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Turtle In New Mexico

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.

New Mexico Juke

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 [...]

There Goes Breakfast

Rooster man of Chaparral, NM – 2008 He has been raising these birds since he was a teenager. Fighters are they, he and his birds. Now, cockfighting is illegal in New Mexico. Outlawed. “Civility,” has come to the funklands. God help us. Now come the thiefs with pens. They been fighting this since Billy the [...]

Que Miras Musico: Change

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 [...]