Route 96

Why hasn’t this been in a Robert Rodriguez movie yet? There’s a highway through the New Mexico desert called Route 666! We’d seen it marked like a prophecy on a huge road map on the wall of the Elvis Diner in Memphis, and we resolved over fried peanut butter and quaalude sandwiches to drive that [...]

We were totally unimpressed by Historic Old Town Albuerquerqueequegque, which is basically an adobe strip mall featuring historic T-shirt vendors, historic discount liquors, a historic pawn shop (we loaded up on historic $2 CDs), and the historic Montoya Cafe, whose fancy Mexican crackers were served with melted historic Cheez Whiz.

Besides UFOs, New Mexico is also near and dear to our hearts for a little something called the Manhattan Project, the birthplace of the bomb. The National Atomic Museum is on an Air Force Base with checkpoints and military police and everything, but is actually owned and operated by Sandia Corp–a subsidiary of DOW Lockheed [...]

Peter: “Use your head, Derek.” Derek: “I’m gonna use it to break the bridge of your fucking nose if you don’t drive me somewhere I can get something to eat!”

New Mexico: It’s The Newer Mexico Do you think they ever get tired of jokes like that in New Mexico? <–The picture they don't want you to see: me witnessing an alien autopsy, or Jonathan Frakes hosting a crappy special on Fox? You be the judge… (Don’t Go Back to) Roswell You may not consider [...]