Ah poor, poor tragically beautiful and misguided Jessica Alba. She's gone and got herself on the fighting side of my fair New Mexico. Or more specifically, the Duke City.
As reported by Jim Belshaw last week in his ABQJournal opinion piece.
From the article:
"Ms. Alba said: 'In Albuquerque there's really only one restaurant that's pretty good. You can only take Applebee's and Chili's so much. Our big day was hanging out at Wal-Mart for five hours. It was like, 'Yea, Wal-Mart!' '''
Ok, fair enough. I embrace the state of my state's own rasquacheness, however, I found it an odd comment about Albuquerque. I mean, there's more than THAT to do.
Well, to parrot Paul Harvey, now for the rest of the story…
Seems this young lady was a guest of the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in preparation for her latest movie release, "The Eye". This was her time in New Mexico to which she was referring.
See, the funny thing is, NMSBVI is located in Alamogordo, not Albuquerque.
Now, I could get my Land of Enchantment up, all in a dander on behalf of BOTH Albuquerque and Alamogordo.
But why? Over the weekend, I talked a lot with my friend about how New Mexico is growing way too fast. Lots of those dang Californians (like me) selling their overvalued houses and buying up less expensive land. And bringing our bad attitude with us.
I figure Ms. Alba did us a favor, right? It's good PR. Yeah, folks, the state's largest City has only one, like, good restaurant. And only Wal-Mart for entertainment. That's right! Who would want to live in a place like *that*, eh? Move along folks, I hear Idaho is fabulous this time of year.
Thanks Jessica! You just keep on being our PR agent. kay?
*Hugs*,
The fine people of New Mexico.
Oh, and here's some love from Google maps! Enjoy!
