First, I have to watch that game. Then, this morning, I head to my driveway in search of newspapers that were missing yesterday, and my momentary elation at seeing them where they should be is promptly shattered by the main headline on the Denver Post’s up-front World Series section: “Darned…
“Dinger Bell,” Patricia Calhoun, October 18 Dino-Might! How about Beer-Barrel Man for the kids? I mean, it is Coors Field, filled mostly with yuppies; it’s not that much for kids. I’ll be glad when they hire some other idiot in a different clown suit so that you can tackle some…
Like the 24-hour flu or a sudden outbreak of gonorrhea, Rockies fever can strike when you least expect it. Two guys wearing Rox jerseys chest-bumping in the Safeway checkout line? Expected. Three blondes in the daycare parking lot gushing over how dreamy Matt Holliday is? Expected. But five post-office employees…
Mike Gravel is the Democratic presidential candidate most hungry for your friendship. Chris Dodd comes close; he’s so desperate, he’ll thank you for being his friend. “Thanks for the add,” Chris’ll say, dropping off a photograph of himself looking like a guy from a hemorrhoid ad before disappearing deep into…
After twenty years of highly decorated service in the U.S. Army Special Forces, David Boone thought he knew the rules of engagement. But that was before he found himself back in the shit — Baghdad’s Green Zone, to be precise — and working for the private sector. In the emerging…
The front page of the October 17 Rocky Mountain News featured a photo of an Arvada resident trying on a Rockies jersey at the Coors Field Dugout Store — but this image wasn’t the first thing subscribers saw when they picked up the paper. Instead, the day’s de facto top…
The throng of demonstrators — 500 according to police, 1,500 according to protest organizers — had taken over the intersection of 15th and Stout streets, unfurling banners and emptying a bucket filled with fake blood and dismembered baby dolls. As dozens of officers in full riot gear approached and camera…
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was one of the original Chicago 8 defendants charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial was one of the most divisive and chaotic in history, partly because Seale’s frequent outbursts prompted…
The group that may be the most prepared for the 2008 Democratic National Convention is also the least likely to be prepared. It doesn’t represent labor unions or mainstream progressives, but anarchists. A loose coalition of anti-authoritarian factions from across the nation have formed an outfit called Unconventional Action, with…
This week, Joel Warner gives us some insight as to what it’s like to be a part-time stay-at-home dad and a full-time neurotic obessessive with fantasies of prehistoric predators eating his young. Read his feature about the baby products industry here. Monday Tuesday Wednesday: Most of the time, my four-month-old…
Subscribers to the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post who still haven’t seen their October 24 papers (see this blog for details) needn’t worry about missing out on special sections commemorating the Colorado Rockies’ World Series berth. They’ll have plenty of chances to get more thanks to the Sports Authority,…
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In the media hype that’s become known, and trademarked, as R***tober, it’s standard to pitch the World Series as something much more profound than a simple baseball match. So let’s up the ante: Tonight’s game will not just begin a seven-game contest between America’s two best baseball teams – it…
An online Denver Post article posted today included the following headline: “Woman Accused of Starving Dog in Court.” And while the story of the malnourished four-year-old Belgian Malinois named Neeko is both tragic and disturbing — Neeko survived by eating part of another dog that starved to death under the…
They’ve paid $140 million and then some for their team. When they travel to other parks since they erased the curse of the Bambino in 2004, bandwagon fans make up anywhere from a third to half of the crowd. Even when their team isn’t playing, you can find Sox fans…
October 24, when the Colorado Rockies face off against the Boston Red Sox in game one of the 2007 World Series, should be the biggest day in years for the print versions of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Whereas a hefty percentage of folks currently prefer to…
It’s October 24, and because the Colorado Rockies are set to make their first-ever World Series appearance this evening, baseball coverage in these parts, which has already reached near-saturation levels, is about to be ratcheted up even further — and it’ll likely remain at a fever pitch for as long…
This week, Joel Warner gives us some insight as to what it’s like to be a part-time stay-at-home dad and a full-time neurotic obessessive with fantasies of prehistoric predators eating his young. Read his feature about the baby products industry here. Monday Tuesday: Today I had to bring my four-month-old…
In their Crocktober explanation of the World Series ticket nightmare, the new Colorado Rockies – or at least their managers – sounded a lot like the old Colorado Rockies, bumbling through the suggestion that the mess was created by “an external and malicious attack.” We haven’t heard such a crock…
To the hooligans who looted AfroBlu on Saturday night/early Sunday morning: You oughtta be ashamed. Who steals from artists, anyway? Who takes money from the monthly after-hours dance party for the people? Who runs off with every last penny collected at the door for AfroBlu? Who rains on the Afrobeat/deep…
Never mind that I’ve spent the last three hours in the kitchen with Ian, O’s chef de cuisine and the mad scientist responsible for this cheese plate. Never mind that I’ve followed every step in its construction, been in on the testing and tasting, watched him make caviar out of…
The Colorado Rockies have been idle for the better part of a week, awaiting the first game of the World Series on October 24 — and rather than focusing on other matters until action returns to the diamond, local media outlets have churned out loads o’ Rockies-oriented, cutesy-poo items capable…
