Rudolfo Carrillo

A kinda fluid week here at the western world, what with winter and its… Continue

A virus, perhaps several thousand of them, danced invisibly through the air and by one of my input devices, an orifice on the front of my head. My mouth opened and before a paradoxically profane yet unabashedly understated text string could escape from that chaoti… Continue

I know damn well that I could I tell you all something really horrible and electrifying about Albuquerque, and it wouldn’t be made up, either, but rather a true tale of demonic influence, inky shades traipsing through the desert, mysteriously throwin… Continue

I’m pretty sure that homecoming is an uniquely American tradition. I mean American in the sense that such festivities were singularly conceived of and are usually only manifested in the good old United States of America – in opposition to the rest of the wide world… Continue

I know that some of you are wondering where I come up with this stuff, so I thought it might be fun to use that premise as the focus for this week's post.

Here’s one possibility: I read wha… Continue

Here's something guaranteed to simultaneously -- that's right, folks! -- distract one from two locally generated, currently fashionable and potentially potent cultural memes, whilst encouraging the reader to investigate another.

By reading what follows you agree… Continue

“For me. For meee! FOR MEEEEEE!”....(hey, listen, if you can heap a B♭5 on top of that final phrase, that sublime, even existential exhortation, then please join in; otherwise, you might as well continue reading).

It's true enough, though mostly in a metap… Continue

I keep meaning to write something in a serious vein, a substantive exploration of issues affecting the town that many of us have decided upon as a home. I want that post to be unadorned and I want it to speak plainly to those who read it.

Seeing as how t… Continue

Ummm, let's see...okay, here, try this...remember it's bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside.

By the end of summer, 1996, the scene seemed somewhat faded. To me, it felt like a lot of fol… Continue

Now it is Saturday morning. Earlier, I contemplated the profundity of pizza covered in green chile. I also passed anxiously, though somewhat sullenly, through a wind-blown mixture of big fat raindrops and brown leaves (whose mission having been accomplished, could… Continue

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I moved to Albuquerque thirty-three years ago -- just in time to start the seventh grade at Eisenhower Middle School, just in time to enjoy the state fair. Back then, Eisenhower was in the middle of nowhe… Continue

As the nature of most profound and sometimes ultimately perplexing paradigms generated by human culture are often elusive – even when manifested in globally accessible and commonly decipherable electronic environments – it is sometimes convenient, if not downrigh… Continue

A few days out, and with anticipation still unfurling, sail-like, another harbinger of autumn is glimpsed in that damn dusty town on the bubbly brown river (which is not really navigable but lends itself to nautical symbolism nonetheless) and… Continue

My view of the world is inchoate and not through lack of observation or an inability to navigate a watery metaphor for it (form image of stormy ocean, of… Continue

Many of you have heard of Angry Babies.

If you can name any of the members of the seminal Albuquerque pop-drenched noise-punk band Treadmill without looking at their MySpace page, then hurrah!

Pretty spiky (my new word for cool), eh?

Special thanks to Lesa Murphy for preserving this glimp… Continue

@ DCF commenters:

In the deconstruction and subsequent analysis of the titular idea symbolized above, emphasis is given to the semantic aspects of the term "appears".

Check this out, comrades, es a fuego!

It seems natural that a concept… Continue

I was waiting for August.

Here was my plan, here are some notes on its implementation.

I set the alarm on my cell phone so it activated precisely at midnight.

At the appointed time, a minute electrical impulse changed in value from zero… Continue

Esteemed DCF member/reader:

The advent of social networking in the early twenty-first century has afforded users such as yourself a myriad of options which, when manifested, may lead to more productive, satisfying and enriching social an… Continue

Aquí, una historia sobre una mujer llamada Virginia.

She was born in Rincon, New Mexico, in the year mil novecientos treinta y seis. She spent some of her life in the desolation of the southern and western deserts, and in groves of pinon tr… Continue

So, yeah, about 13 years ago, I was really into Indian food and not always by choice, mind you. Let's just say that the geography I was immersed in coincided with i… Continue