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...
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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...
Campus Life: Buffaloes are social, stubborn and unstoppable
Welcome, alumni in the making. The hallowed halls of the University of Colorado beckon. (Help us.) Here, you will spend your days deep in thought, absorbing knowledge, adding skills and...
Space Potato: Summer sci-fi gives us violent delights
Picture yourself on vacation. Not a road trip or familial obligation. A real treat. A doozy. You're dressed to the nines with an expensive drink in hand. You've paid a...
Space Potato: Break the rules in a broken system
When I was a sleepy-eyed freshman at CU (why did I ever sign up for 8 a.m. classes?), I remember a dirt track that cut across the otherwise lush grass...
Space Potato: Not a dry eye for the joy and pain of black panthers
When I go to the movies, I like to sit to the right — not necessarily on the right side of the theater, just to the right of whomever I...