Beltane fire
Happy Beltane – or May Day, if you prefer – from Scholars & Rogues.
Read moreMy memoir: Sam vs Peaches
I’m the Forrest Gump of apples. My favorite desserts often involve apples. Apple pie, apple cobbler, apple crisp, apple tarts, baked apples, apple dumplings, stewed apples, apple danish, apple butter, apple kugel, applesauce, apple cake, apple cookies – especially those soft Archways… [sigh] I’m sort of the Forrest Gump of apples. But my childhood was a frustrating one. My grandmother
Read moreBig Bang Theory band names, pt 3
Our series on lines from The Big Bang Theory that would make great band names continues apace. The second one here is among my all-time favorites. One Fine-Ass Dungeonmaster Wil Wheaton Sausagefest Not a Fwag What’s Up With Ichabod?
Read moreSpringtime in Colorado
This tulip and its friends were bravely enduring last weekend’s foot of snow.
Read moreLove song: an open letter to Space Team Electra
They don’t even know what it is to be a fan. Y’know? To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts. – Sapphire, Almost Famous My Last.FM profile says I have played Space Team Electra tracks 1,093 times. But that’s misleading. For starters, Last.FM didn’t launch until three years after the band broke up.
Read moreJoanie Laurer, RIP: the sports entertainment machine spits out another dead body
#RIPChyna – former WWE superstar becomes the latest victim of an industry where people are disposable and life is cheap (because that’s what’s best for business) I woke to the news this morning of Joanie Laurer’s death. Known to professional wrestling fans as Chyna – “the 9th Wonder of the World” – Laurer was only 45. Details aren’t available yet, but
Read moreColumbine: 17 years ago today
April 20, 1999. I remember exactly where I was, exactly what I was doing. My co-worker at US West, Joe Lopez, turned to me and said “hey Sammy, there’s been a shooting at a school down in Littleton.” “Find out everything you can,” I said. I’ll go tell Marti. Marti was Marti Smith, our VP, and thus began some of
Read moreWhat you need to know about Bernie Sanders and mainstream media in one Washington Post headline
This is what passes for reason inside the muted corridors of serious establishment “journalism.” Flipping through the morning’s news and I came across this: I really know dick about Collum Borchers (or the editors who write his headlines), but a quick look at his archive page suggests a faint whiff of Beltway/Village wankery.
Read more"Amnesia," by Space Team Electra – premiere of fan video (and reunion show information)
I’m not good with video, but the Space Team Electra reunion show is less than two weeks away and I was inspired to try. If you’re in Denver (or can get here), the details follow the video.
Read moreRiNo craft brew: ArtSunday
I love photography. I love craft beer. And Denver’s River North District – RiNo – is as good as beer gets.
Read moreI don't like Hillary Clinton. Does that mean I'm a sexist?
Sweeping misogyny charges by Clinton supporters are insulting, corrosive, patronizing and counter-productive. An all-too-common theme we hear from supporters of Hillary Clinton is that the opposition to her results from misogyny. Sometimes we’re told this in just those words, and other times the charge masquerades behind sentiments that are intended to read as more affirming, like we see in the
Read moreCharlotte should secede from North Carolina
PayPal, the NBA and Bruce Springsteen are well-intentioned, but they’re punishing the wrong people. I have a solution. By now you know all about North Carolina’s appalling HB2 – “the bathroom law” – which seeks to keep transgendered people out of the wrong restroom even though in all of history they have committed fewer crimes in bathrooms than Republican legislators.
Read moreBig Bang Theory band names, pt 2
As noted last time, sometimes the dialogue in Big Bang Theory presents us with lines that just beg to be band names. Here’s my second set of 10. The first one is maybe my favorite of all. Pretty Boys in the Big City Ginormous Knob Penny Penny Penny
Read moreBig Bang Theory band names, pt 1
I love The Big Bang Theory and have watched all the episodes multiple times (some I’ve probably seen 20 times or more). I noticed that sometimes the characters say things that would make good band names. Or at least, perhaps, entertaining bands names. I have written some of them down and will present them in a series, ten at a
Read morePot. Kettle. Black: Hillary supporters accuse Bernie backers of privilege
We’ve had two decades to get to know former First Lady, former Senator and former Secretary Clinton. We look at that history and we understand something you don’t: she isn’t one of us. First, a caveat: this article is not about all Clinton voters. Many of you support her candidacy for reasons I don’t agree with, but you do so in good
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