Archive for February, 2006
THE WEEKLY FABRICATOIN
The leader of America’s highly touted Alpine Ski Team, Bode Miller, ended the Olympics a disappointing 0 for 5 in the medal category. Despite his lackluster performance in all events, Miller claimed the Olympics was a ‘very positive experience.’
“I went out a lot,” he said shortly after being disqualified from the slalom, Bode’s last chance to medal at the Olympics. “But I never drank the night before a race.”
A member of the U.S. Ski Team, who asked to remain anonymous, seemed confused when told that Miller was not drinking prior to the races.
“Then I don’t know what to tell you,” the Ski Team member said. “I thought it had to be the drinking, but if he wasn’t drunk then there must be some other reason why he sucked.”
Continue Reading February 27th, 2006
THE WEEKLY FABRICATION
A strange report surfaced this week prompting authorities to issue a warning to all dog owners. According to the report a local man took it upon himself to punish two people who chose to ignore the city’s “scooping” ordinance by pelting them with their dog’s feces.
Continue Reading February 27th, 2006
Okay, this is exciting. Aspen Post is supposed to actually launch this week. Looking forward to it. So, what’s going on? Laptop shopping…that’s kind of pain, but it is certainly not a bad thing to know more about computers, but the process of making an educated purchase is a bit of a bitch. I have been going to pcmagazine.com and reading their editor picks, reviews, and geeky industry articles. Our i.t. guy recommended lenovo so I have been on their website quite a bit.
What am I most looking forward to coming up – HBO Comedy Festival. No question. I live in Aspen year-round, but if I didn’t live here and could only visit once a year, for me, it wouldn’t be the X Games, Food and Wine, whatever else…it would be comedy fest. www.hbocomedyfestival.com
Continue Reading February 27th, 2006
Just got done with five days of vacation. It was fabulous! Although, they were in-town vacation days which aren’t the same as being out of listening range…even in Denver…since I work in radio…if the radio is on I am working…if I am listening to KSPN then I am listening to make sure everything is running as it should…er, rather, my ears would notice if they weren’t and then I would feel obligated to do something about it. If I am listening to another station, I am still hearing their imaging and their promotions and my brain starts churning. However, I thoroughly enjoy listening to radio stations in other cities…it’s so exciting to hear how other stations do their schtuff…opening and closing breaks, sound effects (sfx), segues between songs, DJ breaks, news. It reminds me of other possibilities…fresh and different presentation.
So, this vacation rocked. I had three friends from the East Coast in…two from Atlanta and one from NYC. We skied, well, they skied, I rode…I’m a boarder. These friends are all hilarious. I was laughing the whole time. One friend told a story involving Everybody Hurts from R.E.M. It was playing as we were leaving the grocery story and he casually mentioned he used to have this habit of right before leaving a bar going up to the juke box and putting in enough money so that song would be on repeat like eight times. Ha!
Continue Reading February 27th, 2006
The U2 concert...how to choose what to say. There are so many aspects. There was the car ride there...the Gay Johnsons truck stop between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction on I-70...always provides a chuckle. How my sister and I almost exhausted ourselves on the way to the show because we were singing along so loudly to the U2...it was a U2 extravaganza on the way there and the way back...with only a short break for the Foo Fighters...to remind my sister of previous times she had been to Salt Lake City and has listened to F.F.
At the show, we had general admission floor seats, but we did not make it in to the ellipse. As you enter the building your g.a. ticket is scanned... a certain percentage come up as "vertigo vertigo vertigo" which means you not only are on the floor, but you are inside of the ellipse...basically close enough to the stage to get sweat from The Edge dripped on you...if The Edge were to sweat that is...he strikes me as a cool, calm, collect kind of guy. I heard from a friend who was at a wedding in Ireland with him that his friends call him The E. How cool is that? It could be hearsay, but I would like to think it is true.
Continue Reading February 27th, 2006
Ahh, there’s nothing like outright balls-to-the-wall democracy in the land of Allah. God is good but democracy is even greater when nations peppered with Islamic fanatics percolate to the polls to vote for the kind of democracy their kind requires.
President George W. Bush said not long ago that he loved “the play of ideas” that democracy brings to places like the Palestinian territories, where Hamas has playfully found its way to power in a fair-and-square election. No one knows better than the President that democracy can be inconvenient, particularly when you don’t achieve a clean electoral victory, as he himself failed to do in 2002. But a Republic Supreme Court can render such a discrepancy null and void with a simple, single vote. In American democracy, unlike the more rancorous strains in faraway places, when you’ve got a chad problem you call in your chits, and it only takes a few dozen Young Republicans in Florida to shout down a recount.
Now that’s democracy, at work, and you don’t need to be a mullah to know which way the wind is blowing in the Middle East.
Continue Reading February 27th, 2006
Aspen Post editor and publisher Michael Conniff knows me because not long after I arrived in Aspen in 2003, I pitched him a column. At the time he was at the Aspen Daily News, and he was looking to upgrade the special sections of what then was a frequently ballsy but sloppily produced and occasionally puerile newspaper. (It has since improved substantially.)
Continue Reading February 1st, 2006
One of the other really neat things about reading the local media is the ridiculous errors you’ll find. I think I’m going to regularly feature some of the more amusing gaffes.
Continue Reading February 1st, 2006
As the managing partner of the Aspen Skiing Company, Jim Crown qualifies as an A-list Aspen newsmaker. His name has appeared in the Aspen Times 56 times since May 2003. Aspen fire chief Darryl Grob is another big-time local public figure, and accordingly he’s logged 49 Times appearances in that period.
Continue Reading February 1st, 2006
Aspen Times Ad Department, meet the Aspen Times Editorial Department.
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