It's up there with Dakota for names you ought not name your childrens The last dinosaur resided there in the 80s It's uncomfortably close to Colorado Springs I couldn't give a shit about their professional football/basketball/rapeball franchises Boat Drinks? It's possible to charter a creationist tour of their natural history museum It's...on a plateau, maybe? It's expensive to fly in and out I'm going to be driving a large rental truck and towing a vehicle there in about 3 weeks I know one person, an ex, who lives there, and all she knows is books and school The Alferd Packer Memorial Grill is not there
Oh, yeah, John Elway - I'm waving my hands.
So here's the interactive part? Who's been to Denver? Who's lived there? What do you do in Denver? The meetup.com Denver people are super-nice, but, they really haven't told me anything, useful. So, what the fuck kinds of things are there to do in Denver when you're there? What's not to miss. What ought I skip? Help me enjoy Denver, because I really want to, I just, I just don't know if I can, yet.
jake [email] said at 3:24 AM 07-08-2007: What Reggie said, likewise.
Denver--got a great hockey team, got a decent arts/snarky op-eds/weekly, got the parents of one of my best friends a few miles out of town (Arvada), got a pretty good comic book shop but I can't remember the name...
brianbibbly [email] said at 11:27 AM 07-08-2007: Denver is amazing, yo. Call me at the number I will post in the rec room. I moved up there briefly (remember Bibbly's post-Katrina stress syndrome). I would very much like to move back. Holla.
abby [email] said at 3:51 PM 07-08-2007: my brother is moving out there somewhere in august to go to a culinary school. he is going to smoke more weed that i can possibly imagine. toke on, brandon. just smoke tons of pot.
luster [email] said at 12:45 AM 07-09-2007: one time i went up there for a friend of a friend's wedding but i forgot to bring his phone number so i had a day or two to kill before the wedding. i got a fancy hotel room because (i worked for marriott at the time) and just wandered around. there was lots of stuff open, bars with live music and stuff. i ended up at some bar with a really hot bartender who gave me a drink "on the house" i never got a drink like that from a stranger so it was pretty awesome. there was a band playing called the candy snatchers, they were pretty neato too. i ended up having a great time. i also went to the natural history museum. they had this quilt show that was pretty awesome. the wedding i went to was in a historic firehouse. that was cool too. after the wedding i checked out of the hotel and went to stay at my friend who lived in littleton. turns out his sister went to columbine when they had all those shootings and they had a picture of her on the wall shaking hands with president clinton. that was weird. so i went to that columbine school on my way out of town. that was kinda weird, but not really. it was just a regular school but it was crazy to imagine it with those kids shooting up the place.
seems like people in colorado are all really nice. they are like those guys up in the pacific northwest, all nice and stuff.
brandon [email] said at 10:04 PM 07-09-2007: Yeah, I've kind of wanted to go by the Columbine. I wrote all of this down for later. KilloggsAmanda PMd me a nice link from the EA forums, too, with a ton of stuff. Gas is such a bitch. It's already back on the march up, and 1300 miles is a lot of jetfuel.
Anyway, I ramble. Thanks for the pointers regarding Denver, Colorado. A land of flat promises and high expectations. Or maybe that's a land of flat chicks and high trustfund kids?
A little something about the flat chicks. I was at a dressy little party the other day. And the only thing sexier than a well-proportioned well-breasted lass in a sundress, was a well-proportioned small breasted lass in a sundress, with just enough cleavage, and just enough worldy-wise panache. And like that filagreed musculature Needless to say, I was at the bottom of the panache pile. But was a nice view up. I wish more dresses would slip over the the shoulders of more chicks. Chicks on scooters. Chicks reading on the bus. Chicks taking pictures for photography classes splicing Patti Smith and DeeDee Ramone. Chicks just being born and emerging from the clutch, yellow, fluffy, wet with mucus and aching to be fucked by the nearest, strutinest cock.
myriam [email] said at 11:45 PM 07-10-2007: I know zero about Denver, having only driving through there on the way to Boulder, but I can tell you that Boulder is fantastic. Really chill and just fucking gorgeous, in the way that makes you stop and go, whoa, just look at those mountains! about 15 times a day. (Until, like all humans, you eventually tire of the view and go back to the narrow focus of your sordid little life, I imagine.) But the sunsets over the Flatirons are fantastic. We went hiking right outside of town for the day and as soon as you clear the treeline, you see columbine covering the hills--the flower kind, not the ghostly school kind--and it's beautiful. Everyone bikes and looks healthy. There is an awesome little teahouse hand-built by Uzbeki craftsman as a gift from the capital of Uzbekistan whose name escapes me. That is the first place I ever had roibus tea and it went fantastically with their home-made warm gingerbread with cream. Mmm. I have very happy memories of Boulder and would love to go back.
Hopefully Denver is kinda like that? I know they have a new musuem by Daniel Liebskind and are getting another, from a different famous architect, I believe...
amy [email] said at 2:01 AM 07-11-2007: there is one street just out of downtown that has at least a million ethiopian and greek restaurants. only those two cuisines, nothing else. there is a really cool photo gallery/musuem right behind the huge denver art musuem. living there is extremely expensive.
john [email] said at 3:11 PM 07-11-2007: I went on a skiing trip to Colorado. We stayed in Denver a couple of nights. All I can say is that you better put some mean ass snow tires or something on your car. It snows like a bitch there but I don't think that it gets deathly cold like Chicago does. Otherwise, it's a really nice place.
