I won’t be posting here for the next month or so. The savvier of you can probably figure out why. But if you can’t, try here.
Archive for February, 2009
Hiatus
Posted in Etc. on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fly, Pegasus, fly
Posted in Etc. on February 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just when you thought the hand-wringing over the Luis Jiménez sculpture couldn’t get any more fucking cringe-inducing, Mike Rosen weighs in. From The Rocky Mountain News.
It probably wasn’t a good omen when Mustang pulled a Frankenstein’s monster and turned on its master, sculptor Luis Jimenez, crushing him to death during the final stages of its creation. Jimenez, an [...]
Ol’ Meth
Posted in Etc. on February 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
If there’s one thing Denverites love doing, it’s bitching about public art projects. We’re a timid, whiny lot, and anything edgier than that inane blue bear outside the Colorado Convention Center (which always reminds me of Dorothy Parker’s response to The House at Pooh Corner: “Tonstant Weader fwowed up”) sends the LoDo loft people and [...]
Uranium mining, native resistance, and the greener path
Posted in Winona LaDuke on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A good one from Winona LaDuke, writing in Orion Magazine.
Pilfered from Colorado AIM. Just like half of all my other posts.
In a Dine Creation Story, the people were given a choice of two yellow powders. They chose the yellow dust of corn pollen, and were instructed to leave the other yellow powder-uranium-in the soil [...]
American outrage
Posted in Carrie Dann on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Boulder International Film Festival will be showing a documentary titled American Outrage about the Western Shoshone land rights struggle on Saturday, February 14th at 2:30 pm. Part of it was filmed at an 2006 anti-Newmont Mining action right here in Denver.
Tickets are 9 bucks for non-students, 7 bucks students. Carrie Dann, the only superhero [...]
