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Greetings from the world’s worst self-promoter!You know, one of the first things you’re supposed to learn as a freelancer is how to bring attention to yourself and your work. Big surprise, that’s...
View ArticleThis never gets old
Remember that time I blogged about how, if you wanted to write for a “living,” that you’d have to come to terms with an especially depressing vision, that of yourself hunched over old dishes in the...
View Article4/20 Revisited
Considering all of the marijuana news on this site, you might think you have a pretty good idea what I was up to on April 20. But you’d probably be wrong. Many more details will be forthcoming in an...
View ArticleHow I almost killed a bunch of American veterans
One of the many reasons I’m determined to complete our documentary about injured veterans who have taken to long-distance road cycling to heal their physical and mental wounds is because I was certain...
View ArticleMy kind of people
You’d think that writers would get sick and tired of one another. I mean, we’re pretty weird. We keep insane hours, talk in our sleep, spend far too much time alone, and hang out with some pretty...
View ArticleA Travesty Revisited
I’m a little late in posting this week because I’ve found myself engrossed in a book that I can’t put down, "Drawn to Injustice."It’s a story in which I had invested a lot of time and investigative...
View ArticleJeers and Loathing at Hempfest
I can pinpoint the exact moment I burned out on marijuana culture — 3:45 p.m. on Aug. 18 in Seattle, which was experiencing something of a heat wave then, a strange three-day run of unblemished skies,...
View ArticleKilling mice, and other preparations for winter
If the meteorologists are to be believed, we’re heading for a pre-winter ass-kicking sometime in the next 24-48 hours. Even if they’re not, we’re not taking any chances around here. Early season...
View ArticleThe most interesting election party in Colorado
If all goes according to plan, 21-and-older Coloradans can put the election season behind them in style tomorrow night, by firing up a bowl of their favorite flavor of...
View ArticleUPDATE: Yep, we legalized pot
Update: Holy shit, we did it. Colorado legalized marijuana. So did Washington, which is fairly amazing because, when I was in Seattle for Hempfest this summer, the division within the pot bloc was so...
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