7/2/2008: update at the bottom... Ok, we've apparently hit a running stride in the race of "let's put Denver in the news for all the wrong reasons". First it was Hick being funny and not so funny...and now it's someone getting all racial up in my (continue reading)

Hey Hick...you can't be serious?! Denver Mayor says "no" to fried foods?  I mean...seriously?  This is the big issue facing the convention right now...like, we need to do this?  As Ms. Malkin says and I echo...what about the Southern Dems who (continue reading)

it all started here...but it looks like...she's done. The Mayor turned on her yesterday with this. "Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is changing his tune. Initially, Hickenlooper soft-pedaled the surprise performance of the "Black National Anthem" (continue reading)

...you get some pretty cool views.  This is looking out from Iliff and University...and it was with my cell phone camera set low.  A nice dusk view that made me pause and enjoy it for a (continue reading)

...and not for the reasons you might be thinking! Minds out of the proverbial gutters y'all. :) My new job has me working in and around the University of Colorado Hospital over at Colfax and I-225.  I love this new job for many reasons but one (continue reading)

You have to live in a place that has only had 3" of precipitation the whole year to appreciate a KCNC weather map like this. Boulder is a little ahead of Denver in the moisture levels but, still, I've been looking forward to the monsoons like a (continue reading)

A couple weeks ago we were in Manitou Springs for their wine festival, where they featured wines from across Colorado. We didn't get a chance to try many wines because we brought our 1 year old beagles, Charlie and Howie, who are in training to be (continue reading)

I've had an old, broken DVD player on my floor for months and was finally able to get rid of it today at the “Screen to Green” E-Waste Recycling Event at the Auraria Campus (and got major points for throwing the player in my backpack and showing (continue reading)

I'm not as gone as you think, I'm just a sucky blogger currently. Sorry about that, I'm trying to do better. Fireworks. They're loud. They're colorful. They're only legal parts of the year. Where do you like to go to see the (continue reading)

I've noticed lately that the summer sound of helicopters overheard makes me wonder if a fire is in the area. Sometimes there actually is one but yesterday there was no helicopter warning our neighborhood about this fire. We headed south to walk (continue reading)

This is an excerpt of the information being distributed to employees all around the Downtown area about the DNC. "There are five main web sites coordinating locations for several protest groups: www.recreate68.org (continue reading)

This is mainly aimed at you A-holes on Park Ave that get in the turn lane for Market, and then hold up the lane, while you sit there with your right blinker on, to cut in line and continue on. Some of us, want to turn left on Market, so stop being a (continue reading)

So...... In the "things you don't see everyday" column, redux. Earlier tonight, my wife and I saw about 40-50 folks come into the dirt lot in front of our house. They showed up with cameras and tools, cleared the field (most of it) of the weeds and (continue reading)

A couple weeks ago you many have seen the article in the paper on the Greyhound race track in Commerce City closing. In that article they mentioned that the dogs would need new homes. Well, now I'm receiving emails about the needed adoptions, no (continue reading)

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