What’s a First Friday without the Nader weirdos? I dunno, I’ll let you know when I see one :)

What makes me really wonder is, Nader has to be 900 years old. Sure he was a viable alternative back in the day, but now it’s like propping up a corpse with a string around it’s wrist. Does Nader even know he’s “running”? And what happens when (unless he already has) Nader bites it? Will that be the birth of the Zombie revolution? Will it be the Naderites that unleash holy zombie horror on us, just so they have someone to vote for?

We started out at Arada Ethiopian \restaurant, and as you can see we hated every bit of our food.

It was great to get in one last First Friday before the weather turns nasty.

We even came away with a new piece for the house. It woulda been two, but one was sold already :(

It was a kick ass oil of an old Mac 56k (oops it’s a 128), at the FU Collective + Gallery. I was ready to pick it up right on the spot, but alas, the dreaded red dot on the label…

If you get a chance, check out the FU Collective, it’s a great group of artists, with a really cool reason for being. They even help a “starving artist” with front space in the gallery.

I didn’t see Alligator guy, I hope he’s still around.

If you haven’t hit First Friday, get on it. The first Friday of each month the galleries in the Santa Fe Art district stay open ’til 11 or so. There’s snacks, drinks, people, art. What more could you ask for?

Walked down to Larimer square today to take a look at the Chili cook off, put on by the various Fire Departments in the area. IT WAS PACKED!

I got there in the last hour, thinking it’d be less crowded, my mistake.

It was wall to wall people and firemen and chili. It looked like most bowls were about three bucks, and that went to charity in total or in part, I’m not sure.

The booths were really quite interesting and well done. No EAZY-UPs here boys and girls!

Ok well some. :)

The weather was great for the event too! Not too hot, not cold. Very nice.

If you didn’t make it down, make sure to hit up the

Larimer Square site so you can keep informed.

mmmmm chili.

So last night Ignite Denver took place at Fado Irish Pub. If you missed it, you really missed a good time.

We had about 100 people show up, and had 12 kick ass presentations!

The presentations are available on slide share. They don’t seem to be there now, not sure if there’s time involved. But you can find them with the tag ‘ignitedenver’

We’ll be holding another Ignite in about 3 months, so keep an eye out for Ignite News. Denver’s gonna be Igniting about every 3-4 months, there’s so much cool stuff to talk about, we’re not likely to run out of material!

Stay informed, read the blog

apparently the DNC is the perfect time and place to unveil some rather interesting “wall art”

The empty (I think) warehouse next door is sporting this little number

Then walking to the gym this morning, I spied this little guy on an old loading dock platform.

damn straight! The amount of Juice needed to propel a Delorean through time!

Hey all,

Just giving a shameless plug for the Metropolitan’s blog (since we’re locked out of our offices and can’t do a print version). We’ve been running around town trying to cover as much as possible, so if it’s not in this metroblog, you can get your DNC hit here

Stay safe!

My wife and I went for a walk last night downtown. Our purpose was two-fold.

1. get some fresh air, and see what 16th st looked like. Talk about a police presence. Man they were everywhere! i wasn’t sure I should feel safe, or trapped.

2. we had to mail a book for my wife’s paperback exchange.

We headed down to where we thought we remembered some Blue boxes being. Nothing.

Then we headed over to the Downtown Post Office, where we KNEW there were blue boxes… nothing.

What? We looked around and sure enough, there were cut bolts in the sidewalk.

Anyone else seen or heard anything about removing the blue mailboxes? I’m guessing it’s a DNC thing, but jeez. They coming back?

I gotta say, after posting my little twitter-bit, I got to thinking, someone at the DDP is no dummy.

They didn’t set up an SMS system complete with ‘Charges will be incurred’ warnings.

They didn’t set up a email list, well they might have, I’m not sure.

They didn’t do nothing.

They set up a twitter account. How 2008 of them. How insanely useful of them.

I certainly hope they make use of it, and I may even have this one sent to my phone (yes, I know I’ll be charged per message fees by my carrier).

Good on ya DDP, for being progressive and ‘with it’ enough to see value in new platforms!

Now don’t let me down, update this thing often. I’ll be seriously angry and may have to take it out on a… i dunno, whatever physical representation I can find of the DDP, if you leave this twitter account with exactly two tweets in it.

And I promise to be a better Metroblogger!

So this will be short and hopefully informative. If you use twitter (who doesn’t?) follow DDPTransport for traffic updates this coming DNC week.

Hey, all. Just thought I’d give a shout since it’s been a while since I posted here.

I’m going to be covering the DNC for The Metropolitan, and a lot of the protests surrounding it. I’ve got a feeling the DPD won’t be putting up with anything, if this CBS4 report is any indication. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, but I’ve got a respirator rated for CS gas in case (can’t take photos with tear gas in my lungs, right?).

And Rage is coming to town! All things aside, that should be a good show. So what are you all doing to get ready for the traffic nightmare that will be the convention?

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