Dyslexic Man Storms Area 15 – No Charges Will Be Filed – Authorities “Feel Bad”

SMH:

A dyslexic man named Marc Arlington thought he would be joined by the force of 3.2 million people when he stormed Area 15 yesterday. He was disappointed when he arrived at a relatively empty government building in the desert and was quickly detained by a lone security guard.

...When asked whether or not he would go back to the real Area 51 raid on September 20th, Marc said he would try his best to make it. He said dealing with dyslexia and trying to stay connected on social media is a tough task. “My dyslexia has reached a new owl.”

The Insolence Of These Squirrels!

California Can Finally Have Nice Things

Now that the legislature has progressive supermajorities, California can finally have nice things:

None of this legislation would have been politically possible in prior years. “Dems had a very slim assembly supermajority before, but 2018 victories significantly expanded it, giving us more breathing room,” says David Atkins, Region 10 Director of the California Democratic Party.

He cites a combination of factors in this shift. First, Republican incumbents lost to Democratic challengers in places like SD 14, which is centered in Fresno and Bakersfield, and AD 38 in the hilly suburbs above Los Angeles. Some of this reflects changes in voting patterns. Orange County, the historic GOP bastion where Ronald Reagan’s political career began, now has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

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Last updated: March 7, 2023


Comedy caper; two would-be actresses are on the lam pursued by numerous factions. Starring Bette Midler, Shelley Long, Peter Coyote, George Carlin, John Schuck, Anthony Heald. Filming locations: Abiquiú, Albuquerque, Cerrillos, Santa Fe.


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Big building in big city - fencing

etc.

ABQ Sunport

Lake

Building - looks a bit like vacuum shop

Landscape with big mesa - N. NM?

Hitchhiking (34.841240°, -107.053593°).

Here are two photos taken not far from the hitchhiking location, at about (34.883298°, -107.061848°)

Near hitchhiking location, Outrageous Fortune.

Near hitchhiking location, Outrageous Fortune.

Back in N. NM again

Tres Cruces - Cerrillos - 1st St. & E. Waldo

1st St. near RR

Near river

Frank's Trading Post - where is this? - Isleta?

Motorbikes

Mesa - Abiquiu?

One Small Indiscretion (2017)

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Last updated: September 21, 2019


AKA: Fatal Mistakes. Thriller; a brief affair leads to peril for a woman's family. Starring Ashley Scott, Tiera Skovbye, Cru Ennis. Filming around Albuquerque.


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Aerial view of ABQ suburb - Tia Christina and Sherry Ann Rd. NW, view east, view north

9000 Tia Christina Dr. NW

9 years later - looks like northern parts of Rio Rancho, or Zia land.

Big white house - 283 Bazan Loop, Corrales, NM
Hardware store

Corner upstairs office

Dinner/House - 283

Neighborhood, past park, then school - TM

CNM (35.075599°, -106.624431°)

Home

Work

Turnaround point - Intersection of Camino Vega Verde and Bazan Loop

Neighbor lady -

Party in Fancy neighborhood

Tall building

Aerial view of city at dawn, looking south

Second Turnaround Point

Jail

My Way (I) (2012)

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Sunset Strip

etc.

Jessie McGarvey's house

Uptown Sports Bar and Grill

Market

Driving down street - Rio Grande Blvd. & San Francisco Rd. NW, heading south

Apartment complex - approximately (35.107673°, -106.665107°)

Gas station

Love's truck terminal - 6th St. & I-40 Frontage Rd. - preparing to head west.

Store in Lupton, AZ (35.358085°, -109.053138°)

Flagstaff train station?

Hotel Monte Vista

Missing You (2012)

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Romantic Comedy. A woman approaching 30 is faced with what her life has become. Starring Lauren Myers, Israel Wright, Merritt Glover, Phil Duran, Amy Jo Larsen, Eric Bodwell, Billy Garberina, Megan Pribyl, Patricia Thompson, Claire Caldwell, Victoria Culkin, Jeremy Owen. Filmed around Albuquerque.


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Houses

Cafes

Library

Old Town?

View of Office Building (35.089668°, -106.650267°)

Stair landing just south of Arno & Central - 400 Central Ave. SE

Scalo, Nob Hill Shopping Center

Market

Pool table

Apartment

French class

View of academic-type building

Elevator

Offices - in building of original view

Travel agent office

Neilmarie Salon - Hair salon
8252 Menaul Blvd NE Ste B
Albuquerque, NM 87110

Swimsuit shopping

Lieber's Luggage - Luggage store
6515 Menaul Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110

Bookstore

ABQ Sunport

"France" - arches

Roasted Bean Cafe
3120 San Mateo Blvd NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110

Special thanks to ABQ Academy, Bird Song Used Books, Fair N Square, John Sartin Designs, Koa Nalu Surf Shop
La Crepe Michel, Rio Grande Travel Centers, Inc., Scalo Northern Italian Grille, Stanford Public Health Office

Bird Song Used Books
526 Washington St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108

Koa Nalu Surf & Skate Shop
8254 Menaul Blvd NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110

La Crepe Michel
400 San Felipe St NW C2, Albuquerque, NM 87104

Rio Grande Travel Centers, Inc.
4331 Wyoming Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111

Stanford Public Health
2400 Wellesley Dr NE
Albuquerque, NM 87107

Mirage Men (2013)

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Quick view of Sandias

Manzano Base

Wagon Train Dr. SE (35.042877°, -106.499554°)

Paul Bennewitz's House

Satellite/Elsa Ross, 3511 Central Ave. NE

San Joaquin & Wyoming - Thunder Scientific Corporation - Wyoming Gate to Kirtland Air Force Base

View of Crest towers

Views of 4 Hills

Dulce, NM

View of the Sandias

Catron Ct. & Wagon Train Dr. SE

View of Sandias

NM Bank & Trust - which one?

Presbyterian Behavioral Medicine Center, 1325 Wyoming Blvd. NE.

Mountain road

Pagosa Springs sign - 36.904666°, -106.790740°

Ranching areas

View of Chevron

Flamingo

Project Gasbuggy - El Paso Natural Gas Co. - USAF Special Weapons Detachment 2

Alamogordo sign and museum

Flamingo, Pioneer Hotel, Colorado Belle - Laughlin? - UFO Congress (Not included on my map because hotel is apparently now under new ownership, with new signage, so unclear which hotel it is, but can probably be easily resolved.)

Dunes Mill Road

19th St. & Mountain, near old Nuclear Museum'

Looks like hangar at KAFB, but not entirely sure

Roswell - UFO and Alien Stuff Landing - Screen Printing - 205 N Main St, Roswell, NM, USA

Not of This World

Roswell Cover-Up Cafe

Laughlin again

Alien Sign on fence may be Manzano Base, stop sign,

Village Inn Pancake House

Manzano Base fence

Wagon Train Rd. again/ Laughlin/Dulce

Holloman AFB

(From earlier)
New Mexico Museum of Space History - Science museum
3198 State Rte 2001
Alamogordo, NM 88310

View of residences in ABQ

Road

Small Buttes

VLA

Buttes

Powerlines

Laughlin again

Lockdown (2000)

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Swimming

Bedroom

Street

Room 213

Driving

Encore Clothing 526; Cleaners 530 Washington St. NE

Lead Ave. overpass over RR, heading west

Turn at Menaul and Solano, Sonic Drive-In, 3800 Menaul Blvd NE

Hamburger place - Griff's Hamburgers

EB on Central

Swimming pool

Driving

EB passing Fair N Square Food store, 8020 Central Ave. SE

Passing Foxes Booze N Cruise

Bob's Western Wear parking lot - Wyoming and Central (35.073554°, -106.549937°)

Courtroom

Drive across river

State Pen?

Police Department in ABQ

Pen

Mt. Calvary Cemetery

Municipal Courthouse - Fourth Ave. SW - actually Amy Biehl HS

Lomas WB at once-existing ramp to NB I-25

Priceless (II) (2016)

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From imdb:
Hiway House Motel - 3200 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Kap's Coffee Shop & Diner - 5801 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA


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Powerlines/Desert Valley - Unser Blvd. near Dreamland's 'Get Out of the Car' scene (35.322343°, -106.696987°)

Heading back in the same place

Rainy freeway -

Rainy freeway - I-40 eastbound (35.062805°, -106.467766°)

Cabezon - from Highway 550 (35.695108°, -106.933027°)

Highway 550?

I-25 NB - near Sandia Pueblo

Desolate Road - Road to San Luis - (35.711588°, -106.940308°)

Convenience Store/Gasoline - Fill-Up - which one?

House - 13th St. NW?

Cemetery

Warehouses

Bar

Rail Yards (35.073963°, -106.649909°)

Grants 56 sign - (35.028902°, -106.962114°)

Running off road

Road near RR

Bobby Foster Road

Gas station/Convenience market

House again

Route 66 Diner on Central Ave.

Road to San Luis, in dark

Wind farm

View of city lights - Bobby Foster Road lower curves?

Bobby Foster Road near east end? - Probably not

Motel - diamond motif - Downtown Inn

Hiway House Motel - 3200 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

House

Cubbies Bar and Billiards - ?

Montages

Kap's Coffee Shop & Diner - 5801 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Kap's Coffee Shop & Diner - 5801 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Kap's Coffee Shop.

Dale's place - Cedar Crest?

House - 8907 Los Arboles Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Dale's

Nighttime cityscape - Bobby Foster?

Third & Central, NW corner

City walk

Bus ride

5th & Central - NE corner

Alleys

City street - McDonald's -

Chinese Massage - Rose Massage, 9012 E Central Ave. SE
https://www.yelp.com/biz/rose-massage-albuquerque

Taxi cab - where downtown?

Dale's

Interrogation

City views, including Dennis Chaves RR overpass

View of Park Plaza from north

Roma Ave. side of Mary Fox Park

Mary Fox Park.

Arrest/Raid

1-year - alley behind Jimmie John's - 3rd St.

Motel - Downtown Inn, 1213 Central Ave. NW, Albuquerque, NM. Room 124.

The Downtown Inn Pool.

Driving on Central near arch - Nob Hill?

Driving on road

Unser Blvd. ( 35.340858°, -106.694125°)

Ditch crossing

Ranch and ranch turnoff

Overlook

Special thanks, Calvary Chapel.

Kites (2010)

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Last updated: September 17, 2019


AKA: Brett Ratner Presents Kites: The Remix. Bollywood Action Drama, filmed in Las Vegas Nevada, Los Angeles California, and New Mexico. Starring Hrithik Roshan, Kangana Ranaut, Bárbara Mori.


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Intro Title - Unclear

Train siding in Lamy - (35.479803°, -105.883058°)

House

Cool looking desert - California?

Dance studio

Las Vegas

Ocean

Gino's

$42 - Rainy street - Eden's, Barney's

Lamy train station

Plaza hotel

Lamy

Plaza hotel

Linda's apartment, near Stratosphere

Valley of Fire

Remote building with clerestory

Zia bridge? No, bridge at San Ysidro

A second bridge. Looks like Highway 16 area, but there are no candidate bridges

Highway 16 - La Bajada turnoff. Chase starts

Dirt road.

Balloons. Where is this?

Jumping in river.

Jungly area

Mojave again

Bank - Alliance Bank of Commerce - Vegas or SoCal

Bar

Home

Motel - strange place - Bonanza Creek

In Valles Caldera - (35.838337°, -106.494618°)

Police bust in

Chase - where the heck? View of water tank. Don't know

Valley clinic - rock shelter

Parking garage

Music

Colorful diner

Big building

Border crossing

Office-type building

Adobe house

Mural

Valles Caldera again - House

Patio area - el rancho de las golondrinas

Chapel el Rancho de las Golondrinas in Santa Fe, New Mexico
https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2019/05/chapel-el-rancho-de-las-golondrinas-in.html

Valles Caldera again

Highway 16 area - BrBa's elm tree

Ranch road

Back in Lamy again - train station

LA or Vegas rain again

White Mesa Gypsum Mine, with fake ocean - (35.538762°, -106.807907°) - I guess it's a real ocean - the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, just no where the cliff is.

Pickup plunge

Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1993)

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Action thriller. An unjustly imprisoned man is released to penetrate a Mexican crime lord's stronghold to free his wife. Starring Sasha Mitchell, Kamel Krifia, and Brad Thornton, and Jill Pierce. Filming locations: Vista Clara Spa (Galisteo), Santa Fe Railroad Warehouse (Albuquerque), State Penitentiary (Santa Fe).


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Sante Federal Penitentiary. - NM State Penitentiary

Thailand scenes

Estate gate (35.416308°, -105.944972°)

Vista Clara Ranch Spa Resort, 40 Camino Vista Clara, Lamy, NM 87540 (Actually, close to Galisteo)

View of Central Ave. - Lorlodge, Milton's, etc. - from I-25.

3rd & Pacific SW

Martial Arts club

Rail Yards

Santa Susana Radiator & Auto Repair - San Fernando Valley?

Wallies

Calixico - unknown

Rats Love Hide-and-Seek

Science can be fun!:

Why did the rats play along? It’s possible that they were going after tickles and other social rewards. After all, for two decades researchers have known that rats enjoy being tickled and react by producing ultrasonic chirps that can be compared to laughter. But Reinhold found that once discovered, the rats would often run away and re-hide, delaying their reward and prolonging the game itself. “It seemed really playful,” she says.

She and her colleagues believe that rather than pursuing rewards, the rats were playing for the sake of it. They played because they had fun. For a start, and this is an unusual but welcome line to see in a scientific paper, “the animals looked like they are having fun,” the team writes. When they reunited with Reinhold, they frantically jumped on the spot—a behavior delightfully known as freudensprung, or “joy jumps.” They also teased Reinhold by repeatedly getting close and running away.

Civil War Cannonball Found

Cool!:

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A man stumbled onto a piece of history when he found a Civil War cannonball lodged in a tree he was hired to remove.

The tree on the Overfelt-Johnston house at Pleasant and Walnut streets was diseased and needed to come down.

The man hired to do that was chopping up leftover pieces when the small cannonball fell out.

"Because of where it was located at, the historical value of this piece -- it was a surprise. But at the same time, it was, like, wow," said Jeff Eastham.

It's Not Fair!

via GIPHY

Biden's Lies

Biden lies about important stuff nearly as much as Trump, and that bothers me. I clearly remember Biden’s statements regarding the Iraq War:

Biden did initially back a bill, along with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, which would have somewhat constrained Bush's capacity to launch an invasion of Iraq completely at his whim. But the Bush administration opposed the measure. One might have thought that such opposition would lead Biden to conclude that Bush insisting on not having any constraint would be a reason not to write him a blank check. But Biden ultimately voted for the legislation giving Bush the complete license the president wanted.

Elizabeth Warren Buttons

The folks one block over have a box at the sidewalk full of Elizabeth Warren buttons for all takers.

My favorite political button remains the Kennedy for President I found in 1976 while helping move a desk.

Pedestrian Deaths Are Soaring

An interesting mystery. Pedestrian deaths in the United States over the last decade are soaring, for no known reason.

Kepler's Dream (2015)

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Last updated: March 3, 2020


Family film starring Isabella Blake-Thomas, Holland Taylor, Sean Patrick Flanery and Keely Lynch. Filmed around Albuquerque and Santa Fe.


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Library

Stream - where?

Hospital - Gibson?

320 13th St NW, Albuquerque, NM, USA

NM Workshop

Moon

Home

Airplane - near ABQ volcanoes - Double Eagle airport

Hospital

Near Galisteo (35.418835°, -105.942450°) Interesting that yellow centerline of road - not present on current Google Earth images.

Ortiz Mountains

Ranch entrance (35.449622°, -105.914853°)

Ranch (35.429969°, -105.911880°)

Stream crossing - bridge to Zia Pueblo

Overcrossing of RR near Lamy (35.465274°, -105.899866°)

Riding Near Penasco Tank (35.594236°, -106.872326°)

Penasco Tank (35.593955°, -106.874497°)

Pool - Zia Reservoir (35.527132°, -106.756488°)

Ranch

Stream

Cemetery

Hospital hallway

Ranch

View of Cabezon from east side of Penasco Tank (35.594141°, -106.875199°)

Gibson Hospital

Thanks given to MacKenzie Fishing Excursions and Expeditions; The Reel Life, Santa Fe, NW.