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- Where I Live:
- South Valley (Valencia County)
- About Me:
- Freelance writer and punster on New Mexico including geography, history,cultures,languages, sports y cosas asi. Contact me through Duke City Fix.
- Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:
- Marisa Maez, Linda Beaver, Cissy King, Aire Libre, Cielito Lindo and Pinus Edulis (it's not what you're thinking)*. *It's the piñon pine, the NM State Tree.
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- What I'm Reading:
- Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico, Van Dorn Hooker, the University of New Mexico. The Hardly Boys: The Mystery of the Golden Goblet, Tom Cherones. Seinfeld Producer's first novel,2012. Tom is a UNM graduate.
Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood, David V. Holtby, UNM Press,2012 (JUST OUT). Important NM History
The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas, Neddy A. Vigil and Garland D. Bills, University of NM Press, Albuquerque,2008.
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, University of Chicago Press.
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Izquierdo commented on Dee Cohen's blog post ABQ Pics: Sign Language"I never cease to be amazed that as long as I have lived in and around Albuquerque, I have not seen any of the great sights until you put them on Duke City Fix. An amazin' collection of photos, and this is a perfect example."
Izquierdo commented on Dee Cohen's blog post ABQ Pics: San Jose Cemetery"I pass by it regularly on my way to town. But this is taken from the east side, looking west toward the freeway and volcanoes?"
Izquierdo commented on Dee Cohen's blog post ABQ Pics: San Jose Cemetary"I love this photo -- it's a snapshot of many aspects of New Mexico. The desert, sparse to non-existent vegetation, the power lines in the background the only sign of nearby civilization.It could be the remains of a ghost town, not the…"
Izquierdo commented on The DitchRider's blog post The Sunday Poem: Marilyn Stablein... Seeing Blue"A poem that stays on track from beginning to end -- refreshing and readable. Thanks."
Izquierdo commented on Dee Cohen's blog post ABQ Pics: I'm Late..I'm Late"DOWNTOWN DASH WTH CASH MYSTIFIES COPS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A bank robber carrying a briefcase loaded with loot Friday jumped a small bush and out-sprinted police to a black van, then disappeared,leaving behind but a single clue --a man's…"
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Sandhill Cranes Headed North Along the Rio in Numbers
Posted on February 26, 2013 at 10:59am 0 Comments 0 Likes
From the South Valley near the Valencia-Bernalillo County Line, the sandhill cranes are flying north toward Albuquerque and beyond at elevations so high you can hardly see them with your naked eye. You can heard them clearly, however. The migration started at least three weeks ago, but this (Feb. 26) seems to be a peak day. None of the birds are flying just above the rooftops as they sometimes do.
Read Seinfeld Producer and UNM Grad Tom Cherones' New Hardly Boys Book
Posted on January 19, 2013 at 6:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Some University of New Mexico old-timers from the hippie era, especially those who hung out in the communication department (before speech comm merged with journalism) might remember Tom Cherones, who went on to become an Emmy Award winner as the producer of the Seinfeld TV Series. I think thats akin to an athlete becoming an all-America or a journalist winning a Pullet's Surprise.
Anyway, Tom has written his first novel, just out, called "The Hardly Boys: The Mystery of the…
Continue Bosque Del Apache's Festival of the Cranes in Mid-November. Alfred Hitchcock Would Love It. So'll You!
Posted on November 2, 2012 at 11:30am 2 Comments 4 Likes
BOSQUE DEL APACHE NWR -- Maybe the corn isn't as high as an elephant (sigh!) this November, but the sandhill cranes are at least eyeball to corn ear with 260 acres of cob salad as the 16th annual Festival of the Cranes gets underway.
Not that the cranes would be caught dead in a standing cornfield. They like their corn "bumped" as the refuge staff calls it -- knocked to the ground, the better to see the wily coyote that lurks in the…
Continue Forty-Seventh Star (that's Us) New David Holtby Book Just Out
Posted on October 8, 2012 at 2:30pm 10 Comments 2 Likes
Thanks to whoever posted the schedule on Duke City Fix of David V. Holtby’s new book signings, because I wouldn't have known it was on bookshelves otherwise. I picked it up a few days ago at Holtby's signing at the UNM Bookstore.It's title is Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood, University of Oklahoma Press, and I found it to be just what I needed to understand that long struggle to achieve statehood.
Most New Mexicans with an interest in the state pretty…
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