CITY MAN HAIKU
he walked with purpose
Spring's crisp air bowing to him
destiny unknown.
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LONELY CHAIR HAIKU
Chair, bought on sale, cheap.
Torn, discarded. But still in-
vites you...sit, rest, brood.
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This may be part of the the Belle Mine. Or, it may be the entrance to the Ethel Maggie tunnel where Steven Pastore and Ed Jones stood in this 1918 photo. Hard to say for sure, but the mine IS near Salina, Colorado.
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Flatiron rock formations – built around 230 million years ago during the Laramide Orogeny.
CU Boulder football stadium – originally built in 1924, tall structure seen here in 2003.
Men's Warehouse (originally founded in 1973) – Boulder location shown here built within the last year.
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A DREAM OF TREES (3.23.07) |
A Dream of Trees
There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees,
A quiet house, some green and modest acres
A little way from every troubling town,
A little way from factories, schools, laments.
I would have time, I thought, and time to spare,
With only streams and birds for company.
To build out of my life a few wild stanzas.
And then it came to me, that so was death,
A little way away from everywhere.
There is a thing in me still dreams of trees,
But let it go. Homesick for moderation,
Half the world’s artists shrink or fall away.
If any find solution, let him tell it.
Meanwhile I bend my heart toward lamentation
Where, as the times implore our true involvement,
The blades of every crisis point the way.
I would it were not so, but so it is.
Who ever made music of a mild day?
–Mary Oliver
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BEANS AND SAUCERS (3.22.07) |
In 2003 (the most recent data I could find), the average coffee consumption in the U.S. was 9.24 pounds per person per year. Italy rang in at 12.54 pounds per person, while Bermuda put down 16.5 pounds per person. But, Finland was far and away the most jacked up country, imbibing 25.08 pounds per person. Find out how much coffee your favorite country drinks by clicking here.
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BURN, BABY, BURN (3.21.07) |
Yeah, all the lights are pretty to look at. Yeah, the light fixtures look better lit. And, yeah, there are a lot of energy-effecient compact fluorescent bulbs being used in the display. But, consider for a moment that there are over 1500 Home Depot locations and they all have light fixture displays burning 15 hours a day. Is that really necessary?
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The first traditional moving walkways similar to this one at Denver International Airport began appearing in the mid-60s. 2002 marked the appearance of the first successful high-speed walkway at Paris' Montparnasse-Bienvenüe metro station. While traditional walkways poke along at around 2 mph, Paris' high-speed walkway chugs forward at 5.6 mph, includes acceleration and deceleration zones, and is calculated to save riders who use it twice a day 11.5 hours of walking time over the course of a year.
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The enamel on your teeth is the hardest substance in your body. Your permanent teeth begin to push their way through around age 6, and end with your wisdom teeth showing up in your late teens/early 20s. This teeth happen to belong to Grace Macon, age 8 years, 10 months.
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PotD MAKE-UP: THE CINEMATICS |
First, the PotD apologizes for having missed posting anything on Friday. There was simply too much happening at SxSw to get it out. But, one of those happening things was The Cinematics (playing here). If you haven't heard The Cinematics yet, you will. If you never do then it will be a crime attributable to the machinations of the current music industry. No matter what happens to the band though, you can be pretty sure that "Tawny Kitaen, Version 2007"–singing along in the foreground–will be there whenever possible. It wouldn't be rock 'n' roll without her.
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It's late and I'm posting this PotD with just minutes to spare before midnight...at least midnight mountain time, even though I'm currently in the central time zone. So, quickly, this is in the Ale House, which sits in an alley off 6th Street at SxSw in Austin, TX. Joan as Policewoman is playing onstage behind the post.
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FROM BOULDER RAILS TO SAN JOSE (3.13.07) |
In Back of the Real
railroad yard in San Jose
I wandered desolate
in front of a tank factory
and sat on a bench
near the switchman's shack.
A flower lay on the hay on
the asphalt highway
--the dread hay flower
I thought--It had a
brittle black stem and
corolla of yellowish dirty
spikes like Jesus' inchlong
crown, and a soiled
dry center cotton tuft
like a used shaving brush
that's been lying under
the garage for a year.
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A network of trails meander out across Chautauqua Park towards Boulder's Flatirons. What is a Chautauqua? At one time, before TV and radio, it brought orators, performers and educators to 12,000 stops around the country. In their prime, Theodore Roosevelt called Chautauquas, "the most American thing in America."
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What do you get when you combine disco and classic rock with snow, snowboards and skis? You get The Boulder History Museum's Retro Ski Days at Eldora Mountain Resort, replete with 60's hippies, 70's hipsters, and one hell of a yellow bee-hive hairdo all shaking it slopeside.
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Welcome to the beginning of the infamous Dipsea Trail. Starting in Mill Valley, CA with 676 steps, the trail then rolls through the redwood grooves and sweeping vistas of the Marin Headlands for 7.1 miles before ending at Stinson Beach. It also happens to be the site of the country's oldest cross-country running race, a no-holds-barred scramble that started in 1905.
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This slice of life brought to you by a 20-mph drive-by while shooting out the passenger window. A mom and her friend watching a little girl (below photo) spin her pinwheel. Another woman behind them puts on her sunglasses. The out-of-focus menagerie of concert posters catches the late-day sun. Just a typical sunny day on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder.
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Welcome to the Gold Hill General Store, which has been in operation since...oh, a hell of a long time. Inside, it feels like a miner from Gold Hill's boom days back in the 1800s might walk through the door at any moment. Gold Hill, the town, did more than just suck its namesake metal out of them 'thar hills though. It also sucked out tellurium, one of the rarest stable elements in the Earth's crust. Used in alloys, it can make lead stronger and more durable, while it helps make steel and copper more workable. And it's biggest moment came as a chemical bonder for the outer shell of the first atomic bomb (or so says Wikipedia).
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 This would be your crap-the-day-got-away-from-me-and-is-almost-over-and-I-didn't-send-out-
a-photo-yet-but-I-don't-want-to-break-my-streak photo. The balls are polished hardwood from Costa Rica. Hopefully, they were made in some sort of sustainable
way. Otherwise, I'll feel like a big chump for buying them, because
they aren't really good for anything other than to look at and roll
around in your hands. Although, they do bring back good memories of
jungle and surf and sun and an amazing vacation, wihch is certainly
worth something. But, are those memories really worth killing a tree?
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...and heartache. This headstone sits in the cemetery for Sunshine, Colorado, a nearly abandoned old mining town that was once home to up to 1000 people. It sits at about 7,200 feet, nestled in the mountains above Boulder with sweeping views of the Plains off in the distance. It wasn't an easy place to live in the late 1800s/early 1900s, as the preponderance of childrens' tombstones in the cemetery attest. Here lies William John Morgan, who died in 1899 at the age of 7, and Edward Pugh Morgan, who died in 1901 at the age of 2. The lamb on top represents innocence, while the ivy along the sides symbolizes friendship and immortality.
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"Follow your bliss. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that
has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you
ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that,
you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open
doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors
will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
-- Joseph Campbell
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This would be the foot and pedal array of one Brian McNeely, one of two guitarist for The Michetons. How the hell he keeps track of all them is beyond the comprehension of most humans. He and The Michetons played Denver's Walnut Room last night with Ours. Two nights before that they'd played Las Vegas, and then driven 20 hours through a snowstorm to get to the mile-high city, a drive that normally takes 11 hours. Tomorrow night, they'll be playing The 49er in Omaha. Check out Big & Sharp's review of last night's performance. Big and Sharp, incidently, sends out a mighty fine, weekly mix of music through his Big & Sharp podcast. If you're an alt/rock/indie music-head, sign-up, you'll like it. Or, at least, I do. (Full disclaimer: This PotD is somewhat self-serving, in addition to being Michetons-serving. I help run Bright Antenna, The Michetons' label.)
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