No, I'll Tell The Story

This is the beginning of something really exciting.
It should be shared.
I promise I will.

Business - Oval Office Style

Regardless of what he will or won't do for the next 4 years...
I like the looks of this!

Plus, Rahm Emmanuel...has executive HOT written all over him.
Sayin'.

People Got Alotta Nerve

Hey, also...real quick like:

I love Neko Case. Have you heard her? If you haven't, do some research!
She calls, of all places, Tacoma home and her voice is absolutely GORGEOUS!
Chances are, if you haven't heard her solo stuff, you've heard her sing with the New Pornographers.
Either way, she's outta sight!

So, Neko's got a new album coming out and her label Anti will donate $5 to Best Friends Animal Society if you post mention of her upcoming single on your blog!
So, here I am...mentioning it!

Here's where to download the single!

http://www.anti.com/media/download/708

It's for a good cause...
As my good friend Dennis says, "Why wouldn't ya?"...

Great Job!

Just a few fave pics.


Don't know why they are both for laundry places...

This is where I work...
Our boss let us watch the inauguration on my computer.
I would have cried if I hadn't been surrounded by gentleman co-workers.

Yep.
I'm feeling it.
Are you?

Not only was I excited about the "transfer of power"...but I had a date planned with my rad co-worker Adam.
He's pretty much one the funniest dudes I know on the planet.
He cracks me up on a regular basis...and for that, I am more thankful than I can express.

So, we hit the Cheeky Monk for Hoegaardens, fried dill pickle spears, and the meat and cheese plate.


One of my other fave hilarious dudes, Chris, was there!
A lady with two married men going out for laughs!
What a fine arrangement!

Adam and I had been planning, for almost a month, for Tim and Eric Awesome Show 2009 at the Ogden Theater!

It started out with DJ Doug Pound - who, for the record, is just about the cutest, shittiest DJ I have ever seen in all my life.
And hilarious! Fuck that!

Then Tim and Eric got on stage and kicked off the show with a weird song and dance number about diarrhea.

Those are gold SKIN TIGHT body suits.
Yes, I saw the definition of everything. It was disturbing and wonderful all at once.

I was planning to take more pictures, but I snuck my camera in via my brassiere.
And I got caught with it.
Thankfully, the security fellow told me I could keep it if I didn't take anymore pics.
Boo.

At any rate, this was just one of the varied cast of characters that made the show totally bizarre and mesmerizing!


David Liebe Hart was there shilling his cds for 5 dollars...
Sadly, I spent all my money on beers and a t-shirt.
Thankfully, some smelly but kind hulk of a man spilled my beer all over me and felt so guilty that he gave me 4 dollars and bought me a beer.
Thanks kind smelly guy!

I sweet talked David into a candid, intimate photo.
Prior to this, he was signing a calendar and asking people around us to hook him up with single ladies.
I had a chance and I blew it.

If you have a chance, go see the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! tour!
It will blow your brains out and, I guarantee, you will laugh from beginning to end!
Check out their website here - TIM AND ERIC

You can trust me! I know funny!

Pizzapopolis

Friday!


I know I gush about a lot of restaurants around Denver. I do it partially to remind, whoever reads this, that you should be exploring restaurants in your cities - particularly you, Denver-ites.

The Edgewater, for those of you in Denver, is a pizza phenomenon!

First though, we all shared a giant family sized bowl of salad.
It was a mixed bag of great stuff!

But then the pizza came...and honestly, without doubt, this is the best pepperoni pizza I have ever had in my life.
I would marry this pizza.

I didn't try this flavor, but it was called the Howdy Special and had so much sausage on it...it made me uncomfortable.


Of course, we threw back some Blue Moons and made a lot of noise...
If had taken 1 decent picture of the crew, you'd know there were some good people there.
Some of my faves in fact!

There's not a lot of places that you can go where Maura doesn't make it 100 times better!

And when she suggested instead of going out and cruising hot dudes at neighb bars...

...that we drink a bottle of wine and watch this - Um, I was SOLD.

Maura B just recently finished the whole Twin Peaks box set with me...and I told her she wasn't done until we watched Fire Walk With Me...so, that sweet little potato just bought the DVD for me and now it's in my collection to watch over and over again obsessively.

That's a friend...fueling my insatiable Agent Dale Cooper addiction!

Hurray!

When I've Been Fixed, I Am Convinced That I Will Not Get So Broke Up Again

I went to visit ZEZ.

Sounds more ominous than it is...
Zez is my tattoo guy!

Zez works at a tattoo joint out on Broadway and he runs a tight ship!
I think that's why I like the guy so much.

Actually, I like him for the following reasons:
He's super profesh and acts enthusiastic about every idea I bring to him!
He's clean as all get out. In fact, we had a lengthy discussion about cleanliness in a tattoo environment and amidst our conversation he got some ink on the floor and wiped it up with Windex.
He is a super happy positive person. He is thankful for what he has and always sees the other side even if he doesn't agree with it.
He shoots the shit as good as me.

I went in to see Zez because whilst cleaning my mother's kitchen to prepare her for moving...I found two old pieces of family china that my mom has been holding onto forever.
They are beautiful and belonged to my great grandmother.
Two pieces means that the rest of the pieces were broken and lost throughout my life.
I'm sure I broke a few of them as a kid.

So, my tattoo guy prepared his set-up, applied my stencil, and set to work.

Old school graffiti artist, rad enlightened dad, super tattoo bro!

And he busted it out! We worked for two hours and talked the whole time about dads, tattooing, art, hard living, and everything else under the sun.

And best of all, he did a phenomenal job recreating a piece of my family's past that I'm super connected to - chips and cracks included!

Thanks Zez...I'll see you again soon!
(p.s. check out my cleav in this pic! WOW!)

We're Gonna Have A Good Time With This Dear

Saturday - BIG DAY!
Early, I had a quickie cappuccino with Baby S before he ran off to his weekend obligations.
I enjoyed a short walk back to my place and saw this weird piece of paper plastered to an electrical box.
I'm obsessed with it. If anyone knows what it's all about - ILLUMINATE ME!
I mean, you should be obsessed with it too...the creature in the middle of the star is a unicorn with either it's tongue hanging out or a beard.

Wanted to take a pic of the most recent knitting project that I cranked out this last week.
It's an arm warmer.
Honestly, I don't like it. It's bulky and sort of dumb, but the colors are nice.

Thankfully, Maura B loves it...so I plan to finish the project by making another one to complete the pair.
Finish what you start.

I met up with Steph who suggested a stop at Steve's Snappin' Dogs.
Um, this place is a seriously delish hot dog joint right on the Colfax strip.

Blinky!

Ain't it the truth!

I, as per my uzjhe, got the Chicago Dog.
But I altered the tradish Chicago Dog with a sauerkraut upgrade minus the atomic green relish.
There was a downer moment when the dill pickle (i.e. the best part of the Chicago Dog!!!) on top fell on the floor, but the folks at Steve's kindly gave me a new pickle.


Steph and I were casually reading this flyer that was up on the wall...and noticed that someone had written on the bottom, "May cause violent vomiting!".
Not exactly an endorsement.

Just real quick, let me encourage you to go to this place.
Actually, call me and we'll go together!

Steph and I had joined forces because we decided to start work on a new decoupage project.
She's kind of a professional, even though it appears that she is eating Mod Podge here!
Also, I love to say Mod Podge. Say it out loud, it's lyrical.

It was awesome! We listened to music, drank unfiltered sake, ate salt and pepper popcorn, and crafted out!

I bought a couple of ridiculous hats...for Chris' birthday later in the evening!
Mine's a kitten!

Speaking of birthdays, a totally great crew of favorites hit the Twin Dragon over on Broadway for a celebratory dinner!

Twin Dragon has the best service that I have ever experienced in Denver...so far!

It's lovely in there...

And their Zombies are lethal and are served in skull mugs!

It started out the 4 of us...Darling Meg, birthday monkey Chris, Baby S, and myself!
Doug and Steph were there too!

I bought Chris the monkey hat anticipating that he would hate it and dismiss it promptly.
I bought my kitten hat to wear as a birthday alliance even...
But Chris didn't have a problem with the hat and actually wore it all night!
Meg's response was dubious.

We kind of laughed a lot!
I mean we always do...

Chris got some cards and gifts.
This card played KISS! It was gross.

Steph's tongue. Yeah, surprisingly longer than you'd expect.
I caught Baby S off guard, but look at that tie/cardigan coupling...
Very dapper, indeed!

We ate skewered meats and fried pockets of yummy stuff!

There is a mirror picture of me on Chris' camera.
I'm not that excited to see it.

I had a crispy tangy pork dish.
You can imagine the euphemisms that resulted.

Chris hammered down a gratuitous amount of Jack & Cokes.
But it was warranted - he's 34!

Twin Dragon served us some complimentary plum wine with maraschino cherries...

And brought out a tray of fortune AND almond cookies with a festive sparkler!
The host at the restaurant must have known that we were a group of salty, filth mouths because he gave us the "dirty" fortune cookies.
I can't remember them all, but I'm pretty sure that Chris' said, "Navajo erection is a scrotum pole".
Yeah, both offensive and hilarious!

The best part was that our waiter sang "Happy Birthday" to Chris in Chinese.
Quite an honor!

The post party went down at the Roslyn.
You remember this place right?

Joel showed up to do amazing Will Ferrell impressions!

Birthday cake.

We drank beers, gabbed about funny stuff, and enjoyed each other's company!

That's what you're supposed to do when you celebrate your birthday!
Hope it was a good one, Chris!