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Macondo: Showdown at Socorro
Apr. 21st, 2010 06:54 amSocorro (pop. 8,879) is a 16th century town founded by the conquistadores at the north end of the jornada del muerto. It is by the Rio Grande, and the Indians who used to live there offered them succour, food and water.
Its 16th century suburb, across highway 81, is San Antonio, a tiny farm town whose population is "hard to pin down." It is the town nearest the White Sands Missile Range -- about 12 miles -- where the first atomic bomb was exploded. It's where you stay on the one day of the year when ground zero is open to the public. It's the place where no one was told that the bomb was going to be set off. Windows were broken, clouds of radioactivity engulfed San Antonio, but no one was evacuated. Its other claim to fame is the green chili cheeseburger at the Buckhorn, which beat down Bobby Flay's p***y version -- pickled red onions? mi culo -- on Bobby Flay's own TV throwdown.
( This weekend, the corrupt Hispano patrons of the Socorro electric cooperative were extirpated. The atomic age, the chili cheeseburger throwdown, modernity may have come to Socorro County, but the 16th century lingers on. )
The inherited caudilloship, the generations of corruption, the wage like four times the state average, the staff twice what is needed, the kleptocratic dirty tricks, all this can only be described as Torquemada Baroque.
Poder al pueblo.
Its 16th century suburb, across highway 81, is San Antonio, a tiny farm town whose population is "hard to pin down." It is the town nearest the White Sands Missile Range -- about 12 miles -- where the first atomic bomb was exploded. It's where you stay on the one day of the year when ground zero is open to the public. It's the place where no one was told that the bomb was going to be set off. Windows were broken, clouds of radioactivity engulfed San Antonio, but no one was evacuated. Its other claim to fame is the green chili cheeseburger at the Buckhorn, which beat down Bobby Flay's p***y version -- pickled red onions? mi culo -- on Bobby Flay's own TV throwdown.
( This weekend, the corrupt Hispano patrons of the Socorro electric cooperative were extirpated. The atomic age, the chili cheeseburger throwdown, modernity may have come to Socorro County, but the 16th century lingers on. )
The inherited caudilloship, the generations of corruption, the wage like four times the state average, the staff twice what is needed, the kleptocratic dirty tricks, all this can only be described as Torquemada Baroque.
Poder al pueblo.
