The old dog and the sea
And so it was that on the eleventh anniversary of his birth, Ronan MacScottie came at last unto the sea.
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Life’s occasional symmetry: it was 20 years ago today
August 13, 1993: I woke for my first day in Colorado. I had moved here from North Carolina for grad school. I had a van of everything I owned and barely a penny left after the 1600-mile drive. It wasn’t the first time I’d put my life in a truck and hauled it across the country to a town where
Read moreSam and our photographer friend Greg appear on The E Wilks Show: hilarity ensues
Our buddy Greg Thow (one of the mainstays at S&R’s sister site 5280 Lens Mafia) and I were guests on episode #28 of the E Wilks Show last night. Okay, mainly Greg was the guest. I tagged along because I had nothing else to do. Eric and sound engineer/sidekick extraordinaire Tony are genuinely funny guys and it was an absolute
Read moreHobbyWeek: The Denver Garden Railway, Colorado’s coolest railroad
WikiPedia’s List of Hobbies page is a long one – over 170 entries. Included are some you’d expect: cooking, birdwatching, knitting, stamp collecting, all manner of sporting activities, etc. There are also some you may not have thought of. For example: Chainmail making Conlanging (artificial language construction – think Esperanto and Klingon) Locksport (the sport or recreation that aims to
Read moreThe Boomerang-Shaped Learning Curve: My First Year as a Shooter
This weekend last year I bought my first camera and took the first tentative steps down the road to becoming a photographer. Yesterday I hung my first show, at DJ’s on Broadway in Denver.
Read moreThose were the days: RIP Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton is dead at 90. She was most famous for her portrayal of the longsuffering Edith Bunker in All in the Family, one of the most important shows in television history. As the tragically underappreciated wife of arch-conservative, verbally abusive, racist blowhard Archie Bunker, Edith may well have been be the most patient woman in the history of TV. The show itself aged
Read moreArtSunday: You can take the boy out of the working class, but can you take the working class out of the boy?
As I’ve noted before, I grew up working class in the South. My neighborhood, my school, my family and friends, it all oscillated between “redneck” and “white trash,” and yes, there’s a difference. I wrote not long ago about the challenges facing those of us trying to climb the socio-economic ladder when nothing in our upbringing had taught us which fork
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WTF? Happy May Day from Colorado (STFU weather, anyone?)
Monday it was in the 80s here in Denver. This weekend the forecast calls for pretty, seasonal weather in the upper 50s. But today is May Day, the midpoint of springtime. What better opportunity for Mother Nature to show off a bit. Here’s Ronan MacScottie, out for his morning constitutional a few minutes ago. Happy Beltane, everyone. Here’s hoping your
Read moreThe Center Cannot Hold
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…
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Butterfly
Plumb Line: Wellington Webb Building, Denver
Footwork
Taken 4.14.13 at the Paramount Theatre in Denver. The organist is DeLoy Goeglein.
Read moreArtSunday: a poet says goodbye to poetry
I wrote my first poem when I was a senior at Ledford High School in Wallburg, NC. It was called “Octoberfaust,” and while it wasn’t a terribly good poem, it wasn’t bad for a 17 year-old having his first crack at something brand new. My English teacher, a guy named Jim Booth, whom S&R readers may have heard of, was
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lullaby pit 