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When hackers attack

2013-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My web host informs me that someone has been trying to access El Chuqueno through a brute force attack. I’m

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More on It’s All Good

2013-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say about It’s All Good: Platitude that covers so many emotions and situations

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El Paso. It’s all good.

2013-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I know it’s impolite (maybe even unpatriotic to the point of treason) to be critical of the current regime in

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Inmates run Maryland prison

2013-04-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Just like in The Wire, maybe, Season Six. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers

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Know the Lowrider

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“We spend more on our cars than we do on our houses,” Larry added. Larry is a member of Our

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Mercado Cerrajeros in Juarez, the durable consumer good graveyard.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s off of Libertad, in La Chaveña. ” like an elephant graveyard for consumer goods.” (read more at What’s Up.)

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It’s extremely insensitive to steal the guy’s wheels when he’s dead under the truck.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Some time during the night, an unknown person reportedly removed Goodyear Wrangler tires, two Ford factory aluminum wheels and the

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I say handball, you say rebote

2013-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In English we call it handball. In Spanish it’s rebote a mano con pelota dura, or rebote for short. They

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Buses to bars

2013-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Despite El Pasoans’ reluctance to take, or even talk about, the bus, Sun Metro seems complicit in a plot to

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Were you violent? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is a significant correlation between the use of leaded gasoline and incidences of violent crime. [L]ead emissions from automobiles

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Are you fat? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I heard this a year ago as we were slipping through the dappled shadows on Gavilan Canyon Road, listening to

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The Kentucky Club

2013-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club, just over the Santa Fe Street pedestrian bridge in Downtown El Paso, is easily El Paso’s most

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Trust the Church

2012-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Catholic Church, god bless them, are the official arbiters of morality, as far as they’re concerned. So it’s a

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Drug War Mexico and the Narcoeconomy

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend of mine who might know (and therefore should remain anonymous) says that the government in Mexico runs the

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Camping at Franklin Mountains State Park

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The Franklin Mountain State Park is reportedly the largest urban wilderness park in the continental United States. There’s no word

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Killer DIY Drone

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E

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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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Street robots

2012-12-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.

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Brand Tribalism in El Paso

2012-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of

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