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infinity report

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the celestial mechanics, part one

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a tree for growing robots

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how to conjure vibant plant life from inherited symbols

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the moon that i have offered you

mars colony

infinity report number one hundred and thirty-three

the tendrils of flame and their many by-products

venusian control software

only some of them had the weight of celestial objects

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While posting, I had problems with Chrome and Safari but better luck with Firefox. On a related note, it seems that if you you use the WYSIWYG interface for adding text, graphics, etc, and then switc…

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Testing a few changes on DCF

i messed around with the new interface for a few hours last night and this morning. i add text and objects like images and links using the Rich Text tab, look at results in the preview mode, then if…

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Favorite UNM Profs

Interestingly, I came across this copy of the final exam for History 311 - History of the Near East, from 1985, taught by Richard Berthold. The original document was produced on a mimeograph machine;…

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Rudolfo Carrillo

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Where I Live:

fringecresto

About Me:

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:

it is dark at night.

Relationship Status:

In a Relationship

My Website:

http://infinityreport.blogspot.com/

What I'm Reading:

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -- Jorge Luis Borges
Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -- Kurt Vonnegut
Canopus in Argos: Archives -- Doris Lessing
The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner, Darkly - Philip K. Dick
Divine Horsemen -- Maya Deren
The Age of Huts (Compleat) -- Ron Silliman
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
Finnegan's Wake -- James Joyce
At the Mountains of Madness -- H.P. Lovecraft
Plain Pleasures -- Jane Bowles
The Martian Chronicles -- Ray Bradbury
Tender Buttons -- Gertrude Stein

What I'm Listening To:

Flaming lips, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Beatles, Earlimart, Dylan, Nirvana, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Death Cab for Cutie, Bonzo Dog Band, Cure, Bowie, Residents, Syd Barrett, Zappa, American Analog Set, Pixies, REM, Sweet, VU, Tripti Ensemble Crew, OutKast, Spirit, Regina Spektor, Au Revoir Simone, Sufjan Stevens, Smiths, Imperial Teen, New Pornographers, Gary Numan, Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Machine, Röyksopp, Van Halen, 10cc, Elliot Smith, Nada Surf, Little Richard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Octopus Project, X, Bon Jovi, Mahler, Mohammed Rafi, Descendents.

Rudolfo Carrillo's Blog

bright

I was going to write something tuned in quite precisely to the local vibe.

I planned on describing in glorious detail and with thunderous asides how much I liked the potato and red chile burrito at… Continue

Posted on February 6, 2010 at 8:00am — 8 Comments

"that's all i'm going to tell about"

With old Salinger dying this week and everything else manifesting right… Continue

Posted on January 30, 2010 at 12:00am — 10 Comments

on the air

Here’s some of the stuff I know about what happened in Albuquerque. Most of it I learned by asking folks about things, or by reading about events that occurred before I was born or when I was a kid. My father was always a good source for that sort of information. So was Howard B… Continue

Posted on January 22, 2010 at 10:30pm — 13 Comments

communiqué

Begin transmission.

In that expanse of desert initially surveyed by our predecessors as a place of potential colonization (prior to the advent of instantaneous multi-dimensional communication), there are numerous human settlements concentrated along a narrow ba… Continue

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 10:30pm — 4 Comments

two fragments

—Sometimes words ain't the clearest path to expression and so thanks be to the ubiquitous operating principles of this universe, specifically the ones that permit sentient beings to describe their experiences to others in a variety of mediums. Reaching through the organs of perception; all those senses p… Continue

Posted on January 9, 2010 at 2:30am — 4 Comments

01.01.10

In order to discover, observe and participate in some of the typical activities of humans dwelling in the middle Rio Grande Valley one decade past the turn of the century and just downriver from a manmade rese… Continue

Posted on January 1, 2010 at 9:00pm — 11 Comments

to the sea from albuquerque

By natural inclination, I have generally eschewed the cold and find its presence disruptive. The winters here seem to have grown increasingly dry and mild though, and I have lately been ensconced at home as winter sorta blooms, (its tiny crystalline and ic… Continue

Posted on December 25, 2009 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

a gift from the land of ones and zeroes

Tonight, while enacting rituals ancient and new, arcane and common, I made a few observations. Are they worth a read, are they worthy of a click? Dunno. I thought you might get a laugh out of what follows.… Continue

Posted on December 19, 2009 at 12:00am — 8 Comments

metaphorical dialogue for burqueño y burqueña

Curtain rises and lights simultaneously begin to fade up in a 30-second electro-mechanical sequence designed to mimic rosy-fingered dawn. These actions reveal the interior of a small home in southeast Albuquerque. The illuminated space is filled with objects of… Continue

Posted on December 11, 2009 at 11:00pm — 12 Comments

the great leap forward

Well it is early December and the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century is drawing nigh. It went by awfully quick now, didn't it?

What did it mean to you? That great leap forward. Personally, or as an Albuquerquean; a Burqeño or Burqeña si prefi… Continue

Posted on December 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — 8 Comments

"that will be ere the set of sun"

a man walked out into the bright sunshine. a car zoomed past and it was painted to resemble the coming night. but there, among sun-blessed surfaces, it was just a reminder of darkness and not the thing itself.

— which will come later, anyway.

behind him, the scre… Continue

Posted on November 27, 2009 at 6:00pm — 6 Comments

chapter 108 takes place at the rio grande zoo

The number one hundred and eight has a significance among humans that may be equally demonstrated through the rationally profound functionality of western mathematics as well as by its ancient and sometimes antipathetically lofty position within the structure and c… Continue

Posted on November 21, 2009 at 12:00am — 6 Comments

mighty fine

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

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

a virus

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

Posted on November 6, 2009 at 7:30pm — 7 Comments

the costume

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

Posted on October 30, 2009 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments

weird tales

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

Posted on October 23, 2009 at 10:30pm — 9 Comments

meta-burque

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

Posted on October 17, 2009 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

a thinly disguised and fluidly distracting diatribe

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

Posted on October 10, 2009 at 12:30am — 8 Comments

“beelzebub has a devil put aside for me”

“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

Posted on October 3, 2009 at 12:30am — 9 Comments

single-use soapbox, version one hundred

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

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 1:00am — 10 Comments

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At 8:17am on October 20, 2009, Rodney said…: I guess I was a few years ahead of you. My family moved to Gallup in the fall of 1959, when some Navajo still drove horse drawn wagons (although with rubber tires) to town. We left after I graduated from GHS in 72.
We lived in the Mossman neighborhood, I went to Jefferson Elem, and Kennedy Jr. High.

At 8:27am on October 6, 2009, Rodney said…: Just read your reply regarding the old Taco Bell on Lomas and Jefferson.

Are you from Gallup? If so, when did you graduate from High School?

At 11:38pm on September 1, 2009, be well also said…: Greetings Don Schrader Fans and Friends!

Have you noticed that for the last few days we have been a "featured group"? See: http://www.dukecityfix.com/groups

I do not know how long it will last, but now would be a fitting time to share your Don Schrader stories by starting a new thread or responding to one that I got going.

I for one am hungry for Schrader stories.

Be Well.

At 3:46pm on August 9, 2009, Rob Creighton Garrison said…: Thanks! And I yours. :o)

At 8:04pm on July 20, 2009, Doug R said…: What I like about you is that you have that crazy streak like me. Of course we both know it's a normal streak but to the rest of the world it looks off. I think it was the Rio Grande tap water I drank as a kid out here. Out in California it was many factors - smog, stress, the cold ocean, etc. And look at me now, back in town and drinking that same water. I've come full circle - god help Albuquerque (ha ha). I live on Anderson two houses away from Hermosa. It sounds as if you're in the same general neighborhood, right? We have to meet some time. You're the one working so let me know when.

Take care!

At 9:08pm on July 18, 2009, Aarron Adoberavoski said…: yeah he lived quite a life from what i've heard from my grandmother. We have some old news paper clippings and stuff like that if you know anyone interested, he lived a life that rivals Hunter S Thompson's, and makes Van Gough look like a sane man. If your interested in the family history you can ask anything you need to know