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Something about these short weeks makes me need mindless brain candy. Mmmm... brain candy. Here are seven links with which to start your productivity-free afternoon:

• Does being a big-headed asshat mean you're more like

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• Regulators approve PNM rate increase. Anticipated average monthly bill increase? $4.71.


• Santa Ynez Valley Journal dogs NM for u

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• According to ScreenCrave, Book of Eli's star Denzel Washington thinks Albuquerque is a desolate place. But, um, weren't they shooting in Roswell?

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• APS finds $16M accounting error -- pensions and pencils for everyone!


• Duke City Shootout takes a powder.

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Some Gye is on summer vacation, so I'm filling in this week. Look for other guest MFixers through Labor Day!

• Navajo code talker passes, leaving only five of the original 29

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1. The City of Albuquerque now does recycling of electronic crap all the time. Or rather, at all times that the Eagle Rock Convenience Center is open. There's something called a "yipping fee" -- oh… Continue

Tomorrow marks an important deadline in the Albuquerque mayoral race -- it's the date by which candidates must turn in $5 donations from at least 3,028 Albuquerque voters in order to qualify for public campaign financing.

Current mayor Marty Chavez - who hasn't even declared his candidacy yet! - has already collected enough money. As has Dem challenger Richard Romero. Republican Richard Berry is said to be close. And Lofts at ABQ High developer Rob Dickson will pay his own way, eschewing public… Continue

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Damn. A quick visit to cabq.gov, and what do I come up against? The BioPark flickr feed, chock-full-o baby photos. Monday afternoon, now officially shot.

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Sort of.

According to a guest column featured on World Net Daily, Chuck Norris is weighing a run for President of the Republic of Texas.

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KRQE is reporting the results of yesterday's UNM faculty vote of confidence/no confidence on the current university administration. With roughly… Continue

Whew! That was a long headline. But it's a complicated thing that starts today, so the title's in keeping with what follows.

This year, for the first time, public funding plays a major part in Albuquerque's mayoral race. Under Albuquerque's Open and Ethical Election Code, in order to receive public funding, candidates must swear off private fundraising once they've raised $5 donations from a minimum of approximately 3300 registered voters living within the city limits. They also need around 750… Continue

...and let me start by saying that it's not going all that well.

• Susan See blogs the most excellent NYE resolution yet (note the google ad, btw). It meshes well with my (oft-broken, I must admit) determination

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Local writer (and DCF member) Samara has a profile of Albuquerque metal band Suspended in the latest issue of Venus Zine.

Check out the story here: New Mexican metal tr… Continue

I guess that in theory I might have known it. But I think that I've gotten used to the whole light snow in the morning, sunshine by lunch thing. So it wasn't until I got a notice from the Santa Fe New Mexican (and seriously -- New Mex -- I've asked to be taken off that list more than o… Continue

I just have to send, once again, some random bloggerly love to Coco, who writes the blog Cocoposts. My favorite recent posts:

Vegas Bound Coco Photo
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I've pretty much been stalking this local business since I first moved into its neighborhood almost four years ago: Don's Book Store aka Don's Paperback Book Exchange.

It's in the grubby series of strip malls along South San Mateo, right near the hy… Continue

• I saw this car (above) at Saigon Beauty yesterday and just loved loved loved the writing in the window. "That's right, Mo-Fos, I'm SLOW! S L O W." You know, on my way to purchase organic veggies and soy milk. Brilliant.


• 93.3 KOB-FM has a

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October 29, 2008

Message to UNM from President Schmidly: Current Financial Challenges

As I mentioned in my message to you last Monday, the information we’re getting from Santa Fe is that state general fund numbers have declined significantly, so a possible round of belt-tightening could be in the offing. Though it is too soon to predict what will happen, the University is in the process of discussing strategies that could save money in the short term while not compromising our core missions or… Continue

Soooo. Some of us seem to be having a tough day at work today. Assuming you've arranged appropriate homebound transportation and can slip away unnoticed, what's the best dark watering hole in which to drown your sorrows and (ideally) not also run into the b

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