Julia Goldberg's Blog

• and then it was july

  It's been a very strange and turbulent summer. There's the weather: afternoon monsoons coupled with morning rains and chilly nights. It doesn't quite feel like Santa Fe.
  And there's the added workload, some of which is not exactly voluntary but some is and, at any rate, it is what it [...]
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  Posted: July 06, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
  

• If you can't stand the heat

  then don't go outside. That's pretty much my current mindset. I'm in Tucson, Arizona for the annual AAN conference and I'm pretty sure it's at least 100 degrees outside. I don't really care how hot it is digit wise, all I know is it's so hot that when I' [...]
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  Posted: June 24, 2009, 3:32pm EDT
  

• happy anniversary

  The Reporter's 35th birthday is coming up, and I'm hoping to include lots of feedback on Santa Fe's past and future in the upcoming issue. To wit, I've created an extremely easy five-question survey. Fill it out, and your opinions, thoughts and creative ideas may be published on June [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 9:48am EDT
  

• My Sister's Marathon in San Diego

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  Posted: June 02, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
  

• Terminator 4 Needs Salvation

  
  
  In 1984, a world rendered apocalyptic as the result of machines fighting back against the people who created them had enough metaphoric foresight to do what good science fiction can do—capture your imagination and make you think.
  
  In 2009, it's really not enough to' [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2009, 4:04pm EDT
  

• Send money, now

  No, that's not an order. Don't you love it when people ignore their blogs and then the minute they post again, it's all, "send me money, send me money."
  I don't really want you to send me money. But it would be cool if you'd send my sister some.
  My' [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
  

• Don't Quit Your Day Job

  Although I think I captured the boy well. [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2009, 2:11pm EDT
  

• down to the wire

  I didn't watch The Wire when it was on TV, despite the urgings of many people, some of whom even understand my aesthetics and tastes. I figured I'd watch it someday or not at all.
  And then I got my second bout of the crud and was so [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
  

• fooled again

  I'm usually the loudest when it comes to spreading the gospel of Santa Fe spring: "Don't think it won't snow again," you might hear me saying to some easily-deceived-by-a-day-nearing-70-degrees person" or, perhaps, "just you wait until the winds pick up!"
  Anyway. I, too, was hoodwinked by last week's warm weather." [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2009, 12:15pm EDT
  

• emerging

  Despite my best efforts to avoid the sickness that spread through our office last week (which included constant handwashing and opening doors without touching them), on Friday the sickness began. I spent most of the weekend sneezing violently and shut in my house. I took every decongestant on the market [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 6:55am EST
  

• Protesting Too Much

  I'm not sure I have it in me to read yet another story/obit arguing for the importance of newspapers and singing their swan song. Much as I love journalism and revere newspapers (and, of course, make my living editing one), the decline of print media at this point could' [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2009, 10:41am EST
  

• evidence of mental malfunction

  On Friday I woke up to no hot water and, upon further inspection, a big-ass flood. As the workmen worked and Nero ignored them (as in, did not even get off the couch as plumbers traipsed in and out), I decided to do the only reasonable thing a person could [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 4:31pm EST
  

• On Cerrillos Road

  Me: What, no comeback?
  Boy, while driving five miles under the speed limit: No, because you're right.
  Me: Oh yeah?
  Boy: At least more right than I am. Any argument I make now wouldn't be based on fact. I could say that vegetables have feelings...
  Me: Then you'd be arguing' [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2009, 6:53pm EST
  

• Everything I Learned about I Life I Learned From Watching Zombie Movies With My Boyfriend

  1. Corporate domination over society will result in most of humanity turning into the walking dead.
  2. The government will be complicit in such corporate domination.
  3. If everyone tries to escape through a single exit from a city, go the other direction.
  4. Trying to videotape apocalyptic events is [...]
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  Posted: February 01, 2009, 8:42pm EST
  

• sleepy friday

  
  The boy and the dog, circa this morning, as I left for work. In their defense, the boy had just worked a 12-hour shift and the dog had almost chased a rabbit in the field half an hour earlier. [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 10:48am EST
  

• Yet Another Facebook Energy Suck

  Among facebook's many disturbing traits, it sometimes spawns various meme-like lists that are much harder to pretend you haven't seen than the ones that used to come via email. The latest, 25 random things about me, came to me earlier today. And since it came via Samia, one of my [...]
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  Posted: January 27, 2009, 4:22pm EST
  

• Relief Like No Other

  
  Better than finishing my taxes or getting into grad school or driving down Agua Fria in a blizzard without crashing—the sense of relief I experienced as that helicopter took the Bushes away to Texas was enormous. And, yes, I know that was barely a sentence.
  Most [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 11:39am EST
  

• Maybe Denial is a Reasonable Strategy

  I spoke this morning, briefly, with a woman who told me she feels very optimistic about 2009. I told her she's the only person I've spoken with who feels that way, and that everyone else I know (and don't know) seems to think things are going to be grim.
  She' [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 10:45am EST
  

• tonight

  THIS WEDNESDAY at 8PM
  
  Geeks Who Drink pub quiz at...
  Catamount Bar & Grille:
  125 E. Water Street, Santa Fe
  
  Featuring The Reporter's very own Editor: Julia Goldberg as Celebrity Guest Quizmaster!
  
  
  
  
  Does it cost anything to' [...]
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  Posted: January 14, 2009, 4:37pm EST
  

• halfway there

  
  My favorite thing about this NY Times article on Nat Hentoff's departure from the Voice is the photo.
  As a lifelong struggler with clutter and paper-related chaos, this photo makes me think that maybe my natural impulse, which is to just stop trying to be' [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2009, 9:24am EST
  

• Eich bin Americanish

  Or something like that.
  I have returned from Switzerland, where I: ate lots of chocolate, ate lots of cheese, drank tons of coffee, drank lots of wine (my tolerance for alcohol in Europe is 20 times what it is in New Mexico; I'm working on a scientific explanation for this).[...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2009, 6:11am EST
  

• holiday hooplah

  Woke up this morning with a song from Hair stuck in my head (stuck in my hair?). Times like that I realize what a murky soup my brain must be. It wasn't the Aquarius one, but the one about "especially people/who care about strangers/who care about evil/and social injustice!"
  God' [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2008, 11:02am EST
  

• Worry Warting

  I know, in theory, that I used to drive in the snow without a care in the world. I commuted three times a week to Albuquerque when I was in graduate school, regardless of the weather. I even sat on the side of I-25 one night in the midst of [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2008, 2:39pm EST
  

• And what is a humbug anyway?

  People always assume that I hate the holiday season. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe there's some kind of Aristotelian syllogism going on here.
  Cynical people hate holidays
  Julia is cynical
  Julia hates holidays
  
  I actually don't hate holidays and, in particular, I don't hate Christmas. Why should [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2008, 1:17pm EST
  

• College of Santa Fe Drama

  continues to unfold at a rapid rate. Here's Zane's latest update. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2008, 8:51pm EST
  

• dystopic morning

  There's nothing I like better than a grey rainy morning when I don't have to leave the house and can putter around with books and coffee and a sleeping dog.
  Too bad the world is going to hell in a handbasket.
  I asked my mom, who just called, about terrorist [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2008, 11:43am EST
  

• Today's Best Email Spam Subject Line

  Is Your Ex Looking For You?
  
  Response: No, Internet, they pretty much all know where I am. [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2008, 1:19pm EST
  

• over the hump

  I caught a terrible cold on Sunday. It was sort of odd. The boy and I have been going to the CG3 on Sundays. He lifts weights, or something, while I run on the indoor track. We were on our way out when I sneezed. And sneezed again. And kept [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 8:28pm EST
  

• Nothing is Wrong

  
  Note: glazed expression, but still keeping up on the eyebrows.
  
  I keep having the vague feeling that Barack Obama stole my summer. One minute it was hot and sunny, light until 9 pm and I spent every spare minute hunkered down in my dark house [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2008, 11:15am EST
  

• Feeling strange

  I tend to have delayed reactions to things. Last night, I was sort of in a fugue state, obsessively watching TV, attempting to say hello to people, carry on conversations and then document what I could (which was sort of a failure, as the video below will demonstrate). I'm guessing' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2008, 9:04pm EST
  

• has time stopped?

  Cuz it kind of feels like it has. We're on deadline. It's the quietest election day I can remember. Usually the phone is ringing off the hook with people having problems. Of course, a lot of people early voted and numerous organizations have set up hotlines for people having problems, [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 12:42pm EST
  

• Happy Halloween

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  Posted: October 31, 2008, 11:50am EDT
  

• Halloween Get Down!

  Looking for some great music for Halloween? (I personally need a good soundtrack while putting on my costume).
  Check out the latest from the ever-awesome DJ Rocque Ranaldi: a It's The Great Funkin' Charlie Brown!. For those of you, like me, who were sad when Indie went off the [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2008, 11:17am EDT
  

• [nt]

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  Posted: October 29, 2008, 9:39am EDT
  

• well, hello

  As several people have questioned me about my blogging absence, before supplying the requisite, "you must be really busy," I decided to drop in and say, yes, I have been very busy.
  But busy isn't really new. I think I have actually been sort of mentally overwhelmed; it's a great [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2008, 5:23pm EDT
  

• ODing on politics

  In the vernacular of political junkiesm, I think I'm hitting my limit. I've been writing SFR's political endorsements for five days. In between I: argued with a Republican friend, early voted and saw W (which I thought was not a good movie). I don't really know why the endorsements seem [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2008, 9:23pm EDT
  

• Yay Zane

  
  Zane Fischer, SFR's web editor, columnist and art critic, is profiled today by The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, in its How I Got That Storyseries. AAN is profiling first-place winners from its annual contest. Zane won first place for column writing in our circulation category [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2008, 12:58pm EDT
  

• Goodbye Club I

  
  
  Live in Santa Fe for a few decades and you get used to saying goodbye. Friends you love leave, restaurants you eat at close, politicians you regularly interview retire or get indicted.
  Nonetheless, there are a few constants in my life I [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 8:30pm EDT
  

• overheard

  Saturday Lunch:
  
  The Boy; I need a new calendar.
  Me: What do you mean? Like a wall calendar?
  Boy: Yeah, so I can write out my work schedule.
  Me: Well, they probably have '09 calendars out.
  Boy; Yeah, but I need one for now because mine just ran out.
  [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2008, 6:40pm EDT
  

• Lass gets Sierra Club endorsement

  and Block fails to respond. Also, just in from Dave Maass, the Secretary of State is consulting with the AG on Block's campaign finance problems. [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2008, 4:13pm EDT
  

• public displays of hysteria.

  This made me laugh. A lot. On the treadmill, no less. [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2008, 8:55pm EDT
  

• Hanging with Duvall

  
  Read about my failed attempts to talk politics with him here. [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2008, 9:46am EDT
  

• KBAC Questions Political Advertising.

  Gotta love them for doing this. [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2008, 4:22pm EDT
  

• Add it to your reading list

  If she could make every American read one book before the Nov. 4 election, Arianna Huffington would choose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
  To read more of my interview with Huffington, who comes to Santa Fe next week, click here. [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2008, 3:28pm EDT
  

• working out

  Tonight I went, as I do many nights, perhaps three, sometimes more, to the gym. I've done this regularly for going on 15 years because I am a creature of habit and just a teensy bit vain. The difference tonight was that I managed to talk the boy into accompanying [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2008, 9:18pm EDT
  

• 08 zozobra RIP

  Man, what a night. I'd say more but...I'm too busy trying not to collapse. Our gloom table was a big success—7 hours of non-stop catharsis!
  Zozobra: pre-burn
  
  Me, with Poppy Wilder, her friend and the boy, after we dumped the gloom into Zozobra! [...]
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  Posted: September 05, 2008, 8:58am EDT
  

• Don't Believe Everything Al Green Says

  
  So the blog of light is Al Green, which gives you both a sense of how close the boy and I were to his phenomenal show Saturday night at the Opera, and the limits of the iphone camera. I was attempting to take a photo that [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2008, 6:52pm EDT
  

• Can't say I miss the dirt

  So, it will probably come as no surprise to anyone that my gardening skills are non-existent. I went through a phase a few years ago (10, to be exact), when I wanted a real yard with, um, plants and stuff? So I spent a lot of money on tools and [...]
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  Posted: August 27, 2008, 11:09am EDT
  

• emo obama

  
  Courtesy of our copyeditor, via this link. [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2008, 3:09pm EDT
  

• chefs du jour

  
  The boy likes to cook, which is convenient since I, occasionally, like to eat but rarely feel like cooking. Jen's man also is quite the chef, so a few weekends ago I devised my most brilliant plan ever: An ironchef cookoff between our boyfriends!
  So [...]
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  Posted: August 25, 2008, 11:27am EDT
  

• Musharaff as a New Mexico resident

  I can't stop thinking about it. [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2008, 12:38pm EDT
  

• [nt]

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  Posted: August 20, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
  

• the vp shakedown

  Well I've put my buck in the office pool on who Obama's VP pick will be. I am not a sentimental fool, I'm just putting my money where my journalist's black heart is: Richardson as VP is a much more interesting story for me than Biden. So there. Plus I [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2008, 10:54am EDT
  

• midwest return

  My flight home from Chicago was as easy as my flight there: It left on time, was not full (I had empty seats next to me on both legs) and both also arrived early. Security was a breeze. Sheesh, even the baby two seats over was happy and never cried [...]
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  Posted: August 18, 2008, 2:29pm EDT
  

• is it winter yet?

  I apologize for having nothing to say. I blame it all on the crushing sinus headache I've had for nearly a week. It's a little less crushing right now thanks to my coffee/Musinex cocktail. I've been religiously sinucleansing and occasionally popping some Tylenol sinus, but staying clear of anything heavy [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2008, 10:21am EDT
  

• a sentence missing from journal north story today on Jerome Block

  As reported by The Santa Fe Reporter.
  Pretty lame, given we acknkowledged their reportage in the story. For the original piece in SFR, click here. [...]
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  Posted: August 08, 2008, 7:16am EDT
  

• post-bosf recovery

  
  Am slowly returning to normal. The party was a blast, and you can find video and more to come on our newly-launched web site. This picture of me looking at the camera while the governor drinks a margarita behind me seems kind of amusing to [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2008, 11:17am EDT
  

• Come on out. I'll be the one slumped against the wall.

  [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2008, 1:35pm EDT
  

• Best of SF—press run #2

  We. Are. Almost. Done. As. Am. I. [...]
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  Posted: July 21, 2008, 10:39am EDT
  

• overwhelmed by minutae

  This morning, on the radio, I complained about my recent inability to get any sleep. I'm a lifelong insomniac, but it's usually intermittent, whereas this summer it's been kind of non-stop. Have received much advice via email today, which I have boiled down to the basics: it's either hormones [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2008, 4:54pm EDT
  

• one step forward, one step back

  I was very gratified with the way both The Albuquerque Journal and Santa Fe New Mexican cited us when they followed reporter Dave Maass' story on Jerome Block Junior. They clearly learned of the story from our reporting, followed it as was appropriate, but also cited us as [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2008, 8:01am EDT
  

• lack of domestic skills revealed

  Approximately once a year, I grow weary of my own inability to do much of anything besides write and read and have what I have identified as ADU (Annual Domestic Urge). This year, the urge struck at about the same time as our award-winning writer Zane Fischer's birthday, so I [...]
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  Posted: July 01, 2008, 11:48am EDT
  

• Maybe it's biochemical...what's biochemical mean again?

  Now that I've come clean about my snarling contempt for SUV drivers, I thought I'd be upfront about another little quirk I've been keeping secret: I'm invisible.
  And I don't mean metaphorically. I obviously don't mean literally. I mean biochemically. Actually, I don't know if that's what I mean because [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2008, 9:46am EDT
  

• In Which My Lack of Niceness is Revealed

  
  
  Despite my ongoing quest for keeping an open mind, I have a little bit of a "thing" against people who drive huge, massive SUVs. Fortunately, for me, this is one area in which prejudice is acceptable, even politically correct these days. I'd like to say [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2008, 6:31am EDT
  

• but where's the rain?

  It's a windy blustery and intermittently thundering Sunday night. But no rain yet, though I wish it would rain and dispell some of the strange humidity that's been in the air all day. I spent most of the day cleaning the house, which has been sadly neglected what with all [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2008, 8:51pm EDT
  

• last night's block party

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  Posted: June 19, 2008, 3:33pm EDT
  

• on the block

  So tonight, from 5 to 9 pm, you'll find me and probably 5,000 other people in The Reporter's parking lot, Yes, it's time for our annual block party. If you haven't been before, come on over; it's lots of fun! I have been very busy and quite overheated, but [...]
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  Posted: June 18, 2008, 7:11am EDT
  

• the answer is blowing in the wind

  I spent so many years not believing allergies were a real thing (since everyone in Santa Fe believes in something, I've decided to be different and believe in nothing), that it's hard to reconcile myself to this indisputable reality: I have allergies. This morning I woke up, eyes sealed shut [...]
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  Posted: June 12, 2008, 8:26am EDT
  

• dental checkup

  Ten days after surgery, my mouth is healing well, says Dr. R. today. Really well, really fast, he said, sounding surprised. Much faster than he'd expected.
  'Well, I'm a really fast healer," I told him. Even I could hear the ridiculous pride in my voice. I mean, who feels a [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 6:58pm EDT
  

• OK, let's get serious

  I had dinner last night with Heather, Brad and Darius at, of course, the Cowgirl. The dinner made me realize a few things:
  
  1. I have never had a meal anywhere with Darius that wasn't the Cowgirl and this is his fault.
  2. I have been blogging for way [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 11:52am EDT
  

• back from philly

  A more detailed post to follow (I am wiped out from lack of sleep and my ridiculously early flight). In the meantime, check out how well we did at the annual awards.
  (the short version: two firsts, three seconds, one third and one honorable mention, aka, we rocked). [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2008, 5:04pm EDT
  

• Homecoming

  

  Apparently one can go home again, though it remains to be seen what
  benefit there might be to doing so [...]
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  Posted: June 05, 2008, 10:15am EDT
  

• Memorial Day

  Well, it's a Monday holiday, which means I'm not at work. We slammed on Friday to get everything done so that our Tuesday press deadline wouldn't be too rough. All that remains is to write the endorsement in the third congressional district, one task that has overwhelmed my thoughts for [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2008, 11:41am EDT
  

• primary countdown

  Is it over yet? No, not until I finish transcribing endorsement interviews and writing our endorsements. Right now, I'm trapped at my desk waiting for a call from Benny Shendo regarding his attempted outing of Ben Ray Lujan last night.
  Here's his official statement, which I just posted [...]
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  Posted: May 21, 2008, 5:13pm EDT
  

• things that need to happen

  Or, a "to do" list, with some things on the list seeming more appealing than others.
  
  1. Finish interviewing candidates for June 3 primary. Last interviews are tomorrow.
  2. Finish writing endorsements for nine contested races. Must be done by Friday, because Monday is Memorial Day and we are [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2008, 2:09pm EDT
  

• bugging tom udall

  I early-voted today to kill a few minutes before Tom Udall arrived to early vote. I had this fantasy that no one would show up to watch him vote and I could harangue him into telling me who he's supporting as a super delegate. I got nowhere. I think if [...]
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  Posted: May 17, 2008, 6:05pm EDT
  

• I really screwed up this week's video

  Like, spaced on adding the music track. Oh well. Such as it is:
  
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  Posted: May 16, 2008, 11:06am EDT
  

• Yay!

  AAN and Medill Announce AltWeekly Awards Finalists
  
  The finalists this year, selected from more than 1,400 entries and over 90 participating papers, run the gamut from investigations of errant public officials to stories about green living. L.A. Weekly leads the pack with eight winners. Washington City Paper and Santa [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2008, 6:25pm EDT
  

• The Paramount: RIP

  It was sad enough when The Paramount closed its doors. But this? This is hard to take.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted: May 14, 2008, 9:06am EDT
  

• The answer is blowing in the wind

  Oh wait, no, that's not answers blowing in the wind, just dust.
  I think I am on my way to becoming one of those folks who walk around with a face mask on. Particularly after my Friday night ride on the train to Lamy (the KBAC's soul train), where I [...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 2:12pm EDT
  

• this week's radio show

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  Posted: May 08, 2008, 2:52pm EDT
  

• A dozen interviews to go

  Just back from DC, I did the last thing I felt like doing, which was book my tickets to Philly for the AAN annual convention. I am leading an event called "speed bitching," which is not, unfortunately, just me complaining while on crack. Actually, I don't really know exactly [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2008, 2:30pm EDT
  

• weighted down by hair

  So here I am in Washington, DC, my need for coffee having overwhelmed my legendarily poor sense of direction such that I was actually able to map out a route from N street to K street. Look, Ma, I know the alphabet! I realize for most people being able to [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2008, 6:34am EDT
  

• Overheard in dallas airport

  Counter girl in yogurt shop: "are you from austrailia?"
  Me: "No."
  Girl: "Your accent sounds like you're from Australia."
  Me: Stony silence.

  Note to self: I'm not unconsciously speaking in an australian accent
  while in airports, am I? Or has that girl never left this airport before
  and thinks anyone without a texan accent [...]

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  Posted: May 02, 2008, 2:59pm EDT
  

• the latest from the sunport

  Here I am again at the ABQ Sunport Airport, or whatever it's called. I don't know if I actually spend a lot of time here, or if it just feels that way, but I am beginning to feel like a regular. In fact, earlier, the wireless didn't seem to be [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2008, 12:05pm EDT
  

• I should be packing. I should be ...

  I should be packing. I should be packing. I should be packing. I HATE packing.
  So...I know all this self-promotion is revolting and I am self-revolted, but if you have a chance, check out my Huffington Post post and buzz me up or fan me or whatever. I will [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2008, 8:53pm EDT
  

• ready, set, d.c.

  So, tomorrow morning I go to DC for the AAN membership committee meeting. I'm slightly bitter that I'm flying all day Friday, sitting in a meeting most of Saturday and then flying back Sunday morning. Bye-bye weekend. Oh well.
  If you haven't yet, please check our SFR's new election [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2008, 3:33pm EDT
  

• The Kanye West show

  I reached a few conclusions after the Kanye West Glow in the Dark show at Journal Pavillion Saturday (April 26) show:
  
  1. Kanye West may not be the "greatest star in the universe" as hyped during the show, but he comes close.
  2. The end of April is too [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2008, 12:49pm EDT
  

• make me popular

  So, I am now a blogger on Huffington Post, although I must confess I have no idea what that means or how it works. I guess I will find out. The one thing I'm fairly certain of is that it will go better if you all go here [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2008, 10:30pm EDT
  

• Yesterday's radio show

  Better late than on time...I mean never.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2008, 9:43am EDT
  

• the midwest & I

  I am one of those coastal snobs who thinks the midwest mainly exists as a place where one changes planes. I exempt New Mexico, at least Santa Fe, from this equation because, you know, Santa Fe is so unique and beautiful that, like most of us who live here, I [...]
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  Posted: April 20, 2008, 8:28pm EDT
  

• Take me to st. Louie

  Well, here I am at the sunport, blogging on my ailing sidekick. And
  apparently sitting next to someone who knows me. Can't wait to sleep on
  the plane! Hung out on the new train party last night. More later! [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 10:22am EDT
  

• say it ain' so

  My eyes tell me it's snowing. Snow fell on my head as I walked Nero this morning. But my heart? Say it ain't so, it says. Say it ain't so.
  I'm off to the radio station! [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2008, 8:40am EDT
  

• I think I'm turning Japanese

  No, I really don't think so. Unlike some people I've known, I've never had a fascination with any other culture or a desire to appropriate it or live somewhere else. I belong to no land and no one. On the other hand, Japan does have several appealing components: I wouldn't [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2008, 3:44pm EDT
  

• break it down, peeps

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  Posted: April 15, 2008, 3:20pm EDT
  

• this is only a test

  So the news today is that the FCC has approved a system so the government can send everyone text messages when there's some kind of horrific emergency. The brain trusts on the morning news shows were quick to point out how easy this will be because "everyone knows how [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 6:18pm EDT
  

• live to blog another blog

  Slate pretty much demolished The Times' weird blogging kills story. And it really begs the question: How does a story like this get published?
  Now this April 7 Albuquerque Journal story about one mother's crusade against anti-depressants, on the other hand, is an important and timely story. [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 3:12pm EDT
  

• overheard at the dentist

  So yesterday, while getting my teeth cleaned, the hygenist told me that she cleans inmates' teeth part-time at the prison. And that Wednesday, she would be cleaning accused cop-killer Michael Astorga's teeth, because all inmates get their teeth cleaned on their birthdays (prompting the not-very-liberal thought, on my [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 10:00am EDT
  

• taking my life in my hands

  The morning news people were all a twitter this morning over this New York Times article about how blogging may be fatal, which includes the wonderfully hilarious line:
  
  To be sure, there is no official diagnosis of death by blogging, and the premature demise of two people obviously [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 9:33am EDT
  

• hear hear

  Annoyed by Web sites' links? Me too. Click for a great article on just how annoying they are.
  And then click here to vote in the Best of Santa Fe contest.
  And then read this New Yorker article on the death and life of American newspapers. And [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2008, 9:48am EDT