Author Archives: Brendan

College football’s greatest play gets even greater?

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Texas head coach Mack Brown is reportedly retiring. (I like to imagine Governor Rick Perry thanking him for “a phenomenal 16 years, including three Big 12 championships: 2005, 2009, and… uh… oops.”) Brown’s retirement has been long-rumored, particularly since the Longhorns’ BYU debacle – and all season, those rumors have… Read more »

Baby, it’s cold outside

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Considering how relentlessly I’ve been tweeting about this week’s blast of frigid cold in Denver (a.k.a. #coldfrontmageddon and/or #arcticairpocalypse), I figured a quick Tumblr post was in order. When I woke up this morning, here’s what my iPhone said the temperature was in our neighborhood: Denver’s official low temperature was… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Leaving aside holidays, birthdays and anniversaries, there are only a handful of dates on the calendar that evoke, for me, an instant mental connection to a particular event – an automatic association lurking below the level of conscious thought. Not just the date of an event that I’ve memorized, but… Read more »

A pilgrimage to the Shining Kennel on a Hill

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] I visited Gonzaga – a school to which I have no personal connection, but a team of which I’ve been a fan since high school – on Monday and Tuesday of this week, to visit Twitter BFF Zach Bloxham and to watch the Zags’ game against Colorado State, part of… Read more »

If I like my #hiatus, I can keep my #hiatus

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Back on September 29, on the eve of the federal government shutting down, I announced a “shutdown” of my own: an “indefinite hiatus from Twitter“ (with the typical exceptions for Instagram, Tumblr, local event live-tweeting, and so forth). I had various reasons for this sudden decision — including, but not… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Huge win yesterday for the “reformists” on the Denver Board of Education, who improved their majority from 4-3 to 6-1 with a sweep of all four races up for a vote. Incumbent Landri Taylor won 66-34 over Roger Kilgore in our district (Stapleton & Northeast Denver); former Colorado lieutenant governor… Read more »

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Our low-tech @JohnKingCNN map of counties voting today on secession from Colorado. #copolitics

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] Loyette was fascinated by the length of our shadows in the parking lot after the ND-AFA game.

School boundary dispute triggers civil war among Stapleton neighborhoods! (Heh.)

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[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.] My satirical news article about the “Stapleton Civil War” was published this morning Issue 66 of The Stapletonion, our community’s local version of The Onion. As readers can tell, I had a lot of fun with it. 🙂 Hopefully, my fellow Stapletonians – residents of the various mocked neighborhoods, as… Read more »