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If you are a fan of Superman: You are a born nagual, it's natural for you to be powerful and mighty and you play dumb just to fit in. You like to dress up and help others as a glorified fireman. It's alright, you are level headed... you can handle it.
If you are a fan of Spiderman: You are a moron that trampled into power and you try to help others with your limited powers with a sense of duty but, unlike Superman, your powers are limited and you can't be everywhere at any time. As a superhero, your act is local at best and you get lots of **** by the media. You also have guilt trips for failing to live up to your unrealistic standards.
If you are a fan of Batman: You are the ultimate reactive psycho. You have no powers whatsoever so you train all day long and get all the gadgets, gizmos and aparatus that you humanly can to try to fight crime while thinking that every criminal you manage to capture and beat up is the high school bully that gave you blue nipples or that little girl that said you were ugly. Lots of long hours, you are seen as a psycho and pursued by the police.
If you are a fan of Kickass: You will hit your head with the door as you leave your room, fall on your back and die stabbed by a nail cutter.
And my personal favorite...
If you are a fan of Wolverine: You have no memory of who you are, you were tortured in a grotesque manner, you are pissed with the whole world, you have a bad attitude and if you occasionally help others is just to get them out of your face. Your main power is the ability to take infinite amounts of **** and punishment just to heal and get some more. You don't want to be a hero but circumstances make it happen. All you want is not to be hassled anymore.
Ain't that funny? hehehehe
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If you are a fan of the Joker: You are sick and demented. You have a very hard time being serious about anything. You have no power nor clarity whatsoever. All you want is to see the world (and the people on it) burn just to rattle people. You wear make up and cut yourself for your own sick amusement. Batman, the reactive counterpart, has a bonner for you and you love it. In the end of the day, you are just very sad and pissed and desperate for a hug.
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If you are a fan of the Hulk: You are the ultimate fart. You got the wrong genes and your power gets triggered in the worst of situations: when you are in a tantrum. You destroy everything around you in an apocalyptic manner, just to be deflated by a big breasted bimbo.
If you are a fan of Jean Grey: You were born all mighty, but the very people that was supposed to help you made you forget about your power and become a two-bit fortune teller with self-confidence issues. Eventually you came to your senses and, of course, started spitting fire balls at your former "aids". As they **** and piss their pants at the same time, they start to play nice and beg for forgiveness. Ain't that nagualicious?
In short: Jean is a psychobitch. Made as such and the only alternative, recaping, she'll never do.
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I personally had a craving for Catwoman. That black suit and mask was pure fan material. But I also say Superman was my hero!
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LOL...ah catwoman...that tail...those ears...the claws.
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Not to mention those sexy, unruly, eyebrows!!!
LOL
I really do dig them, though...
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Anyone know a good costume store?
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Birdland on Central Ave in Albuquerque...in the Nob Hill area.
It is awesome and the guy who owns it really has heart and soul...you'll know it by the brightly colored micro-bus totally bogarting the whole area of the smallish display window!
...but as of yet, as far as I know, there is no website.
Possibly a major drawback if you don't live in this desert of mine...but then again...there are too many other excellent reasons to travel to New Mexico to count on both my hands...
And no, I don't work for the local tourist bureau.
LOL
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Yeah Fellow New Mexican I wasn't goign to say anything (about your whereabouts) but since you brought it up...awesome. Yes I was born in Albuquirky, lived there much of me life, and, as matter of fact am soon returning there.
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oh, the Chinese name might throw you off...I'm not Chinese, I'm white, spanish, and native american but not necessarily in that order.
So I got all the races covered. If a white friend is upset with the hispanics I can say "yeah, damn mexicans" and if a mexican friend is upset with the whites I can say "stupid gringos" and if an indian friend is upset with both the whites and mexicans I can say "me too... pass the bong...I mean 'sacred ancestral smoking aparatus'." No actually I'm not that "in" with the NA. 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.
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.
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sigh...I'm such a ham...
No, but its great to talk with a fellow New Mexican, you got me going now, down memory lane a bit.
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I knew there was at least one other person here connected to NM...I am going to ABQ this Wednesday, as a matter of fact...maybe I'll have time to drop into Birdland...it is certainly safer in the financial sense than going to Hobby Lobby!!
egad.
I have family in the Bosque and it was my #2 home growing up...still is, too, considering I'm not even close to being done with that growing-up thing.
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lol, thats great You make me feel close to home reading your post, bel. Yes, I see with my 'powers' you come from the town with an 'artsy' name.
Hobby Lobby, yes I remember those 'vast empires' of stores.
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70 miles to the west!
Near the caverns and 3 hours from Mexico.
70 miles from Roswell...
which I call "Ra's Well"
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heh, I like that "Ra's Well". Been in that territory Roswell, caverns...etc, lived in Las Cruces for 8 years. I'm sure I've been to your town just I don't remember anything specifically. I've driven all over NM for work and for fun.
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Nu Lang wrote:oh, the Chinese name might throw you off...I'm not Chinese, I'm white, spanish, and native american but not necessarily in that order.
So I got all the races covered. If a white friend is upset with the hispanics I can say "yeah, damn mexicans" and if a mexican friend is upset with the whites I can say "stupid gringos" and if an indian friend is upset with both the whites and mexicans I can say "me too... pass the bong...I mean 'sacred ancestral smoking aparatus'." No actually I'm not that "in" with the NA.
This post and the one underneath it were not here when I read the others that came after...about Hobby Lobby and so on!
Yuku is sketchy...and it seems that it might be more of a character trait than the occasional bad day! Playing hide and seek-writ with these posts has been happening about once a week...here and there in the various forums about which I loiter and lurk...and so I just now had this new thought that perhaps Yuku is Coyote...and those were really enjoyable posts to read, too...the ones that had been hidden from view!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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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.
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I just got back yesterday! I thought of you when I was here and there in my roamings.
I didn't go to Birdland but I did finally go inside the Crystal Dove...do you know of it? It is a metaphysical shop on a northwest corner of Central just west of the interstate. It is white with blue lettering. It is an awesome shop, FULL of books and gemstones/rocks...and other wonderful things. I was just thinking to myself, wondering if she had any Castaneda books and I looked down and there were several right in front of me! I bought "The Wheel of Time" and another book by don Miguel Ruiz that is called "The Four Agreements Companion Book." It is kind of like a workbook, I guess, to go along with a book he wrote titled simply "The Four Agreements." I chose it instead of the main book because it seemed more concise and pragmatic...that is, more action than thinking. I don't lack the understanding conveyed in the main book but do want to understand how to apply, or maybe help someone else who comes to me, apply the simple but undeniable truth of the "Four Agreements."
I'm going to share what they are in a different thread, here at The New Seers, after I post this one.
We have to go back to ABQ right after Easter and I'm going back to that little shop, for sure!
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Hey that sounds fun! I don't know if I have ever been to The Crystal Dove...I have not been in Alb in about 6 years. But New Age book stores, yes I would go in them when I found them,...and NM has quite a few. The one I remember most is in Santa Fe, just down the road from my grandma's house, its called The Ark Bookstore, perhaps you know it? It would be hard to locate though, becasue its basically a house converted into a book store, and its not on a main street, so you literally have to know about it or someone tell you about it, in which case, if you are ever in SF turn right off St Francis onto Manhattan Ave (which is just before you hit the Alameda intersection) and drive down to the end of Manhattan and take a left and you should see the sign (house is on the right), if they are still in business.
Its a great atmosphere, incense burning, meditative music playing, cats and dogs roaming about with serene looks, possibly birds there too I don't recall though. I remember I bought my Alister Crowley book there called The Book of Lies, full of pages of interesting poetry-like word play he wrote, deep in meaning.
Besides book they have crystals, music, jewelry and clothes too and other stuff I can't recall. I just remember going in there was very relaxing and like entering another dimensional reality.
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