Cheers, Kirk. I doubt I’ll watch the Oscars tonight and I gave up beer-drinking 35 years ago, but I still watch your movies and I’ll bet your Hollywood mates will be toasting you on TV. I’m toasting you here. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 — New York Times, Feb. …
Tormenting me Sunday with that maddening New Mexico question: Texas Antelope Squirrel or Colorado Chipmunk?
A month to go, but I’m here to give you a spring report. The looks of things change fast. The weather’s changing, too. Critters are doing their thing. It’s time for spring cleaning and maybe some home repair. Certainly there will be more bird-watching, conditions permitting. Maybe even a new selfie is due.
When it comes to the New Mexico Legislature, these are a few of my favorite things: “Burning Ship in New Mexico Arroyo” “Morning Prayer” Adjournment, “sine die. ”
Morning rain in New Mexico and thugs going down on the East Coast can really mess with your writing. You know: You start feeling all cozy and don’t want to get out of bed, seduced by rare rain in the high desert. Your brain starts thinking with introductory clauses and you end up staring at …
I almost forgot June was upon us until wildfires started breaking out like popcorn and a friend had to pass on coming out to Placitas for a bowl of beans. These would seem to be predictable misadventures in what is often New Mexico’s most troublesome month. When my weather app reported an 80 percent chance …
(I wrote this in 2017, when I had a little bit of humor left). Okay, so even the New York Times published a story about another possible photo of New Mexico’s most over-appreciated celebrity, Billy the Kid, but I’m still waiting for the shot of him and other Lincoln County gunmen in tennis whites. The …
Fame did not come as I wanted. Jim Belshaw, retired Albuquerque Journal columnist, early riser and waste-no-time emailer, messaged me at 6:09 a.m. Sunday after seeing my name attached to a comment in the New York Times. “Is this you?” he demanded, ever the no-nonsense newsman. In my waking haze, I realized he was grilling …
It’s tough being Albuquerque, although it often shines at the same time. Here we are in early October with the softer fall light sharpening some of the clearest days of the year. The balloon fiesta is in full swing, with thousands of visitors in town, and then the Albuquerque Journal greets you on Sunday, with …
Did I really wake to a world where the president of the United States fumed again on Twitter at a couple of TV hosts? Bitterness spewed internet-wide over coverage of himself on a show I’ve never watched? Will the Trumps go on a Fourth of July picnic and eat hot dogs and potato salad? With …
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