Colorado License Plate of the Day
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Saw this car parked in front of Denver’s city/county building. Plus one bajillion clever points.
Archive for the 'Places' category
Ken Otterbourg’s post about race, reporting, and why there’s no National White Theatre Festival in the U.S.
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
I used to work for the Winston-Salem Journal, and I still tune in every once in a while to the blog its managing editor Ken Otterbourg writes. Ken wrote about the newspaper’s coverage of the National Black Theatre Festival, and the feedback he gets from the town.
He wrote this paragraph, which handles gracefully the [...]
On success, and the Colorado Rockies’ nine-game winning streak
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Denver Post sports columnist Dave Krieger (catch Krieger on twitter here) juiced out a good quote on the Colorado Rockies’ season, and what’s different now, from Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki:
“The biggest thing for me is the mood on the field has changed,” Tulowitzki said. “Early on in the season, we were expecting bad things to [...]
Taking care of @ColoradoTweets
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Today the COTweeters group-tweet list (where anyone can send their tweets to the group, and the whole group gets them) succumbed to spam-bots. It had been getting worse and worse in the past four weeks.
The bot-spammers are now winning over on COTweets, so I went and created a new Colorado group-tweet list, ColoradoTweets, that [...]
Eight haikus about Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Here are 8 haikus I wrote today about Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. All but one or two were written before the Denver Nuggets played the Mavericks in game 5 of their NBA playoffs series tonight.
Mark Cuban is a
rich businessman who owns the
Dallas Mavericks
He doesn’t really
know how to play basketball,
But yell? Yes he does.
In Japan, [...]
John Wenzel wrote a book about indie comedy.
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
John Wenzel wrote a book about indie comedy. It was published this month. I started reading the book this week, and I noticed that Mr. Wenzel likes to put funny or not-so-funny asides in the last sentence of paragraphs. Mr. Wenzel writes about music for The Denver Post. The book, Mock Stars: Indie Comedy [...]
Some songs I might play after I get done with all the election-work stuff
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Inspired by Matt Waite, and the two-cd mix I made before the 2004 elections (one mix for if Bush one, and one for if Kerry), this is the list of five songs I might play when I get home from work tomorrow night.
The Beach Boys – Lets go away for a while
The Mountain Goats – [...]
Bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
bacon. I’ve been using that word a lot this week. This month. Yeah, really, this year. This week the new band I’m in, The Bacon Lobby, released our first song and music video. It’s called Bacon Man, and it’s about Obama. Sometimes we call it Obama Bacon Man. It goes “O–bama bacon man, make it [...]
Which is more destructive: voter intimidation tactics or fake-voter registration tactics?
Friday, October 10th, 2008
In Philadelphia this week this flyer was posted around black neighborhoods:
Read the article about this voter intimidation scam at philly.com here. It’s not the first time this tactic has been used — snopes.com has this to say about this scam:
Every presidential election prompts the circulation of misinformation regarding voting procedures. Sometimes the misinformation is merely [...]
Adam’s new college and pro-sports aggregator site: Sportsify
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
The most successful web geek I’ve known personally, Adam Howell, launched another site. It’s his first Django-powered site, and which for no legitimate reason makes me feel a little proud inside (when we worked together at the Winston-Salem Journal, Adam started down the Ruby on Rails path at about the same time I started down [...]
