La Sirenita – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Our friends, John Martin and Lynn Garner and I couldn’t help but laugh. There before our very eyes was the depiction of a meme come to life. In the dining room of la Sirenita was a papier Mâché reproduction of the bottom half of a mermaid. It reminded us of a meme we recently shared. That meme depicted a grizzled sailor marooned on a desert island. On the first panel of the meme the sailor smiled lasciviously as a beautiful and buxom mermaid approached the island. The second panel shows the sailor cooking the bottom half of the mermaid on a rotisserie. Yeah, it’s gruesome, but come on, it’s funny, too. The bottom half of a mermaid wasn’t the only…