happy labor day

Regular posts will resume on Tuesday.

drunk, high, naked driver crashes into parked car while masturbating

If there’s one thing I love, it’s carazy tales of drug induced fun.  This story has it all.

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House of Commons

With all the media awareness on the American democracy system this week, I thought it ample time to post this video from the British House of Commons.  While I’m not entirely sure how British laws work, I do think it’s highly entertaining.  If the House of Representatives sounded like this, I might tune into CSPAN once in a while.

Thanks to Sean for sharing this.

airstreams, wal-mart parking lots, and greg

After a dive bar happy hour, beer fueled discussion about dropping off the grid that can only be called bizarre, even by UM drunk talk standards, I went looking for pictures of Greg’s future dwelling.

If there’s ever been a picture that better sums up the man than this I’ve yet to see it. The article it’s sourced from speaks volumes:

The Airstream has become the kitschy darling of a young group of architects who are talking up the design virtues of trailers, shipping containers and other humble conveyances. Now the Airstream has its own place in the pantheon of design. This week the Museum of Modern Art in New York parked an Airstream from 1960, known as the Bambi Travel Trailer, in its lobby.

Now where’d I put the tofu dogs?

You know what I love? Twitter

I was late to hop on this bandwagon, and have opted to use my account mainly for professional networking, but damn, I love this thing.

How I use it:

• Updating My Current Location (Not starbucks, but different cities)
• Looking for services
• Looking for discounts
• Requesting information
• Publishing quick snippets/links I find useful (mostly technical)

Are you twittering?

practice what you preach: i.t. edition

Having spent plenty of time as ‘tech support’ both for less computer savvy friends and my family (not to mention spending a large chunk of my day doing the same thing), there’s two hard and fast rules to fixing 99.9% of problems:

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Things I Didn’t Know Exisited Until Today: Intentional Community

An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a much higher degree of teamwork than other communities. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political or spiritual vision and are often part of the alternative society. They also share responsibilities and resources. Intentional communities include cohousing communities, residential land trusts, ecovillages, communes, kibbutzim, ashrams and housing cooperatives.

Wikipedia: Intentional Community

new york times not sucking for once

My disdain for the NY Times is legendary.  Once in awhile though, they come through.  Take a quote from today’s edition from an article about this micro, underground restaurant ‘clubs’ popping up in NYC (like Underground Carrot x1000):

Meat is murder.  Tasty, tasty murder.

Ole!

Drinking from Growlers

Lately my beverage of choice has switched to the locally available microbrews.  One idea I’ve been contemplating though is switching to growlers.  The points currently swaying me are:

• Cheaper Price
• Enviromentally Friendly (reusing the bottle)
• Supportive of local business

Anyone buying growlers on a regular basis?

Any recommendations for the Denver area?  (I called Vine Street Pub, the latest Mountain Sun location in Denver, but they aren’t brewing on site till next year.)

unintentional b-list

Walking into work today, I noticed a commotion by Earl’s on 16th street.  A huge crowd had gathered, along with the requisite army of DNC related police.  Working my way through the masses, I quickly determined two things; first, they were hosting some kind of a ‘press conference’ with what appeared to be 4 vaguely recognizeable actors.  Second, neither I, nor one person I overheard could tell who the hell any of them were.

How sad to be famous and yet completely unknown.   By sad I mean, in your FACE, losers.

Relationship Review Point

While visiting friends recently, they shared with me a dating pattern their roommate uses.  She schedules regular reviews with scientific rigidity to evaluate the relationship.  If she approaches a hard spot but it’s not a review point, she doesn’t prematurely end the partnership. Instead she chooses to work through the problems till the next review checkpoint.

Any thoughts on this?  Does it sound like a logical way to keep a relationship strong or an overly methodic approach to dating?

Kindle or Sony Reader

Anyone have an ebook reader of some sort?

I’ve currently abandoned the notion of working on the metro rail, so I’ve been wondering if an ebook reader would be a productive tool.  Not only for reading books, but news and blogs as well with the added ability to save snippets for things like Urban Monarch.

dnc - a few random observations

Not making friends:

The guy with the huge hand painted sign reading:

REAL AMERICANS LOVE O’REILLY, HANNITY, AND FOX NEWS

The young, somewhat Gary Coleman looking guy with the official Obama tee shirt, which had been scratched out with magic marker to read:

Obama - WANTS TO KILL YOU.   Obama hates babies!

(side note here; unless he stole the shirt, it might not be the brightest anti-Obama move to pay for some of his merchandise)

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Pre-DNC Downtown Denver Buzz

It’s easy to tell something is stirring in the mile high city.  Last night, arriving late from a 10 day series of jaunts around the country, I found myself sitting across from an unlikely pair.  A 50-something gray haired from Washington D.C. and a 20-something metro from Los Angeles had met on the bus and were sharing their confusion over just where they were on their respective free-of-charge maps.  Realizing their struggle, I helped point out where we were, and what directions they would continue once we reached the center of the city.

Entering the city, I had 25 minutes before the next bus into Capitol Hill and decided to use this opportunity to walk around my city and see what was happening.  Sunday Night, 10p, the streets were unusually occupied with our visiting patriots investigating the night life.  The 16th Street Mall bustled with men in suits, ladies in dresses, and occasionally a full bar patio.  As I lazily strolled along I noticed another resident pointing a pair of confused travelers to their destinations.

Apparently I am not alone in the willingness to offer our confused guests a point in the right direction. Poop throwing aside, Denverites are welcoming the DNC.

dnc update: security is a wee bit tight

Blast text message I sent out Saturday:

I have seen 4 swat units with machine guns so far on 16th st mall. Fucking around, they r not

wildchild nation clothing

Wild child clothing offers hip, thankfully not quite hipster items for both men and women.  I dig the foil print tee shirts and kewl hoodies.

Go there.  Shop.

passive aggressive texting

Don’t do it.  Especially to your friends.  Face to face exchanges are the only way to go when you need to get something off your chest.

Plant Knowledge - Fruit of Strawberries

Here’s a sweet guest post from my brother.  Happy Birthday Chris!

The actual fruit of a strawberry are the little yellow things on the outside.

elena isinbaeva

My viewing of the olympic games has been limited to the occasional upward glance at a TV in the bar when people start hooting, and or hollaring.

After seeing some pictures of Elena Isinbaeva, I think I may need to start paying more attention.

More pics here, perv.

Foraging in the Airport

I eat a minimum of 5 times per day.  Every few hours I’m picking some kind of vegetarian health food into palatable bites.  When I find myself in my usual haunt, the airport terminal, I spend a bit of time cruising the gates looking for some kind of dining option.  Rarely though do I find something to satiate myself.

What I don’t understand is how the quality of food drops as it passes through the airport security.  Is the TSA actively filtering tasty and delicious ingredients?  Are the skilled hands that man my city’s Tokyo Joes and Chipotles denied entry to the concourse?

mstrkrft o’ lantern

Bad Cash!  BAD YOU.  Straight to bed without a cocktail for this one. (riiiiight..)

In my recent report on upcoming Colorado concerts, I completely spaced out something truly special:

MSTRKRFT   -   Tue  10/28/08  Ogden Theatre  

Even more Boo-tyful than a Halloween show by the KRFT?  This time, they’ll be playing live.  Considering how ridiculous their DJ set @ the Church was (see my review here), it should be an unforgettable night.

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