Actually, Bugs Bunny was being unfair. Albuquerque is a lovely place and that’s where I am for Bubonicon 42 where I am slated to be Guest of Honor. Tonight I’ll be taking in an Albuquerque Isotopes games (a baseball team named for the episode of “The Simpsons” where the Springfield Isotopes were relocating to New Mexico, thereby removing the state from consideration as one of the places where the Simpsons home town is.) And tomorrow I’ll be doing a store appearance at a comic book store, Astro-Zombies, from 1-3, before the convention actually gets started.
I brought a minimal amount of stuff to sell, but if anyone ever wanted to buy the script to my episode of “Ben 10: Alien Force,” you’ll have the chance.
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I got my B.A. from the University of New Mexico and lived in Albuquerque for seven years. It’s a beautiful town.
Make sure you take the left turn.
Hmmm… and then maybe a right at La Jolla…
Ðámņ… Ðámņ.. Ðámņ…. Will working a memorial service for a unm history professor from 1-4, guess I will have to go to the con
Actually, Albuquerque was the place Bugs always failed to turn left at. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TUwHTfOOU
The “I’m DYIN’ again!” line was Hoboken. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maXBBQe1928&NR=1
I was in Albuquerque for a week last June, where the company I worked for had a screening for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Pørņø. The people were incredibly friendly, and the dry heat was nice, though I forgot to wear a baseball cap once or twice, which lead to headaches.
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Peter, if you get a chance, take the tram up Sandia Peak. The view is just beautiful. If you don’t believe me, the pics I took are here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sandia_Peak_Tramway
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The first 94 pics are mine, and even just driving up to the tramway base was cool, because it was the first time I saw an actual tumbleweed roll by! It was amazing to actually see something that I had only see in TV and movies up until then. (This was the first time I had ever visited another timezone in the U.S.)
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But wasn’t it Hoboken that caused Bugs to say that? (Though far be it from me to prescribe such a reaction to the city of my birth….)
Luigi-
We went there when we were out there for the Bowling Tourney about two years ago. It was beautiful and well worth the trip
Kath
the dry heat was nice,
That it is, but be careful. I got accustomed to it quickly and learned to love it, but the first week I was there, I had the worst nosebleed of my entire life. I seriously got woozy from blood loss.
Fortunately, this time of year the air up north is fairly dry as well, so it probably won’t be too much of an inconvenience.
Nosebleed?? From the heat? I’ve never heard of that.
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But yeah, you do need some cover, or at least I do, cuz I’d get a headache otherwise.
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I still can’t get over how friendly everyone was when I went there two years ago (not last year, as I incorrectly stated above). Normally when I’d recruit in NY or NJ, I’d get a good percentage of people that would just pass me by without saying anything in response to me when I tried to ask them if they’d like to come to a free movie test screening. But in ABQ, most people stopped to listen to me, even those who politely declined. There were maybe one or two rude people whom I could count on one hand, but all in all, the friendliness of the locals was one of the nicest things about ABQ.
Dryness can lead to nosebleeds. When I lived in Vegas, while not ridiculously frequent, they were more common year round than when I’ve lived in moister climates.
Oh, okay, I didn’t see that Jay Field already said that. Sorry.
I’d be more concerned about a convention named Bubonicon than I would about Albuquerque … or Hoboken, for that matter.
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But have fun!
Um … testing, testing. I know I’ve been absent a bit lately, but invisible as well?
Yes, yes, yes, I know that’s where Bugs should have turned left, and Ho-BO-ken was where he flipped out about when he discovered the penguin’s true home. I was watching those cartoons before most of you were born. I just thought I’d mush the two of them together to make a funnier headline. Sheesh.
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PAD
Went I was in grad school in July ’06 the university send me there to present a paper in an IEEE convention. I remember everybody complaining about the heat but comimg from the tropic I thought it was great because I wasn’t sweating at all.
If you like meat try Tucanos Brazilian Grill in Central Avenue. I do not know if it has change but it use to be all you can eat for $27.
Tony-
We ate there last time we were in town. I loved it. Nice place and really good food.
Kath
“Albuquerque” was part of Weird Al’s encore when he played Wichita in 2008. The whole song. Helluva treat, considering he’d previously stated that it was too long to include in prevoius tours.
I’ve been through the actual Albuquerque a couple’a times too. When approaching it from the west at sunset — Pizarro would’ve had an aneurysm if he’d seen that. Totally a “city of gold”!
Wish I could be there!
Wildcat
“Albuquerque” is one of Al’s “style parodies”. If you can find it, give a listen to the song that inspired the style – “Ðìçk’s Automotive”, by the Rugburns.
Cool. I like “Ðìçk’s Automotive”. (I like other Rugburns’ songs like “The Fairies Came” and “Single Life” and “Gold’s Gym Guy” even more.) I’ll have to track down “Albuquerque” now.
“Albuquerque” is the last track on Running With Scissors (the album that leads off with Al’s Star Wars song, “The Saga Begins”).
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It may be a little disturbing that I knew that off the top of my head…
Go ‘Topes!
I believe they’re filming Fright Night out there right now, so if it’s good enough for Evil Ed, that’s good enough for me.
I drove down to ABQ today and met Peter @AstroZombies. He signed a few comics for me and I learned that Red Sox fans and Mets fans have something in common. Thanks.
So what’s your answer to the official New Mexico state question, namely ‘Red or green’?
Green for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
If you got up to Santa Fe, I’d tell you to go eat at the Blue Corn Cafe. One of my favorite places to eat, and at one time they actually opened one here in OKC. Then closed it six month later. Sigh.
TAC