The Evil

A 1978 Richard Crenna Film

Crew of the USS Tom Clancy,

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Matt

I wonder how long fingerprints remain on file with the New Mexico State Police if they’re attached to an unsolved breaking and entering complaint from the President’s office at the United World College of the American West

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A quarter century ago, you see, someone, who wasn’t wearing gloves, got drunk at the party DJ’d by a Serbian anarchist. Thenthey got the bright idea to shimmy out a second floor windowand crawl across the metal veranda roof of the Montezuma Castle until they got to the turret.

They then inserted a butter knife (procured from the dish-room next to the Chihuly Chandeliers) up the gap between the upper and lower bay windows. With just the right amount of patience and tenacity, one could maneuver the latch on the window, from locked to unlocked.

Then, palms against glass, one could push the window up and obtain entry to the office. One should have been wearing gloves, but in fairness, one was an idiot for much of their life.

From that point, it was only a matter of minutes to completely redecorate the office with a roll of toilet paper taken from the downstairs bathroom next to the portrait of King Hussein and Queen Noorin the lobby of the first property west of the Mississippi to receive the label “America’s treasure” from the White House Millenium Council.

That Council was an organization run by then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, established by Executive Order 13072 in 1998—two years before the year two thousand. The Montezuma Castle got the designation under Section 6 of that executive order:

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