To all our friends, sponsors, and supporters, thanks for making 2007 a great year for UM.  We’ll see you back here on Wednesday with our normal posts.
Have a safe, happy new year’s eve everyone.

 
Death is no laughing matter, but as the Darwin awards have proven; people love ironic / idiotic swan songs.

Justin Parker, a 24-year-old college student who walked away after his car slid 300 feet down a steep embankment near Red Cliff, died shortly thereafter when he walked off another cliff about thirty yards away. Eagle County […]

New Year’s Eve is always a difficult decision.  The clubs are always packed, the fellow patrons are too drunk, and the cabs are unavailable.  This year in Denver, thinking about the dance clubs, there is one clear choice for dance music and it’s Rabbit in the Moon.
It’s either that, or this dork.

Leave it to UM friend and Las Vegas impresario Jack Colton (UM interview here) to bring this little gem to my attention.  “The Bank”, a new club in the former home of Light (r.i.p Light.. what a fun venue) @ the Bellagio opens on New Year’s Eve.  You commoners can attend via “general admission” pricing for $250. 
Those wishing […]

What I mean by this is not, more “intimate relationships,” but rather, “more intimate” relationships.  I have a full social circle with a lot of friends.  I’m thankful for this, but I feel at times it prevents deeper intimacy with a few individuals.  What I aspire to in the new year is to be closer […]

Of all the products we’ve been sent for review, I was perhaps most skeptical of Pacific Shaving Company’s All Natural Shaving Oil.  Why?  For one thing, its size.  According to the box, the 1/2 oz (think bottle of eye drops) package was supposed to contain ‘up to 100 shaves’. 

According to the directions, 5-7 drops is […]

One of my new years resolutions for 2008 is to actively display more emotions.  Perhaps is my male nature, my up bringing, or my resistance to vulnerability, but when I feel an emotion, I typically hide it and attempt to manipulate the situation that brought it on into something closer to my liking.  For 2008 […]

For a final farewell to the Christmas season; here’s 10 truly stupid USB gadgets I’m glad I didn’t find under the tree.  (I don’t think even my “Dance Dance Revolution” OBSESSED friend Zac would dare slip on the fro-tastic, USB powered “Dance Mat” pictured above.) 
Sadly, this isn’t the worst of the bunch.

Consider for a moment […]

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn’t have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
What I’ve Learned: James Watson

Exobotics dishes up a customizable flash robot who’s a maniac, maniac on the floor.  And he’s dancing like he’s never danced before.  Choose a head, torso, legs, arms and even a heart.  Then it’s time to get down, robo-style.  My favorite move?  The combo of 5+9.
Check it out here

Urban Monarch has some last minute shopping to do. By last minute shopping, I mean “an appointment to be face down in a bowl of egg nog”.
Happy holidays everyone, we’ll be back on Wednesday, December 26th.

Driving around chicago at 3am, the nameless late night radio programming introduced me to local acapella experimentalist Lord of the Yums Yums.  I can’t really say much other than listen. Experience at the official page or myspace (has christmas carols.)

I’m not gonna lie to you. In our quest for the cheapest shooters possible (typically purchased for flights - see Greg’s piece here ) we’ve sunk pretty low. From 99 Bananas (?) to “Cherry Wave”, we haven’t been too choosy, especially at the 69-99 cent price point. Imagine my delight @ Argonaut […]

One of my favorite stock lines is, “You are such a cougar, rawr!”  Appropriate at almost anytime an interaction occurs with a female even just a year or two older, this quip has been proven countless times.  With great interest, I saw this link on Artifacting concerning cougars in Denver.  While the original article is […]

Denver has a good reputation (in my opinion) for several things.  First, we’re one of the fittest cities in the country.  Also, we’re one of the drunkest.  Now, (perhaps as a corollary to that last bit), we’re also the most ‘lustful’, at least based on some data from ACNielsen.

Residents of these metros enjoy vigorous sex lives–at […]

Apparently you can now buy the true scent of a woman…
The erotic, intimate scent of an irresistible woman…  The precious, vaginal odour filled into a small glass phial.  The phial is shaken gently, only a tiny amount of the precious, organic substance is applied onto the back of the hand… and the irresistible smell that […]

Greg’s post about Silicone Placemats reminded me of  my own discovery @ NYC’s Museum of Modern Art store.  Harri Koskinen’s urban masterpiece “Block Lamp” is not only industrial-chic-essential for any well appointed loft, it’s also a practical way to add a classy touch of accent lighting just about anywhere.
$110, Moma Store

While visiting the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s gift shop, I ran across these very cool silicone placemats.  Modern, hip, and accessible to guys who aren’t in to the phrase “table linens.”
Check out them out at Modern Twist.

The often interesting “Letters from a Broad” blog offers a somewhat startling (in my experience with feminist leaning women anyway) view on porn.
In fact, she goes so far as to suggest
I am absolutely convinced that porn decreases hostility towards women, increases acceptance of women’s sexual autonomy, and makes ordinary women safer

She makes myriad good […]

It’s all about the pictures.

For your viewing pleasure; a behind the scenes look at our first Urban Minx shoot.   Those talented gents over at RJ Dollen prove themselves as adept with video editing as they are with still photography.  Great work guys. 
Urban Monarch readers, enjoy. (Slightly NSFW)
PS: we hope to bring you another edition of Urban Minx early in the new year
Thanks to […]