New Mexico is a medium sized state nestled between Arizona and Texas. It is also one of the four corner states and, with those two exceptions, there is nothing notable about New Mexico. Serious. The “Welcome To Our Very Humble State” Visitors Center talks about all the things to see and do...in Colorado, Texas and Arizona. The state's main attractions are all based on history – a not-so-subtle admission that the present is uninteresting. The state bird is the Roadrunner, a creature stolen from neighboring Arizona. The state motto is even less inspiring: “Grow as it goes.” Try waiting around for that. Yawn. If you're from the Land of Enchantment, please don't take this the wrong way; you're state was probably once very engaging. Probably. Maybe. Possibly. Anyway, today New Mexico is boring. Yes, boring. New Mexico is so boring...
...Illegal immigrants have been known to run south across the border.
...M.C. Hammer lost "it" in Albuquerque.
...It's biggest claim to national fame is to have sponsored a presidential candidate.
...It's biggest claim to literary fame is D.H. Lawrence. You can visit his ranch outside Taos and see a small painted urn with his ashes. It's five dollars admission.
...It's biggest claim to artistic fame is the Museum of International Folk Art, featuring beautiful sculptures made in places other than New Mexico.
...It's biggest claim to state pride is beating Arizona to statehood by a month. Die copper state!
...Nobody bothered to mark the border between Old and New.
...The only thing that is burned in effigy is a large paper mannequin.
...The designers of Route 66 decided this stretch of country was lonely enough.
...Most historical “artifacts” are actually just dead.
...Even the historical artifacts are bored.
