My Wife does this blogging thing called Friday Feast, one participant mentioned, her used bookstore in Denver. Curious my wife asked about it, and we finally made a trip up to visit. We loaded up a box full of books that we had finished reading, mostly hers since I like to keep mine for re-reading if they’re good, and made a day of being in Denver.

The Attic Bookstore is a cooky place for sure, with more character than you’ll see on your first visit alone, you’ll have to go back. If you miss the animatronic Frankenstein, and Wolfman, or the alien baby fetus in the sci-fi section, look again.

The owner has a system of credit setup where you earn credits based on what you bring in, Sci-fi, general fiction and I think Hardback, maybe more. You get to use credits for each genre if you’ve earned them, else it’s cash-n-carry. We didn’t get much Sci-fi credit this last visit, so I’ll be going through my library finding those books that while good, aren’t going to get re-read, and we’ll head up to the store again.

My wife and I are avid readers so this place is likely to become a place we visit frequently, especially since we’re both light railing it up from the ‘burbs for work every day.

If you’re in Englewood and have some previously loved books to trade in, stop in and say hi. The two cats are nice, and friendly too!

Korea House is probably not a restaurant you know about. It’s tucked away in a small shopping plaza at the southwest corner of Glenwood and 28th. You can’t see it from the street. You’d see a gas station instead. You’d see The Bookworm and the Sew-Vac center. And if you went west on Glenwood you’d probably see Good Use’s new location. But you wouldn’t see Korea House unless you turned into that parking lot and continued two doors past Good Use.

It’s teeny-tiny, family-owned, open six days a week (not Sunday), and oh so good.

Actually, what’s oh so good is the Kim Chee Chi Gae. I can’t rightly comment on anything else because that’s all I ever order. I go in there with a laptop, I sit at the two-top next to the electrical outlet along the right-hand wall, and I take about an hour and a half to eat. I’d probably take that long even if I wasn’t working on my laptop, because the food comes to the table burn-yer-mouth hot and even the mild version can take the coating off your soft palette. However, I have become adept at relying on the sesame-kale salad and the pickled bean sprouts, rather than endless refills of Coke, to cool myself off between bites of tofu, pork, scallion, or daikon, or spoonfuls of molten lava broth.

I went in there yesterday for something like the first time since 2007 arrived in diapers and a bow. That’s going on seven months now since I was last there, probably more. And I had a different laptop, the ancient dinosaur-like Compaq Contura from 1994 which I use to write on when my Dell Inspiron is in the shop for repairs, which it is. I sat at the same table as usual, though. Maybe that was the clue. Maybe I have a memorable face. Or maybe the proprietors are just that good.

Because the hostess/waitress/restaurant owner went to give me the menu, then paused, and said, “Kim chee chi gae? Mild?”

Out loud, I said, “Yes, thank you. And a Coke.”

Silently, in my head, I was saying, “Damn you’re good.”

Obviously I need to go more often than twice a year.

Mark your calendars folks, the Adobe AIR party bus is coming. It’ll be in Denver July 20th.

It should be a cool event, and the bus looks really freakin’ cool.

They’ll be at Mile High Station
2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue
Denver Colorado 80204

Don’t forget to bring your laptop

Save the date, since I’m not going out of the country, I’ll see you there!

My wife and I, and another couple headed north to Denver on Friday, the occasion (not that we need, other than getting out of suburbia), was Brett Butler at Comedy Works. We love Comedy Works, and when the Greenwood Village one opens, the Denver one will be that much nicer we think ;)

The emcee and opener were both great, we’ve seen them both before the last time we hit a show, Brett was as funny as we thought she’d be, it was a great show. She did run over, really really over, but hey, when you’re laughing, who’s looking at watches? I suppose people with dinner reservations are, but no one else.

My wife had the foresight to make our dinner reservations well after the show was supposed to be over, ‘just in case’ which was good since the show got out, five minutes before our reservation at La Fondue.

Who doesn’t like Fondue? I’d never own a set for the house, but it’s just that much neater when waiters are doing the work of mixing the yummy dipping goodness. Fondue is one of those indulgences we visit upon our selves once every few months, since it takes that long to stop feeling like we just ate an entire cow a piece.
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