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Someone in Denver is throwing a Pajama Party, and Westword‘s been invited. It started two months ago, when staff writer Joel Warner discovered a mysterious handwritten letter hidden at the bottom of a deposit-envelope receptacle at a downtown Wells Fargo ATM. The unsigned note requested that whoever found it draw a picture of their “normal pajamas” and send it back in the envelope provided.
Since Westword staffers always do whatever random letters found at ATMs ask us to do, our pajama jammy jam team — which is admittedly lacking in artistic talent and shame — illustrated our nighttime attire, posted the pictures online, then dropped them in the mail. All we wanted in return were drawings of the recipient’s own “normal pajamas.”
The days passed slowly, but then, last week, our dreams were answered when a large package arrived on our doorstep. Inside was page after page of PJ pictures, drawn with exquisite care and skill. All that was missing was the identity of our jammy lover.
But we were left with a new challenge: The last page of the package was an image of an elf slipper, along with a note asking us to find the other one, lost somewhere in Denver.
What peculiar motives propel these pajama impresarios? We don’t know, but we want to find out. The problem? Denver is a big city, and we’re too lazy (and comfortable in our pajamas) to track down the slipper on our own. So we need your help.
Check out all the pajama pictures and correspondence we’ve posted online; maybe there’s a clue in there that we missed. Keep your eyes peeled for pointy green toes and shiny yellow buckles. And let us know what you find: Our jammy-pal promises that you’ll get a “kick” out of it.
Scene and herd: Chicken? Yeah, we’ve got chicken. For what (we hope!) is the final word on whether it’s legal to keep chickens in Denver, here’s a recent letter from Janice Tilden, staff director for the city’s board of adjustment for zoning appeals:
“If you go to the Denver revised Municipal Code at 59-39(12), Administrative Exceptions, and go forward a few pages, you’ll find 59-38(12)e, the Keeping of Animals Exception. This allows you to apply for a permit with the Zoning Department of Community Planning to keep any animal not specifically prohibited by the City codes, such as poisonous snakes.This was formerly under the control of the Board of Adjustment but has been under Community Planning’s permitting process since July 2005. I should note that medical reasons were never needed to receive this permit from the Board and aren’t needed now; The code section specifically allows keeping an animal for ‘the production of food products for personal consumption by the resident.'”
For more on how and why we crossed this road, log on to blogs.westword.com.