Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology: Those hot summer knights

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 28. Northeast Park Hill: Announcing ye olde armorous intentions There is nothing quite as American as the admiration of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It is a celebration based less on historical accuracy and revered more as a…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #7 Seth Smith

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses in the fashions of Denver designers. The stylish and wonderfully aesthetic left-handed swinger Seth Smith rounds the bases in a classic gown from a recent runway collection of James Silvrants…..

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #51 Josh Fogg

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Since his call-up last May, Josh Fogg can still walk out to the mound and pitch a fit in this striking evening dress by Catherine Rogers…..

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #11 Brad Hawpe

A baseball card series that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Here Brad Hawpe takes a turn at bat in the cowl-necked hoodie halter dress from the Tricia Hoke Signature Collection 2009 …..

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: Dismissed professor summer bromance

“Smutty” UNC theater professor Vance Fulkerson and “Nutty” CU-Boulder Ethnic Studies professor Ward Churchill are no longer welcome in the classroom. Despite their differences, they will always have each other. Look for them enjoying the anonymity and autonomy of big city life as they pal around from pub to pub…

Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology: The metaphysics of mechanical dogs

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments…. Figure 27. West Highland: Gearbox guard dog The majority of the city’s residents are romantics who refuse to even learn how their cars work. They wistfully imagine that their cars are magic sleighs that are powered by gas to generate good times…

Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology: Cultural cuteness collection

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments…. Figure 26. Globeville: Mockey Mouse, Guard Poodle and Green Angel Unlike the Japanese, whose entire economy is now dependent on cuteness, American culture has never been very good at handling the concept of cute. Perhaps it is because cuteness stimulates the same…