Espanola, New Mexico

I have been reading with some interest the police blotter of Espanola, New Mexico. This was one town over from the one I grew up in, Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was equally strange for other reasons, and of course a lot more secretive about everything, espacially its suicides, cancer rates, and alcoholism.

Most local news seems to be about personal tragedy anyways (car wrecks, murders, fires, suicide, etc.). Stuff like alcoholism which is equally common is usually buried if reported at all. But with this blotter from Espanola, I ended up cutting a lot of the "detox reports" out of these blotters simply because they are so commonplace. What that leaves is usually the weird and bizarre behaviors that make for good reading. So much of them are simply sketches of stories that are probably much more interesting and frightening. there are a lot of more mundane entries, but much of it reads like an idea book from David Lynch or Quenton Tarrantino.