There were plenty of pork jokes — and about 300 people — at today’s “Barack Obama: You Don’t Know Stimulus” rally on the steps of the State Capitol. The packed demonstration, the details of which were explained in the earlier blog “Jon Caldara on Today’s Barack Obama Protest,” was organized…
Cute cats rule the Internet, as documented in the February 10 Salon.com article “The Internet Is Made of Kittens.” And in the hierarchy of kitty-cuteness-overload, the LOLCATS reign supreme, mostly because the combination of furry adorableness and cheeky spelling mistakes is enough to turn the world’s manliest carnivore — nay,…
February is to Abraham Lincoln impersonators what July is to ice cream men, Sunday is to preachers and 2 a.m. is to phone-sex operators. Busy. And Littleton’s John Voehl is no exception. He started the month by helping Governor Bill Ritter kick off Colorado’s Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration on February 2…
At about midnight on December 2, Sean Duffy and his girlfriend, Molly Knudson, were playing MVP Baseball on their PlayStation 2. As on most nights, they sat on the couch in the carpeted living room of their neat Aurora apartment, ripping on each other. “When I play Home Run Derby,…
Historical Tweets, a website that imagines what historical figures — from George Washington to Urkel — would have tweeted on Twitter, recently waded into familiar territory with the above offering between El Capitano and Denver’s Molly Brown. So one burning question has been answered. But here’s another: What Would DIA’s…
I’m a fan of Valentine’s Day. But not because of any love stuff. It’s because of conversation hearts, those super-sweet wafer-y candies with the fun sayings like “Mad 4 U” and “Lover Boy.” I’m also a fan of Halloween because of candy corn and of Fourth of July because of Cool…
Is it just us or does “I Made It With the Library” sound dirty? That being said, the Denver Public Library’s unintentionally naughty webpage is pretty cool. Crafters are encouraged to post photos of stuff they’ve made with the help of do-it-yourself books from the library. Already featured are a…
The mood at last night’s Rocky Mountain News candlelight migil (half march, half vigil — so coined, in the tradition of the Martin Luther King Day Marade, by someone cleverer than me) was light. Although the details of the event hinted at the possibility of theatrics, the actual gathering felt…
(Read Jason Sheehan’s SPAM confession here.) All hail the SPAM king, ruler of all that is pink and meaty and rectangular. This year, the king is from Colorado Springs. Ron Pearman — 48-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer, father of four (soon to be five) and Colorado State Fair cook-off champ –…
Those flashy online Frontier ads sure look enticing. Click and you’ll find out that the airline has extended it’s Economic Stimulus Package deal until today! Flights from Denver starting at $39! “Save big bucks all across the USA,” their website says. Big bucks! Across the USA! Why not? But click…
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study last week that found young people are more likely to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace than old people. In other breaking news, milk mostly comes from cows and water is mostly wet…
Michael Harrison celebrated his Martin Luther King Day trying to sell stuff he wasn’t able to sell during the DNC. Namely, Obama In a Bottle. It didn’t matter that the water bottles – which are stuffed with an American flag, an Obama lanyard, a cardboard party horn, an Obama button,…
What’s a parade – or marade, for that matter – without free stuff? There was plenty of it today in Civic Center Park, the endpoint of the city’s official Martin Luther King Day Marade. (For those of you who are wondering, in the grand tradition of the cockapoo — half…
