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Author Archives: d4vid
Topology
Coming down the mountain from Cloudcroft, looking back at the Lincoln National Forest. I always think of New Mexico as a flat desert, but it the north has beautiful pine forested mountains.
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Apple
Kill it! Kill it with fire! Or, sweet heaven, will that only make it more deadly by making it more delicious???
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Covenant
Visited White Sands National Monument. Sand. As far as the eye could see. I let the grains slip through my fingers as if I had lifted them from the Ark of the Covenant.
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Highway
Coming down the U.S. Route 70 out of the Mescalero Apache Reservation, looking out at the White Sands and the San Andres Mountains beyond.
Posted in Alamogordo
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Unidentified
Visited Roswell’s International UFO Museum & Research Library.Um.Nice mural.Kind of an adorable design, really.Okay, now we’re getting to the crazy stuff.“Head Rest.” Clearly.Fox Mulder would be cringing at this point.This looks like one of those “There are 7 mistakes in … Continue reading
Containment
What do they have locked up in the Roswell Correctional Center? For the love of God, what do they have locked up?
Rewrite
When my friends & coworkers at DreamWorks tried to create the animation pipeline for Oriental DreamWorks, we went with a “line-one rewrite” of the entire pipeline. We wrote everything, from the first line of bash, from scratch. I regret this. … Continue reading
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Delight & Melancholy
Driving down a lonely New Mexico highway at dusk listening to “Wicked Game” filled me with a Lynchian sense of melancholy. My favorite feeling is delight. But I’ve also always found a certain delight in melancholy. Not all melancholy, perhaps, but … Continue reading
Archive
I had never heard of the Texas Archive War. And all over whether Texas’ capitol ought to be in Austin or Houston.
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Valor
With all the Civil War sites I’d visited on this trip—between Manassas and Gettysburg and Chickamauga and Chattanooga and Petersburg and Appomattox Courthouse—the idea that “both sides showed valor” was reiterated ad nauseum. After seeing the flag of the Confederate … Continue reading
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Lone
Toured the Texas State Capitol building. Flanking the entrance are statues of Sam Houston (who was notably the president of the Republic of Texas and, as governor of Tennessee and then Texas, also the only person to ever be governor … Continue reading
Lawgiver
I’m a big fan of the Alamo Drafthouse theaters. Apparently, each one in Austin is themed differently, Fry’s-style. The one in northern Austin near where I was staying was decorated with Planet of the Apes memorabilia, including this statue of … Continue reading
Cowboys
Visited the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Where else are you going to find a room full of rolling racks with hundreds of different kinds of barb wire on display? I understand this monumental plaster statue called End of … Continue reading
Militia
With the recent upsurge in domestic terrorism, it was sobering to wander the sight of the Oklahoma City bombing.
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