Archive | March 2015

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Keeping toasty at 9,000 feet

Keeping toasty at 9,000 feet

 

Rainbow Falls, Manitou Springs, Colorado

Rainbow Falls, Manitou Springs, Colorado

Exuberant grafitti lines the trail leading to Rainbow Falls outside Manitou Springs, Colorado. Spray paint covers every rock a person could reach, as well as the bridge supports of the highway as it crosses the creek. Apparently this was a hangout for artistic rule-breaking types until the city of Manitou Springs bought the land to […]

If 1984 and The Hunger Games had a baby

If 1984 and The Hunger Games had a baby

In April of 2014 I quit my soul-sucking job at a giant bureaucracy. Plenty of people have written about how The System turns humans into robots or cockroaches, so I don’t need to go into that. Just imagine a combination of 1984, The Hunger Games, and Bergen-Belsen. I realized my job could kill me when […]