Happy 61st anniversary of nothing terribly interesting happening down in the deserts of southeastern New Mexico, and let me take this opportunity to reprise one of my all time greatest hits: Roswell Myths Crash Into Reality:

In conventional historical research or journalistic exposé, says Brandeis University anthropologist Benson Saler, successive investigations fill in details and amplify previous work.
“Key elements in the early stories are not usually contradicted in later stories, but more details are filled in as each story emerges,” Saler and Brandeis colleague Charles Ziegler wrote in a new Roswell book co-authored with New Mexico scientist Charles Moore. “The Roswell story does not display this pattern.”
Each successive account of the Roswell Incident by UFO researchers contradicts the previous as the storytellers battle for control of the tale.
There is divergence, not convergence.

RIP Karl Pflock

“Reality is a sandwich I did not order.”

– Zippy and Zerbina

New Mexico politics quote of the week:

I can honestly say I think I would recall being cited for urinating in a bush. And I don’t think I would urinate in a bush at a police station.

Jerome Block, in today’s Journal

So you’re in a product marketing meeting for a major toy company that’s developing an Indiana Jones Special Edition Mr. Potato Head. And you are pure inspiration: “Why not call it `Taters of the Lost Ark’?”

A product cycle later, you walk into your local K-Mart, and there it is. How cool would that be, to be the guy who came up with “Taters of the Lost Ark“? I know I would die a happy man.