Tub Ring

Parents, the members of Tub Ring are poster children for not giving your ADD-addled children their meds. Otherwise, they might never grow up to be endearingly spastic kings of pop like these guys, who can open a tune with pseudo-classical strings before veering effortlessly into bouncy punk interspersed with searing…

Produce Paradise, August 29

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Beth Mattek Tennis star Beth Mattek is churning up the Internet today for her choice in, uh, “fashion” on the court. All I can say is if her sense of style sets a trend,…

Earth to Humanity: What Would I Do Without You?

Ever wonder what the world would look like if people disappeared tomorrow (or in 2012, if some of those conspiracy-theorist nuts are right)? Author Alan Weisman wrote a book about it, but for those too busy to read, he’s also created a handy interactive chart that hits the highlights. Some…

Real Child Protective Services

Terrorism, street crime, liberals wanting to take our guns. What’s a parent to do? Raising kids is hard enough without having to worry about the horrors that modern life is waiting to inflict on them at every turn. For parents that really care, there’s Bulletproof Baby, a company that produces…

Timeless Beauty in Blue

Audrey Hepburn has been called a timeless beauty and I think this gorgeous tat speaks to that. I snapped this pic at Sputnik Saturday night, just before closing. In my drunken state, I didn’t get the name of the lovely hipster sporting this ink, or the name of the artist…

Carpet Skates, August 27

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Carpet skates A fun new way to suffer traumatic head injuries! Carpet skates apparently let you slide across carpeted floors like you do in socks over hardwood. Thank god they didn’t have these when…

Fidel Castro Dead, August 24

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Fidel Castro dead The Internet is erupting over the rumor that Fidel Castro is dead. It has yet to be announced by any major news service, but it’s dominating Internet searches. If it’s true,…

Erotic Provocation

With a near-infinite variety of free porn on the Internet, who reads erotica anymore? Women, apparently. For the most part they’re the ones writing it, too, which makes the Provocateur, a Denver-based male erotica author, something of a rarity – and something of a sensation. “Women really get the sensibilities…

Book Smarts

If you’re smart, you probably love books. If you’re not, putting a bunch of them on a shelf might help fool people into thinking you are. Either way, everyone needs books, and this weekend’s Used Book Sale at the Denver Public Library is an excellent opportunity to fill that need…

Luke Solomon

Luke Solomon has carved out a unique niche in the dance-music pantheon by spinning an enchanting, intriguing mix of tunes. He starts with a typical funky, soulful and slightly jazz-inflected deep house blueprint of laid-back beats, funky bass lines and groovy percussion. To this standard plan he adds science-fiction synth…

The Internets vs. Real Life: An Instructional Video

This charming machinima explains the essential differences between the Internet and real life, ostensibly for Internet novices. It is the work of Rooster Teeth. It’s “shot” in the Halo 2 multiplayer engine but it has nothing to do with the game. You don’t have to be a gamer to appreciate…

Cowboys and Indians

In addition to causing me to neglect far too much work, YouTube has fostered a bizarre fascination with Bollywood within me. I don’t think I could ever get through an entire three-hour epic, but at five to seven minutes each, I find the individual song and dance numbers irresistible. I’ve…

Faceball, August 21

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Faceball It’s the hot new sport with the unbeatable motto: “Your face, our balls.” Invented at the offices of Flickr, it’s a simple game that involves mashing a Day-Glo ball into a coworker’s face…

Donkey Kong Kill Screen, August 20

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Donkey Kong Kill Screen The documentary King of Kong has just opened in select cities and it’s set off something of an Internet buzz about the nearly impossible to achieve Donkey Kong kill screen,…

DIA Never Looked So Good

Boredom can lead to beautiful things, such as this image of DIA that looks more like a gilded city straight out of a space opera than the sprawling monstrosity of an airport we know and love (or hate). Colorado Springs photographer Chris Coleman took this stunning shot to kill some…

Everything You Need to Know About Boulder in Under a Minute

Despite their good intentions and generally harmless nature, hippies are natural targets of ridicule and scorn. Maybe it’s the poor hygiene, or the overly familiar way they call everyone “bro” or the fact they walk around in a drugged-out stupor all the time? No, it’s all of that and a…

A Performance of Pleasure and Pain

If you like your entertainment erotic and your pleasure tinged with pain, consider a trip up to Fort Collins this weekend for the Voodoo Fetish Ball at Club Static, 1437 East Mulberry. Master Goliath will perform Shibari (Japanese rope bondage) and the dommes of Pavlovia promise something special and twisted…

Star Car Update: Project Bubblepuppy

Flickr user Seetwist has come through with a wealth of info on the awesome space car photos. “The name of the car is ‘Project Bubblepuppy’ a.k.a. ‘Welpe Luft-Blassen.’ The person who made the car is a local artist named Sean Guerrero,” he writes. “He’s done some other stuff that you…

Star Car

This incredible art car was spotted somewhere in Denver by Flickr user Seetwist. The full-size version of the photo above can be found here. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to have any info about who built or owns the thing, but he does have quite a few more pictures of it,…

Monkey Business

I’m an enthusiastic believer in the theory that everything is better with monkeys. They’re cute, they’re clever and we can learn a lot from them: They spend their time playing, eating, sleeping and making hot monkey love. No jobs, no schools and no wars; when they get pissed off, they…

Infected Mushroom

Israel’s Infected Mushroom specializes in completely over-the-top psychedelic trance. A breakout act in their homeland’s substantial psy-trance scene, the duo takes an unusually eclectic approach to the genre, which has led to some odd crossover attention — being tracked on JamBase.com, for example, a website dedicated to the jam scene…

Geeks on Board

Board games can be a lot of fun, but unless you have a bunch of friends with identical schedules and equally geeky taste in pastimes, it can be hard to get enough people together for a good game. Luckily, the Internet can be used to bring people together for more…