All about art, freeports, scandals, and a singing animatronic Christmas Chihuahua.

In which we prepare for the Great Estate Sale, and I disarm a Molotov Cocktail-qua-Barbecue Grill. (Great fun.)

In which we meet my parents, and how they had a chainsaw between Austen and Dickens.

In which I explore the career of the Bizarre Bernarr, who was more than slightly crazy, but always entertaining.

We go further into Placitas, and get hints of the talented Mr. Bernarr Macfadden.

In which I consider Placitas, NM, and the strange life and stranger death of Ulysses S. Grant/ Donald Waskey, marijuana rancher extraordinai

So last time I had us in Old Town. We had entered Old Town from the East, going through an elaborate arch that leads in from the parking...

We arrive in Old Town, Albuquerque’s oldest quarter, complete with Breaking Bad.

We’re off to Old Town...and I consider Albuquerque (née Alburquerque) and how the CSA didn’t do well in the desert.