Exploring Denver’s shops and restaurants, neighborhoods and people (including myself)
For years now, I’ve had this idea in the back of my head that I thought could be world-changing, or at least nation-changing: Restoration Nation.
I even made a one-page website about it, just to hold the idea, here.
The tagline is “An Economy That Restores.”
If we are ever going to move away from an economy based [...]
I’m taking a break from the Uptown theme for today’s and Tuesday’s posts. I’ll return to it after the election for several more days, and then I’ll move on to the Starz Denver Film Festival, which begins on November 13.
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I thought I’d be spending a good chunk of Wednesday looking for a Halloween costume.
I was [...]
It was a weird weekend.
Todd was at a sci-fi convention in Denver and stayed at the hotel, so I had the house to myself. I had lots of plans for Saturday, but none for the rest of the weekend.
Until I walked to the bus to Denver Saturday morning, I still hadn’t decided what aspect of [...]
I’ve been traveling in my head. One town after another along the coast of France. Diving kelp forests near San Diego. Into the forests of Congo, and then to a hospital where rape victims are being treated, where a mob forms.
But I’m not sure I’m that much of a hero.
Not a tourist either.
Some days, I’m [...]
Democrats: The Republicans are suppressing minority votes!
Republicans: Mickey Mouse is going to vote for Obama!
Democrats: Palin pals around with secessionists!
Republicans: Obama pals around with terrorists!
Democrats: Palin got $150,000 worth of new clothes!
Republicans: Obama’s flying a government jet to see his sick grandma!
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Is anybody else about to go crazy over this stuff?
I’ve been reading Talking Points [...]
Chedd’s Gourmet Grilled Cheese
1908 Pearl Street, Uptown, Denver
303-386-3998
Bus directions: the 28 goes right by
There’s a Chedd’s in Littleton too
Chedd’s storefront in Uptown looks a little bit like an upside-down football helmet, and the atmosphere within is about as humid. When I walked in, it hit me—this place smells like a room where cheese is cooked [...]
Fluid Coffee Bar
501 East 19th Avenue
Uptown, Denver
720-519-4681
Bus directions: take the 12 or 20 up 17th or the 28 up 19th from Market Street Station
On Sunday, Todd and I visited what I took to be the “new” part of Uptown, bounded by 19th Avenue, Logan, 20th Avenue, and Washington.
Reminded me of a [...]
I’ve arrived here again. Faced with a deadline, racing to get there. Dozens of pages short.
How
to
use
procrastination
to
be
an
efficient
editron?
Our foundations are falling away from our house.
Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it?
It’s not. It happened so slowly we didn’t even notice for years. We’re not sure what caused it—could be the sprinkler box outside the bathroom window, leaking. Could be the drought, working on Colorado’s expansive soils and causing them to shrink.
But it has spread to [...]
Dazbog
Baer Simon Photography
Talulah Jones
Ahimsa Footwear
On 17th Avenue, from Downing to Lafayette
Bus directions: Take the 12 or 20 down 17th Avenue from Market Street Station, or take the 15 up Colfax to Downing and walk to 17th Avenue
I used to think Downing was the edge of the known world, the kind of place you might go [...]