Aspen is so cool and hip that it would be outrageously uncool and bodaciously unhip to admit that I really hate the X Games. To say so makes me feel like a traitor to my home base—and worse—because I find myself (again) in the position of insisting Aspen is not nearly so cool as it thinks.
Continue Reading 2 comments January 23rd, 2008
Don't you dare read this if you are a woman of any sort or even a guy who has even the slightest feminist leanings. This blog is not for you--don't even think about reading one sentence further or you will be offended beyond all recovery.
This is actually my third attempt--here's attempt one and two-- to assay the meaning of fake boobs in Aspen and I am tired of acting like an intellectual when it comes to things that go bump in the night. This one's for you, Dude, the guy who likes to look at them and then immediately get to the et cetera part. So here's the skinny. Remember the beautiful young woman who agreed to subsidized breasts from the older man?
Continue Reading 4 comments November 21st, 2007
We are proud to announce the arrival of Thicken It Studios hair extensions at Salon Aspen. On October 27th and again on November 3rd, we are going to offer these services for a one time discounted price of $200 off the normal rate. We are currently looking for clients to sign up and be the first in Aspen to showcase the newest style.
Continue Reading Add comment October 25th, 2007
What really shocks me more about this weather is the way people dress. Yes, you finally get to see jackets and scarves in Austin after a long awaited hot summer, but more surprisingly, the lack thereof! How is it possible that I see idiot after idiot—I mean student after student wearing shorts??! Sometimes accompanied by nothing more than a t-shirt! How does this happen? And why am I freezing my (a$$) off while these people seem not to have noticed that it is 50 degrees?!
It also makes me wonder why I’m always the cold one. I never cease to get ridiculed for my low tolerance of cold temperatures (in Texas, this usually comes in the form of overzealous A/C units. Those bastards! And yes, I’m referring to air conditioning units themselves). And while I’m on the topic, what is wrong with the world? Why do we need to waste all this energy on making sure that the fat guy in the front row doesn’t feel a drop of sweat underneath the folds in his man boobs? OK, maybe that’s taking it a little far, but do we really need it to feel like a refrigerator everywhere we go? I mean, I think the novelty of “Come on in, its cool inside!” should be long gone by now, and we can come to an understanding on the temperature! But, again, I would be wrong. And just in case you’re wondering, I have no problem complaining about indoor temperatures, because they are controlled by man. I can’t control the weather, but A/C, now that’s someone’s choice.
Continue Reading 12 comments October 22nd, 2007
The Aspen Club and Spa would like to welcome Cassandra Schoenberger, 
the newest addition to Salon Aspen. Cassandra has been working as a
hairstylist in the Roaring Fork Valley for the last 17 years. Beginning
on September 27th and throughout the fall off season, Cassandra is
offering a free haircut with any color, full or partial highlight booked
with her. Call the Aspen Club & Spa at 970-925-8900 to book today.
Add comment September 25th, 2007
Stuff happens here that just can’t quite happen anywhere else—no way, no how. There’s the one about the bimbette who borrowed her boyfriend’s credit card and happened to charge her new boobs to his account.
And now, ready or not, there’s this one.
We’re talking about an innocent girl, a victim of aural sex.
So to speak.
Here’s the details.
There’s this girl. That’s the way it always starts.
Continue Reading 6 comments May 20th, 2007
What I really love about Comedy Fest is watching the people from New York freeze their asses off. It doesn't get any better than that. And the whole urban commando thing is about as uncool as it gets. Let's face it: if you want to be cool in the mountains you have to dress warm. If you have the wrong coat or a vest that doesn't zipper or a hat that makes no sense you look like the village idiot.
Continue Reading Add comment March 6th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--The second time around has been even better than the first for Aspen mystery writer Catherine O'Connell.
The second time around, O'Connell's book "Well Bred and Dead: A High Society Mystery" (HarperCollins) went into a second printing on the very first day of publication last week. The prestitigious Kirkus Reviews called it "a wry look at the lifestyles of the rich and an amusing mystery with a twist in its tail." Other reviews have been equally complementary.
Continue Reading Add comment January 30th, 2007
Don't forget the whole idea of the Aspen Institute to begin with was "the Aspen Ideas as the cross-fertilization of minds." Co-founder Walter Paepcke's idea of the Idea was to bring together the best noggins across all kinds of disciplines--including the arts--and allow them to hammer away.
The Aspen Ideas Festival is, of course, that very idea made manifest in a conference now steaming into its third year. But Aspen resident Ken Adelman, the former United Nations ambassador and noted neoconservative, has also taken the notion of cross-fertilization into his beloved realm of the arts.
Continue Reading 1 comment January 22nd, 2007
Cities don’t show themselves all that easily: they unfold by accident but when you have eyes to see them.
I got a ride downtown after my show with a deejay friend from the station heading for dental hell at Hyman and Second.
“Keep your teeth in your head,” I told him.
He left me off right there which meant I had a few blocks to walk after that morning’s snow had fallen on the city and flown off to the higher ground of Independence Pass. There was nothing special about the day: no bluebird sky, no postcard, no gondola to lord over those below.
“Beautiful day, isn’t it?” I said.
Continue Reading 1 comment December 20th, 2006
