Justice, Boulder Style Thanks for a great article on Alex "See No Evil" Hunter (Juliet Wittman's "He Aims to Plea," September 24). I can only hope that as Election Day 2000 nears, the people of Boulder will finally do the right thing and vote him out. As inbred as Boulder...
Suicide Botch I read Patricia Calhoun's August 20 "Suicide Mission" with great interest, as I have worked in the psychiatric field for ten-plus years and have evaluated individuals for lethality. If the documents in this case regarding aftercare instructions are true, West Pines should probably be prepared for a settlement,...
Kerouac Shlepped Here According to the August 6 Off Limits, Woody Harrelson wanted to see places in Denver where Jack Kerouac had been. Sadly, most of those places are gone. But the real bad news was delivered in your August 13 issue, with Jack Boulware's excellent article, "The Howls That...
A Detoxing Situation On the behalf of every person who has ever had to deal with living institutionalized, I applaud Eric Dexheimer's "Used and Abused," in the July 23 issue. I was once inside our system of social services, whose greatest injustice has always been disorganization and a gross lack...
Fast and Furious Regarding Tony Perez-Giese's "Pulling a Fast One," in the September 3 issue: George Orwell, here we come! It's not enough that local and state governments in many cities around the country feel the need to put cameras in public areas to "protect" us. Now they want to...
An Icky Situation Bad enough that, come November, we're going to get stuck in the voting booth for hours trying to figure out the ballot measures. Now you tell me that some of them are there only because Vikki Buckley screwed up (Eric Dexheimer's "The Buckley Stops Here," September 17)?...
Ideas come to Henry Badgett. While he's watering flowers in his front yard. Taking a shower. Sleeping. Standing. Making meatloaf. Suddenly a lightbulb flashes over his head. A fairy taps his shoulder. A tree falls in the forest. A mushroom cloud blasts through the stratosphere. "It just happens, man," he...
See Bill Run Regarding Ward Harkavy's "Making Book on Bill Owens," in the August 6 issue: Okay, okay! I surrender! If I promise to vote for anyone other than Bill Owens, will you quit writing is-he-or-isn't-he stories about Owens's supposed ties to the religious right? The only thing more boring...
Don't Have a Cow, Man Megan Hall's "Not a Pretty Picture," in the July 9 issue, paints in unintentionally comic perspective a most cherished modern sacred bovine: the notion that art and its purveyors are "loftier" than useful things like hotdogs and those who vend them. This notion and the...
Saving Private Calhoun Regarding Patricia Calhoun's "Private Lives," in the August 27 issue: What happened--did Ms. Calhoun take a nice pill last week? It's difficult to believe she actually has a family, much less can write movingly about one of her ancestors. But once I got over my shock, and...
A Schlong Time Coming I'm as enamored of the title of Harrison Fletcher's July 23 "The Schlong Goodbye" as I am with the copyrighted, patented and trademarked "The Penisster System" being the name of the medical prosthesis developed by Henry Badgett. The article itself is another thing. Mr. Badgett is...
Field of Schemes Kudos to Stuart Steers for his July 16 "Cash and Carry," on how the Colorado Rockies took taxpayers to the cleaners on the Coors Field lease. I guarantee you the Broncos are hoping for the same sweetheart deal for Pat (Bowlen)'s Profit Palace. I'll also wager the...
Yawn Care Your (yawn) Best of Denver (yawn) issue had such (yawn) variety from the (yawn) past few years' issues (yawn). It was really interesting (yawn) reading all about Aimee Sporer's (yawn) hair again, and (yawn) all those neato paragraphs by you clever Westword staffers about such (yawn) really cool...
Domestic Abyss Westword has provided a very valuable public service with its June 11 report on domestic violence, "Hitting Them Where They Live." But you didn't stop there: The domestic-violence stories were also good (if depressing) reading, told with the usual Westword flair. Congratulations are in order to all involved...
Can We Be Frank? Westword has sunk to a new low with Dewey Webb's "Final Episode" Killer Curse, in the June 4 issue. At last you look like the sleazy tabloid you really are. Ray Brown Denver The connection between the last episode of Seinfeld and the death of Frank...
Underground Railroad After reading Patricia Calhoun's "Up From the Underground," in the May 21 issue, I wonder if anywhere in this city is safe--above ground or below. Thanks for the alert. Mae Powers via the Internet "Up From the Underground" was a great article with the inclusion of some Colorado...
Is Sonic Youth the Grateful Dead of indie rock? At first the question seems laughable. Whereas much of the Dead's appeal can be traced to the accessibility of the assortment of American music that inspired it, Sonic Youth has consistently challenged its audiences by drawing upon influences that exist on...
Petty Is As Petty Does Trust Westword to mock the Denver Post's Snapshots of Colorado. Ward Harkavy's "They Came from Denver!" in the May 21 issue was a sorry excuse for journalism. At least the Post is trying to make this state a better place. What is Westword doing? Larry...
Coming Into the Country While reading Harrison Fletcher's wonderful account of Morey Davolt's life ("Country Cooking," May 14), I found myself so nostalgic over his memories, I almost felt like I'd lived in his era along with him. Or maybe just wish I had? Great writing! Thanks. Bill Rupy Loveland...
Business as Usual Regarding Stuart Steers's "Incident on 17th Street," in the April 30 issue: I am absolutely amazed at the whining of the ex-Hanifen Imhoff corporate executives. These people were all on the topmost bloodthirsty rungs of an American business. They prate about loyalty and ethics. Didn't their years...
Conservative Estimates Regarding Ward Harkavy's "Life of the Party," in the April 9 issue: Okay, I get the impression that Ward Harkavy won't be voting for Bill Owens for governor. From the cover of your paper, showing him with fingers crossed (implying that he's a liar), to the negative spin...
Conduct Unbecoming Regarding Alan Prendergast's "Zero for Conduct," in the April 23 issue: It was good to see Mr. C'de Baca get some ink. I'm a former Denver Public Schools teacher (I left voluntarily, by the way), and I have seen what he's talking about firsthand. He does, however, ascribe...
