03-30-2011, 12:00 AM
jezebel wrote:You know, I thought your name was something like a stylized code for "new language" or something like that. LOL
Nu Lang(uage)...I will have to explain why on another afternoon because it is a story unto itself...but I was *hearing* it instead of seeing it (as it is spelled)....I was thinking it was a cool shaman flavored name! It is almost an anagram of Nagual...except one of the a's should be an "n"...but probably you know this already!
The Nu Lang(uage) is cool, I like that. Yes, I did see it was almost an anagram of nagual, cool that you picked up on that too. Nu Lang is Chinese for She-Wolf. There is technically no word for 'she' in Chinese, there is 'ta' for he and 'ta' for she, lol. The only difference is how the character is, the pronunciation is the same. Thus I noticed when they speak English they often call men she's and women he's, I think thats because they assume the longer name must be for men, (a male dominant culture). Anyway, Nu actually means female. Lang is wolf.
I'm Scotch Irish but I was married almost ten years to a
"damn Mexican"...LOL...actually he and his family are really good people
and I gained from my subsequent immersion into the Hispanic
culture...in which I had been dog-paddling all my life, already...I am
definitely the minority here with my blue eyes and freckles! But I can
speak Spanish fair to middling and can understand it even better...but
I'm even more fluent in the cuisine...and that's what REALLY matters (imo!!)..I think most New Mexicans can understand "Red or green chile?"
in either Spanish or English just by osmosis...my mother-in-law didn't
speak English to me although she did speak it...but that is how she
taught me Spanish! Like a baby learns it!I have some Irish ancestery, which is what makes my skin so white I guess, plus my hispanic heritage is more from Spain, or all from spain (which I find hard to believe) plus my great grandpa was navajo and italian..apparently, lol. Nobody in my family can get their heritages straight. But my great grandpa spoke both navajo and italian and so its said he was that, plus he looked indian. But he died before I was born so I never could ask him. My great grandmas first language was Spainsh but she spoke English without accent. She began to teach me Spanish when I was little so I have a basic knowledge, which I often employ in China (instinct reaction...when I can't think of a word, Spanish comes out). Cool that you got to experience the Mexican culture first hand, and YES the food is awesome. I truly miss it. I miss the chili yes. Also, last night I was thinking of roasted pinons. My grandpa used to pull over on the side of the highway (possibly someones property, but more likely state property) and gather up pinions and then my grandma would roast them. Then came fall, chili season and the whole ordeal of roasting, peeling and freezing chili for winter...perhaps you have been through that ritual...hands burn for days, but chili lasts all winter.
And truly everybody gets along there famously anyway. If they would just all stop shooting at each other...but I digress. Plus... its the wild west so pretty much expect that.
Yes...we
are eccentric and wild yet warm and friendly...and it is still very
much the wild west in a very real sense...the energies have not
diminished much, especially away from the concentrated dwellings and
activities of people...out in the desert, there is no sense of
time...because it is the space part that dominates! Oh yes, and no place in america, except perhaps Arizona, compares to the space you get away from civilization/people...gorgeous! But the poeple are wonderful too, full of humor and craziness. Why just reading your posts here makes me realize I am not such an odd ball (by myself anyway), because I see in your posts the same zanniness in mine, so its just a New Mexican thing, lol. I sort of 'knew that' but forgot.
I truly
don't see how any other state in the union could ever lure me away from
New Mexico! I lived in Texas for a couple of months in two or three
instances...it sucked so bad in all ways just because it was not
NM...even when I lived right in the heart of Denton in DFW...right in
the middle of all the colleges around there...and something was always
going on...but I didn't have any fun...even though I did try.
Virginia lured me away becasue I had a sister living there, though she is new mexican born and is first and foremost NM. But her father was in Virginia so thats what brought her there and then me. I found it as a second home. The two places could not be more different. But each has its charm, if you are in southern Virginia that is (northern is far too urban and yucky), in south...Blue Ridge mountains, history and open land, though most of it is owned privately. But driving around that part of the state was a favorite pastime, just driving and seeing where we ended up. It was weird when I located Little Anita's restaurant in northern Virginia, they have a chain in New Mexico and in Virginia, the only two places.
Speaking
of comedy..I'll never forget when Howie Mandel came and did a show at
Isleta Casino...what a crazy night that was. He interacted with the
audience a lot and it was hilarious. He is hilarious! Did he do the little kid thingie?
Good thing he didn't shave his head back then...he's more menacing than funny without hair, imo!Are you kidding me! The kid thingie was the funniest part! He talked about how when he was on a date with a woman and wanted to "get it on" instead the woman would say "oh Howie, do the Robby voice" and he said he hated that, because he knew you can't get sexy with that voice..that its no way to turn a woman on. But they wanetd to hear it, lol. And he said to the audience..."how likely am I to get any action with that voice? And then he said some sexy pick up phrases, but using that boy voice and then he asked us "how sexy is that?" and it wasn't sexy but it was hilarious.
Then he interacted with the audience. There was this crazy woman who got on her chair and started doing a dance for him, and so he did the same dance back (mimicked her) and started making jokes about how weird we must all be, and then the people in the audience had to be comedians too. Like one guy, when Howie asked him what he did for a living he said "I heat em up and I cool em down" lol and Howie said "I take it sir you are in the heating air conditioning business?", and the guy answered affirmatively, but he had to get his joke in. By the end of the night Howie was saying how surreal the experience was for him. I think he enjoyed himself, that the audience surprised him..., like one guy just all of the sudden interrupted his dialog and shouted out "Brooke Shields" and Howie was like,"ok...ok, and he acted amused but stupefied, and said "what about Brooke Shields?" and the guy answered "**** the bed" lol, and Howie was like "what does that even mean? Brooke Shield...**** the bed" and he went into a long soliloquy about that and it was funny. I didn't know at the time thats an expression they use in NM, I had never heard it before...like instead of saying "son of a ****" they say "**** the bed" ??? lol
As far as comedy acts go, this was one of the all time funniest. Jeff Foxworthy came to Sandia Casino, I saw him, but it wasn't as raunchy and bizarre and when Howie did Isleta Casino. He told us he literally was just going to throw his material out and talk with us instead, which he did and it was great.
Nu Lang(uage)...I will have to explain why on another afternoon because it is a story unto itself...but I was *hearing* it instead of seeing it (as it is spelled)....I was thinking it was a cool shaman flavored name! It is almost an anagram of Nagual...except one of the a's should be an "n"...but probably you know this already!
The Nu Lang(uage) is cool, I like that. Yes, I did see it was almost an anagram of nagual, cool that you picked up on that too. Nu Lang is Chinese for She-Wolf. There is technically no word for 'she' in Chinese, there is 'ta' for he and 'ta' for she, lol. The only difference is how the character is, the pronunciation is the same. Thus I noticed when they speak English they often call men she's and women he's, I think thats because they assume the longer name must be for men, (a male dominant culture). Anyway, Nu actually means female. Lang is wolf.
I'm Scotch Irish but I was married almost ten years to a
"damn Mexican"...LOL...actually he and his family are really good people
and I gained from my subsequent immersion into the Hispanic
culture...in which I had been dog-paddling all my life, already...I am
definitely the minority here with my blue eyes and freckles! But I can
speak Spanish fair to middling and can understand it even better...but
I'm even more fluent in the cuisine...and that's what REALLY matters (imo!!)..I think most New Mexicans can understand "Red or green chile?"
in either Spanish or English just by osmosis...my mother-in-law didn't
speak English to me although she did speak it...but that is how she
taught me Spanish! Like a baby learns it!I have some Irish ancestery, which is what makes my skin so white I guess, plus my hispanic heritage is more from Spain, or all from spain (which I find hard to believe) plus my great grandpa was navajo and italian..apparently, lol. Nobody in my family can get their heritages straight. But my great grandpa spoke both navajo and italian and so its said he was that, plus he looked indian. But he died before I was born so I never could ask him. My great grandmas first language was Spainsh but she spoke English without accent. She began to teach me Spanish when I was little so I have a basic knowledge, which I often employ in China (instinct reaction...when I can't think of a word, Spanish comes out). Cool that you got to experience the Mexican culture first hand, and YES the food is awesome. I truly miss it. I miss the chili yes. Also, last night I was thinking of roasted pinons. My grandpa used to pull over on the side of the highway (possibly someones property, but more likely state property) and gather up pinions and then my grandma would roast them. Then came fall, chili season and the whole ordeal of roasting, peeling and freezing chili for winter...perhaps you have been through that ritual...hands burn for days, but chili lasts all winter.
And truly everybody gets along there famously anyway. If they would just all stop shooting at each other...but I digress. Plus... its the wild west so pretty much expect that.
Yes...we
are eccentric and wild yet warm and friendly...and it is still very
much the wild west in a very real sense...the energies have not
diminished much, especially away from the concentrated dwellings and
activities of people...out in the desert, there is no sense of
time...because it is the space part that dominates! Oh yes, and no place in america, except perhaps Arizona, compares to the space you get away from civilization/people...gorgeous! But the poeple are wonderful too, full of humor and craziness. Why just reading your posts here makes me realize I am not such an odd ball (by myself anyway), because I see in your posts the same zanniness in mine, so its just a New Mexican thing, lol. I sort of 'knew that' but forgot.
I truly
don't see how any other state in the union could ever lure me away from
New Mexico! I lived in Texas for a couple of months in two or three
instances...it sucked so bad in all ways just because it was not
NM...even when I lived right in the heart of Denton in DFW...right in
the middle of all the colleges around there...and something was always
going on...but I didn't have any fun...even though I did try.
Virginia lured me away becasue I had a sister living there, though she is new mexican born and is first and foremost NM. But her father was in Virginia so thats what brought her there and then me. I found it as a second home. The two places could not be more different. But each has its charm, if you are in southern Virginia that is (northern is far too urban and yucky), in south...Blue Ridge mountains, history and open land, though most of it is owned privately. But driving around that part of the state was a favorite pastime, just driving and seeing where we ended up. It was weird when I located Little Anita's restaurant in northern Virginia, they have a chain in New Mexico and in Virginia, the only two places.
Speaking
of comedy..I'll never forget when Howie Mandel came and did a show at
Isleta Casino...what a crazy night that was. He interacted with the
audience a lot and it was hilarious. He is hilarious! Did he do the little kid thingie?
Good thing he didn't shave his head back then...he's more menacing than funny without hair, imo!Are you kidding me! The kid thingie was the funniest part! He talked about how when he was on a date with a woman and wanted to "get it on" instead the woman would say "oh Howie, do the Robby voice" and he said he hated that, because he knew you can't get sexy with that voice..that its no way to turn a woman on. But they wanetd to hear it, lol. And he said to the audience..."how likely am I to get any action with that voice? And then he said some sexy pick up phrases, but using that boy voice and then he asked us "how sexy is that?" and it wasn't sexy but it was hilarious.
Then he interacted with the audience. There was this crazy woman who got on her chair and started doing a dance for him, and so he did the same dance back (mimicked her) and started making jokes about how weird we must all be, and then the people in the audience had to be comedians too. Like one guy, when Howie asked him what he did for a living he said "I heat em up and I cool em down" lol and Howie said "I take it sir you are in the heating air conditioning business?", and the guy answered affirmatively, but he had to get his joke in. By the end of the night Howie was saying how surreal the experience was for him. I think he enjoyed himself, that the audience surprised him..., like one guy just all of the sudden interrupted his dialog and shouted out "Brooke Shields" and Howie was like,"ok...ok, and he acted amused but stupefied, and said "what about Brooke Shields?" and the guy answered "**** the bed" lol, and Howie was like "what does that even mean? Brooke Shield...**** the bed" and he went into a long soliloquy about that and it was funny. I didn't know at the time thats an expression they use in NM, I had never heard it before...like instead of saying "son of a ****" they say "**** the bed" ??? lol
As far as comedy acts go, this was one of the all time funniest. Jeff Foxworthy came to Sandia Casino, I saw him, but it wasn't as raunchy and bizarre and when Howie did Isleta Casino. He told us he literally was just going to throw his material out and talk with us instead, which he did and it was great.