Overheard in Denver

Scene - Outside denver library. Approx 5 pm Saturday, October 29. Actors - 1 Middle age white male. 3 Kids approx 5 and under.
White guy - "Get in the car! This is the last time I'm coming here! God Dammit! Get the car! How many times do I have to repeat myself over and over?"
What a Shmuck.

October Reviews

Movies:
History of Violence - B
Stay - C-
History of Violence was good but not as great as I had expected. Cronenberg is an out there kind of director, but this movie wasn't all that over the top.
Stay was a funky looking, sort of dream like thing with a kind of bullshit story. I won't spoil it, but you'll probably figure it out if you watch it.

Books:
Blue Blood - A
Rubicon - B-
Blue Blood is a memoir from a New York Cop. He worked in Bronx and went to Harvard. Very interesting.
Rubicon is a popular history of the end of the Roman republic. It was reasonably readable but there was so much crap going on that I could barely figure out who was backing who half the time.

Bumper Stickers

When I was up at Mt Yale, I noticed alot more Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers than W bumper stickers. Go figure. Maybe people don't think Bush is a good steward of the wilderness?
At work, I think I have seen 1 University of Texas bumper sticker and 1 donate organs bumper sticker. Its a pretty large parking lot. Off the top of my head, I would say I see the Darwin and Jesus Fish bumper emblem (or whatever it is) most often. Then some Bronco ones. See alot of the Support our Troops magnetic ribbon things.
One dude in the parking lot where I work has a bumper sticker that says "I don't wear my beliefs on my bumper!". What up w/dat? Except for that one particular belief I guess you smug twat. Admittedly, bumper stickers aren't the most sophisticated form of communication, but it gives you something to look at when stuck on 1-25.

On la otra mano....

On a more pleasant note. Here is some nice Colorado Wilderness. This pic is from my Mt Yale hike on Labor day.

Why Bother?

This is the Methodist church on 18th and Broadway in Denver. A year or so back they spent a long time and probably alot of $ restoring the exterior of the thing. Don't know what they did but they had scaffolding on it for like a year or more. The building is (I think) a historically registered type place. And some of the $ for its up-fixin came from the lotto. The question I have, is why bother? They just put billboards in front of everything anyway.
People would probably be pissed if somebody spray painted all over the thing, but a big ole orange billboard is cool?
I don't have any particular fondness for that church, I just thought if youre going to make it look like a truck stop anyway you wouldn't go out of your way to keep it so historical.
Another thing to note about this billboard is that it is an ad for the Brown Palace hotel. Which is right down the block. For one, how much advertising do you need? Also, fuck it, billboards are ugly. They are the visual equivalent of telemarketing. Furthermore, I don't patronize the Brown Palace anyway, so can I not have to have this shit shoved in my face?
I can totally imagine the people in charge of marketing Colorado putting billboards all over the top of any points of interest. You'd be driving down the mountains seeing signs for Burger King - Idaho Springs or something...