For those of you who think Texas is bordered by Arizona, you’re wrong!  Between Texas and Arizona lies a big glump of mostly barren, sparsely populated, possibly radioactive land called New Mexico. Albuquerque, affectionately abbreviated to ABQ, is the largest city in the middle of said glump and not very far from areas that might just glow in the dark. (Oh, hi NSA.  No, no. Just silly me rambling on with light-hearted  stuff for a little ole blog post.  Ha ha. You know me, old and light-hearted.  Just kidding.  Really. Ok…I’ll move on.)
Breaking Bad fans, you heard ABQ (That’s Albuquerque, remember?) and immediately thought of the show, right? Let’s talk. DISCLOSURE – I’ve never seen one single episode of Breaking Bad, not one!  You see, I have the Golden Supreme (i.e. cheapest) cable package and AMC is in the Platinum Premium (i.e. squeeze more $ out) package.  Thanks a lot, Direct TV. Yeah, yeah, I know there are probably ways to download/stream hulu or voodoo or yoohoo Breaking Bad episodes, but I don’t have a 12 year old handy to do that stuff.
So, here’s my celebrity-adjacent claim to fame.  I ate the very guacamole that figured prominently in one of the final season’s shows.  Wait, there’s more!  I bought the guac at the very restaurant where the episode was shot and (pant, pant) bought it from the very waitperson who played “second lady at the bar” and said, I quote, “It was awesome!”  Whoooo…red carpet-adjacent.  Oh, and I have the rare eBayable  “obituary” for  Walter White which appeared in the ABQ Journal (not to be even remotely confused with  The New York Times even though they’re both still printed on paper.)
And guess what I have on my kitchen table under a pile of grocery flyers, junk mail, and Halloween candy wrappers?  A genuine ABQ Journal supplement all about Breaking Bad with an honest-to-goodness map of nondescript places around town which are now famous!  Thanks  Breaking Bad.  Stop by and I’ll show you the car wash, strip mall, sleazy motel, and high school which have been forever touched by stardom like movie sites in the Hollywood Hills.

I’m ready for my close-up now.  Guacamole, anyone?