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Open Letter to Governor Hickenlooper 5

Feb

17

2017

I sent this to the governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper today, after seeing the AP story about a Trump administration draft memo regarding mobilization of the National Guard to be used to round up undocumented immigrants. Yes, I am aware that we’re talking a draft, but I find it seriously horrifying that this is even being talked ...

Been Busy Not Living in Texas 7

Jun

6

2016

I can’t believe it’s been ten days since I finished my move. Where the fuck has the time gone? I feel like I just got here, and yet… I won’t say that I regret the time I spent in Houston. That would be grossly unfair to the wonderful coworkers and the stimulating and fun work ...

A fast verdict 1

Jul

16

2015

Verdict returned on Aurora gunman, guilty on all 165 counts. I don’t really have any commentary on the case itself, other than profound sadness at the senselessness of it all, anger about gun control issues; the standard feeling I have about mass shootings. What I did want to comment on is the “speed” of the ...

Reason number five million why I miss Colorado (special voting edition) 7

Nov

5

2013

In Colorado I was on the permanent mail-in ballot list. Several weeks before election day, I would receive my ballot in the mail without having to do anything special for it, then peruse it at my leisure and mail it back, no muss, no fuss. Technically, they have mail-in ballots in Texas. But only if ...

And now my house looks like this.

Feb

15

2013

Which is close to the same view as this: So yes. On Thursday a trio of nice men (Marco, Francisco, and Greg) came to my house and took everything away. It’ll be delivered down in Houston on the 24th or 25th. And it only took them about two and a half hours to load, since ...

I Snoopy danced through the election in Colorado

Nov

8

2012

Two days late, whatever. So yeah, this happened. As you can imagine, I’m pretty pumped about that, because the president of the United States hasn’t switched over to being an plastic manbot with a faulty truth chip. I’m pumped there are going to be record number of women in the senate. I’m pumped we have ...

Senseless 1

Jul

20

2012

I got hit with the news about the shooting in Colorado about five minutes after I woke up this morning. This has hit a lot of people hard, as it should. And a lot of nerds, because it was at the premiere for The Dark Knight Rises. If you’re at the midnight showing for a ...

Burning

Jun

27

2012

There’s a new fire near Boulder. It’s only 300 acres, but it’s burning the flatirons, it’s heading toward NCAR, and there are evacuation notices dropping. The High Park Fire is still burning at over 87,000 acres. My friends Susan and Galen have been evacuated from Colorado Springs. My best friend (their daughter) just told me that ...

Shame on you, Rep. McNulty

May

9

2012

Well, I got absolutely nothing done after trivia tonight. Rather, I spent the last 100 minutes watching the #coleg tag on Twitter with a growing sense of horror. It was already a shit night, thanks to voters in North Carolina. But somehow, the disaster in the Colorado legislature is even worse than that. We had a ...

You know you’re from Colorado if…

Apr

13

2012

My mother forwarded this e-mail to me, and I’ve kept all of the ones that I think are true. You eat ice cream in the winter. (Who doesn’t?) It snows 5 inches and you don’t expect school to be cancelled. You’ll wear flip flops every day of the year, regardless of temperature. You have no ...