While it’s true that holidays often provide convenient excuses to get wasted, their seedy underbelly is that they’re usually ticker-tape-decorated cover-ups for communist propaganda — take Christmas, for example, which is all about giving shit away. Philanthropy? More like philan-commie. Hey-O! At any rate, Lucky Penny Day today is really…
Somewhere out there, The Dude abides, taking ‘er easy for all us sinners — no, seriously: There is an actual Dude. His name is Jeff Dowd, his nickname is The Dude, and he was the Coen Brothers’s inspiration for their most famous and beloved character by the same name, played…
Candy Darling was probably the sexiest transvestite that ever lived, but s/he wasn’t just sexy — she was also talented. A star of stage and screen, she worked with luminaries from Andy Warhol to Tennessee Williams and was, during the course of her short life, such a fixture on the…
Even though it’s been shitty and cold and raining for approximately nine weeks now and it doesn’t feel like summer at all, it’s still late May, and that means that it’s time for the ceremonial rolling out of the summer blockbusters — so avast, because even more ridiculousness than at…
Gold teeth are not cheap. That’s just one of the many things we learned during our chat with T.J. Miller, a Denver-raised comedian who has since gone on to mind-boggling heights of fame with supporting roles in such movies as She’s out of my League and Yogi Bear. But his…
When you work at a newspaper, people send you some pretty weird shit — I’ve got one guy, for example, that regularly leaves me hand-written notes and sculptures made out of coat-hanger and papier-mâché. That’s kind of charming, but this email I got today is just bizarre — and while…
How’s this for a job: You ride a bunch roller coasters, and then you make a television show about you riding a bunch of roller coasters. That’s pretty much the job of the Travel Channel’s Bert Kreischer, better known as Bert the Conqueror, whose show features him traveling to thrilling…
Proms suck. Underneath all the glitz and limousines, they’re pretty much raging cesspools of ritualized awkwardness and expectations destined to go unfulfilled, populated by horny teenagers badly disguising their terror with clandestine booze — at least in execution. In concept, they could be so much more. Like Bike Denver’s Bike…
Alpacas already look like some shit out of Dr. Seuss — all bowed legs, long necks, hairy tufts and wet, bulging eyes — but tonight they’re about to look even weirder. Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourself for the Alpaca Costume Contest, a part — most likely the best part —…
Bill Plympton has got some crazy work ethic. Since he made his name as in animator in the late ’80s with the Oscar-nominated Your Face, a short cartoon featuring not much more than a goofy little ditty sung by a man whose face is meanwhile collapsing in on itself and…
Road-tripping season is coming up, and if the outlandish cost of gas has got you thinking about reining in the epic scale of your travels, despair not: There’s plenty of weird stuff to see in our home state. Just ask Charmaine Ortega Getz, who’s so enamored with oddball attractions in…
Although he’s been nominated for a couple of Academy Awards, Bill Plympton has always been a little too weird for the mainstream. His surreal animation, in which human forms are stretched, kneaded and punched to their breaking point, is frequently steeped in sex and hilariously gratuitous violence and is most…
When T.J. Miller’s one-hour Comedy Central special airs, it will be a big deal. “It’s a big deal,” the comedian agrees. “I didn’t even have to do a half hour on Comedy Central — I went straight to an hour.” Maybe that’s because Miller, who was born and raised in…
It seems kind of self-evident that Harold Camping is a nut job. For the second time in an otherwise unremarkable career, Camping is currently garnering attention for yet another end-of-days prediction; using a formula of his own design, he claims to have mathematically calculated the date of the apocalypse –…
What with Tobey Maguire all sincerely pining for Mary Jane and the (admittedly badass) spectacle of CGI overload in the new Spider-Man movies, we occasionally long for the good old days, the days when Spider-Man was shittily drawn and was sort of a dick. Well, that second part isn’t necessarily…
The least likely demographic to neuter a dog, a recent PetSmart study found, is apparently also the demographic most likely to attend a monster-truck-related event, purchase a Coed Naked T-shirt or enjoy the delicious food and ambience of Hooters, everyone’s favorite restaurant named after mondo gazongas. The study found that…
In this crazy culture of individuality, people like to express themselves. They like to personalize their personal things so that everybody will know how personal they are, because our lives in the culture of personalization hinge on the assumption that other people are not too relentlessly self-involved in their own…
Nothing makes a better target for ironic mockery than sincerity, and when it comes to sincerity, hippies — with their happiness and their frolicking — are a reliable go-to. Whatever you say about them, though, they clearly know how to have a good time; at least, hippie-sympathizing writer Amber Taufen…
Come Saturday, Colorado’s poised to have more incoming messiahs than anybody ever asked for, including the evangelicals; besides being the scheduled day of Jesus’ second coming according to Biblical number-cruncher Harold Camping, it’s also the day Bono comes to Denver with U2 for a show at Invesco Field — all…
George Bush probably hasn’t been this disgusted since 2005. In one of the most outrageous occurrences since everybody failed to recognize the truly bang-up job Brownie did in New Orleans, the Obamas went ahead last Wednesday and sullied the name of baseball, hot dogs and the red, white and blue…
When director Jerry Aronson screened his documentary The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg for Ginsberg himself before the film’s release in 1994, the iconic poet is said to have nodded his head and reflectively quipped, “So that’s Allen Ginsberg.” With good reason: Even all these years later, Life and…
At this point, it’s safe to say that Denver locals Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s The Book of Mormon is like the Titanic of musicals this year, and by Titanic we mean not the opulent ship sunk of hubris, but rather the James Cameron romantic epic from 1997 that swept…
