Space Potato: Embrace the cuteness
Hey, Boulder: You’re cute! I saw you hiking Mount Sanitas with your dog. That was cute. Bobbing your head with your headphones on at the bus stop. Also cute. Running...
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Space Potato: Damn, it’s good to be a gaymer
June is a magical time of year. Outside, the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and the rainbow flags are fluttering gently in the breeze. Inside, the monitors are...
Space Potato: A loss of innocence and Pokémon
I’m in my 30s, so I don’t get excited about turning a year older anymore. Except this year, I have a reason to get giddy: A new Pokémon game is...
Space Potato: I had to grow a backbone to handle invertebrates
As my neighbor was walking by, he probably thought I’d received an electric shock or was suffering from a seizure. I had just opened my car door when I began...
Space Potato: A world of dreams and adventures awaits
For many years, I kept a part of my identity a secret. It festered in my mind, excreting anxiety that solidified into a thick shell of shame. But everyone longs...
Space Potato: A glitch in my giddy-up
If you work evening shifts, you will eventually find yourself wrenched out of deep REM in the middle of the goddamn night by the UPS driver delivering some over-packaged knickknack...
Space Potato: Cow poop plus blender is recipe for happiness
The first time I heard about seasonal affective disorder, I thought it was a joke. I mean, just look at that acronym: SAD? Come on. But now I'm singing a...
Space Potato: No refunds on genetic gifts
In the 1960s, Marvel Comics published the first issues of "The X-Men," which featured characters with mutant superpowers. You've seen all the movies and TV shows. You know about Wolverine's...
Space Potato: ‘Airbender’ remake might upset the cabbage cart
In the mid-aughts, Nickelodeon wowed a generation with "Avatar: The Last Airbender." The series took place in a richly detailed world whose inhabitants practiced an art called "bending," which allowed...
Inner Strength & Outdoors: Seize the day, but don’t touch that bear
The hills are alive with the sound of cicadas. In fact, the Boulder foothills are alive with copious creepy-crawlies. Yep, these bad boys can fit so much fuckin' life in...