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PBS Frontline: Targeting El Paso

2020-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Make Yourself Heard

2019-10-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

You know how our City Government doesn’t like to be bothered by the citizens at their meetings. Well, now they

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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Sunday Matinee: Mafia

2019-09-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a seventies blaxploitation movie that was made in 2012. Starring Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and the melting Terminator guy.

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Does He, or Doesn’t he?

2019-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

There has been some speculation lately about Mayor Margo’s motives for endorsing some of his political positions. An ethics complaint

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A Private Letter To Paul Foster

2019-05-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, Uncategorized 8 comments

If you’re not Paul Foster, please stop reading this. Pablo, Can I call you Pablo? I mean, it’s just us.

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The Old Mexico Border

2019-04-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a cool photo essay from the New York Times about the territory that bordered the U.S. before the Mexican-American

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Joe Bonamassa and Tina Guo

2019-04-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s easier than it looks. Watch this video on YouTube

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The Future: Smaller Stadiums

2019-02-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem with a 50 year plan is that things change, as noted in this article from Axios: After years

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The Mayor On Wikipedia

2018-08-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that Mayor Margo has a Wikipedia page? It’s a little sparse. Maybe you could make some edits.

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“Market Value”

2018-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Today the County Commissioners are giving themselves a four percent raise. Here’s how Precinct 4 Commissioner Andrew Haggerty justified the

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Sunday Matinee: Anon

2018-08-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a movie starring Clive Owen as a detective on an omniscient police force trying to stop a hacker who

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Poop Doubt

2018-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I recently discovered in a Barnes & Nobel restroom that nerds are terrible shots, which

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Sunday Matinee: Maigret in Montmarte

2018-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here, for your viewing entertainment, is teevee movie. Looks pretty decent, so far. Watch this video on YouTube Check it

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More To Love

2018-05-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Check out this piece in the Washington Post, part of their You’re Going Where? series. I forgot my passport, but

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And That’s The Truth

2018-05-02 GC Adams Uncategorized 6 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Honesty is the best policy. Or is it. I have a friend who is so

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Expanding My Uni Verse

2018-04-16 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I’ve decided to immerse myself into learning a new language. Martian was my first choice

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That’s the Ticket

2018-03-26 GC Adams Uncategorized 5 comments

Watch this video on YouTube During today’s walk, a Code Enforcement vehicle stopped in front of me and a woman

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Happy Birthday, Ida Lupino

2018-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Ida Lupino would have been 100-years-old today. She was the first woman to direct a film-noir, The Hitch-hiker, which I

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Saturday Matinee: Guardians of the Night

2018-01-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s Men in Black. With vampires. In Moscow. http://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/district-attorney-will-not-file-charges-for-alleged-violation-of-open-meetings-act/687658317 Check it out, if you’ve got an hour and a half

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