Remnants del ‘hood, El Paso — March 14, 2010 There ain’t much left. Mostly the pickins’. This was the Grand Highway, the Spanish Trail, the beginning of the end of the long journey from East to West or vice-versa, the tip of the arrow into the dart board that was Downtown El Paso. Interstate came and went around, […]
Town for sale, El Paso — Feb. 2010 From the movie The Border: Marcy (Valerie Perrine) : (Showing her Border Patrol husband brochures about El Paso, trying to talk him into moving there, at their breakfast table, in Los Angeles) Honey sometimes you gotta dream. Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) : (Pausing, furrowing his now signature brow) […]
Turtle/New Year’s Eve 2009, New Mexico Las Cruces New Mexico on New Year’s Eve 2009. Turtle, 17, born and raised in this southern New Mexico town. Apache. Defiant and alive. It was as good as Times Square. Better. 2010 Resolutions? Nah. Just keep looking.
Las Cruces, NM/Dec. 14, 2009 Juke boxes. They’re a “warm fuzzy,” no matter how you cut it. No? I just wanna dance. It’s the holidays. Time to dance. And stare at the wall (and the Web) and have luxurious long lunches (and personally enriching) with good friends, now, in the rush of my life, long overlooked. I’m […]
Musicos, El Paso — April 2009 Wary eyes. Everyone’s wary, in El Paso/Juarez, these days. The border is at war, with itself, with it’s two yin/yang sides, with the Interiors of each of the two sides. Everyone’s wondering where it’ll end, where they will fall on the have and have not scale, what’ll be left of this […]
