New Years Tilt-Shift

First snow of the season.

Wasn't too bad though and the sun is already coming out.

What sucked though was this morning whilst watching the news, I felt like Summer didn't even happen.

Vader Goes For Coffee

Happy Halloween, y'all!

Scenes From The DNC

Religious Peeps



Debate

The guy with the rainbow flag and everyone else in the surrounding circle were having a heated debate about the gay thing.

Got to give the guy credit for being out in the middle of Liberal Central.

More Heated Debate







Hottie Brit TV Reporter

Scenes From The DNC

Turista



Strollin', strollin', strollin'. Keep those delegates strollin'. Strollin', strollin', strollin'. Rawhide!



Po-po On Bikes



Lil' Girl Handing Out Free Lemonade

This is a brilliant McCain tactic.

Getting an innocent looking girl to hand out cyanide laced lemonade to take out Democrats one by one.

No one would suspect that she would be a GOP operative; which is the beauty of this subversive act.

In fact, she is a genetically modified senior citizen engineered by PAC money to single-handedly undermine the DNC.

Be aware that others like her are also afoot; disguised in Obama singlets, secretly videotaping and sabotaging the event in their Bugaboo strollers.

They're colic-y, but deadly.

The MSNBC 'Pavilion'

Why they chose this location fathoms me.

Union Station doesn't exactly evoke 'Denver'.

It would have been cool if they were able to broadcast from the turret of the State Capitol building.

[By the way, my bus home passes by this to and fro from work, so keep an eye out for the windowlicking dude on the bus around 7:25 AM and 5:005 PM during the convention. I'll be the one wearing the Fez.]




Not Really Related To The DNC But...

This pic evokes why Denver/Colorado is the skinniest state.

We peeps run/bike/hike everywhere.



Security Gates

I don't get these gates.

There everywhere, blocking streets in LoDo, but they have this portion that could totally act as a seat.

The homeless could totally sleep on them, or watch the events, but oh wait.

That's right.

They were shipped off to the zoo and movie theaters with their fab new hairstyles.

[Honestly, there are no homeless to be seen. On the news, I saw that there was a rumor among homeless peeps [from a few homeless peeps themselves], that they would be arrested/deported to the subs. So, many of them split Downtown.]

The Bunker

The Pepsi Center has been cordoned off unto a bunker.

Also known as 'Tent and Generator City'.

Security is so strict, they yell at you for taking pics.

Sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Gestapo.



Dude, Where's My Nominee?

This guy obvs didn't get the memo.

It stated that stonewashed denim, and frizzy Sidewhow Bob do's are strictly verboten.

Doy.

Go to the zoo or the movies until Friday.

Geesh!



Denver's Times Square [AKA Tourist Central]



Sometimes A Train Is Simply A Train

Seriously, Union Pacific shipped in all these trains to Union Station when we have little to no train service.

I guess we have the California Zephyr, and the Ski Train, but these tracks are ALWAYS empty.

The bloggers get their own tent!



Protestors!



More Protestors!

Reminds me of the Summer events that take place in Civic Center.



Po-po On Horses!



Obama Jama

Honestly, one of the favorite things I have seen so far.

Not only the images of Obama and McCain rockin' out, but the fact that Hillary is the DJ on the 1's and 2's.

Water!

Seriously.

You know Denver is trying to prettify itself when it turns on the water fountains.

We're basically a mountain desert, undergoing an eternal drought.

So to see them turn on the hose is quite the spetacular event.

They even turned on the water fountains on the mall!!

Unrelated[?]

This ice cream truck followed me home.

More McCain hooliganry?

Why would an ice cream truck be out now when all the kids are back in school?

If I don't post tomorrow, alert the authorities!

Or not.

They're probably involved!

Wait.

I think I have said too much already.

What?

I didn't take pictures.

I don't know what you're talking about!

I'm a Canadian.

Just....visiting.

[Runs away, arms flailing, wailing in to the night.]

Better pics of DNC goings on.

Here.

Seriously, there was butt-loads of people out yesterday.

The last time there was this many people downtown was when the NBA All Star Game was here.

Random Images

Cool Pic

My Hood

I love living on The Hill.

We actually have trees and everything within walking distance.

Not like Suburbia where you need a car to function, trees are still toothpicks, and all the restaurants and stores are chains and copies upon copies of themselves.

Scenes From Public Transportation

Ghet-to Bus Stop

This bus stop is the nexus of a lot of routes and on the route [the 15] that extends from Downtown to all the way out to Saudi Aurora.

It traverses some of the seedier parts of East Colfax.

You know, the strip of ramshackle motels that support prostitutes and meth production.

It's always filthy, and everyone there always looks beleaguered, high, drunk, or suffering from some heinous health condition.

Last time I was on the 15, there was screaming babies, thugs, a barely breathing guy with emphysema and an oxygen tank, and my favorite, some junkie who was in between bouts of passing out with his fly wide open and pants falling down.

Needless to say I got off on an early stop.

Cool Pic

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Denver Infill

Evicted!

Haven't seen that in a while since most of the buildings in my hood turned condo.

Cool Pics

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The Millennium Bridge looking up 16th Street Mall



Wider Shot

From Denver Infill

Sherman The Rabbit

'Sherman' is this little guy, who every now and then, pops up on my commute to/from home.

He's been around since I have moved on my block [four years].

I don't know where he lives, but it's kind of surprising he's still alive.

We have tons of dogs in the 'hood, and I live in an area with lots of traffic.

I think he's become used to city life as he isn't afraid of people, and didn't run away when I got close to take his pic.

Cool Shot

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A view from the construction crane at the 1900 16th project.

From Denver Infill

Red is my favorite color.....

But this is one bufugly color combo for a house.

Yick.

Well, it's official.

My local Wild Oats has been assimilated under the Whole Foods Mothership.

They didn't really do much except re-brand everything which kind of sucks.

I was hoping they were going to put in a bigger prepared foods section like the one in Cherry Creek.

But hey, at least they didn't close it.

Out And About

Because you know how they say us Denverites/Coloradoans are all active and healthy and stuff.

A view looking south from Commons Park in the Riverfront neighborhood.

From Denver Infill.