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V.24 No.49 | 12/03/2015
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Event Horizon

A Pretty Obscure Fair That You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Saturday, Dec 12: Hipster's Craft Fair

Local crafters sell holiday decorations, jewelry, greeting cards, purses, wallets, tablet covers, aprons and other fashion and home accessories.
V.24 No.44 | 10/29/2015
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Event Horizon

Maximum Bacon Achieved

Saturday, Nov 7: 3rd Annual Southwest Bacon Fest

Celebrate bacon, beer and blues as 50 restaurants, food trucks and chefs serve up their most creative bacon dishes.
V.23 No.11 | 3/13/2014

news

The Daily Word in funny drug news and other things.

The Daily Word

Did Flight MH370 disintigrate in midair?

A smoldering body was found in San Diego.

A Decatur woman with Alzheimer’s was living with her husband’s dead body for a month.

In Greeley, stoners can’t get haircuts at Hugo’s Barber Shop. LSD is probably okay, though.

There was an election and everyone voted for Kim Jong Un. Dennis Rodman won’t go visit him again, though.

Hipsters like obscure bands, then stop liking them when they achieve commercial success.

Mercury, the cat with no arms, amuses humans by walking upright.

Drug users are reportedly being extorted by people posing as DEA agents. Drug users who are approached by these fake agents should, um, contact the DEA immediately.

An Albuquerque man is in custody after police learned he had been holding his wife hostage in their home for the past four days. The wife escaped and called police from a neighbor’s house when the man went to get cigarettes. The man then hid from police in his mother’s house. Drugs may have been involved.

Tesla’s new battery factory might be in New Mexico. Deja vu.

Happy birthday, Chuck Norris.

V.22 No.41 | 10/10/2013

news

The Daily Word in Hipsters, Rabid Bats and Twipping

The Daily Word

The DC car chase woman had mental health problems, but she wasn’t a shooter as initially reported.

Now we can graph word frequency in rap songs over time, which oddly seems somewhat useful from a culteral analysis standpoint.

Here’s a guy who likes photograph himself next to people kissing in public.

Killer robots hunt jellyfish at sea.

What’s the most shared media in [insert your area]?

Hipsters hate the internet. Because it’s stupid now.

It’s fun to look at old-timey lettering.

Learn the secret origins of pirate talk.

Travel around the world of fried chicken recipes.

You can make your dog look like a mailbox, if you’re so inclined.

Some Albuquerque kids were playing with a rabid bat. Lamentably.

Steve Stucker is giving away his balloon hat.

Take a poop pill. Will it help? Couldn’t hurt…

Watch the best Vines of September.

Our latest meme: Twipping.

V.21 No.34 | 8/23/2012

news

The Daily Word in hipster topics, inmate heroes and Dave Mustaine

The Daily Word

An inmate work crew in Las Cruces saved a man’s life.

Someone won $1 million in New Mexico but might not know it yet.

A judge told Gov. Martinez she couldn’t publish the salaries of some state workers on the Sunshine Portal. So she put them on the New Mexico home page.

Megadeth singer blames President Obama for mass shootings. And if you can’t trust Dave Mustaine about politics ...

Brits are pissed that Ecuador granted Julian Assange asylum.

Can’t hang with the footage of mosquitos biting people in this story about West Nile being on the rise. Stupid nature’s vampires.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed an executive order to deny Arizonans benefits from the new federal Dream Act-esque immigration program.

This month in free speech.

The stoner Olympics.

Anti-Semitic jerk in Hungary finds out he’s Jewish.

These gorillas are all happy to see each other.

Where does all that aid money go? Haiti’s still without safe housing for most people.

How to shop for groceries when you hate shopping for groceries. (Step One: Realize that your problem is not really a problem. After all, you could be living in a tent in an earthquake-ravaged country.)

Coffee shop bans people from talking about annoying hipster stuff like denim, left-handedness and anything that happened before 2000.

Best gravel voices in movie/TV history.

V.21 No.1 | 1/5/2012
Fashion. Icon.

Fashion

Hipster animal prediction: 2013 will be the year of the whale

Squirrels are coming. In 2012, expect your bars to be named after them, your bands to use them on fliers and album covers, your coffee cups, T shirts and lighters to display them. Expect twentysomethings and early thirtysomethings to wear them on necklaces and earrings. Someone, somewhere, will get a squirrel tattoo.

Owls dominated 2011.

Before that, it was birds, generally. Any species was acceptable, but ravens, mockingbirds and bluebirds were big.

2009 saw the rise of the unicorn.

Panda bears also had a brief heyday, preceded by a long bout of wolves.

After much profound consideration, my intuition tells me that post-squirrel 2013 will be the year of the whale. Blue whales, more specifically.

But it could be orcas, as they are the panda bear of whales.

V.20 No.36 |

news

The Daily Word in the poors, the HPV vaccine makes you retarded and Spongebob makes you stupid

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The U.S. poverty rate jumps to a 52-year high.

People are excited about this woman I've never heard of running for Senate.

Michelle Bachmann claims HPV vaccine causes mental retardation. Must resist joke.

Arizona isn't getting enough attention these days.

Is it ironic that Ron Paul's campaign manager died of pneumonia, penniless and uninsured? Yeah, it is.

Atlanta vegans get life in prison for the starving death of their 6-week-old.

These are the next 12 terror threats to keep you up at night.

Disasters have been declared in all but two states so far this year.

Vladimir Putin = badass.

I guess I need this if I die app.

Kabletown Comcast is launching low-cost, high speed internet for poor families.

Watching Spongebob Squarepants makes your dumb kids dumber.

How is Tyler Perry the highest paid man in entertainment if I've never seen one of his movies?

You need naked men and horses to harvest marijuana in Kyrgyzstan.

Why doesn't anyone want to talk about Operation Northwoods?

The man who coined the term pop art dies at the age of 89.

Finally some good news for parents flying with children.

Let's take a tour through Egypt's Great Pyramid.

Consumer Reports notes an uptick in reports of glass bakeware exploding.

Ozzy Osbourne's music helps rescue autistic boy.

Playboy's October issue will have a cover price of 60¢.

Dwarf porn star eaten by a badger. You read that right: Dwarf porn star eaten by a badger.

Flooding could result in higher pumpkin prices this year.

Bartender fired for a 9/11 joke.

Confuse your grandpa with these hipster nicknames.

Warner Brothers sued for copyright fraud and abuse.

Happy Birthday Nas!!!

V.20 No.25 |

news

The Daily Word: Killer Clown For President, Baby Jumping, UFO over London

The Daily Word

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!!!

V.20 No.18 |

news

The Daily Word: Enhanced Pat Downs, Neo-Nazis, Burger of the Future

The Daily Word

APS releases next year's budget, plans on cutting more than 400 jobs.

The man killed by APD yesterday was armed with a plastic kitchen spoon.

President Obama still enjoying the post-bin Laden assassination popularity boost.

Eight-month-old gets an enhanced pat-down at Kansas City airport.

Donald Trump doesn't know what the 13 stripes represent on the American flag.

Interesting visualization of the spread of Osama bin Laden death news thru twitter.

Ten-year-old kills his neo-nazi father.

Because sometimes it's better when your favorite TV show gets cancelled.

History of people who use the internet to convince others to commit suicide.

The truth about Groupon.

Let your kids eat some junk food already!

Man found living on roof of a Georgia Waffle House.

Read all about the Old Man of the Lake.

The most hipster state in the US is …

Are you fat enough for the new Triple Double Oreo?

Bristol Palin had surgery that gave her a new chin, but don't worry, it was for medical reasons.

Saddest mugshot ever.

Social networking cigarettes.

Slow motion video of some dudes playing with a six foot water balloon.

Equisetum is the oldest genus of land plant, over 100 million years old.

Soul Caliber 5 is coming next year.

The validity of the legal advice from Jay-Z's 99 Problems.

New retro-cartoon channel to launch 'soon.'

The burger of the future.

Who watches the Watchponies?

Happy Birthday Jeffrey Donovan!!!

V.20 No.13 | 3/31/2011

Music

New Monster Paws video

Burque electro pop group Monster Paws made a slick new video for its song “Ray of Light.” It depicts a group of hipsters running and frolicking in the sunshine (I hope they put sun block on that beautiful, youthful skin), until an apocalypse happens and transports them to outer space.

See Monster Paws perform live on Friday, April 22, when the Alibi’s Group Hug presents a Spring Social at the Launchpad. Then Eats Them and The Glass Menageries also play, and your truly will deejay sparkly pop music in between sets. For your pleasure, there will be free food, sweet and savory, and free photo booth. Costumes are encouraged. Admission—for those 21-and-over—is only $5. RSVP and invite your friends via Facebook here. See you there!

V.20 No.8 | 2/24/2011

news

The Daily Word containing equal parts Owsley, Japan, hipster traps, dinosaurs, DST, Julia Roberts and Albert Einstein.

The Daily Word

Owsley died.

Here's some crazy tsunami footage.

And there's a volcano.

And there’s radiation.

Because life is unfair, the destruction in Japan may lead to lower gas prices in the United States.

Iran uses Children-of-the-Corn-style baby soldiers for crowd suppression.

Scientists have either discovered Atlantis or Spain.

Someone is setting hipster traps in New York. Police suspect a hipster is to blame.

Cheerful people die faster than the rest of us.

Daylight saving time can be bad for you.

Madonna has a stalker. A time traveler from the ‘80s, most likely.

Here are some crappy yearbook photos.

Watch the trailer for the new X-Men movie.

A Mexican man has 82 Julia Roberts tattoos.

New facts about the world’s oldest profession (being a dinosaur.)

Uh, oh. Steve Vai shreds.

How to freeze water the freaky way.

Meet the emergency internet bunkers.

The world is in love with New Mexico’s evil/dumb gun running ring.

There was a deadly car smash at Coors and Los Padillas Road.

KOAT serves up a gravy boat of cold mugshots.

An Albuquerque bus hit a car. Hard!

Alexis has more compelling local stories over at DCF.

Happy birthday, Albert Einstein.

Special thanks to Tom Nayder, Geoffrey Anjou and John Hankinson for some of today’s important links.

video games

Webgame Wednesday: Hipster Kickball

Adult Swim breaks out with another witty timewaster, Hipster Kickball. You control a team filled with alt.rock awesomeness. You're up against your arch enemies, the hippies. Stomp their granola-fed asses into the turf by booting kickballs as far into the outfield as you can. Your various team members have differing abilities, so use them accordingly. Also, you should drink (preferably local craft-brewed beer) while playing this game to achieve maximum authenticity.

V.20 No.7 |

news

The Daily Word 02.23.11: The Amazonian Guard, Hipster Princesses, The Honey Badger Takes What It Wants

The Daily Word

Wacky Gaddafi is still in charge of Lybia, but for how long? More importantly, what will happen to his all-female, all-sexy security staff-The Amazonian Guard?

State Rep. James Smith wants to repeal the medical marijuana program.

$11 million in unpaid red light camera tickets.

Arizona vigilante dirtbag gets the death penalty.

Judge upholds health-care reform law.

Republican governors may be busy trying to crush unions, but no too busy to be pranked.

Researches link cellphone use to changes in brain activity.

Rahm Emanuel will be Chicago's next foul-mouthed mayor.

Comedian Rush Limbaugh calls Michelle Obama fat.

Watch out for the crazy nastyass Honey Badger!

Determined researcher discovers large order of fries doesn't have many more than the medium size.

R.I.P. comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie.

Banksy won't be at the Oscars this weekend.

US troops in Afghanistan finally get their shitty Pizza Hut pizza back.

I was into the Hipster Disney Princesses before they were cool.

Scuba inventor dead at the age of 93.

Netflix signs a deal with CBS to stream shows like Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.

How to become a twitter guru in six easy tweets.

"Bitch, your pancakes look fine to me!"

After initially condemning Kinect hackers, Microsoft announces a official SDK for the device.

Can we talk about these cookie-stuffed cookies?

Explore the secrets of spider anatomy.

I miss the 80s: here's list of rated R movies that got cartoon spin-offs.

Chinese gamer dies after three-day bender.

Hey, it's Tom Bodett's birthday!