In comment #1, Kieth Hemstreet's post on Aspen taxi-jacking puts post blogger Mitch Mulhall into a Richard Reid state of mind, "One of the attendants poured a bottle of water over Reid, who was then restrained with passengers' trouser belts, plastic handcuffs, seatbelt extensions, and headphone cords," Mulhall writes. "A doctor on board shot Reid with a dose of Valium from the on-board medical kit. For the rest of the flight, passengers of varying sizes kept Reid restrained, one of them by keeping a taught grip on a fist-full of Reid’s ponytail. Escorted by Air Force fighters, Flight 63 was diverted to Boston’s Logan International Airport, where Reid was taken into custody... Then again, maybe getting your ass kicked in Aspen by a taxi passenger is nothing like that."
Chef Clark Church at the Garnish Restaurant in The Aspen Club serves up some of the best chow in town. No, you don’t have to be a member and don’t worry about parking because there is plenty of free parking! We were met by Clark Church the Chef and Owner of Garnish Café. I can’t remember the last café I ate at in Aspen that I had contact with and was served by the owner of the place.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest apres-ski hangout of them all. The Sky Hotel's 39 Degrees in Aspen will do quite nicely, thank you. "We no longer have to imagine what lies beneath the long underwear," writes Concierge.com. "The very steamy hot tub just outside the Sky Hotel's bar, 39 Degrees, is open to both guests and drinkers. And you'll also find both bump-bashers and snow bunnies stripping down to their Escada and Prada bikinis and trunks to frolic around the bar, the heated pool, and the ten-person hot tub, with its mosaic of blue ceramic tiles."
Max Werdenigg, Edelwiser skis: These independent labels in skiing—I really like the idea. Every ski has its own personality. When we build skis we put our soul in it. That’s more and more important in our society. The masses grow to a point where you lose the individual part of one’s self. Now you can design your own Porsche—everyone’s going to mass customization. They talk at MIT about mass customization. Some scientists say it’s a pretty young field. Finally we’ve got a case study.
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.
English professor Allan Wall is an American who lives and works in Mexico. He prolifically has been writing articles about various aspects of Mexico and Mexican society for the past decade. Allan Wall will be a guest on KNFO's Con Games' Immigration Wednesday, 8AM-9AM, October 31,Haloween--Eeek!
"Little Green Lies" reads the headline in BusinessWeek. "The sweet notion that making a company environmentally friendly can be not just cost-effective but profitable is going up in smoke. Meet the man wielding the torch."
It's all coming back at me now--all those nasty quips about Mayor Mick Ireland and his foot-in-mouth Aspen City Council being Communists.
Now people are telling me without prompting that Mick and his minions really are Communists--no joke.
Still it's funny. I opened the Sunday newspaper this morning to see Aspen being "nickle and dimed" to death because everything costs a limb, even little things. And then there was the story under the headline "Council Visualizes Ajax Base" about how what we really need is affordable housing where the Lodge at Aspen hoped to put (gasp!) a hotel. Mick made the statement that what we really need is affordable housing and a lift that comes right into town.
Maybe we should all be ashamed of ourselves: the locals with the illusion they rule the roost, and the visiting rich who act as if they rule the world. There is plenty of blame to go around, and like the entrance to Aspen, things are likely to get much worse. I try to be relentlessly optimistic about things but I see no solution here. The locals make Aspen possible for the rich, and the rich make Aspen possible for the locals. No wonder they hate each other.
The town was a buzz as thousands of out-of-towners, volunteers, and the usual locals clouded the streets, eager to get their hands on the goodies both inside and outside the now infamous white tents rising above Wagner park in downtown Aspen.
It seemed that the 25th Aspen Food & Wine Classic attracted the usual eccentrics to town, many dressed to impress bearing everything from high heels, power suits, to short skirts and all sorts of ‘bling’.
Regardless of the unwritten dress code that came along with the event, the one thing that inexorably distinguished Aspen’s Food & Wine crowd from the rest of town were the large passes that participants were required to wear around their necks throughout the weekend.
Auden Schendler: It just changed. I’m now “executive director of community and environmental responsibility.” The idea is that in most corporations there’s a department called “Corporate Social Responsibility.” And we figure in reality caring about the environment is no different than caring about how your kids grow up. It’s the same issue of responsibility and respect. And we’re now taking over Skico’s philanthropy. When Skico comps lift tickets, my department is in charge of that. We also work with the Crown Family Fund.
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO (Post Time News)--The Hot Springs Lodge & Pool (HSLP) pledged $20,000 toward the construction of the proposed $1.4 million whitewater park in west Glenwood Springs near the Midland Avenue Bridge on the Colorado River. In so doing, the Hot Springs company endorsed the idea put forth by the Whitewater Park Committee that such a park would attract kayakers like cattle to a trough.
