disseminating this concept, as well as other rants (mainly against "the media machine," sometimes anti-semitic, and often paranoid,) is to cut the message into linoleum tile, cover the edges of the tile with asphalt sealer and the top with tar paper -and proceed to drop it onto a busy street in the middle of the night, often in crosswalks. As vehicles drive over the tile, it is pushed into the street and eventually the paper comes off, revealing the message. Toynbee Tiles are found all over North America and in some parts of South America. There's an excellent, must-watch 2011 documentary film about the search for the Toynbee Tiler called "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of The Toynbee Tiles."
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The Daily Word: Christmas edition 2011

Someone failed in their attempt to steal a MAC-10 pistol from Valley Pawn.
Headline: Man Eats Cocaine From Brother's Butt, Dies.
Is Ron Paul a conspiracy-mongering paranoid nutcase?
What people wanted for Christmas in 1975.
Biblical visions were "only" lucid dreams?
These two guys exchanged the same Christmas card for sixty years. Neither of them ever read it.
Hold on to your hats, it's The Queen's Christmas Message 2011.
Santa had a collision with an F-104 fighter jet last night.
On this day in 1924 Rod Serling was born.
Some people say Jesus was also born on this day in the year zed.
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Of course the CIA worked with Gaddafi.
Five dead after shooting rampage at Nevada IHOP.
When will 9/11 conspiracy theorists believe the facts? Probably never.
Cell phones in prisons are on the rise.
Is Homeland Security making us safer or poorer?
More bad news for Netflix users.
Why using your real name on the Internet is a bad idea.
Lizards are smarter than we thought.
The greatest photo of Saturn you'll ever see.
What is graph theory, and how can we make some freaking money with it?
In order to find a lost Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece, scientists need a camera that hasn't been invented yet.
Wikileaks reveals government plans to infiltrate warez topsites.
More Game of Thrones casting news.
Judge dismisses lawsuits against 5010 of the 5011 people accused of downloading the porno Danielle Staub Raw.
Let's all have a good laugh at the MPAA's latest bogus piracy stats.
Whatever happens, do not give Madonna hydrangeas.
Lame looking UFO video from Japan.
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How the invention of pants ushered us into the modern world.
America's Most Wanted moves to Lifetime?
Katt Wiliams: patriotic or racist?
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The Daily Word 4.2.11: Edwin J. Quinby; killer cows; Jackie Mitchell, pitcher.

Vintage eye disease pictures from two centuries ago.
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Roger Ebert's Arthur C. Clarke like prediction of movies on demand.
Are U.S. government microwave mind-control tests causing TV presenters' brains to melt down? Maybe you should start watching television again.
Did you download a torrent of Nude Nuns With Big Guns? The mass copyright infringement lawsuit may not include your name after all.
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Cows kill more people in America than sharks.
Lily Allen's new clothing line is making vintage clothes.
BFD: Obama is going to run for a second term in office.
2011 is officially the year of the coup. Ivory Coast.
On this day in 1931 a teenaged girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth one after another, in an exhibition game.