Today is the fairy tale. Enjoy it. Shower with a friend! Seems to me like we need a little more of that, especially lately. Turns out this planet is spinning in new directions, which apparently brings into question long-held astrological line-ups and aspects, as well as, those at the Tampa, Florida... Read more →
Hot Tub Logic And Wisdom School
“You know how water makes you float? Well, that’s the opposite of gravity,” my daughter declared very matter-of-factly as we pondered the mysteries of ourselves in the hot tub. It hit me that she is twelve years old and I am way older and that thought has never really crossed my mind... Read more →
Guessing Game
Conspiracy, stupidity, arrogance? Aspen Post bloggers float several theories as to what was behind the Air Force One photo-op that scared the bejeezus out of New Yorkers last week. Read More →
Driving Us Crazy!
Colorado motorists are paying over $2.00 a gallon less than we were in July. Are we crazy for feeling gypped out of all that money over the summer? Or are we crazy for thinking we can just slip back into our old driving habits and forget developing alternative fuel sources all over again? Here’s your... Read more →
Free Ride
Come on and take a free ride…well, it’s not exactly free, but for a small fee you’re invited to take a ride with the Edgar Winter Band, Saturday at Belly Up. Watch the multi-instrumentalist, albino, synthesizer, saxophone and drum-playing Texan who gave us the fist-pumping ‘70s rocker “Frankenstein”... Read more →
Sleuth Redux
Aspen Post blogger Dr. Bill is back at it again, this time going Gene Shallot on “Sleuth, the remake of the 1972 film of the same name and starring Michael Caine again but in the role more fitting of current generation. I found Sleuth to be a fascinating study of relationships and trust/distrust... Read more →
DDB 33: Finally, The Final Chapter
In this, the final chapter of DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, the mystery novel by Michael Conniff set in Aspen, we learn our hero Arnold Bagdikian must nurse the woman he loves back to life–and there is the small matter of the small daughter he has sired in the test tube. But things could be worse. He and... Read more →
DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL 33: The View From Red Moutain
Thanks to the kind intercession of Declan Boyle and his close personal friends we were housesitting for the next fifty weeks at his home away from home on top of Red Mountain. I was playing nurse but not quite in the same way Declan Boyle had done on Sutton Place with his hired help in the high white... Read more →
DDB 32: Billion Dollar Baggie
In the penultimate chapter of DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, our hero ponders the eternal question: what’s a billion dollars worth without the woman you love? “We were sitting outside on the terrace of the Hotel Jerome on Main Street in Aspen on the first day it was open for the summer season,”... Read more →
DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL 32: Billion Dollar Baggie
With Katherine Hallaby and Rick Townsend sitting beside him at the preliminary hearing, I never worried for a minute that Ozymandias Newcombe would not walk out of the courthouse in Montrose a free man. Enough of Ozzie’s friends in the right places had written the judge to make any prosecution for... Read more →