Sacajawea, where you at?

The end is nigh'

2008-03-05T22:02:00.002-05:00

No not really. But being sick for three weeks non-stop has given me a lot of free time. And so I've decided to migrate my blog over to wordpress, just to keep things interesting. So friends, adjust your links and c'mon over!

http://sacaj.wordpress.com/

They are handing these out all over town

2008-03-03T09:53:00.001-05:00

I have sour cream and chive crickets at home. Supposed to be good protein. I'll see who I can con into eating them with me!

Bachelor/ette parties are fun

2008-03-03T09:50:00.001-05:00

Show us your tats!

it's not the one that runs now but it's still pretty hilarious

2008-02-25T20:48:00.001-05:00

J&T and I used to live right next door. Once J and I even snuck into a prom there just to see what it looked like inside. good times.

I wonder

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if she ever feels a little like Gulliver...

Next Stop

2008-02-13T15:54:00.002-05:00

Palm Springs, California!

SPICE GIRLS

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Geri was getting ready to sing "It's Raining Men" (see below)

In case you can't tell, she's my favorite!

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More to come...

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Oh My God

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Second Row at the end of the stage

Cruz Beckham and his nanny right in front of us so he could say hi to his mom

Scary's new hubby and baby RIGHT in front of us

Me...DYING

Beep Beep, beware of the Geep

2008-02-08T14:24:00.000-05:00

Meet Lisa

AHHHHHHHHHHH

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J is at the Project Runway fashion show right now and guess who else is there? Posh Spice!! EEEEH!!! She's in the Orange

Oh, and did I mention we are going to see them on Sunday night? CUZ WE ARE

Scenes from a random walk home

2008-02-07T14:01:00.000-05:00

Some guy selling bootleg Giants championship shirts...note the NYPD officer who is buying multiple

Jamba Juice!

The tents at Bryant Park

For some reason I decided to go through Times Square

8th Ave is a changing, they are knocking down buildings like crazy...The Playpen Theatre included. Wierd.

(note: all pics taken with the same camera phone. no idea why all the size issues!)

2008-02-05T22:34:00.000-05:00

This is what happens when your felines decide to turn your box spring into a condo:
Dweezil is just checking my repair job...

2008-02-05T21:49:00.000-05:00

My friend Adele died today at approximately 10:30am PST. When I think of her, I think of this picture:

She knew what was coming, but she said fuck it and went to India, and Costa Rica and a number of other places in the past year. Here's hoping we all do the same.

Vota Aqui

2008-02-05T09:29:00.000-05:00

I voted in my primary...Did you?!

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19-NO! hehe, sadly I'm not original enough, I thank the Deadspin faithful. Now I thin i have to go to bed b/c I have to meet Jenn at the gym at 6:30am tomorrow. Ick. At least the Ace of Cakes i on. I'm gonna marry that guy ;)

PS, check that spelling- i must be drunker than I thought

hehehe

2008-02-03T22:44:00.001-05:00

Die hard Broncos fan- ended up with a small celebration at my house, cooking thai food, YUM and a boatload of guac to boot. This picture makes me sooo happy and it's not just the vodka and beer talking

hahaha

2008-02-03T22:33:00.000-05:00

Can you hear the helicopters circling? where are the riots? DANGER

GIANTS!!

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Wooohooooo! Suck it New England!

Yes Please.

2008-02-02T11:53:00.001-05:00

Jonny Wilkinson of England's national rugby team

Moving offices is the worst

2008-02-01T16:14:00.000-05:00

Especially when the evil troll who occupies your new cube can't be bothered to finish packing up her crap or show up to move it. Hope I didn't break anything Biatch!

Now on to the new view on this horribly crappy rainy day

Empire State to the left

Chrysler Building to the right

BTW

2008-02-01T16:13:00.001-05:00

Dinner was awesome last night at Fig & Olive

Beef Carpacio, Lamb Skewers and an apple tart. Highly recommended

Seriously

2008-02-01T09:26:00.001-05:00

I simply felt that this "necklace" needed to be documented

What am I getting myself into?

2008-02-01T09:24:00.000-05:00

Winter in Chicago- At least she looks happy!

Well this explains today's heightened police presence

2008-01-31T13:57:00.000-05:00

Too bad I missed it!

Restaurant Week

2008-01-31T13:28:00.000-05:00

Tonight's dining destination is Fig & Olive in the Meatpacking district (MePa to those of you hip to the lingo :).

http://www.figandolive.com/restweek2008.php

I've known what I was ordering for like 2 weeks. How sad is that?

2008-01-30T13:06:00.000-05:00

New Running Shoes with lots of shock absorbption- hopefully this will help my poor knees :) Burgandy and Ecru.....Fancy

I also got some Strawberry Mentos, because, YUM!

Bored at 3:30pm

2008-01-29T15:30:00.000-05:00

me: so today i got my fav viagra/cialis spam ever

"wanna turn that grass snake into a boa constrictor?"

haha

James: nice

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OUCH!

I love this

2008-01-29T11:34:00.001-05:00

But obvi I need the new apt first. And will I really want to sit at this for 16 months while I get my masters? hmmm

Today's Headlines

2008-01-29T10:37:00.000-05:00

in regards to Obama and the Kennedy endorsements

From the Post: BAMALOT

From the Daily News: SHAFTED

I honestly can't decide which one I like better. Although I can seriously picture Emeril throwing some spice into a pot and yelling, "BAMALOT"

New Hair, bad picture

2008-01-28T15:45:00.000-05:00

Please excuse the indigenous children in the background

2008-01-25T10:50:00.000-05:00

I love how many people find my blog through googling "facts about Sacajawea" or some variation of that. It comes up in the top 10 in google. Sorry peeps, not quite what you were looking for. Not quite menpages instead of menupages, but still.

2008-01-25T09:08:00.000-05:00

OH hello Matt Lauer. You're looking handsome as usual. Wait, what's that?

Sigh. Cat on the cable box.

You know, the only reason I got these cats is so they can kill the mice that run rampant in my building. It's much more effective than leaving notes in tiny Uni-Bomber scrawl on the trash room door like my weird neighbors do (not you J!) However, they can't do anything about the one that is currently inhabiting my kitchen walls, munching away making a total racket and driving everyone crazy. How do you kill mice you can't see but can only hear?

view from the 12th floor at UNICEF House

2008-01-24T17:06:00.000-05:00

From my meeting today

2008-01-24T17:05:00.000-05:00

"You assume a leadership role when you feel you are ready. Don't wait to be chosen."

An Aspirin A Day

2008-01-23T09:57:00.000-05:00

Not really, but it is my drug of choice for life's aches and pains. Boy do I sound like a commercial. I just bought this bottle from CVS and it is so ginormous, it's ridic. So I thought a little photo evidence would help. (whiteout bottle for context obvi)

And now

2008-01-22T14:34:00.001-05:00

it's snowing but will probably turn into rain. I would absolutely love a crazy blizzard to hit right now, something tells me piles of snow outside my wall would actually warm the place up! Not to mention I wouldn't have to go to work :)

I slept

2008-01-22T11:14:00.000-05:00

in a hooded sweatshirt, with a heating pad on, with a blanket and a down comforter. My apartment is a modern day igloo. I need a bear skin rug, STAT

OOPS

2008-01-21T16:35:00.000-05:00

I just typed in www.menpages.com instead of www.menupages.com

VERY DIFFERENT INFORMATION

wooooo Thick Necks!

2008-01-21T16:16:00.000-05:00

My dear friends LOVE the UFC. I was assigned Matt Hughes because 1) he's hot but more importantly 2) he has a thick neck and I'm totally into that. Now....there's a 3).... he likes Deadspin http://deadspin.com/347159/read-our-site-or-this-ufc-guy-will-pummel-you

Brrrr

2008-01-21T13:32:00.001-05:00

it is SOOO cold outside. Went for lunch and some errands and saw a guy wearing SHORTS!! WTF, it's 22° outside!!

2008-01-21T11:41:00.002-05:00

My boss just opened some mail forwarded from her last duty station in Morocco. She got a card from the King and Queen of Jordan. It's beautiful and has a pic of their family. not too shabby!

Holidays I should have off....

2008-01-21T11:07:00.000-05:00

It is cold as freakin' balls here today. My apartment was so cold, I could not get out of bed. I stayed in bed an hour late. oops, but my boss never comes in before 10 so I knew I was ok.

Then the streets are totally deserted...for a second, I thought the Cloverfield monster was doing it's thang.

Finally, I just realized I forgot to put eye makeup on, which means I look like a psycho because my eyelashes are naturally different colors so it looks like i put mascara on one eye and not the other.

sigh. MONDAY.

Oh yeah, Go Giants!

PS today is supposedly the most depressing day of the year? What's the story there?

Double header weekend

2008-01-20T16:52:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was our movie doubleheader. 11:30am Cloverfield and 1pm 27 Dresses. J, Brian and I hit up Cloverfield and then Cait kindly saved seats in the 27 Dresses theatre so we could run in when movie number 1 was over.

Very good, but I sincerely suggest taking a Dramamine prior to this movie. And don't go hung over.

Totally a chick flick, but cute and funny. Judy Greer is HILARIOUS.

Today is the football double header. It's freezing outside thus my apt is freezing too. I have spent the day cooking in order to keep my apt as warm as possible. Go San Diego! Go Giants!

TGIF!

2008-01-18T09:14:00.000-05:00

This has been such a weird week, but I am not sure why exactly. The gym was a struggle this morning too and I broke out into a serious sweat in Starbucks waiting for my venti skim latte. Whatever, it's Friday!

So I walk by the Gucci store every morning and evening on my way to and from work. WANT the following (sorry the pic sux) Brown leather bag, python heels, and even the sunglasses would be amazing

Also, every so often, the NYPD decides to make a show of its presence around my building (b/c of the Gov? But he has the state patrol) so today there are squad cars outside, beat cops all ova including the lobby, across the street and up on the second level patio thing across the street. Kinda makes you wonder...

Yup, I was right

2008-01-17T21:02:00.000-05:00

He's back to his one true love

The Man, the Myth, the Dweezil

Freelancing

2008-01-17T20:55:00.000-05:00

I am going to be doing some freelance work for a guy who I used to work with at my old job. It was terrible, he was delightful. He's producing a conference with some friends around Social Capital-investing not only for profit, but also for the greater good. It will give these various groups (Governments, Foundations, Wall St., Technology companies) the opportunity to converge and learn how to speak the same language so that they can work together.

It also will make me some extra money to fund my impending move to Chi-town. $25 bucks an hour...not too shabby.

I just made $12.50 people!

New Couple Alert?

2008-01-17T20:48:00.000-05:00

Dale Jr. the cat and Trajan the Beanie moose

I don't think it will last

Is it just me?

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or does she not look about 45+ here?

I AM STILL AT WORK

2008-01-16T18:17:00.000-05:00

88%DRUNKARD

Tuesdays are the worst

2008-01-15T14:35:00.001-05:00

HOW does the day seem to go by so slowly? UGH

So I've gotten hooked

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and hooked my friend Jen on this blog: http://thepioneerwoman.com/ but it's making me

nostalgic for the town I where I was born in eastern Colorado. Sigh.

SEEEE?!?!?!?!?

2008-01-12T11:38:00.000-05:00

Clive Owen

EAT ME!

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SO WIERD!

The view from the 26th floor

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Damn that Steven King movie, "The Mist." Now I'm worried about all the creatures that are on their way to attack us!

Some Extra I'd make

2008-01-11T09:04:00.000-05:00

because not less than 20 minutes ago, I was making my way down Park Ave and I literally walked right past CLIVE OWEN, shoulder to god damned shoulder with him. Of course I realized after that they were filming so I'm sure the fact that my jaw immediately dropped and i put my hand on my heart will not make for the best scene.

HE IS SO HOT. SO HOT. I can say with confidence that I don't think I have ever seen such a handsome person in person. Whoa. He was all hotted up in "work clothes" and a trench coat so that helps too.

WOW.

DO. NOT. WANT.

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How much do I love this?!

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I do this not just for me

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But I think everyone could use a little right now

For the life of me

2008-01-07T11:30:00.000-05:00

I can't figure out how to upload videos on my blog anymore. I have no idea what happend. What I do know is that this kid is going to be scarred for life by all that damn khaki.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1iD3LRrs_g

Ahhh 2008

2008-01-07T11:13:00.000-05:00

The boss literally came in for like 50 minutes before leaving again until after lunch. I have so much stuff I need her to do. GRR

UM

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I just found this on my Mac Photobooth.

How hungover was I to have missed this?

PS that is totes not me

One of these is not like the others

2008-01-02T21:30:00.001-05:00

I should have taken the day off...

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Happy New Year!

Sydney 2008

The Final Christmas Count

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2 Snow Storms in Denver- approx 10 inches total
1 DVD player
20 dozen tamales made by my parents and I in preparation for our Holiday Party
2 huge dinner at my aunts house- traditional Italian and then Beef Wellington
1 High Tea at the Dushanbe Tea House in Boulder
1 night out in LoDo- damn it's hard to find a cab
1 long walk up Colfax Ave in my red high heels with James b/c my Dad forgot his cell phone and couldn't come get us. No, I'm not a hooker!
75- the number of times people asked about my cats...sigh
0 trips to the mall- yay!
1 hour with my friend's adorable little baby, Haley. Tick, tock, tick tock. KIDDING
10 the number of times it took to get my nephew's Slinky to go down my dad's stairs properly.
1 grandpa, 2 aunts, 2 uncles, 3 cousins, 2 dads, 1 mom, 1 brother, 1 brother's girlfriend and two nephews (and that was a small gathering for us!)

FUN TIMES :)

Christmas in Colorado

2007-12-24T00:30:00.000-05:00

Chex Mix

Christmas TreeNativity Set- this year I got cats, uh oh!CousinsThe Nephews- otherwise known as Optimus Prime and the Red Power Ranger

Most annoying tag line ever

2007-12-17T13:29:00.000-05:00

"America Runs on Dunkins"

I'll give $50 to the first person who tells me what I'm talking about. *

* Not really :)

Secret Santa

2007-12-17T13:26:00.000-05:00

I got a little crafty this year. The $50 minimum meant that I couldn't get a nice jewelry box....so I went with the trusty Michael's approach. A plain wooden box some gold leaf and metallic leafing materials and I was all set...

The finished product

quote of the day

2007-12-14T22:57:00.000-05:00

Yo, cats are vindictive fu***. They're like you changed my litter? BOOM! I'm just gonna drop that on your bed!

Headlines

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From today's NY Post:

IKE 'BEATS' TINA TO DEATH

The 53 Places to go in 2008

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http://www.nytimes.com/ref/travel/20071209_WHERE_GRAPHIC.html?ex=1354856400&en=8db8b09a8dc87d5b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss#

I've been to:

#3
#39
#44
#47
#50
#53

Crap, I have a lot of places to go :(

Tag! You're It!

2007-12-11T21:35:00.000-05:00

Ok so I got TAGGED by Bon Jour Pee Wee. Boom Bit**! Just kidding. Here we go:

1. When you were born, how much did you weigh? Is it weird that I have no idea?

2. What's you're sugar poison? Sweet-tarts, love love love them. Especially the Chicks and Ducks and Bunnies at Easter.

3. If you had to choose between meat and cheese for the rest of your life, which would you choose? Then be specific.
I would have to say meat- I am way to much of a carnivore. Fillet Mignon, Burgers, Pot Roast, you get the idea.

4. What, is your opinion, is the worst song ever? Aqua- Barbie Girl, I now think of that horrid boy on American Idol singing it and I barely even watch that show

5. Who was your favorite teacher growing up and why? Mr. Terry, my 3rd grade teacher for 2nd Semester. He was an exchange teacher from Australia. He taught us about Kookaburras and the words to Waltzing Matilda.

6. What personal activity, when performed in public, bothers you the most? Gotta go with the common answer here, clipping your nails! My dad does it, I won't lie and I yell at him all the time.

7. Ok, there's a $50 bill lying on the ground. You pick it up. Dumbfounded by your incredible luck, what do you selfishly purchase? I found a $100 once my freshman year at NYU. I was showing a family friend around campus so I took it to a deli and split it with her. No idea what I bought though.

8. Do you have a recurring nightmare? If so, explain.
No, just really wierd dreams

9. Name one place on Earth you've never been, but vow to visit at least once. The Maldives. 10. You notice that question #9 wasn't really a question. You feel smart for catching such a small detail. What else can you do really well that reminds you how smart you are? Remember all sorts of random and minute details about completely random things. Ask my friends, they will tell you, they always laugh at me :)

Who's next? still deciding...

Jesse!

and here it is!

2007-12-11T13:37:00.000-05:00

SO SCARY and WEIRD
How does that say Happy Holidays?!

The tour begins

2007-12-11T09:40:00.000-05:00

This is in an atrium off of Park Ave. I don't normally walk through buildings on my way to work, but it was for a good cause.

Now here comes the candy factory as referenced earlier....

Candy Canes CookiesEek! So creepy and not even the scary mole man thing...that is still to come...

Get a little Captain in you

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Random holiday decorations

2007-12-10T14:18:00.000-05:00

Midtown is a melange (big word!) of "holiday decorations" this time of year. We've got the obvious Christmas Decorations, the mixture of "Christmas" and "Hanukkah" decorations, such as my office which has huge wreaths in a Christmas motif then small trees decorated in blue and gold.

But then we get the buildings that don't want to offend anyone so they are more winter themed as opposed to holiday themed. On Park Ave, there is an animatronic candy shop complete with gingerbread cookies and striped aprons on the creepy little dolls.

The building next to me takes it to a whole new level though...creepy Madame Alexander-esqe dolls of every race and creed ice skating on frozen ponds, amidst the cotton ball snow drifts. What is the real kicker though is the smattering of gopher holes around each pond. Expecting a cute fuzzy animal to provide some cheer? Oh no. What you get is a creepy bearded man/mole type of thing that pops in and out of its hole. Hands down the most disturbing decorations I've seen in my years here. Pictures to follow....

Randoms

2007-12-07T09:15:00.000-05:00

I am home sick today. Boo. But it's better than yesterday-yesterday I was home sick and ended up having to go the ER b/c I was too dehydrated for school. Nothing an IV can' fix!

but being home meant that when my cell phone rang from Fed Ex I could pick it up. Every year my dad sends some treats via FedEx and every year the box for J&T seems to get held up. Of course at this point I didn't know that' what the package was so I just thought that somehow FedEx had my cell since I used to live with them. So I talked to the guy, told him I didn't live there, no big deal.

C and I come back from the ER and there are two FedEx slips, one for me and one for J and I realize they are the packages from my Dad. So still not putting two and two together though.

Then....at like 10:45 I get a call from a 'Private Number.' Well, I do not answer private calls. I get another call. No messages. Then I get a text, "do you know a guy named rey?". I decide not to answer but realize the number looks familiar. It's the FedEx guy from earlier! But I am too wiped out to bother answering. I just sort of hoped he'd figure it out. Nope. Text message, 11:01 am, 'do you know a guy named rey?' Fine, here we go.

My text: 'No, I got a call from this number earlier about a FedEx. Enough Please.'

His text: 'Ok thanx, sorry to have bothered you, good nite.'

Sheesh.

O Christmas Tree

2007-12-02T12:16:00.001-05:00

Helped J&T pick out their tree yesterday-9 foot Balsam fir. I am from CO after all, gotta be good for something :)She'll have much better pics eventually, but these'll do for now.

Say Fromage!

2007-11-30T10:17:00.000-05:00

Last night we attended the French Wine and Cheese class at the Artisanal Cheese Center on 10th Ave. 9 different cheeses paired with 4 wines. Not to mention the fondue reception with plenty of Kir Royales before we got started. HOLY DAIRY! So good.

T G I F

2007-11-30T10:08:00.000-05:00

THIS

Is what I live with

2007-11-29T10:50:00.000-05:00

ugh nail clipper lady is clipping
honestly,
break a nail? Clip it, fine.
DON'T CLIP ALL YOUR NAILS AT THE OFFICE
i hate it so much

He He He

2007-11-28T09:24:00.000-05:00

I am so white trash.

Back to Normal

2007-11-26T11:47:00.000-05:00

Home after Thanksgiving....Spent Wednesday in LA, saw Felicity Huffman, whoohoo! Thursday and Friday in Boulder/Denver, brrr 11 degrees at one point!

The cat is back home from the vet after 7 days. I think we're back to normal....

Oy

2007-11-19T13:41:00.001-05:00

rough weekend. the cat is in the kitty ER with really bad pneumonia. should come home tomorrow fingers and purse stings crossed.

The Mist

2007-11-13T09:34:00.000-05:00

I was trying to figure out a way to describe the movie, of which J and I went to the premiere last night...but this pretty much sums it up for me...

James: how was the movie

me: omg
first of all
Steven King was there
b/c it's based on a book he wrote
second of all
it was so scary, funny, crazy and at the end
J and I were both emotionally wrecked
it was OUT OF HAND
i loved it

James: steven king creeps me out

me: um for sheez

I'm sure this guy will have a lot more to say about it later on today...but we are determined that people go see this movie and make it a success, so pass it on!!

Ew? I am undecided

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but I still think it's pretty cool

Lever House

2007-11-09T15:47:00.000-05:00

Ok so I was right about the leather club chair, except it's resin. Those beef shoulders are actually whole sheep. But there are two sides of beef. I don't know if that is worse or better....

NY TIMES ARTICLE

Lever House- November 9

2007-11-09T09:40:00.000-05:00

The walls are coming down! As you can see in the picture there are white skeletons all over the inside of the building, hopefully fake! The tank looking things have all the items in them. I definitely saw several beef shoulders I think and what looked like a leather club chair. WHO knows, but tomorrow is the day!

Lever House- November 8

2007-11-09T09:35:00.001-05:00

Huge air vents have been built in, prob to pump out the smell of the formaldahyde....getting closer!

Sad but (pretty) True

2007-11-08T09:26:00.000-05:00

Worst Headline of 2007

2007-11-08T09:25:00.000-05:00

In regards to Paul McCartney's new gf...

"Heather's Hoppin' Mad"

So excited

2007-11-07T09:06:00.000-05:00

Baa, Baa Art Sheep at Lever House The Hirst appetizer.
By Beth Landman
Published Nov 4, 2007
Aby Rosen will unveil a Damien Hirst installation in the lobby of Lever House, the modernist landmark he owns on Park Avenue, on November 10. It’ll make an interesting amuse-bouche for diners headed to the restaurant Lever House. The project, called School: The Archaeology of Lost Desires, Comprehending Infinity and the Search for Knowledge, includes several sheep, a bull, a shark, and a dove, all floating in formaldehyde. The restaurant’s roast rack of lamb with crispy lamb shoulder is formaldehyde-free. Restaurateur John McDonald isn’t worried diners’ stomachs might be unsettled by the predinner sight of decomposing animals. “An avid carnivore can’t be stopped,” he says. Lever House regulars are used to confronting Hirst’s work on the way to their power lunches: His monumental The Virgin Mother, a sculpture of a pregnant woman peeled open, is on permanent display in the building’s courtyard. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/40336/

I walk by here everyday and see all of the other art installations going on including...

Look who came out from under the bed!

2007-11-07T08:56:00.001-05:00

It's Dale Jr. !!!

Pics from the weekend that make me happy

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In Honor of Halloween!!

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When I was little and we lived in Denver, we lived a few blocks away from Cheesman park. One year I had a Halloween party and my parents decided to take us on a "ghost walk" around Cheesman park. Basically it was dark and a bunch of little girls in costumes walked to the park and were scared out of our minds before we even got there...mostly having to do with the story below. I do remember though, some poor biker, coming around a corner and scaring us, we all shrieked at the top of our lungs and he fell off his bike! Poor guy never knew what was coming.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7324470

Eerie past haunts Cheesman Park
STUDENTS TACKLE ARCHAEOLOGY CORPSE-WORK
By Allison Sherry The Denver Post

Professor Lawrence Conyers has found some pretty fascinating stuff in this world with his ground-penetrating radar machine - a Christian church in Tunisia, a buried Mayan farming village in El Salvador, Roman temples in Jordan.

And, this month, a child's coffin 4 feet below the ground in Cheesman Park.

At the request of a cable television show called "Scariest Places on Earth" a few years ago, University of Denver professor Conyers lugged the machine to the park for a staged stunt.
Now he uses the park - a former graveyard - and its interesting subterranean activity to teach archaeology students how to map grave sites.

"My students want to dig it up, and I said 'No way,"' said Conyers, one of the world's leading experts in ground-penetrating radar, which he compares to a CT scan of the ground. "People put them in the ground for a reason, they shouldn't be dug out. They should be left here."
Cheesman Park's botched transition more than 100 years ago from graveyard to gathering place makes the sprawling lawn a great classroom for Conyers' students and, according to many paranormal types, angrily haunted.

"Our outlook on this is that cemeteries normally aren't haunted, there is no reason for them to be," said Bryan Bonner, an investigator for the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society. "At Cheesman, there was desecration."

Bonner and other paranormal investigators have done about six investigations in houses around Cheesman in the last 10 years.

In 1858, when Gen. William Larimer claim-jumped land from the Arapaho Indians to create Denver, he put the city's cemetery in a field where the current Cheesman and Congress parks and the Denver Botanic Gardens are. The cemetery, called Prospect Hill, had Protestant, Jewish and Catholic burial areas, as well as a section for Denver's Chinese population.

But in the next 30 or so years, the cemetery fell into disrepair. It was weedy and ugly, cattle were grazing there, and some of Denver's more affluent residents decided that they wanted the bodies moved. One of Colorado's senators persuaded Congress to allow the site to be converted to a park.

An undertaker, E.P. McGovern, was hired to exhume the bodies from the lower park and move them to Riverside and Fairmount cemeteries. For every casket delivered to Riverside, McGovern received $1.90.

News reports at the time said McGovern was cutting up bodies and putting them in more than one coffin to get more money. Some of his workers were taking "souvenirs" from the grave sites.
Eventually, the whole mess was stopped. McGovern's contract was yanked, and the city graded and leveled the land and created a park. Historians guess 1,000 bodies are probably still buried there.

A jawbone was recently found in the park, Bonner said.

The first thing Conyers, who says he approaches investigations purely scientifically, notices along the lower road of Denver's historic park is lumpy depressions in the land.
The topsoil covering graveyards often appears bumpy because of collapsed wooden caskets, Conyers said. Even in the places where bodies were exhumed, refilling the hole with different soil can cause pits in the land.

In Conyers' archaeology work, he looks for any kind of change in the sediment beneath the ground as evidence something is going on down there.

The Cheesman exercise is purely educational. In his professional work, Conyers has studied sediment on Grand Mesa for evidence of climate change, and will go to Wyoming next year to try and find the rest of a woolly mammoth a scientist unearthed.

The small coffin he found near a sprinkler pipe in Cheesman, between the lower road and the white pavilion, is probably made of lead, Conyers said, because it hasn't deteriorated.
DU alumna Jessica Gabriel, who is helping Conyers investigate the park, said she may "swing by" Cheesman tonight to celebrate Halloween.

"But I don't think I'll go out of my way," she said.

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2007-10-30T14:45:00.000-04:00

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