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‘It doesn’t get old.’
Is that Ken Paxton? No, I think it’s Susan Collins. OK, so I lied. I stayed up and watched. Just snacking and watching the body count pile up…
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It’s showtime!
“Y’know, I think we’re all bozos on this bus.” — Barney chatting with Clem in the Firesign Theatre’s fourth album. Photo by…
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Fall back/run away
A gloomy Nov. 1 follows a delightful Halloween. What the hell, we got an extra hour in the sack to start the month. Or did we? Quite the Halloween we had here…
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The misty mountains cold
Tonight’s trick-or-treaters will want their heavy cloaks. Even hairy-toed hobbits may opt for mukluks. “Misty mountains cold” indeed. The…
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Stand and deliver
Nothing says Halloween like a plug-in plastic punkin. Anybody else having trouble getting a boner (har de har har) for Halloween? I mean, masked strangers in…
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A mountain man
I have something of a reputation as an obituary writer. Whether it’s deserved or not, I have no idea. What I do know is that it’s a hard pull on…
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A bog less trotted
We had a storm sweep through last night, bitch-slapping leaves off the backyard maple while spraying a half-inch of water around and about. No complaints here…
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Your Friday Hall of Fame
My old comrade and colleague Steve Frothingham pinged me over coffee this morning, double-checking another velo-bro’s contact info (the one and only…
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Exercising the franchise
Herself and I filled out our ballots yesterday, casting various rascals out and others in, then walked them up to the neighborhood Vote Center, it being a…
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30: Not an end, a beginning
Welp, piss on the dogs and call in the fire — it’s definitely fall. The weather has been so gentle lately that we shut off all the HVAC machinery; I…
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Autumnal
It’s not really fall until instead of taking arm warmers on a ride you actually wear them. I packed mine on Wednesday’s ride and pulled them on…
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Pearl diver
Well, to absolutely no one’s surprise, Kimberly Gullet got tossed over the side of the USS Grifter, wearing nothing but a few hundredweight of anchor…
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A Freudian fillup
So the other day I was motoring around and about, running on fumes as a fella will in these dark days, when the Subaru’s low-fuel light blinked on. Huh…
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Hummers and bummers
This morning we cleaned, refilled, and set out the hummingbird feeders for what may be the last time in 2026. We didn’t see a single, solitary hummer all…
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Waiting for the sun
Leaves are falling off the backyard maple like winos off the drunk wagon. The morning temperature requires pants. And the sun doesn’t peek over the…
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Bike wash
Ah, October in Duck!Burg. The temps have dropped, the rain has stopped, and the streets are alive with the cars of eejits. I enjoyed a near miss on a fast…
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Gasbags
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is up, up and away. The Journal‘s homepage, never a thing of beauty even when it’s not rearranged for…
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Home with the armadillo
A story about Luckenbach, Texas, Hondo Crouch, and Jerry Jeff Walker in The Guardian sent me on a little spin down Memory Lane over coffee this morning. Maybe…
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Water on the brain
Looked like a Sherlock Holmes flick in the cul-de-sac this morning: “The Case of the Missing Desert.” “The game’s afoot, Watson!”…
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Marco! Polo!
“Check this strange beverage that falls out from the sky.” — Tom Waits, “Til the Money Runs Out.” Fenders and a rain jacket will not do…
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The cool September morn
Does a moral handicap count when it comes to reserved parking? Asking for a friend. I had time to sneak in a quick ride around the Elena Gallegos Open Space on…
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Fall, in
That was the forecast for the first day of fall: rain, and plenty of it, starting around noon. Perfect, I thought. I usually run on Tuesdays anyway, so…
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Freedom of the purr-ess
Hoo-boy, can Miss Mia Sopaipilla take a piss in the press pool or what? I gotta quit leaving the TV on when I go out for a ride. She’s getting notions…
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Cool!
More rain, which, yay. And sunshine this morning, which, likewise. It’s pleasant upon awakening to reach for socks instead of sunscreen. And to have…
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Arise, ye prisoners of dehydration
The rain continues. Clearly the gods have finally heard our sniveling here in the northernmost reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert. UnRealtors throughout the…
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Dry rivers and damp bibs
Another day, another record. The Duck! City reached a high of 95° last Friday, and boy, did I feel every degree of it heading back to the rancho from the Rio…
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Which way did he go?
There’s enough bullshit in the media for Texas to open a branch office. And you’d still have enough left over to start two law firms and a…
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Rio sans pulse
If the Rio had a pulse yesterday, I couldn’t find it. Our local water wizard, John Fleck, noted Wednesday that the Bernalillo County Water Utility…
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Bear sign
Here on this mountain top, oh-oh-ohI got some wild, wild life — “Wild Wild Life,” Talking Heads “Wild wild life.” You ain’t…
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Ballot blocks
We vote. But not by mail, not in the strictest definition. Yes, we receive our ballots via the U.S. Postal Service, but only so we can fill them out at the…
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Aqua, man
There seems to be a theme to the news this morning. A drought-stricken Colorado river is drying up. The water in Cañon City and northern El Paso County tastes…
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Digging my way out
It’s been a week since I got sprung from jury duty and I’m (a) still slightly bemused by the experience, and (2) not particularly interested in…
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Insert laugh track here
While I was wading through the Great Dismal Swamp of Justice last week I needed something to make me laugh. Thank Dog for Rory Scovel. I can’t believe I…
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R.I.P., Frank Beard
Frank Beard has followed Dusty Hill backstage, leaving Billy Gibbons as the Last OG Standing in ZZ Top. I don’t remember who put me hip to ZZ Top…
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‘A grave matter’
I beg to urge you, everyone:life-and-death is a grave matter,all things pass quickly away;each of us must be completely alert:never neglectful, never…
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Latrine duty
Thanks to one and all for standing guard outside my little shithouse this week. I was called to jury duty again, and this time they actually required me to do…
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Open thread
Don’t bother calling the John Laws … they know where I am, even if you don’t. It’s been a long week, and bloggery has gone walkabout…
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Marvel-ous
Why is a Steelman Eurocross better than a BMW 7 Series? Well, for openers, it’s a Steelman Eurocross. And you can’t just slide on down to your…
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‘Worry’
Another day, another record. Yesterday’s high of 101° pipped the previous record of 100°, set all the way back in 1944, when America was still fighting…
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Aw, nuts
When it came to nut up or shut up, guess what Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina did? Lemme give you a hint: They won’t have…
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Who peed in the pool?
Ho, ho. I needed a good laugh today and Jeanine Pinot Noir delivers: In an extraordinary motion filed Friday evening, the U.S. attorney in Washington, Jeanine…
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Take the highway that’s the best
This morning I was getting my kicks on Route 66. I’ve been trying to mix things up a bit lately, do something out of the ordinary at least one day per…
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‘Yeah, but it’s a dry heat. …’
What a difference a day makes. Or even a few short hours. On Friday I rode down to the bosque because why the hell not? I was sick of all my usual foothills…
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Slinging in the rain
Looks like I picked the right day to sleep in. I woke up way too early — 3 a.m. — then rolled over and went back to sleep until 6. Miss Mia was not amused, and…
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It never rains, but. …
We’ve been enjoying the occasional sprinkle in late July, all told about a half-inch of moisture in our dusty little corner of the sandbox. Sure helps…
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And a-one, and a-two, and a-three. …
Ouf! And you commenters thought hitting the “Continue Reading” button was bad. Look what happens when I hit the “Continue Writing”…
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Lose the boner pills, dickhead
Jaysis fook, he’s off on 2020 again. Can someone please tell the senile sonofabitch that those little blue pills won’t give him an election?
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Comments gone wild!
A quick housekeeping note: Some of you are seeing your comments on posts multiplying like parasites in a Taco Hell salad. I’m looking into it and will be…
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Grasping at (red) straws
OK, lemme see if I have this straight. … A fascist “leadership” that has installed felons, eejits, bullies, tools, and fools in positions of…