La Sirenita – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
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 unique art on La Sirenita’s walls. One framed painting depicted a rather disfigured Marilyn Monroe. Another portrayed a black woman in the throes of a foodgasm. More conspicuous than the artwork was the absence of other diners. While the bar was packed, the only other diners in the capacious dining room were two eight-year old brothers, one of whom innocently asked if The Dude was a poodle. Though our debonair dachshund was insulted (rightfully so), he has too much class…