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Dick Chingadero commented on Dick Chingadero's blog post Albuquerque: The REAL True History of its Name"Of course, with my Pigeon-Dropping" theory, it could also be derived from Albu+Caca or "White Shit""
Kevin commented on Dick Chingadero's blog post Albuquerque: The REAL True History of its Name"Thank you. This will undoubtedly resolve the argument between my wife and I - she claims that Albuquerque is a bastardization of the Spanish word for apricot - albaricoque. "White What What" seems to make so much more…"
Dick Chingadero's blog post was featuredAlbuquerque: The REAL True History of its Name
Albuquerqueños love their royalty, there is no doubt about it. The city was named for the 8th Duke De Alburquerque of Spain[1].In 1660, he financed an expedition up the Rio Grande in search of the 19 lost cities of brass (the seven cities of gold, nine cities of silver, and thirteen cities of copper having turned out to be total busts.) As the legend goes, the expedition was seeming fruitless when, one day, coming up a draw in La Cañada, the explorers, Captain Guillermo Cuatro y Griegos and Don…See More
Dick Chingadero replied to Hunter's discussion New food choices in the group Wes'side"I miss Spinns too. However, I LOVE Five Guys. (If only they were on this side of the river, offered green chile, and sold beer.)
How is Tomato Cafe?"
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End of a Friggin Era
Posted on November 24, 2009 at 5:00pm 14 Comments 0 Likes
My sister just sent me an email. The Hofbrau's gone. Even though it was more recently known as Penn Station, it will always remain in the hearts of the countless barflies who passed through its doors each morning as The Hofbrau.
"Gone" as in bulldozed. To the ground. It's dead. Nicht mehr. Bleeding deceased.
I worked (and lived) at the Hofbrau back in the early to mid-1980s along with my ex-wife and ex-girlfriend and a cast of characters including world famous bartender… Continue
"Gone" as in bulldozed. To the ground. It's dead. Nicht mehr. Bleeding deceased.
I worked (and lived) at the Hofbrau back in the early to mid-1980s along with my ex-wife and ex-girlfriend and a cast of characters including world famous bartender… Continue
Margaret Atwood
Posted on November 10, 2009 at 10:16pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
For those who haven't heard, Margaret Atwood is doing a reading at UNM on Monday evening from her new book, "The Year of the Flood," the post-apocalyptic/dystopic sequel (or is the prequel?) to Oryx & Crake. Atwood may be best known for her novel "The Handmaid's Tale." Her stuff is gruesome and creepy and edgy and gets under your skin.
The reading is at… Continue
The reading is at… Continue
Using "The Dad Voice" as a Rhetorical Tool: Day 8 as a T.A.
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 7:30pm 6 Comments 0 Likes
As I've mentioned, I received a Teaching Assistantship from UNM to cover my tuition in the Creative Fiction MFA program there. Calling it an assistantship is not quite right. Unlike other departments, where a professor lectures and a TA administers tests and grades homework, in the English department, TAs are on the front lines, with the first year TAs teaching freshman composition (which we do in exchange for our tuition.) I've been posting updates on the teaching over at the the… Continue
What is this plant?
Posted on August 15, 2009 at 8:40am 3 Comments 0 Likes
I'm sure there's a forum for this but I'm not sure where. My sister found this camping in the Jemez. Anyone know what it is?
The REAL reason I live in NM
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 9:00pm 34 Comments 0 Likes
This afternoon I was driving down north 4th and it hit me. The real reason I live in New Mexico.
For several weeks now, at the Walmart on Coors Bypass there's been caution tape around a wall of shopping carts, and off in the corner a propane tank and a blackened metal cage.
But today, there was the aroma of fresh roasted green chile. I'd venture to say that there are few, if any, other locales in the U.S. that have a comparable aroma announcing a season. You don't smell… Continue
For several weeks now, at the Walmart on Coors Bypass there's been caution tape around a wall of shopping carts, and off in the corner a propane tank and a blackened metal cage.
But today, there was the aroma of fresh roasted green chile. I'd venture to say that there are few, if any, other locales in the U.S. that have a comparable aroma announcing a season. You don't smell… Continue
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- At 3:58pm on March 31, 2011,
Blue Mesa Review said… - No you are! Thanks buddy!
- At 7:52pm on May 17, 2009,
Amy...New said… - Thanks for the welcome, and the map. My house is right off of Lead, so I have a bike lane all the way to work and back. Pretty excited!!! (and also a little wary, but I guess that's good.)
- At 11:32am on May 10, 2009,
Rob Creighton Garrison said… - Hello, and pardon the lapse. I didn't see this until this morning.
I worked for a stairparts distributer (newels, balasters, fittings, mouldings) as a warehouseman/receiving and returns clerk until a layoff diverted fortunes and led my wife and me here. much as I enjoyed my job and the great people with whom I worked, it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all to try something new, so I'm exploring opportunities. Would be nice to make a living blogging, but I'm betting a few ex-newspaper journalists would dispute that.
Not sure what my DSM-IV profile would be as regards my employability, but a call to my last employer might elicit a stutter or two at the mention of my name.
Portland's unemployment rate has now exceeded 12%, so I have one more reason among many to be happy to be 'mongst ye.
What do you do, Dick? If I may ask?
- At 8:43pm on January 27, 2009,
usemoreglue said… - I haven't read a ton of Didion, but by the looks of it "STB" is one of her earliest collections, 1968. It's non-fiction, though. "Run, River" (fiction) was published in '63. I can only vouch for STB, Play it as it Lays, and the White Album, which are all awesome. Good luck this semester!
- At 11:26am on January 21, 2009, usemoreglue said…
- Is this a Rick!? Your voice is way unmistakable. I didn't even have to look at your picture!
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