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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: El Modelo"We probably spend more money at El Modelo than any store in Albuquerque except Costco. That is to say, we live in an adjoining county and try to keep the money here, but El Modelo gets all our business when it comes to carry out restaurant food. We…"
Izquierdo commented on The DitchRider's blog post The Sunday Poem: Kathleen Browning...Measure of Time"I've always loved Browning poetry. Clear and concise. Turns serious at the end. Catachresistic? Sounds like a perfect word with which to begin a limerick, or maybe a syllable too long? depending on how you spit it out.
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Izquierdo commented on Phil_0's blog post Morning Fix: Don't Play With Me Cuz..."If Rep.Pearce had a chance to see a lesser prairie chicken courting he'd learn some lessons on how to make friends and influential people. Might be productive...and fun. "
Izquierdo commented on Adelita's blog post Morning Fix: Hey! Where is Everybody?"A tinderbox of trees in these fire conditions is fodder for Jay Leno, or at the very least the national news.. Give it a try."
Izquierdo commented on Adelita's blog post Morning Fix: Hey! Where is Everybody?"You are adding to my vocabulary, Adelita. I know a herd of cows, a flock of birds, a gaggle of geese and a pack of wolves. But this is my first encounter with a tinderbox of trees, especially the dead kind. I like it!"
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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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