Just in NM to visit my friend Brian and his partner Michael. They have a great new mid-century sixties house/complex near the University. They both had work deadlines, so I had much time to read and hang out, which was nice.
Went to The Frontier across from the University and had Western Style hashbrowns (green chile and cheese), a cinnamon roll (all butter), and a burger the next visit. They make tortillas there as well. And I learned![]()
elysesewell worked there, too. We had study groups there in college. So awesome that they don't even have a website. And they're always packed. I bought a t-shirt, since I couldn't bring green chile on the plane.
In the food arena, also went to Los Cuates and had sopapillas and more green chile. Awesome, and they do have a website.
Dragged Brian to see High School Musical 3, which he had somehow sadly missed. It's set in Albuquerque, and oh-so realistic. How did he miss it? I remember when we did million dollar musicals and Juilliard reps came to see us in our high school musicals, which some people had to miss for their three week long, three month early special orientation at Stanford. Sigh. We went to the dollar theatre!
And it snowed. Flurried. Cold.
I read Susan Cheever's memoir "Message found in a Bottle", which could have been a pamphlet, yet was not.
I also read James Thurber's "My life and hard times", which was a pamphlet almost, but a humorous one. Local color. I really want to read "The Thirteen Clocks" after hearing about it on NPR.
And I listened to all of Taylor Swift's album "Fearless" and I have to say I enjoyed it. A few songs I'll listen to more. Folky-ish, and some catchy songs--two things I like.
Sad to hear that Blake's Lotaburger gave $25,000 to Yes on 8, so I could not have a Lotaburger or a cherry shake. Take that, Blake! Cinemark, which gave a lot of money as well, controls two of the biggest movie houses, too.
Brian and Michael had an enormous open house on Sunday, and it was packed. I chatted for a long while with a woman I hadn't seen since 1989, when were both students at UNM. She's teaching there now, making theater, travelling, and has two kids. Tempus fugit.
I have been watching the videos for Kings of Leon "Sex on Fire" and "Someone like you" on my nano, since I'm developing a thing for the lead singer (who has a great rock voice) and the drummer. They're related, so that kind of makes me feel dirty...but I'll get over it.
And I learned I'm not a huge fan of Las Vegas. I've been to the airport twice now; it doesn't really make me want to visit the town. Of course, if we were judging by airports, I'd want to go to Charlotte, North Carolina for the enormous rocking chairs.
Last night I watched the German movie "Locked Up" that came in from Netflix. You can probably miss it. It's thinly disguised porn. Really bad acting, in the gayest prison you've ever seen--it looks like they just auditioned in gay gyms for anyone willing to take of his clothes. And the "American" guy has a full-on, unmistakable British accent. Kind of hysterical, if it weren't just boring. The deleted scenes showed that they weren't miming anything. Even in German.
Went to The Frontier across from the University and had Western Style hashbrowns (green chile and cheese), a cinnamon roll (all butter), and a burger the next visit. They make tortillas there as well. And I learned
elysesewell worked there, too. We had study groups there in college. So awesome that they don't even have a website. And they're always packed. I bought a t-shirt, since I couldn't bring green chile on the plane.In the food arena, also went to Los Cuates and had sopapillas and more green chile. Awesome, and they do have a website.
Dragged Brian to see High School Musical 3, which he had somehow sadly missed. It's set in Albuquerque, and oh-so realistic. How did he miss it? I remember when we did million dollar musicals and Juilliard reps came to see us in our high school musicals, which some people had to miss for their three week long, three month early special orientation at Stanford. Sigh. We went to the dollar theatre!
And it snowed. Flurried. Cold.
I read Susan Cheever's memoir "Message found in a Bottle", which could have been a pamphlet, yet was not.
I also read James Thurber's "My life and hard times", which was a pamphlet almost, but a humorous one. Local color. I really want to read "The Thirteen Clocks" after hearing about it on NPR.
And I listened to all of Taylor Swift's album "Fearless" and I have to say I enjoyed it. A few songs I'll listen to more. Folky-ish, and some catchy songs--two things I like.
Sad to hear that Blake's Lotaburger gave $25,000 to Yes on 8, so I could not have a Lotaburger or a cherry shake. Take that, Blake! Cinemark, which gave a lot of money as well, controls two of the biggest movie houses, too.
Brian and Michael had an enormous open house on Sunday, and it was packed. I chatted for a long while with a woman I hadn't seen since 1989, when were both students at UNM. She's teaching there now, making theater, travelling, and has two kids. Tempus fugit.
I have been watching the videos for Kings of Leon "Sex on Fire" and "Someone like you" on my nano, since I'm developing a thing for the lead singer (who has a great rock voice) and the drummer. They're related, so that kind of makes me feel dirty...but I'll get over it.
And I learned I'm not a huge fan of Las Vegas. I've been to the airport twice now; it doesn't really make me want to visit the town. Of course, if we were judging by airports, I'd want to go to Charlotte, North Carolina for the enormous rocking chairs.
Last night I watched the German movie "Locked Up" that came in from Netflix. You can probably miss it. It's thinly disguised porn. Really bad acting, in the gayest prison you've ever seen--it looks like they just auditioned in gay gyms for anyone willing to take of his clothes. And the "American" guy has a full-on, unmistakable British accent. Kind of hysterical, if it weren't just boring. The deleted scenes showed that they weren't miming anything. Even in German.