Exile in Portales

The solstice occurs at 1716 hrs GMT today... which is 1016 hrs here on the beautiful High Plains of New Mexico... and that means summer is o...

David McCullough, quoted in the WSJ (in an article about the gentleman) : 'We're raising young people who are, by and large, histori...

From redwings.com : DETROIT – The Red Wings got their man when legendary defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom told team officials last week that he ...

One of the greatest things about blogging... mebbe even the BEST thing, aside from the "unburdening"...  is the people ya meet and...

Note the wind.  That is all.

Occasional Reader Rob sends along the following... That DOES resemble SN1.  Sorta.

We have a cat problem here at Beautiful La Hacienda Trailer Park... exacerbated, in part, by clue-free asshats who leave the lids on the com...

Just in from the local likker locker (Alliteration Я Us) where the following transpired... 20-Sumthin' Cashier:  Hello! YrHmblScrb:  Hi...

From the NWS in ABQ: West to southwest winds will increase today across New Mexico and moreso on Sunday. Sustained speeds on Sunday will ran...

Frequent EIP readers may have noted our tendency to provide favorable reviews on the contents of our humidor, what with us never having publ...

Today is the day " something happened " 33 years ago and it's a day full of wistful, self-pitying remembrances of Former Happ...

Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, and Patrice Bergeron on the Today Show : Via the usual (hockey) source , where it was noted "Geez, a full tw...

A pastel sunset... That's just as it came out of the camera and is pretty close to reality as I saw it... and it's the best of abo...

Some of these scenes are painful... unless you're a Bruins fan.  Coz there's only ONE Stanley Cup champion. Next year, bitchez.  ...

Well, hockey season is over and the way things are going it looks like we may not have a pro football season... not that I'd give a big ...

Here it is... just after 0900 hrs as we type... and we're workin' on our last cup after returning home from a re-supply mission out ...

 ... the start of tonight's Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, which is still two and a half hours away, as we speak.  But we are sui...

It's a well-known fact to EIP's Occasional Readers that I'm less than enamored with cats.  Most of the time.  Then there's t...

From the (other) usual source : Fire Destroys Flying Fortress: The crew of Liberty Belle, a vintage B-17G Flying Fortress operated by the ...

Sumthin' tells me we wouldn't get along.  Dunno why... it's just sumthin' .  But Hey!  The chick has 6,667,926 views, so i...