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VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 24 | JUNE 13-19, 2019 | FREE | 2019 13-19, JUNE | 24 | ISSUE 28 VOLUME ILLUSTRATION BY JOHN FLYNN JOHN BY ILLUSTRATION FUNNY TIMES IN NOSTALGIA A CONVERSATION ALBUQUERQUE PIZZA IS IN WITH VAL JAMES ARTS: PAGE 10 FOOD: PAGE 14 MUSIC: PAGE 27 DEADLIFTING FACTS SINCE 1992 1992 SINCE DEADLIFTING FACTS Every year weekly alibi gulps, chews and sips its way through the jungle of great eats and drinks that is the Albuquerque food scene to bring you CHOWTOWN! Here’s your chance to get a seat at the table. Call (505) 346-0660 ext. 248 or email [email protected] to place an ad Advertising Deadline: June 14 On Stands June 27 alibi THE LARGEST ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY IN NEW MEXICO. [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 JUNE 13-19, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] alibi VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 24 | JUNE 13-19, 2019 EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: Devin D. 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In all those years STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: on me. I liked him a lot. He was one of my and in all those sermons, I have heard Eric Williams [email protected] CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: best friends. exactly three references to LGBTQ humans. Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Nate Hewitt, When the ’80s came along, and with that Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, One of those was an incidental and Jen Sorensen decade the militant gays and lesbians insignificant reference to them and one was demanding attention and change, my opinion SALES a brief list of statistics about the spread of SALES DIRECTOR: started to change, and I do not like being AIDS. The third was a sympathetic request Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] told what to do. You can’t pass a law making ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: from the church pastor asking for prayer for Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] thoughts and opinion against the law. 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Anyone caught removing papers in bulk will be prosecuted on theft charges to the fullest extent of the law. Yearly subscription $100, back issues are $3, Best of Burque is $5. Queries and manuscripts should include a self-addressed stamped envelope; Alibi assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Association of Alternative Newsmedia [4] WEEKLY ALIBI JUNE 13-19, 2019 virtual course at high speeds. The course involved a series of technically challenging ODDS turns and a speed-limited zone. The driver was also tasked with making a controlled stop at the end of the course. The report found that the driver performed his best while listening to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off.” Researchers said AND ENDS that round was “smoothest in terms of speed WEIRD NEWS consistency,” and the course was completed only two seconds slower than when compared to a Dateline: Iceland control round in which no music was played. Authorities at a swimming pool have gone to While listening to Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble,” great lengths to make men stop drying their the driver overshot the finishing stop by four car scrota with communal hairdryers. According to lengths. While listening to Bach’s Goldberg Iceland Magazine, the practice became so Variations, the driver completed the course 12 widespread at Sundhöllin swimming pool that seconds slower than the control lap, and his Haraldur Jónasson, a patron at the pool, wrote speed fell to 35 miles per hour in a 50 miles per an article titled “This Is Not a Ball Sack Dryer” hour zone without his awareness. The worst for the local newspaper Fréttatíminn. In the performance was accompanied by Slipknot’s article, he denounced what he deemed offensive “(sic).” During this round, the driver took a full behavior at local swimming pools, highlighting 14 seconds longer to complete the course, and how some men at Sundhöllin were using his throttle movements were reportedly less complimentary hair dryers provided by the pool controlled. The researchers used the data to to dry their crotches. The article presumably had warn drivers that while listening to heavy metal an effect on staffers at the pool, because a was linked to the subject’s worst lap, the dangers laminated sign was soon posted that depicted a of listening to classical music while driving are cartoon image of an elderly gentleman propping comparable. one leg on a countertop to expose his scrotum while aiming a hair dryer at the area. A Dateline: Sweden translation of text accompanying the image A Swedish company has proposed introducing reads: “Don‘t dry your ball sack or your butt with hundreds of pogo sticks to San Francisco, the communal hairdryer in the swimming pool London and other cities as a transportation or the gym. Bald older gentlemen with hairy option to rival electric scooters. CBS News torsos must either bring their own blow-dryers or reports that start-up company Cangoroo just buy a more absorbent towel.” announced last month that it would be deploying several hundred pogo sticks to select Dateline: Israel cities in a bid to compete in the micro-mobility A man is accused of robbing two banks with an vehicle market. Company officials say they plan avocado. The Times of Israel reports that a to send the pogo sticks to the Swedish cities of resident of a Bedouin village allegedly robbed Malmo and Stockholm this summer. They plan two banks last month in nearby Beersheba, on launching the sticks in London and San stealing nearly NIS 30,000 ($8,300).